Special Issue

Trends in High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era

This is an open call for contributions, but also invites extended selected papers from the 2nd IEEE Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (HiPINEB 2016). Extended versions of conference papers must contain at least 50% new content.

It is expected that submissions will align with the topics of interest to the above conference, and any questions about the scope of the special issue should be addressed to Dr Pedro Javier Garcia and/or Dr Jesus Escudero Sahuquillo.

Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages in length and must be prepared for publication according to the journal’s Author Guidelines (Wiley template).

Papers should be submitted via Manuscript Central to special issue “HiPINEB2016”.

GUEST EDITORS

  • Pedro Javier Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
  • Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The list of topics covered by this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Interconnect architectures and network technologies for high-speed, low-latency interconnects.
  • Scalable network topologies, suitable for interconnecting a huge number of nodes.
  • Power saving policies in the interconnect devices and network infrastructure, both at software and hardware level.
  • Emerging ideas, work-in-progress and early, high-impact achievements.
  • Good practices in the configuration of the network control software.
  • Network communication protocols: MPI, RDMA, Hadoop, etc.
  • APIs and support for programming models.
  • Routing algorithms.
  • Quality of Service (QoS).
  • Reliability and Fault tolerance.
  • Load balancing and traffic scheduling.
  • Network Virtualization.
  • Congestion Management.
  • Applications and Traffic characterization.
  • Modeling and simulation tools.
  • Performance Evaluation.

Note that papers focused on topics that are too far from the design, development and configuration of high-performance interconnects for HPC systems and Datacenters (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion detection, peer-to-peer networks or grid/cloud computing) will be automatically considered as out of scope and rejected without review.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2016 Extended to July 28
  • First rounds of review: September 7, 2016 October 20, 2016
  • Deadline for revised papers: October 7, 2016 October 30, 2016
  • Final decision notification: October 23, 2016 November 15, 2016
  • Estimated publication date: Mid-2017

All deadlines are set at 11:59 p.m. anywhere on Earth
(cf. http://wirelessman.org/aoe.html).

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

  • This call is open for all contributions, but it also invites selected papers from the 2nd edition of the HiPINEB workshop (http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2016).
  • Authors must abide by the requirement of adding significant novelty to the papers submitted to this special issue. Extended versions of conference papers must contain at least 50% new content. Besides, it is mandatory to attach a cover letter to any submission, explaining the main contributions of the paper.
  • Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages in length.
  • It is expected that submissions will align with the topics of interest listed above.
  • Manuscripts should accomplish the general rules defined at: http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2016.html#HiPINEB2016
  • Papers should be submitted via Manuscript Central to special issue “HiPINEB2016”: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpe

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information about this special issue or if you have any question, please contact
the guest editors at jesus.escudero@uclm.es or pedrojavier.garcia@uclm.es