IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
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| IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing | |
|---|---|
| Name | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing |
| Abbreviation | ICCC |
| Discipline | Computer Science |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| First | 1998 |
| Frequency | annual |
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing is a recurring technical conference focusing on cluster computing, parallel processing, distributed systems, high-performance computing, and related infrastructures. It convenes researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academic institutions, national laboratories, and corporate research centers to present peer-reviewed work spanning hardware, software, middleware, and applications. The conference is part of the global calendar of computing events that includes specialized meetings and multidisciplinary symposia.
Overview
The conference brings together contributors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, Peking University, National University of Singapore and ETH Zurich alongside participants from IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, Google Research, NVIDIA, AMD, Oracle Corporation, Amazon Web Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Cisco Systems. Authors often include researchers associated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. Attendees represent projects and consortia such as TOP500, HPCwire, OpenMPI, Apache Hadoop, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Slurm Workload Manager, Message Passing Interface, ROCm, and CUDA development communities. The venue fosters exchange among specialists who also frequent events like International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, and International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
History and Evolution
The series evolved from late-1990s cluster research communities linked to DARPA initiatives, collaboration with National Science Foundation, and partnerships involving European Research Council supported projects. Early conferences featured pioneers from Cray Research, Sun Microsystems, Bull SAS, and Siemens AG and highlighted developments that intersected with efforts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and CERN. Over time the program expanded to include topics influenced by work at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix, Alibaba Group, Baidu, and Tencent as cloud and web-scale architectures matured. The conference adapted to shifts evident in workshops at NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, and ACL where machine learning systems demanded cluster-aware designs. Organizational changes mirrored governance models used by IEEE Computer Society, ACM, USENIX, and regional chapters across Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and European Union funded initiatives.
Topics and Scope
Technical scope covers parallel file systems, middleware, resource scheduling, fault tolerance, energy-efficient designs, and performance evaluation with cross-references to projects at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Human Genome Project computing efforts, and observatory computing at European Southern Observatory. paper themes often align with technologies from OpenCL, MPI Forum, POSIX, RDMA Consortium, InfiniBand Trade Association, and standards from International Organization for Standardization and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Application domains include computational chemistry modeled by groups at American Chemical Society collaborations, climate simulations similar to those at Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change centers, genomics pipelines like those at Broad Institute, and astronomy workflows akin to Large Synoptic Survey Telescope planning. Topics also intersect with security research from National Institute of Standards and Technology, virtualization work from VMware, and containerization advances from Docker, Inc..
Organization and Sponsorship
The event is managed under the auspices of the IEEE Computer Society with program committees featuring members from Association for Computing Machinery, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, and national academies such as National Academy of Engineering and Royal Society. Sponsors have included IEEE Standards Association, corporate partners like Intel, NVIDIA, Google, cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and research funders including National Science Foundation, European Commission, and national ministries of science from China, Japan, India, and Germany. Local organizers coordinate with universities like University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay for venue logistics.
Notable Conferences and Locations
Past meetings have been hosted in major centers including San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Zurich, Geneva, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Kyoto, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. Special sessions have featured keynote addresses by leaders affiliated with DARPA, NSF, ERC, Google Brain, OpenAI, DeepMind, and founders from Cray Inc., Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical Ltd., and Hewlett-Packard. Workshop collaborations have occurred with International Supercomputing Conference, PASC Conference, and regional meetings like Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Systems.
Proceedings and Publications
Accepted papers appear in IEEE Xplore collections and proceedings indexed alongside publications from ACM Digital Library, Springer, and select special issues in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Parallel Computing (journal), and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Archives reflect citation linkages to works published in Nature, Science, and discipline-specific outlets like Astronomy & Astrophysics when cluster-enabled research supports cross-disciplinary discoveries. Authors often reuse artifacts in repositories like GitHub and datasets in Zenodo.
Impact and Community Contributions
The conference has influenced software stacks used in national laboratory deployments, enterprise clusters, and cloud infrastructures, connecting research from OpenStack Foundation projects to production systems at Facebook and Google. It contributed to standards conversations at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association and informed policy papers for funding agencies including European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and National Science Foundation program officers. Alumni of the conference have advanced careers at Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Intel Labs, NVIDIA Research, and academic institutions such as Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Washington, and Imperial College London while forming working groups that overlap with Linux Foundation and Open Source Initiative efforts.