The list of topics covered by this workshop 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.