THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019) **** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, Doctoral Symposium, SCALE) CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters, and result in an outstanding impact to numerous aspects of the modern world. The 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2019) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. CCGrid has travelled over the world. Its next stop is in beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2019. Papers due: December 7, 2018 Author notifications: January 18, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfp.html CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Workshops should provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination of the above. Workshops could be scheduled for half a day or a full day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. Deadline for Workshop Proposals: September 30, 2018 Notifications of Acceptance: October 15, 2018 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfw.html CALL FOR TUTORIALS CCGrid 2019 will feature state-of-the-art tutorials from leading experts in their fields. Topics will cover different levels, ranging from introductory to highly advanced skills. All tutorials will address highly important and relevant subject areas of cluster computing and grid technology. To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, CCGrid 2019 solicits proposals for half day (3,5 hours) or full day tutorials. Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: January 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cft.html CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium of the 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2019) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2019 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing. Papers due  January 15, 2019 Author Notification: February 15, 2019 More info at: http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/doctoral.html CALL FOR THE 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SCALABLE COMPUTING CHALLENGE (SCALE 2019) The 12th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2019) is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). The objective of the SCALE Challenge is to highlight and showcase real-world problem solving using computing that scales. Effective solutions to many scientific and engineering problems require applications that can scale. There are different dimensions to application scalability. For example, applications can scale-up to a large number of cores on a compute unit, scale-out to utilize multiple distinct compute units, or exhibit elastic scaling to acquire and release resources on-demand, based on current need. The result may be an application that can solve a larger problem, increase throughput, and/or reduce execution time. In order to scale, applications need to be supported by tools, middleware, software cyber-infrastructure, programming frameworks, computing infrastructure, etc. The SCALE Challenge is concerned with advances in application development and their supporting infrastructure to enable scaling. All papers presented at the SCALE challenge and selected by the Scale Challenge Committee of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing. Proposal submission: 31 Jan 2019 Moore info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/scale2019.html ***Organizing Committee*** **General Chairs:** Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria **Program Chairs:** Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University, China **Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:** Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Monash University, Australia Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA **Doctoral Symposium Chair:** Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA **SCALE Challenge Chairs:** Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria **Local Arrangement Chairs:** TBD **Publicity Chair:** Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus **Proceedings Chair:** Georgiana Copil, SAP, Romania **Registration & Finance Chair:** George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus **Sponsorships and Students Travel Award Chair:** Eliezer Dekel, Huawei, Germany **Web Chair:** Kyriakos Georgiades, EasyConferences, Cyprus **Vice Chairs:** Applications and Data Science Vasiliki Kalavri, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Architecture and Networking Anne-Cecile Orgerie, IRISA, France Luis Veiga Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Cloud Computing Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece Autonomic Computing, Datacenters and Cyber-infrastructure: Georges DaCosta, IRIT, France Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Performance Modelling and Evaluation Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Programming Models and Runtime Systems Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Asterios Katsifodimos, TU Delft, The Netherlands Scheduling and Resource Management Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Storage and I/O Systems Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Hillel Kolodner, IBM Haifa, Israel Edge Computing Ivana Podnar Žarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA ***Program Committee*** **Storage and I/O Systems** Qingsong Wei, Institute of High Peformance Computing Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University Bo Mao, Xiamen University Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Weikuan Yu, Florida State University Cao Qiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Ming Zhao, Arizona State University Qing Liu, New Jersey Institute of Technology Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Lei Tian, TINTRI Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Gala Yadgar, Technion Danny Harnik, IBM Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University Philip Shilane, EMC **Programming Models and Runtime Systems** Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dragi Kimovski, University of Innsbruck Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Jan Hidders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Dan Holmes, The University of Edinburgh Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Jan S Rellermeyer, Delft University of Technology Marios Fragkoulis, Delft University of Technology Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Alexandre Eichenberger, IBM Costin Iancu, LBNL Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel **Cloud Computing** Suzanne McIntosh, New York University - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Data Science Adrien Lebre, IMT Atlantique - Nantes Guillaume Pierre, IRISA / Université de Rennes 1 Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Michael Schoettner, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University Thomas Lambert, Université de Bordeaux Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens Domenico Talia, University of Calabria Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory Alexandru Costan, INRIA **Applications and Data Science** Yi-Chao Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jing Gong, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Jedrzej Rybicki, Forschunszentrum Juelich Gmbh Long Cheng, University College Dublin Lin Gan, Tsinghua University Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences Adrian Jackson, The University of Edinburgh Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ian Cosden, Princeton University Curt Hillegas, Princeton University Katerina Antypas, NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Pat Martin, Queen's University Erlin Yao, ICT, CAS Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Princeton University Vladimir Voevodin, RCC MSU **Performance Modelling and Evaluation** Marc Perache, CEA,DAM,DIF Bogdan Ghit, Databricks Xing Liu, IBM Lauren Smith, US Department of Defense Mihai Capotă, Intel Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of Würzburg Alexandru Calotoiu, TU Darmstadt Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University Sameer Shende, University of Oregon Swaroop Pophale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Andreas Knuepfer, TU Dresden Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre Jean-Baptiste Besnard, ParaTools SAS Erwin Laure, KTH/PDC Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Didem Unat, University of California San Diego Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia Naoya Maruyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Wenhong Tian, Uni. of Eletr. Sci. and Tech. of China Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science **Autonomic Computing, Datacenters, and Cyber-infrastructure** Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Technologies Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School for Information and Communication Technology Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Paul Renaud-Goud, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Shinobu Miwa, The University of Electro-Communications Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens Beniamino Di Martino, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Harald Kornmayer, DHBW Mannheim Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago Rong Ge, Clemson University Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, IRIT Olivier Richard, LIG Laboratory Grenoble Avi Mendelson, Technion Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology Vatche Ishakian, Bentley University, Computer Information Systems Department Robert Ricci, University of Utah Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam NL Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha Nikolaos Chrysos, Foundation For Research & Technology -- Hellas (FORTH) Gianni Antichi, University of Cambridge Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg Soeren Sonntag, Intel Pedro Javier Garcia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Hubertus Franke, IBM Robert Birke, ABB Research Andreea Simona Anghel, IBM Research - Zurich Research Laboratory John Carter, IBM Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory Marco Chiesa, Universite catholique de Louvain Balazs Gerofi, The University of Tokyo John Thomson, OnApp -- Demetris Trihinas (PhD) Senior Researcher Laboratory for Internet Computing (LInC) Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus PO Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus Tel: +357 22 89 2723 email: trihinas@cs.ucy.ac.cy website: dtrihinas.info