In the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Operating systems, networks, and architectures
• High performance runtime environments
• Massively multicore systems
• Resource virtualization
• Programming languages
• File and storage systems, I/O, and data management
• Resource management and scheduling, including energy-aware techniques
• Performance modeling and analysis
• Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
• Applications and services that depend upon high-end computing