[hpc-announce] Call for EESP Workshop at the ISC High Performance 2025

[Afzal, Ayesha]

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EESP 2025: CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on “Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance: Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices”
In conjunction with ISC High Performance 2025, Hamburg, Germany
 
Submission deadline ------------------- February 20, 2025, AoE
Notification ------------------------------- March 28, 2025, AoE
Camera-ready deadline ---------------- April 30, 2025, AoE
Workshop --------------------------------- June 10, 2025

Workshop website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ayeshaafzal91.github.io/eesp__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cdQRZHpXCokGhSOk1djmjDW3uEFZVdnIzGhCUKJngIm3MCb7IHJoRymqrDrAF_BwYeph52YFqZ55vk4b6s5EtlxFQrUtZA$  
Submission link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eesp25__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cdQRZHpXCokGhSOk1djmjDW3uEFZVdnIzGhCUKJngIm3MCb7IHJoRymqrDrAF_BwYeph52YFqZ55vk4b6s5EtlyJofrrQg$ 

Objective
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The EESP workshop fosters the exchange of innovative strategies, tools, and best practices to enhance energy efficiency in computing environments. Amid rising  energy costs and ambitious sustainability goals, optimizing energy use is critical for managing computing infrastructure. The workshop focuses on balancing performance, power consumption, and sustainability, offering practical guidance for exascale, Tier-1,  and Tier-2 centers. Attendees will gain insights into greener, cost-effective practices to drive sustainability. Aligned with Sustainable Development Goals, EESP bridges HPC and AI communities, empowering operators to reduce Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE),  source green energy, and help users make energy-conscious decisions. It highlights sustained performance over peak performance for future competitiveness.
 
Scope
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EESP invites academia, supercomputing centers, industry, and policymakers to collaborate on advancing energy-efficient practices. Topics include software  development, hardware design, and energy-efficient practices across various computing environments such as HPC clusters, data centers, and cloud infrastructure. Energy efficiency is a growing challenge, particularly for Tier-2 centers with limited resources.  This workshop fosters dialogue between Tier-0/1 and Tier-2 centers to adapt Tier-0/1 innovations for constrained budgets. It targets financial and technical solutions applicable to HPC clusters, data centers, and cloud infrastructures globally.
 
Topics of Interest
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The workshop aims to benefit the broader community by sharing use cases, lessons learned, and best practices through descriptive papers. We solicit papers  which encompass the following topics of interest but are not limited to: 
●      Energy  efficiency analysis in computing environments
●      Energy-aware  software optimization techniques for HPC & AI 
●      Energy-efficient  hardware architectures and practices for HPC & AI 
●      Energy-efficient  scheduling and resource management
●      Sustainable  data center operation and design
●      Metrics  for energy-efficient sustainable performance 
●      Cluster-wide  energy benchmarking with continuous regression analysis
●      Energy  modeling, measurement, and behavioral insights for CPUs and GPUs
●      Tools  for power and energy monitoring, management, and control
●      Renewable  energy sources for HPC systems
●      Emerging  trends and future challenges in energy consumption (e.g., AI and machine learning workloads)

Format and Proceedings
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Papers should be either short (work-in-progress, 6 pages) or regular (12 pages), including references and appendices, with an option for two additional pages  after review to address reviewer feedback. Each submission will undergo a minimum of three single-blind peer reviews. Review criteria will include the originality, technical soundness, potential impact, significance, and quality of presentation. 
Papers must be submitted online via the EasyChair system in PDF format, using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template. 
The accepted papers will be published along with the ISC proceedings as part of the Springer LNCS series.
 
Sincerely, 

Workshop General Chair
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Ayesha Afzal - Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center
 
Program Co-Chairs
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Sarah Neuwirth - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Natalie Bates - EE HPC WG
Siddhartha Jana - Intel 
 
Proceedings Chair
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Radita Liem - RWTH Aachen University
 
Program Committee
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https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ayeshaafzal91.github.io/eesp/index.html*organization__;Iw!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cdQRZHpXCokGhSOk1djmjDW3uEFZVdnIzGhCUKJngIm3MCb7IHJoRymqrDrAF_BwYeph52YFqZ55vk4b6s5EtlwQPESG6A$    
 
Collaborators
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Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR at FAU)
Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG)
 
Contact
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Please contact workshop general chair Ayesha Afzal for any inquiries: ayesha.afzal at fau.de.