Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 5 October 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus@gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to High Performance Computing and Communications or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to HPCC 2016. HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of High Performance Computing and Communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Grid and cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing, Utility computing 10. Big Data, Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics on HPC 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Vinh Tung Le, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK