Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) Advances for Next Generation Internet

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing and high-performance computing have been emerging paradigms over the past two decades for the computer and communications technology industry. With the maturity of cloud technologies and service models, the cloud-first strategy has become one of the essential decisions for a business operation to sustain the variety of applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), fifth-generation (5G) communications, telematics, and so on. However, many challenges remain for high-performance computing to fulfill the service requirements of emerging applications. For example, 5G and telematic applications require ultra-low latency for network delay, AI and machine learning applications require high computing throughputs for model training, big data applications require a high storage I/O performance for data-intensive processing, IoT applications require a high-speed network I/O for fast packet processing from massive edge devices or connected vehicles, and emerging trends for the next-generation Internet require serverless computing and function as a service. To bring together experts from the academic and industrial communities, we invite researchers to submit original research articles and the state-of-the-art techniques to this Special Issue on cloud and high-performance computing. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Emerging technologies with enhanced performance awareness on cloud and high-performance computing;

• Performance benchmarking and analysis for emerging cloud and high-performance computing systems;
• Novel algorithms and models for parallel and distributed processing;
• Resource management and job scheduling for high-performance AI and ML on distributed systems;
• Elastic resource provisioning for cloud–fog and edge computing frameworks;
• Service orchestration for virtualized or containerized network functions on 5G or beyond 5G clouds;
• Serverless and function as a service for next-generation computing.

Dr. Jerry Chou
Dr. Wu-Chun Chung
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.