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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"> Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"> 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"> (Cluster 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"> September 22 - 26, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"> Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Important dates:</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Paper abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">UPDATE : Keynote speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Robert L. Grossman, University of Chicago </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">and Open Data
Group </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">« </span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Supporting Big Data with Clusters, Clouds and Commons</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> »</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Alex Ramirez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center :
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">« </span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The Mont-Blanc Approach Towards Exascale</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> »
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Dan Stanzione, Texas Advanced Computing Center :
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">« <i>Wrangler: A New Generation of Data Intensive Cluster Computing </i>» <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","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:"Arial","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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">2014 Highlight: Cluster Support for Big Data</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">New this year: Student Mentoring Program</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Major topics of interest</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"> include,
but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 1: Cluster Design, Configuration and Administration</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Energy-efficient cluster architectures</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Node and system architecture</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Packaging, power and cooling</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Visualization clusters and tiled displays</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU clusters</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Interconnect/memory architectures</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Single system image clusters</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Administration and maintenance tools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 2: Cluster Software, Middleware, Tools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chair: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology<span style="color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Middleware for Big Data management</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Big Data visualization tools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Performance modeling for Big Data processing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Energy-efficient middleware</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Protocols, libraries, and interfaces</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Lightweight communication protocols</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Security</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Resource and job management</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Scheduling and load balancing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Reliability and high-availability architecture</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Fault tolerance, checkpointing and recovery</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Cost and performance implications of reliability</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Software environments and tools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 3: Cluster Storage and File Systems
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Chair: Michael Schöttner, University of Düsseldorf</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Cluster support for Big Data processing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Cloud storage for Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Storage support for Data-intensive computing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Storage cluster architectures</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ File systems and I/O libraries</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Track 4: Cluster Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chair: Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory<span style="color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Programming models for Big Data processing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Big Data Application studies on cluster architectures</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ HPC Applications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Hybrid programming techniques (MPI+OpenMP, MPI+OpenCL, etc.)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Benchmarking & profiling tools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Performance prediction & modeling</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Maximum 9 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 5 pages for Student Papers submitted to the Student Mentoring Track.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#878787"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Twitter: @IEEECluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">▪ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-International-Conference-on-Cluster-7428925<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">María S. Pérez, UPM, Madrid, General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, Rennes, Program Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Kate
Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Program Co-Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">José M. Peña, CeSViMa, Madrid, Financial
Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Workshop Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Christine
Morin, INRIA, Rennes, France, Tutorial Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany, Sponsors/Exhibits
Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Andre
Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany, Posters and panel Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Luc Bougé, INRIA,
Rennes, France, Educational Track Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Alberto Sánchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain,
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Faith Singer-Villalobos, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA, Publicity Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Junwei
Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Publicity Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Adrien Lebre, INRIA, Nantes, France,
Publicity Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Jay Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas, USA, Competition Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Jesús
Montes, CeSViMa, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Local Chair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Alexandru Costan, INRIA, Rennes, France, Submission
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Toni Cortes, BSC, Barcelona, Spain, Advisory Board</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#262626">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Angelos
Bilas, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Advisory Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">José L. Vázquez-Poletti, UCM, Social Network Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Santiago González-Tortosa, UPM, Social Network Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA, Track Chair (Track 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Track Chair (Track 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Michael Schöttner, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, Track Chair (Track 3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA, Track Chair (Track 4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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