HPCSW 2014 - Workshop on High-Performance Computing for the Semantic Web (HPCSW2014)

HPCSW is a full-day workshop that will begin with presentations of technical papers submitted for publication and will end with a discussion among (but not limited to) invited participants. Proceedings will be published online, and a selection of revised papers will be published in a joint Lecture Notes in Computer Science post-proceedings volume. Papers should present work in which HPC in some form (e.g., parallelism, supercomputers, FPGAs, etc.) is employed to improve SWDP (any kind of processing of semantic web data). Broad topics for papers include (but are not limited to):
Parallelizing SWDP.
Exploiting HPC architectures for SWDP.
Employing parallel graph algorithms for SWDP.
Benchmarks for SWDP from a HPC perspective.
The following questions will guide (but not limit) the discussion:
How important is it to have high-performant applications for the semantic web?
What are the boundaries of HPC for SWDP?
What SWDP lends itself to HPC and/or parallel processing?
What pre-existing work in HPC can be leveraged for SWDP?
What are the tradeoffs between commodity HPC and specialized HPC for SWDP? (e.g., MapReduce vs. "hand-coded", commodity clusters vs. supercomputers)