Please Post.  Thank you. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation* *The 2018 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** **(HPCS 2018)* *July 16-20, 2018** **Orléans, France* http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/  or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP *(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: MARCH 24, 2018 - Extended)** **(Other Conference tracks may have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest.)** * HPCS Proceedings are to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and indexed by all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc. You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits.  Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have the following refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: *_Symposia_: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) * *   SYM01: Cloud Computing and Services for HPC Systems (InterClouds-HPC 2018)    SYM02: Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2018)    SYM03: High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks (MCWN 2018)    SYM04: Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2018)    SYM05: Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD 2018) * *_Workshops_: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines)* *   W01: Dependable and Resilient Many-Core Computing (DRMC 2018)** **   W02: Optimization of Energy Efficient High Performance and Distributed Computing Systems (OPTIM 2018)** **   W03: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators (WEHA 2018)** **   W04: High Performance Interconnection Networks and Interconnects (HPINI 2018)** **   W05: High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2018)** **   W06: New Algorithms and Programming Models for the Manycore Era (APMM 2018)** **   W07: Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS 2018)** **   W08: Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2018)** **   W09: Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2018)** **   W10: Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2018)** **   W11: Security and Performance in Cloud Computing (SPCLOUD 2018)** **   W12: High-Performance and Distributed Computing for Business Analytics and Financial Applications (HPC-BAFA 2018)** **   W13: Computational Intelligence and Parallel Evolutionary Computation (CIPEC 2018)** **   W14: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications (MLPRA 2018)** **   W15: High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth Sciences (HPC-WCES 2018)** **   W16: HPC Systems for Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences (BILIS 2018)** **   W17: High Performance Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks (DRSN 2018)** **   W18: Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing (AASC 2018)** **   W19: Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2018)** **   W20: Parallel Computations for Neural Networks  (PCNN 2018)** **   W21: Cellular Automata Algorithms & Architectures (CAAA 2018)** **   W22: Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (LSAUC 2018)** * *_Special Sessions_: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines)* *  SS01: Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2018)   SS02: Benchmarking and High Performance Computing for Applications and Optimization (HPBench 2018)   SS03: Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms and Solutions (BICAS 2018)   SS04: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2018)   SS05: High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2018)   SS06: Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection (TUN-MM 2018)   SS07: Digital Home Networks & Ambient Intelligence (DHN-AmI 2018)   SS08: High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2018)   SS09: Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications  (IoT-HPC 2018)   SS10: High Performance Mission Critical System Development (HiPMiC 2018)   SS11: Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME 2018)   SS12: Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches in Science and Engineering (FSASE 2018) * ================================================================= *Important Dates:* *     Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline ——— March 24, 2018 - Extended     Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ———————— March 30, 2018     Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts ——————--—— April 23, 2018     Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ——————— May 11, 2018     Conference Dates ——————————————————-—— July 16 - 20, 2018 * ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 or contact one of the organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Orléans in July.  Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2018 Organizers