[hpc-announce] HPDC 2024: Call for Papers (Main Track)

[Maria Fazio]

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HPDC 2024: Call for Papers (Main Track)
Date: 3-7 June 2024
Location: Pisa, Italy
Web Site: https://www.hpdc.org/2024/
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The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and 
Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference for 
presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, 
evaluation, and use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end 
computing. The 33rd HPDC will take place in Pisa, Italy, June 3-7, 2024.

* Deadlines

Abstracts due: January 18th 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE), 2024
Papers due: January 25th 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE), 2024
Author notifications: March 25th, 2024
Camera-ready version: April 18th, 2024
Conference dates: June 3-7, 2024

* Scope and Topics

Submissions are welcomed on high-performance parallel and distributed 
computing (HPDC) topics including but not limited to: clouds, clusters, 
grids, big data, massively multicore, and extreme-scale computing 
systems. Experience reports of operational deployments that provide 
significantly novel insights for future research on HPDC applications 
and systems are also welcome.

In the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, 
the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Datacenter, HPC, cloud, serverless, and edge/IoT computing platforms
-Heterogeneous computing accelerators and non-volatile memory systems
-File and storage systems, I/O, and data management
-Operating systems and networks
-System software and middleware for parallel and distributed systems
-Programming languages and runtime systems
-Big data stacks and big data ecosystems
-Scientific applications, algorithms, and workflows
-Resource management and scheduling
-Performance modeling, benchmarking, and engineering
-Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
-Operational guarantees, risk assessment, and management
-Novel post-Moore computing technologies including neuromorphic, 
brain-inspired computing, and quantum computing.

* Paper Submission Categories

Submissions to HPDC can be made in one of the following two categories: 
(1) regular papers, or (2) open-source tools and data papers. The 
primary focus of regular papers should be to describe new research ideas 
supported by experimental implementation and evaluation of the proposed 
research ideas. The primary focus of open-source tools and data should 
be to describe the design, development, and evaluation of new 
open-source tools or novel data sources. Submissions in the regular 
papers category are also strongly encouraged to open-source their 
software or hardware artifacts.

The authors are required to indicate the category of the paper as a part 
of the submitted manuscript's title. The last line of the title should 
indicate the paper type by using one of the two phrases (1) Paper Type: 
Regular, or (2) Paper Type: Open-source tools and data paper.

Submissions in both categories will be evaluated to the same standards 
in terms of novelty, scientific value, demonstrated usefulness, and 
potential impact on the field.  The chosen category at the time of the 
submission can not be changed after the submission deadline.

* Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 11 pages in 
PDF format, excluding references. Accepted papers will have the 
flexibility to use an additional page in the camera-ready to incorporate 
feedback from the reviewers. Papers should be formatted in the ACM 
Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference submission website. 
Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is 
not under consideration for another conference or a journal.

* Anonymizing Submissions

HPDC uses double-blind reviewing. Avoid identifying yourself or your 
institution explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references 
or acknowledgments). The first page should use the paper ID assigned 
during registration in place of the author names.

Use care in referring to your own related work. Do not omit references 
to your prior work, as this would make it difficult for reviewers to 
place your submission in its proper context. Instead, reference your 
past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of 
related work. In some cases, it is not credible to refer to your related 
work in the third person. For example, your submission may extend a 
previous workshop paper, or it may relate to a submission currently 
under review at HPDC or another venue. In these cases, you must still 
explain the differences between your HPDC submission and the other work, 
but you should cite the other work anonymously and e-mail the 
deanonymized work to the PC chairs.

If your submission reports on experiences with a system at your 
institution, you should refer to the system anonymously but describe the 
properties of the system that are needed to evaluate the work (e.g., 
size of the user base, volume of requests, etc.). We recognize that, in 
some cases, these properties may allow a reviewer to identify your 
institution.  Tool/data papers should also adhere to the double-blind 
submission policy. If the described tool/dataset framework is already 
widely used by the research community, consider describing the framework 
using a different name and not sharing the open-source code repository 
in the paper.

* Confidential Information

Papers containing information that is subject to a non-disclosure 
agreement (NDA) will not be considered for review.

* arXiv Submission Policy

Please note that having an arXiv paper does not prohibit authors from 
submitting a paper to HPDC 2024. arXiv papers are not peer-reviewed and 
not considered as formal publications and hence do not count as prior 
work. Authors are not expected to compare against arXiv papers that have 
not formally appeared in previous conference or journal proceedings. If 
a submitted paper is already on arXiv, please continue to follow the 
double-blind submission guidelines. Authors are encouraged to use 
preventive measures to reduce the chances of accidental breach of 
anonymity (e.g., use a different title in the submission and do not 
upload/revise the arXiv version during the review period after the 
submission deadline).

* Author List After Acceptance

Please note that the author list cannot be changed after acceptance.

* Conflict of Interest Declaration

At the time of submission, all authors must indicate their conflict of 
interest with the PC members. A conflict of interest may be 
institutional, collaborative, or personal. Please see detailed 
guidelines about how to accurately declare a conflict of interest on the 
submission website.

* ACM Policy on Authorship

Please refer to the ACM Policy on Authorship for all other guidelines.  
The frequently asked questions page 
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions) 
provides policies on the use of generative AI tools in preparing 
manuscripts.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby 
acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM 
Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on 
Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations 
of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by 
ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to 
other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you 
can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has 
been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a 
commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors.  The 
collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement 
throughout 2022.  We are committed to improve author discoverability, 
ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts 
around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

* Contact PC Chairs

David Lowenthal (dkl at cs.arizona.edu)
Rosa M Badia (rosa.m.badia at bsc.es)

* Submissions

Submissions are now open at https://hpdc24.hotcrp.com/.

* Suggestions for Document Preparation for Authors

-Formatting the Introduction Section

HPDC authors are encouraged to structure their introduction section of 
the paper in the following format (as subsections or headings).

I. Motivation. Clearly state the objective of the paper and provide 
(quantitative) support to motivate the specific problem your submission 
is solving.

II. Limitation of state-of-art approaches. Briefly review the most 
relevant and most recent prior works. Clearly articulate the limitations 
of prior works and how your approach breaks away from those limitations. 
A more detailed discussion should be reserved for the related work 
section. But, this section should be sufficient to help readers 
recognize the novelty of your approach.

III. Key insights and contributions. Briefly articulate the major 
insights that enable your approach or make it effective. Clearly specify 
the novelty of these insights and how they advance state-of-the-art. 
Describe the key ideas of your approach and design. List the key 
contributions including flagship empirical results and improvement over 
the prior art as applicable.

IV. Experimental methodology and artifact availability. Clearly specify 
the key experimental / simulation infrastructure and methodological 
details. Support the experimental methodology choices (e.g., cite that 
most relevant and most recent prior works have evaluated their ideas 
using similar methodology). Include a line to indicate whether the 
software/hardware artifact will be available upon acceptance.

V. Limitations of the proposed approach. Almost all scientific 
contributions have limitations and scope for improvement. Clearly 
articulate all the major limitations of the proposed approach and 
identify conclusions that are sensitive to specific assumptions made in 
the paper.

Please note this suggested format is not a requirement for submission, 
and authors will not be penalized for using a different format.

-Ethical Considerations

If your research describes a new security-related attack, please 
consider adding information about the responsible disclosure to the 
relevant entity. Overall, as appropriate and relevant, the paper should 
follow the ethical principles and not alter the 
security/privacy/equality expectations of the associated human users.

-Inclusive Description of Research Contributions

Please consider making your research contribution description inclusive 
in nature. For example, consider using gender-neutral pronouns, consider 
using examples that are ethnicity/culture-rich, consider engaging users 
from diverse backgrounds if your research involves a survey, etc. Best 
efforts should be made to make the paper accessible to visually impaired 
or color-blind readers.