An article on design and implementation of network-aware job management system for cluster computing, one of key components in the collaborative project with NICT, was accepted for publication in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems (Japanese edition).

• 渡場康弘，木戸善之，伊達進，阿部洋丈，市川昊平，山中広明，河合栄治．竹村治雄．計算資源とネットワーク資源を考慮した割当ポリシを配備可能とするジョブ管理フレームワーク，電子情報通信学会論文誌，Vol.J97-D, No.6, pp.1082-1093, 2014年6月．

  The following two papers, which are the snapshots of our ongoing work on SDN-powered infrastructure for parallel and distributed computation, are accepted for presentation in the Special Session on SDN, IEEE ICON 2013:

• Kohei Ichikawa, Susumu Date, Hirotake Abe, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai and Shinji Shimojo. A Network Performance-Aware Routing for Multisite Virtual Clusters. IEEE ICON 2013: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Networks, Singapore, December 2013. (Accepted)
• Yasuhiro Watashiba, Yoshiyuki Kido, Susumu Date, Hirotake Abe, Kohei Ichikawa, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai and Haruo Takemura. Prototyping and Evaluation of a Network-aware Job Management System on a Cluster System Leveraging OpenFlow. IEEE ICON 2013: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Networks, Singapore, December 2013. (Accepted)

  Thanks to a nice talk given by Khureltulga, the first author, the following paper had been decided to be included in the proceedings of Euro-Par 2013 workshops, part of Springer LNCS!

• Khureltulga Dashdavaa, Susumu Date, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai, Yasuhiro Watashiba, Kohei Ichikawa, Hirotake Abe and Shinji Shimojo. Architecture of a High-speed MPI_Bcast Leveraging Software-Defined Network. In UCHPC2013: The 6th Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing 2013 (held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013), Archen, Germany, August 27, 2013. (also appeared in Springer LNCS 8374, pp. 885-894)

  The following paper, an extended version of our paper presented in IWUCA 2012, was accepted for publication in INFORMATION -  an International Interdisciplinary Journal published by International Information Institute.

• Daiki Morita, Kohei Ichikawa, Hirotake Abe, Susumu Date and Shinji Shimojo. Implementation and Evaluation of Multiple Deduplication Methods for VM Disk Images Composing a Virtual Cluster. INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal, Published by International Information Institute. (in press)

  The following paper was accepted for presentation in UCHPC 2013, one of the workshops held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013. Although the presentation itself is assured, inclusion of the paper to the conference proceedings has not been assured yet.

• Khureltulga Dashdavaa, Susumu Date, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai, Yasuhiro Watashiba, Kohei Ichikawa, Hirotake Abe and Shinji Shimojo. Architecture of a High-speed MPI_Bcast Leveraging Software-Defined Network. In UCHPC2013: The 6th Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing 2013 (held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013), Archen, Germany, August 27, 2013.