The list of topics covered by this workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Interconnect architectures and network technologies for high-speed, low-latency interconnects.
• Scalable network topologies, suitable for interconnecting a huge number of nodes.
• Power saving policies in the interconnect devices and network infrastructure, both at software and hardware level.
• Good practices in the configuration of the network control software.
• Network communication protocols: MPI, RDMA, MapReduce, etc.
• APIs and support for programming models.
• Routing algorithms.
• Quality of Service (QoS).
• Reliability and Fault tolerance.
• Load balancing and traffic scheduling.
• Network Virtualization.
• Congestion Management.
• Applications and Traffic characterization.
• Modeling and simulation tools.
• Performance Evaluation.
• Interfacing accelerators through the interconnect (GPUs, Xeon Phi, etc).
• Network infrastructure in distributed storage, distributed databases and Big-Data.

Furthermore, short papers in the above topics will be also taken into consideration, as long as they are based on emerging ideas, work-in-progress and early, high-impact achievements.

Note, however, that papers focused on topics that are too far from the design, development and configuration of high-performance interconnects for HPC systems and Datacenters (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion detection, peer-to-peer networks or grid/cloud computing) will be automatically considered as out of scope and rejected without review.