The conference will include invited presentations from experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in HPC & Simulation technologies and systems and related issues.

Architectures and Systems Track

Grid and Cluster Computing Peer-to-Peer Systems and Networks Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Systems Sensor Networks Reconfigurable Computing & FPGA Based Architectures Broadband and High Performance Networks Enterprise and Federated Architectures Application-Specific Architectures Scalable Computing Instruction Level Parallelism Fine-Grain Parallelism and Architectures Cell, Network and Security Processors Power Aware Architectures High Performance Interconnection Networks Warehousing and Storage High Performance I/O Distributed Shared Memory HPC Monitoring &Instrumentation Innovative HPC (Autonomic, Affective, Quantum, Autonomous,...) Nature Inspired HPC

Algorithms Track

Data Mining and Searching Partitioning, Mapping, and Scheduling Routing, Synchronization, Consistency Network Flow and Congestion Network and Systems Protocols Message Passing Load Balancing and Sharing Resource Allocation, Sharing and Management Security, Authentication, Access Control Fault Tolerance, Replication Mutual Exclusion, Deadlock Detection Causality and Time Query Processing and Information Retrieval Coordination, Consensus, and Agreement Modeling Simulation and Evaluation Techniques Reliable Parallel and Distributed Systems Learning and Intelligence Algorithms HLA, InfiniBand Architecture (IBA), and Related Standards

Software and Middleware in HPC Systems Track

Operating Systems and Compilers Languages Libraries and Programming Environments File Systems Name Services and Naming Operating Systems Support Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation Interprocess Communication Transaction and Concurrency Control Brokering Middleware Object Oriented Programming & Design Software Development Tools and Support Benchmarking and Assessment CORBA Based Technologies Markup Languages and their Applications Web Semantics

High Performance Applications Track

Parallelization of Simulation Distributed Multimedia Systems Real-time and embedded P & D Applications Biocomputing and Bioinformatics Internet and Web Computing Web Services Mobile and Wireless Applications Large Scale Scientific Computing & Applications Granular Computing, Neural, Fuzzy, and Rough Sets Cooperative Information Systems and Applications Agent and Multi Agent Based Applications Knowledge Based Systems Databases, Repositories and Their Applications Computer Supported Decision Making Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics Systems HPC in Digital Signal and Image Processing and Vision Federated and Legacy Applications P & D Industrial and Manufacturing Applications E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Learning Large Scale Systems for Computational Sciences (Biological, Chemical, Physical, Bioinformatics, Environmental, Transportation, etc.) HPC in Education

Workshops and special sessions on HPCS related topics are welcomed too. A workshop or a special session proposal should include a title, topics covered by the workshop, organizers information, submission instructions, review process, important dates, total number of expected accepted papers, and any other information for the authors. Proposals for workshops and special sessions should be submitted to Program Chair by December 2, 2005.