0. Photos recalling the wonderful time at Cluster'12 are accessible at NEWS with the link http://ieeecluster2012.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/65594 . 

1. Cluster'12 was a great party! Photos at Cluster'12 will be coming soon to remember the good time. Below was Program Co-Chair Prof. Yuzhong Sun reporting on the organization of Cluster'12.

2. Insightful tutorials are proceeding on Sept 24 at BICC with the free rich buffet at noon at BCGH!

3. Don't miss Cool Reception co-located with Poster Session on Evening Sept. 25, 2012, Ballroom #307 at BICC, enjoying the delicate food as follows in Chinese and English:

 沙拉(Salad)：土豆沙拉(potato salad), 意粉沙拉(pasta salad), 熏鸡沙拉(smoked chicken salad);小吃(Canape): 鸡蛋(egg), 素菜(vegatable), 手指三文治(Mini finger sandwich), 鸡肉(chicken), 黑椒牛肉(pastrami), 素菜(vegetable); 蒸点:  馒头(steamed bun), 花卷(steamed roll), 素菜包(vegetable bun),；热菜Hot dishes: 炸春卷(deep-fried spring roll), 羊肉串(lamb  skewer), 咖喱鸡(chicken curry), 炒时蔬(fried vegetable); 什锦炒饭(fried rice); 东方炒面(fried noodles); 甜点(Desserts): 黑森林(black forest cake), 核桃派(walnut pie), 奶点(cream cake), 马芬(muffin), 水果蛋糕(fruit cake); 鲜水果(fresh fruits plater); 饮品(drinking): 可乐(Cola), 雪碧(Sprite), 矿泉水(mineral water), 芬达; 红葡萄酒(Red Wine): limited.  

4.Annoucement of registration schedule, registration/conference/hotel/lunch locations, and, English and Chinese words for taxi drivers as shown below. It is good news that Cluster'12 provides Lunch Buffet to all Cluster 2012 Registered Attendees from Sept 24th to Sept 28th, 2012. The local Chinese music show would make the banquet wonderful. Cluster'12 registration is opened due to Sept 28, 2012.  

5. Congratulated Reza Farivar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ziming Zhong at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Raghunath Rajachandrasekar at the Ohio State University on being awarded to Student Travel Grants provided by IEEE Cluster'12 TPC.

6.Announcement of Panel:  Challenges and Issues of Scaling both High Throughput and High Performance Computing in Clusters with Panel Chair: Prof. Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University, USA, and, Panelists: Dr.  Philip Carns, Argonne National Labs, USA, Prof. Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, Prof. D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University, USA, Prof. Lu Xu, Institute of Computing Technology, and BlueWhale IT Company, China.  

7. Announcement of opening application to a few quotas of International Student Travel Grant. Please send to Prof. Yuzhong Sun with the email:yuzhongsun@ict.ac.cn the request with the information including name, affiliation, title, gender, approved registration form, paper ID, paper title, PDF version of accepted paper, before Aug. 20.  

8. Join the Cluster 2012! Advanced Program is ONLINE including tutorials, workshops, industrial seminar and main conference.

9. Announcement of the keynote title of Franck Cappello, Co-Director of the INRIA-Illinois Joint Laboratory on PetaScale Computing, "CHECKPOINTING for Extreme Scale Systems: from Loser to CHAMPION", for Reliability and Availability challenges in systems without boundaries like the BLUE SKY wherein you and I breathe.   

10. Announcement of the keynote title of Dr. Wen-Hann Wang, vice president of Intel Research Labs, "Challenges and Opportunities for "big data"--A Platform Perspective".

11. IEEE Cluster conference series (i.e. Cluster'12) definitively adhere to the famous anonymous review rule with sincere respect to reviewers' independences. The final acceptance determinations were made by the PC chair meeting based on professional and insightful reviews which are the precious instructions for contributors' future works.

12. In the procedure of emailing notifications, Cluster'12 sent notifications to all co-authors of a paper if their email addresses were submitted. Please contact with other co-authors of a paper if one couldn't receive notification emails since our notification emails might be taken as spams by some affiliations' official email services.  China Visa (only for international contributors), registration payment and oral presentation become preconditions for accepted papers eventually being published in the two proceedings of IEEE Clusters and workshops respectively. Details can be found in the VISA Guide and Author Guide of Cluster'12.

IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2012 (Cluster 2012) is the premier conference on all aspects of cluster computing for computational science. Cluster 2012 is hosted Beijing, China, one of the leading technology cities in China. Attendees will have access to the latest developments in cluster computing technologies and practices. Join the cluster computing community, and discuss new directions, opportunities, and ideas that will influence the future of cluster computing. The conference history can be reachable at http://www.clustercomp.org  including the series of Cluster conferences from 1999-2011.

Scope：

Cluster 2012 welcomes original unpublished paper submissions from researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing innovative research in the field of cluster and high-performance computing.

Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Systems Design and Configuration
• Tools, Systems Software, and Middleware
• Algorithms, Applications and Performance
• Storage and File Systems