High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications.

The intent of this meeting is to provide a forum in which researchers report on new ideas and technical insights, application teams express the challenges of constructing wide area or scalable high performance applications, and technology creators report on future developments.

Topics of interest

• HPDC applications including science, engineering, business, medicine and education
• Multimedia, teleimmersive, and collaborative applications
• Software environments, programming frameworks and language/compiler support
• Middleware, service architectures and services for high end applications, including those for real-time or interactive applications
• Parallel and distributed algorithms for computationally and data intensive problems
• Operating system technologies for high performance computing
• Architectures for data-centric systems, including data visualization
• High performance I/O and file systems
• Security, configuration, policy, and management issues
• Resource management, scheduling and load-balancing
• Fault tolerance, reliability and availability for high performance applications
• Software/hardware/architecture for high end communications
• Terabit networks systems and services
• Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction