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Objective

The workshop on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications gears to gather recent work on heterogeneous and unconventional cluster architectures and applications, which might have an impact on future mainstream cluster architectures. This includes any cluster architecture that is not based on the usual commodity components and therefore makes use of some special hard- or software elements, or that is used for very special and unconventional applications. In particular we call for GPUs and other accelerators (Intel MIC/Xeon Phi, FPGA) used at cluster level. Even though accelerators are already used pervasively, we still see many unconventional and even disruptive uses of them. 

This year, we especially call for methods, techniques and best practices to improve the energy efficiency of cluster computing. This includes for instance specialized hardware and power-/energy-aware software layers. Power consumption is a hard constraint, and predictions show that this trend will not revert in the future. For the nascent field of power- and energy-aware computing, we see a large need in sharing experiences, best practices and new ideas.

Note that papers submitted to this topic will be preferred given equal scores with other contributions. However, HUCAA also welcomes contributions on other topics (examples see below). Also, proposals may rather be reflective of a broader industry trend; in general contributions are not only accepted based on their technical merits but also according to their contribution to the discussion on how cluster computing might evolve in the future.

Important dates

Co-organizers

• Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia, Spain (fsilla {at} disca.upv.es)
• Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg, Germany (holger.froening {at} ziti.uni-heidelberg.de)

Steering Committee

• José Duato, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
• Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Ulrich Brüning, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Programm Co-chair

Technical Program Committee

• Tarek Abdelrahman, U. Toronto, Canada
• José Luis Abellán, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain
• Olivier Aumage, INRIA, France
• José María Cecilia, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain
• Javier Cuenca, U. Murcia, Spain
• Basilio Fraguela, U. Coruna, Spain
• Marc Gonzalez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Sascha Hunold, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Lab, US
• Tomàs Margalef, U. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
• Thu D. Nguyen, U. Rutgers, US
• Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
• Won Ro, Yonsei University, South Korea
• Lena Oden, Argonne National Lab, US
• Dirk Pleiter, Research Center Jülich, Germany
• Antonio Robles, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
• Mingxing Tan, Cornell University, US
• Douglas Thain, U. Notre Dame, US
• Blesson Varghese, U. St Andrews, UK
• Prudence Wong, U. of Liverpool, UK
• Shuangyang Yang, Louisiana State University, US