HiPINEB 2015 - IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks Towards the Exascale and Big-Data Era

This one-day workshop aims to gather and discuss the last, groundbreaking advances in interconnection-network design, especially those oriented towards Exascale performance, from the point-of-view of both industry and academia. The workshop will consist of a technical session, including worldwide research papers, a panel discussion with members from academia and industry, and a keynote given by a reputed expert in the field of high- performance interconnection networks. The targeted audience is wide, as all the scientific or industrial community involved in the design, configuration or production of interconnection networks for HPC systems and Datacenters may find interesting the workshop scope and contents.
Main Topics
The list of topics covered by this workshop includes, but it is not limited to, the next ones:
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, 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.