[hpc-announce] ARCS 2024 CfP: HPC - Challenges for Sustainable Computing

[Lars Bauer]

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          C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S   --   A R C S   2 0 2 4
37th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
                     May 14-16, 2024, Potsdam, Germany
                        https://arcs-conference.org
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THIS YEAR’S FOCUS:  *HPC - Challenges for Sustainable Computing*

The ARCS conferences series has over 36 years of tradition reporting
leading edge research in computer architecture and operating systems.

High performance computing represents an important tool for tackling
climate change. In many other HPC application fields, the need for
more high computing power has increased enormously in recent years,
especially due to the high demand of AI-specific workloads. The
operation of correspondingly powerful computing systems therefore
represents an increasing problem in terms of energy requirements and
the associated CO2 emissions. HPC is therefore not only part of the
solution to tackling climate change, but also part of the overall
problem.

Heterogeneous computer architectures promise a significant increase
in the energy efficiency of HPC systems. The selection of different
accelerator architectures can contribute significantly to increasing
efficiency, but there is currently a lack of appropriate concepts
for their seamless and scalable integration, as well as the support
through appropriate programming models.

The focus of the ARCS’24 conference will be on novel accelerator
architectures, which are suited for the integration into HPC systems.
This includes fine and coarse grain reconfigurable architectures as
well as new ideas for their integration to achieve higher energy
efficiency as typical homogeneous architectures. In addition, the
topics cover HPC-specific research at the level of computer architec-
tures, runtime and operating systems, design tools and HPC programming
models and algorithms.

In addition to the main conference, ARCS will host special tracks on
Organic Computing and Dependability and Fault Tolerance.

The proceedings of ARCS 2024 will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. A best paper
and best presentation award will be presented at the conference.


*Important Dates*
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* Paper submission deadline:         February 29, 2024
* Notification of acceptance:        March 28, 2024
* Camera-ready papers:               May 2, 2024
* Conference (in Potsdam, Germany):  May 14 – 16, 2024


*Topics of Interest*
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Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit original,
unpublished research papers on one or more of the following topics:

**Hardware Architectures**
   * HPC-workload specific accelerator architectures
   * Reconfigurable architectures
   * Advanced computing architectures
   * System-on-chip
   * Distributed systems
   * High performance systems
   * Heterogeneous multi- and many-core architectures
   * Architectures for real-time and mixed-criticality systems
   * Coarse- and fine-grained reconfigurable architectures
   * Flexible I/O support
   * Advanced computing architectures
   * Using new non-volatile memory for energy-efficient architectures
   * New smart network technologies (e.g. SmartNICs, SmartSwitches)

**Programming Models and Runtime Environments**
   * HPC programming models for heterogeneous computing
   * Tools to monitor and to optimize the power consumption of HPC architecture
   * Operating systems, programming models, algorithms, and data structures 
for heterogeneous HPC architectures
   * Operating systems, hypervisors and middleware for homogeneous and 
heterogeneous multi-/many-core computing platforms
   * System management including but not limited to scheduling, memory 
management, power/thermal management, and RTOS
   * Domain-specific languages and programming models
   * Architecture specific code generation and optimization
   * Architectural simulation

**Cross-sectional Topics**
   * Near-memory and in-memory computing
   * Memory and network compression technologies
   * Organic computing
   * Pervasive systems
   * Autonomous systems
   * Approximate Computing
   * Mixed-criticality systems
   * Support for safety and security
   * Hardware in the loop simulations


*Submission guidelines*
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Submissions should be done through the link that is provided on the
conference website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2024.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format.

They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)
and must not exceed 15 pages, including references and figures.


*Organizers*
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General Chairs
Dietmar Fey, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Benno Stabernack, Universität Potsdam / Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institut

Program Chairs
Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Mathias Pacher, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Proceedings Chair
Thilo Pionteck, Magdeburg University, Germany

Publicity and Web Chair
Lars Bauer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany


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