[hpc-announce] CFP: IEEE Cluster 2020 @ Kobe, Japan (Submission site opens on Mar. 30th)

[Masaaki Kondo]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (IEEE Cluster 2020)
Kobe, Japan, September 14-17, 2020.
https://clustercomp.org/2020/
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Special announcement regarding COVID-19 on IEEE Cluster 2020

Concerning travels and conference participation:
  Regarding the current serious situation causing a lot of international
travel bans
  all over the world, the organizing committee of IEEE Cluster 2020 is
taking the
  following steps to minimize the disruption and make sure all submitters
of accepted
  papers will be able to present their work during IEEE Cluster 2020:
  - For any circumstance where the presenter cannot make a travel to Kobe
Japan due to
    restriction by your nation/organization or Japanese government
decision,
    we will provide an opportunity for remote presentation. The conference
will use
    sophisticated tele-conference tools to make an interactive presentation
session.
    Remote presenters will use common remote presence software (Skype,
Zoom, BlueJeans, etc.)
  - We are also preparing the conference to physically operate as our
original plan,
    on September 14th-17th at Kobe Japan. So authors have the opportunity
to present
    their work physically or remotely depending on specific circumstances.

Concerning paper submission/review and publication:
- We will continue to follow the normal process of paper collection,
  peer review and decision of paper acceptance as usual.
- All the accepted papers will be published on the proceedings of Cluster
2020
  on the IEEE digital library.
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Important Dates:
* Submission site open: March 30, 2020
* Abstract deadline: May 3, 2020
* Full Papers due: May 10, 2020
* Paper Acceptance Notification: July 6, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: August 14, 2020
* Conference: September 14-17, 2020
* All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Clusters remain the primary system architecture for building many of
today's rapidly
evolving computing infrastructures and are used to solve some of the most
complex
problems. The challenges to make them scalable, efficient, productive, and
increasingly effective requires a community effort in the areas of cluster
system
design, advancing the capabilities of the software stack, system management
and
monitoring, and the design of algorithms, methods, and applications to
leverage the
overall infrastructure.

Following the successes of previous IEEE Cluster conferences, for IEEE
Cluster 2020,
which will be held September 14 - 17, 2020 in Kobe, we again solicit
high-quality
original work that advances the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely
related
fields. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for their originality,
technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the
conference, and
quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate novel
research
contributions while papers reporting experiences must clearly describe the
lessons
learned and the resulting impact, along with the utility of the approach in
comparison to previous work.

Authors must indicate the primary topic area of their submissions from the
four
topic areas provided below. In addition, they may optionally rank their
paper
relative to the overall set of topics. The papers may be submitted as
either a full
10-page paper or as a shorter 4-page paper submission. Please note that
references
are not counted in the limits on the number of pages and a 10-page
submission may
be accepted with a caveat of transforming it into a 4-page version for
presentation
at the conference.

Area 1: Application, Algorithms, and Libraries

* HPC and Big Data application studies on large-scale clusters
* Applications at the boundary of HPC and Big Data
* New applications for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
* Application-level performance and energy modeling and measurement
* Novel algorithms on clusters
* Hybrid programming techniques in applications and libraries (e.g., MPI+X)
* Cluster benchmarks
* Application-level libraries on clusters
* Effective use of clusters in novel applications
* Performance evaluation tools

Area 2: Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management

* Node and system architecture for HPC and Big Data clusters
* Architecture for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
* Energy-efficient cluster architectures
* Packaging, power and cooling
* Accelerators, reconfigurable and domain-specific hardware
* Heterogeneous clusters
* Interconnect/memory architectures
* Single system/distributed image clusters
* Administration, monitoring and maintenance tools

Area 3: Programming and System Software

* Cluster system software/operating systems
* Programming models for converged HPC/Big Data/Machine Learning systems
* System software supporting the convergence of HPC, Big Data, and Machine
Learning processing
* Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization
* Energy-efficient middleware
* Cluster system-level protocols and APIs
* Cluster security
* Resource and job management
* Programming and software development environments on clusters
* Fault tolerance and high-availability

Area 4: Data, Storage, and Visualization

* Cluster architectures for Big Data storage and processing
* Middleware for Big Data management
* Cluster-based cloud architectures for Big Data
* Storage systems supporting the convergence of HPC and Big Data processing
* File systems and I/O libraries
* Support and integration of non-volatile memory
* Visualization clusters and tiled displays
* Big data visualization tools
* Programming models for big data processing
* Big data application studies on cluster architectures


Paper Submission:

Submissions must be in PDF format. Since the camera-ready version of
accepted papers
must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted
papers must
conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size.

* Submissions are required to be no more than 10 pages (excluding
references).
* Submissions must be single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore
format
  (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches - top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0,
sides:0.625, and
   between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt).
* Papers will NOT be reviewed double-blind. Author names and affiliations
should
  be included in the submitted paper, and appropriate citations of prior
work must
  be included.
* LaTeX and Word Templates are available here:
  (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
* Only web-based submissions are allowed.
* Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system:
  (https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ieeecluster/).


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Taisuke Boku -  University of Tsukuba, Japan
Pete Beckmann -  Argonne National Laboratory, USA

GENERAL VICE CHAIR
Miwako Tsuji - RIKEN R-CCS, Japan

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Masaaki Kondo -  The University of Tokyo/RIKEN R-CCS, Japan
Franck Cappello - Argonne National Laboratory, USA