Call for Tutorials

Experts in cluster computing are invited to share their expertise with the community by submitting proposals for tutorials to be presented at the Cluster 2014 conference that will be held on September 22-26, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. The Cluster 2014 tutorials program will give attendees the opportunity to explore in depth a broad range of topics on the design of clusters and related technologies and on effectively managing or using cluster resources and services. Cluster 2014 invites proposals for tutorials, either full day (six hours) or half-day (three hours). All tutorials will be presented on September 22, 2014.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to cluster node and system architecture, GPU clusters, cluster management tools, cluster distributed operating systems, single system image systems, memory management, data management, storage systems, distributed and parallel file systems, I/O libraries, high performance networks, communication systems, resource and job management systems, scheduling and load balancing, virtualization, IaaS and PaaS cloud software, parallel programming models and runtimes, programming language and environments, security, fault-tolerance, checkpointing and high availability, power management and cooling, performance evaluation, analysis and optimization, benchmarking, gateways, visualization, web service hosting, data analytics frameworks, computational science, Grids…

Proposals should contain the following material

• A 3-page description including:
• Unordered List Item
• A title, an abstract (400 words maximum) & a syllabus
• Discussion of the topic's relevance
• Goals and any demos and exercises
• A description of the target audience
• Prerequisite background and content level
• An indication of half-day or full-day duration
• A listing of equipment needs. For example, proposals might list a projector for just a presentation, or a projector and workstations with minimum specifications for a hands-on tutorial.
• A slide deck from a recent tutorial (if one exists) or a draft slide deck
• If applicable, details on when/where the tutorial has been presented before, including attendance numbers.
• A brief bio-sketch (2 pages per presenter).

Please note that the number of presenters is limited to 2 for a half-day tutorial and to 3 for full day tutorial.