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.

Good practices in the configuration of the network control software.

Network communication protocols: MPI, RDMA, MapReduce, 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.

Interfacing accelerators through the interconnect (GPUs, Xeon Phi, etc).

Network infrastructure in distributed storage, distributed databases and Big-Data.