Aims and Scope

Journal Theme

Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications will provide a forum for presenting the latest research and technology that unify the fields of parallel processing, distributed computing systems and computer networks. The current advances in processing and networking technology and software have spurred a lot of research interest in network computing, as demonstrated in the federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and the National Information Infrastructure (NII) initiatives. In the last few years, we have seen an increased interest in developing applications, software tools, communications protocols and computer networks to capitalize on these advances and initiatives. Publications about these developments currently appear in several journals that either focus on the communications field, or on parallel and distributed computing with a strong emphasis on the parallel computing field. Cluster Computing will uniquely address the latest results in these three fields that support high performance distributed computing over a computer network. The journal will be an important information source for the growing number of researchers, developers and users of High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) environments. In HPDC environments, parallel and/or distributed computing techniques are applied to the solution of computationally intensive applications across networks of computers.

Topics of Interest

Cluster Computing is an archival, peer-reviewed scientific journal that will publish papers on all aspects of high performance distributed computing. Many of the topics addressed in this journal overlap with those presented in the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Distributed Computing. The journal reports theoretical and practical results on application of high-speed communications networks and protocols, parallel and distributed computing techniques and software tools to solve computationally intensive problems across a LAN, MAN or WAN. Topics that deal with experimental results and prototypes are of particular interest. The subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Parallel and distributed algorithms to solve computationally intensive problems across a LAN, MAN or WAN
  • Efficient communication interfaces for distributed computing
  • High-speed network architectures
  • Communication protocols for high-speed application-to-application transfers
  • Software tools for high performance distributed computing (communications, resource allocation, load balancing)
    • Parallel and distributed computing environments
    • Web-based distributed computing
  • High performance I/O and file systems
  • HPCC/NII applications and case studies
  • Problem solving environments in network-based computing enviornments
  • Performance evaluation of experimental systems to solve supercomputing applications across a network of computers



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