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</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626"> 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">   </span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">(Cluster 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626"><a href="http://www.cluster2014.org/"><span style="color:#386EFF">http://www.cluster2014.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">September 22  - 26, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Important dates:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Paper abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Workshop proposals due: 3 March 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Workshop decisions announced:  24 March 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Tutorial Submission: May 19, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Tutorial Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">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 joint effort
 of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at hardware, system, middleware, and application level.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">2014 Highlight: Cluster Support for Big Data</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">.
 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 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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">New this year: Student Mentoring Track</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">.
 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 presentation 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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 1: Cluster Design, Configuration and Administration</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Energy-efficient cluster architectures</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Node and system architecture</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Packaging, power and cooling</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Visualization clusters and tiled displays</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Interconnect/memory architectures</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Administration and maintenance tools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 2: Cluster Software, Middleware, Tools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 4: Cluster Applications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 for publication, submitted papers must conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">María S. Pérez, UPM, Madrid, General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Kate
 Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Program Co-Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">José M. Peña, CeSViMa, Madrid,
 Financial Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Workshop
 Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Christine Morin, INRIA, Rennes, France, Tutorial Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Thomas
 Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing
 Center, Barcelona, Spain, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
 Mainz, Germany, Posters and panel Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Luc Bougé, INRIA, Rennes, France, Educational Track Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Alberto
 Sánchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Proceedings Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Faith Singer-Villalobos,
 Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA, Publicity Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing,
 China, Publicity Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Adrien Lebre, INRIA, Nantes, France, Publicity Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Jay
 Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas, USA, Competition Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Jesús Montes, CeSViMa,
 UPM, Madrid, Spain, Local Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Alexandru Costan, INRIA, Rennes, France, Submission Chair</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Toni
 Cortes, BSC, Barcelona, Spain, Advisory Board</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Advisory Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Workshops will be held Friday 26 September 2014.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Current and future directions in cluster technology, including hardware, software, networks, data, and storage</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Clusters driving innovation in industrial and academic research</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Clusters in education and outreach (both formal education and outreach efforts, as well as how the community can help educate and train a twenty-first
 century workforce)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Clusters and clouds in cyberinfrastructure (eScience/eResearch) strategy</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Clusters in distributed visualization</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Workshop submissions should be a small number of pages, including the following content:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Title</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Names and affiliations of organizers</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">If held previously, when and in which venues? How many people attended? How many submissions/papers?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">How workshop is to be advertised</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">How papers/workshop will be published</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Proposed agenda</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Proposed speakers or from where speakers will be drawn</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Proposed program committee, if applicable</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Workshop proposals due: 3 March 2014</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Workshop decisions announced: 24 March 2014</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Camera-ready workshop papers due, if published in conference proceedings: TBD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Questions and submissions:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">d.katz@ieee.org</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Cluster
 2014 Workshops Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">                                       Call for Tutorials <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Topics</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">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…</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Cluster 2014 technical program highlights cluster support for Big Data problems. Tutorials related to this
 topic are particularly welcome.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Submission Guidelines</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Proposals should contain the following material</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">A 3-page description including:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Unordered List Item</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">A title, an abstract (400 words maximum) & a syllabus</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Discussion of the topic's relevance</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Goals and any demos and exercises</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">A description of the target audience</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Prerequisite background and content level</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">An indication of half-day or full-day duration</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">A listing of equipment needs. For example, proposals might list a projector for just a presentation, or a projector and workstations with minimum
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">If applicable, details on when/where the tutorial has been presented before, including attendance numbers.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">A brief bio-sketch (2 pages per presenter).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:#262626">Please note that the number of presenters is limited to 2 for a half-day tutorial and to 3 for full day tutorial.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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