[hpc-announce] [Deadline approaching] WSCC 2023: Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (co-located with EuroPar 2023)

[Matteo Nardelli]

(Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP)

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WSCC 2023: Euro-Par 2023 International Workshop
International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum
Date: 28 August - September 2023
Location: Limassol, Cyprus
Workshop web page: https://wscc2023.di.unipi.it/
Euro-Par web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/
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* Call for Papers

The “Compute Continuum” paradigm promises to manage the heterogeneity and
dynamism of widespread
computing resources, aiming to simplify the execution of distributed
applications improving data
locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy management as
well as other non-functional
features. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and
segregation in tiers,
enabling applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a
continuum of resources spanning
from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal
scaling patterns, this paradigm
also offers more detailed adaptation actions that strictly depend on the
specific infrastructure components
(e.g., to reduce energy consumption, or to exploit specific hardware such
as GPUs and FPGAs). This enables
the enhancement of latency-sensitive applications, the reduction of network
bandwidth consumption,
the improvement of privacy protection, and the development of novel
services aimed at improving living,
health, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by
application developers without having
to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed.
Therefore, to unleash the true
potential offered by the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and
infrastructure-aware management
is desirable, if not mandatory, calling for novel interdisciplinary
approaches that exploit optimization
theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
methods.

In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the
area of distributed systems with
particular emphasis on support for geographically distributed platforms and
autonomic features to deal with
variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of
heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures.
A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following:

- Scalable architectures and systems for Compute Continuum
- System software for cloud-edge-IoT orchestration
- Distributed and decentralized management of resources and application
deployment in the Compute Continuum
- Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum
- Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis
- Compute Continuum as a service
- Energy-efficient solutions for sustainable Compute Continuum
- AI in the Compute Continuum
- Scalable applications for Compute Continuum (IoT, microservices,
serverless)
- Data-intensive and stream processing systems and applications in the
Compute Continuum
- Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum
- Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum
- Benchmarks and experimental platforms for reproducible experiments in the
Compute Continuum


* Submission Instructions
The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They
should be between a minimum of 10
and a maximum of 12 pages.

* Special Issue
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the
Special Issue of the Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems on
“Scalable Compute Continuum”. For important dates and additional info, see
the related Call for Papers:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems/about/call-for-papers#scalable-compute-continuum


* Important Dates
  May 5th, 2023       Paper submission deadline
  June 19th, 2023     Paper acceptance notifications
  July 2nd, 2023      Camera-ready due

* Workshop Co-Chairs
 - Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
 - Patrizio Dazzi,     University of Pisa, Italy
 - Gabriele Mencagli,  University of Pisa, Italy
 - Matteo Nardelli,    Bank of Italy, Italy
 - Massimo Torquati,   University of Pisa, Italy

Looking forward to receiving your excellent submissions soon.

Best regards,

Valeria Cardellini, Patrizio Dazzi, Gabriele Mencagli, Matteo Nardelli, and
Massimo Torquati