<div dir="ltr"><div>International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing Systems </div><div>(InterCloud-HPC 2014) </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION </div>
<div> </div><div>As part of </div><div>The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS </div><div>2014) <a href="http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info">http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info</a> or <a href="http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14">http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs14</a> </div>
<div> </div><div>July 21 - July 25, 2014 </div><div>The Savoia Hotel Regency </div><div>Bologna, Italy </div><div> </div><div>Submission Deadline: March 25, 2014 </div><div> </div><div>Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters</div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES </div><div><br></div><div>Cloud is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure, hiding most of the </div><div>implementation and deployment details of the system from users. Cloud computing delivers </div>
<div>IT-related capabilities as services over the Internet, allowing resources be managed and </div><div>accessed in an Internet scale. Cloud computing has been envisaged to be one of the main-</div><div>stream powering technologies of future IT systems. </div>
<div> </div><div>This symposium focuses on techniques, experiences, applications, and lessons learned for </div><div>interoperable services in the cloud, particularly in the realms of high performance </div><div>computing. For instance, HPC may be used for the construction of mathematical models </div>
<div>and numerical solutions and techniques for solving scientific, socio-scientific and engineering </div><div>problems. It often requires a huge number of computing and storage resources to perform </div><div>large-scale analyses and experiments. Users could get access to their own virtualized HPC </div>
<div>cluster in a self-service, dynamically scalable and fully configurable environment. Cloud </div><div>computing can address many of the aforementioned concerns. Such a computing paradigm </div><div>shift provides a flexible high performance computing environment. </div>
<div> </div><div>The symposium aims at providing a forum to bring together researchers and scientists to </div><div>share and exchange cloud computing related research, technologies, experiences, and </div><div>lessons for building various types clouds with interoperability and coordination capabilities in </div>
<div>a high performance and high availability setting. </div><div> </div><div>The InterCloud-HPC Symposium topics include (but are not limited </div><div>to) the following: </div><div><br></div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Middleware Frameworks</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cloud Architectures</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cloud Interoperability and Federation Protocols</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Programming Models for HPC Clouds</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Semantic Web Services Definitions for Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Directory of Services for Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Management of Interoperability and Federation for Clouds</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Interoperable and Federated Cloud Security and Trust</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cloud Interoperability and Federation Governance and Regulatory</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>HPC Cloud-based Services</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>QoS/SLA in Interoperable and Federated Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Converged Implementations of Clouds and Grids</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Geo-balancing in Interoperable and Federated Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Common Programming Models across Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cloud Broker, Exchange, Arbitrage architectures</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Semantic Web for Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cloud Protocols</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Virtualization Technologies and Techniques</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Virtualization Techniques for HPC GPU/Multicore Systems</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Management of Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Performance Evaluation and Monitoring of HPC Clouds</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scalable Fault Resilience Techniques for HPC Clouds</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cloud Application</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Experiences and Lessons</div>
<div> </div><div>PAPER SUBMISSIONS </div><div><br></div><div>You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other </div><div>topics related to Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing </div>
<div>Systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted </div><div>elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to </div><div>exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages, and include up to 6 keywords and an </div>
<div>abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be </div><div>charged additional fee. Submission should include a </div><div>cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, </div>
<div>and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the </div><div>corresponding author(s). Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please </div><div>refer to <a href="http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters">http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters</a> for posters submission details) will also </div>
<div>be accepted. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page </div><div>numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful </div><div>comments. </div><div>
</div><div>Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the symposium paper submission site </div><div>at <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intercloudhpc2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intercloudhpc2014</a> . Acknowledgement </div>
<div>will be sent within 24 hours of submission. </div><div> </div><div>Only PDF files will be accepted, sent by email to the symposium organizers. Each paper will </div><div>receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, </div>
<div>relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the </div><div>willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At </div><div>least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS </div>
<div>2014 conference to present the paper at the symposium. </div><div> </div><div>Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final </div><div>manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2014 Conference web </div>
<div>site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and </div><div>be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in </div><div>the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. </div>
<div> </div><div>If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the </div><div>symposium organizers. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>IMPORTANT DATES </div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submissions: ----------------------------------------------- March 25, 2014 </div>
<div>Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------------------ April 15, 2014 </div><div>Extended Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by ----- May 06, 2014 </div><div>Conference Dates: ------------------------------------------------- July 21 - 25, 2014</div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS </div><div><br></div><div>Justin Y. Shi </div><div> Computer and Information Sciences Department </div><div> Temple University </div><div> Philadelphia, PA, USA </div>
<div> Phone: +1 (215) 204-6437 </div><div> Email: <a href="mailto:shi@temple.edu">shi@temple.edu</a></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Boleslaw K. Szymanski </div><div> Department of Computer Science </div><div>
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA </div><div> Phone: +1 518-276-2714 </div><div> Email: <a href="mailto:szymab@rpi.edu">szymab@rpi.edu</a></div><div> </div><div>Program Committee*: </div><div>
<br></div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ron Minnich, Google Inc., California, USA (Panel Chair)</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>C. Chiu Tan, Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA</div>
<div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ningfang Mi, ECE, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA</div><div>*<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Moussa Taifi, Cloudamize Inc., Pennsylvania, USA</div>
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