Scope and Topics
Submissions are welcomed on high-performance parallel and distributed computing topics including but not limited to: clouds, clusters, grids, big data, massively multicore, and global-scale computing systems. Submissions that focus on the architectures, systems, and networks of cloud infrastructures are particularly encouraged, as are experience reports of operational deployments that can provide insights for future research on HPDC applications and systems. 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.

In the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Systems, networks, and architectures
Massively multicore systems
Resource virtualization
Programming languages and environments
File and storage systems, I/O, and data management
Resource management and scheduling, including energy-aware techniques
Performance modeling and analysis
Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
Data-intensive computing
Applications and services that depend upon high-end computing
Paper Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference web site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters.

Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details.

Important Dates
Abstracts (required) due: January 12, 2015
Full Papers due: January 19, 2015 (no extensions)
Author rebuttal period: March 4-7, 2015
Author notifications: March 16, 2015
Final Manuscripts: April 1, 2015