[hpc-announce] IEEE Cluster 2020 @ Kobe, Deadline extended to May 24

Sat May 2 22:16:38 CDT 2020

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline extended)
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
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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 operated 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.

Taisuke Boku & Pete Beckman, general co-chairs
Masaaki Kondo & Franck Cappello, program co-chairs

Important Dates:
* Submission site open: March 30, 2020
* Abstract deadline: May 17, 2020
* Full Papers due: May 24, 2020
* Paper Acceptance Notification: July 20, 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

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Satoshi OHSHIMA
e-mail: ohshima at cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Associate Professor
High Performance Computing Division
Information Technology Center
Nagoya University