Call for Papers

Clusters have become the workhorse for computational science and engineering research, powering innovation and discovery that advance science and society. They are the base for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructures, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires the common effort of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at hardware, system, middleware, and application level.

2014 Highlight: Cluster Support for Big Data. The evolution of cluster technologies is expected to substantially impact emerging research areas, such as the increasingly important Data Science field. Therefore, we have chosen this year to highlight research topics in all areas expected to bring substantial progress in the way clusters can help in addressing Big Data challenges. Specific topics are dedicated to this direction within all conference tracks alongside more traditional topics. In addition, special tutorials and workshops will focus on cluster technologies for Big Data storage and processing.

New this year: Student Mentoring Track. Today's Master and PhD students are our future colleagues. The future development of cluster, grid and could computing falls on their shoulders. The Cluster conference is proud to contribute to their education through a specific mentoring program all along the week. This program will include a Poster Master Class delivered by renowned researchers, to improve their poster making and presenting skills. It will also include specific VIP scientific sessions, delivered by first-class lecturers introducing them to their vision of the field, and private question quarters, to give them a chance to ask their questions to plenary speakers after their keynotes. Also, a special “Looking to my future” session will be organized with cluster-oriented company VIPs to tell students the latest opportunities for positions in this area, and how to earn them. Last by not least, special student socializing events will be organized, and various Best-*-Awards offered.

Cluster 2014 is hosted in Madrid, Spain. Attendees will have access to the latest developments in cluster computing technologies and practices. Join the cluster computing community, and discuss new directions, opportunities, and ideas that will influence its future. Cluster 2014 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry that describe original research and development efforts in cluster computing.

All papers will be evaluated for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while experience reports must clearly describe lessons learned and demonstrate impact.

Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Cluster Design, Configuration and Administration

Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA

Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing
Energy-efficient cluster architectures
Node and system architecture
Packaging, power and cooling
Visualization clusters and tiled displays
GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU clusters
Interconnect/memory architectures
Single system image clusters
Administration and maintenance tools

Track 2: Cluster Software, Middleware, Tools

Chair: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Middleware for Big Data management
Big Data visualization tools
Performance modeling for Big Data processing
Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization
Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization
Energy-efficient middleware
Protocols, libraries, and interfaces
Lightweight communication protocols
Security
Resource and job management
Scheduling and load balancing
Reliability and high-availability architecture
Fault tolerance, checkpointing and recovery
Cost and performance implications of reliability
Software environments and tools

Track 3: Cluster Storage and File Systems

Chair: Michael Schöttner, University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Cluster support for Big Data processing
Cloud storage for Big Data
Storage support for Data-intensive computing
Storage cluster architectures
File systems and I/O libraries

Track 4: Cluster Applications

Chair: Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Programming models for Big Data processing
Big Data Application studies on cluster architectures
HPC Applications
Programming languages and environments
Hybrid programming techniques (MPI+OpenMP, MPI+OpenCL, etc.)
Benchmarking & profiling tools
Performance prediction & modeling

Paper Submission

Paper 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.

PDF files only are accepted.
Maximum 9 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 5 pages for Student Papers submitted to the Student Mentoring Track.
Single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format (8.5×11-inch paper, margins in inches– top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt ).
LaTeX and Word Templates are available here.
Only web-based submission is accepted

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecluster2014

Organization

María S. Pérez, UPM, Madrid, General Chair
Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, Rennes, Program Chair
Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Program Co-Chair
José M. Peña, CeSViMa, Madrid, Financial Chair
Daniel S. Katz, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA, Workshop Chair
Christine Morin INRIA, Rennes, France, Tutorial Chair
Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair
Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany, Posters and panel Chair
Luc Bougé, INRIA, Rennes, France, Educational Track Chair
Alberto Sánchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Proceedings Chair
Faith Singer-Villalobos, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA, Publicity Chair
Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Publicity Chair
Adrien Lebre, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, Publicity Chair
Jay Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas, USA, Competition Chair
Jesús Montes, CeSViMa, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Local Chair
Alexandru Costan, INRIA, Rennes, France, Submission Chair
Toni Cortes BSC, Barcelona, Spain, Advisory Board
Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Advisory Board
José L. Vázquez-Poletti, UCM, Madrid, Spain, Social Network Chair
Santiago González-Tortosa, UPM, Madrid, Spain,Social Network Chair
Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA, Track Chair
Alexandru Iosup,Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Track Chair
Michael Schöttner, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, Track Chair
Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Track Chair

Important dates

Paper Abstracts (required) due: May 2, 2014
Full Papers Due: May 12, 2014 (Anywhere on Earth (AoE)) (extended, hard deadline)
Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS