IEEE Cluster 2025: Call for Papers

IEEE Cluster 2025, the 27th edition of the IEEE Cluster conference series, will be held September 2-5, 2025, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in cooperation with SIGHPC.

Computing clusters remain the primary system architecture for building many of today’s rapidly evolving computing infrastructures including high-performance computing, cloud computing, machine learning training and inference systems, and big data.

For IEEE Cluster 2025, we solicit high-quality original work that advances the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely related fields.

Important Information

For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, the paper has to be presented at the conference in person. If your paper is accepted at least one author must register, attend in person and present the paper in Edinburgh.

IEEE Cluster 2025 follows a dual-anonymous review process. For an explanation and description of this review process, please refer to the following link: https://clustercomp.org/2025/dual_anonymous.html

The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in a paper (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any paper submitted to an IEEE publication.

Please also refer to the IEEE Submission Policies

Area 1: Application, Algorithms, and Libraries

• HPC and Big Data application studies on large-scale clusters
• Applications at the boundary of HPC and Big Data
• New applications for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
• Application-level performance and energy modeling and measurement
• Novel algorithms on clusters
• Hybrid programming techniques in applications and libraries (e.g., MPI+X)
• Cluster benchmarks
• Application-level libraries on clusters
• Effective use of clusters in novel applications
• Performance evaluation tools

Area 2: Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management

• Node and system architecture for HPC and Big Data clusters
• Architecture for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
• Energy-efficient cluster architectures
• Packaging, power and cooling
• Accelerators, reconfigurable and domain-specific hardware
• Heterogeneous clusters
• Interconnect/memory architectures
• Single system/distributed image clusters
• Administration, monitoring and maintenance tools

Area 3: Programming and System Software

• Cluster system software/operating systems
• Programming models for converged HPC/Big Data/Machine Learning systems
• System software supporting the convergence of HPC, Big Data, and Machine Learning processing
• Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization
• Energy-efficient middleware
• Cluster system-level protocols and APIs
• Cluster security
• Management of local, center-wide and disaggregate resources and job
• Programming and software development environments on clusters
• Fault tolerance and high-availability
• Administration, monitoring and maintenance tools

Area 4: Data, Storage, and Visualization

• Cluster architectures for Big Data storage and processing
• Middleware for Big Data management
• Cluster-based cloud architectures for Big Data
• Storage systems supporting the convergence of HPC and Big Data processing
• File systems and I/O libraries
• Support and integration of non-volatile memory
• Visualization clusters and tiled displays
• Big Data/Large scale visualization tools
• Big Data application studies on cluster architectures

Paper Submission

• Submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the IEEE Xplore layout
• Submissions are required to be no more than 10 pages (excluding references).
• Papers will be reviewed dual-anonymous. Author names and affiliations should NOT be included in the submitted paper.
• LaTeX and Word Templates are available here
• Please submit your paper via the online submission system

Important Dates

• Submission site open: February 3, 2025
• Full Papers due: May 6, 2025
• Paper Acceptance Notification: July 4, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: August 8, 2025
• Conference: September 2-5, 2025
• All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Contact

Program Co-Chairs:

• Adrian Jackson, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Toni Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain

Complete committee list is available here