Organizing Committee-HPCS2017
The 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
(HPCS 2017)
The 15th Annual Meeting
July 17 – 21, 2017
Genoa, Italy
http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17
Technically Sponsored by IEEE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - HPCS 2017
Honorary General Co-Chairs:
Andrew S. Grimshaw, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA
Steven J. Newhouse, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, U.K.
General Co-Chairs:
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
Mads Nygård, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Domenico Talia, ICAR-CNR and DEIS - Universita' della Calabria, Italy
Executive General Chair for Local Arrangements and Support:
Alessio Merlo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Program Co-Chairs:
Waleed W. Smari, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Ohio, USA
Luca Spalazzi, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Symposia, Tracks, Workshops & Special Sessions Co-Chairs:
Massimo Coppola, ISTI - CNR Institute for HPC, Pisa, Italy
Patrizio Dazzi, ISTI - CNR Institute for HPC, Pisa, Italy
Carlo Ferrari, Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Mauro Migliardi, Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Junaid A. Zubairi, The State University of New York at Fredonia, NY, USA
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Bruno Bodin, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
Maciej Malawski, AGH University of the Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Bogdan Nicolae, Huawei German Research Center, Munich, Germany
Panels Co-Chairs:
Biagio Cosenza, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Nahid Emad, Li-PARAD Laboratory, University of Versailles, France
Vincenzo De Maio, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria
Awards Co-Chairs:
Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska – Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Christian Perez, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), INRIA Lyon, France
Volker Sander, fh-Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium Co-Chairs:
Eduard Ayguade, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) and Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Antonella Galizia, National Research Council, Genoa, Italy
Teng Moh, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA
Demos & Exhibits Co-Chairs:
Gabriele Costa, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Alberto Dassatti, REDS-(HEIG-VD), Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, National College of Ireland, North Ireland
Gabor Kecskemeti, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, U.K.
Posters Co-Chairs:
Vladimir Korkhov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Sebastien Limet, LIFO - Université d'Orléans, France
Marian Vajtersic, University of Salzburg, Austria
Sponsorships & Industry Liaisons Co-Chairs:
Yannick Legré, European Grid Infrastructure (EGI.eu), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Shuo, Li, INTEL Corporation, Oregon, USA
Luca Verderame, Talos Security, Italy
TBA, TBA
Publications Co-Chairs:
Giovanni Lagorio, Università di Genova, Italy
Yudith Cardinale Villareal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
Associate Editor:
Vesna Zeljkovic, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, USA
Registration Co-Chairs:
Mohamed Bakhouya, International University of Rabat, Morocco
Jess Lanore, Stratford Northern, Indiana, USA
Lane Velayo, Stratford Northern, Indiana, USA
Khalid Zinedine, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Renato Porfírio Ishii, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh
Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Peter Müller, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Ilaria Torre, Università di Genova, Italy
Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Social Media Co-Chairs:
Louise Spellacy, Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
TBA, TBA
Social Events Co-Chairs:
Gabriele Costa, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Alessio Merlo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Accounting & Finances:
Shelley Deney, SLB, Inc., Ohio, USA
Steve Gellen, Gellen Insurance and Financial Services, Ohio, USA
Ted Gudderf, Gudderf Law Group, LLC, Ohio, USA
Conference Software Systems Manager & Web Master:
Abdul Habra, Technology Exponent LLC, Michigan, USA
Committee Members at Large and International Liaisons:
Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan
Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
Victor Malyshkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, VIC, Australia
TBA, TBA
Local Arrangements and Support Committee
Committee Co-Chairs & Members:
Giovanni Lagorio, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Marco Maratea, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Alessio Merlo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Marina Ribaudo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Student Support and Volunteers Co-Chairs:
Giovanni Lagorio, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Alessio Merlo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Student Assistants:
Simone Aonzo, University of Genoa, Italy
Muhammad Zeeshan Babar, University of Genoa, Italy
Marie M. Charbonneau, University of Genoa, Italy
Andrea Valenza, University of Genoa, Italy
TBA, TBA