Call for Papers CARLA 2014: Latin American HPC Conference http://www.ccarla.org/ First HPCLATAM – CLCAR Joint Conference 20 - 22 October 2014, Valparaíso, Chile Aims & Scope ****************** The main goal of CARLA is to provide a forum fostering the growth of the HPC community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Parallel Algorithms and Techniques, GPU Computing Applications, Distributed, Grid, and Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing Applications, Visualizations and Software Tools, Component Technologies, Tools and Environments for High Performance System Engineering. Instructions for Authors **************************** Authors are invited to submit full and short papers written in English, according to the Springer LNCS style. Full papers must have between 10 to 15 pages and short papers must have between 4 to 6 pages. Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be handled electronically using the Easy Chair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?carla2014 The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Proceedings and Special Issues in Journals **************************************************** All accepted full papers will be included in the CARLA 2014 proceedings that will be published in the serie CCIS of Springer: Communications in Computer and Information Science. In addition, authors of accepted full papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Issue of Cluster Computing (Impact factor: 0.776). All accepted short papers will be published electronically in the “Book of Ongoing Works”. Organized by: CCTVal (USM) & NLHPC (UCHILE) General Chair: Gonzalo Hernández (carla2014 at hpclatam.org)