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

• Operating systems, networks, and architectures

• High performance runtime environments

• Massively multicore systems, including heterogeneous systems

• Datacenter technology, resource virtualization

• Programming languages, APIs, and system interoperation approaches

• File and storage systems, I/O, and data management

• Big data stacks and big data ecosystems

• Resource management and scheduling, including energy-aware techniques

• Performance modeling, analysis, and engineering

• Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability

• Operational guarantees, and risk assessment and management

• Traditional and emerging applications and services that depend upon high- end computing