[hpc-announce] [CFP] Benchmarking in the Data Center Workshop at ICPE2025

[Kevin Brown]

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Benchmarking in the Data Center: Expanding to the Cloud (BID 2025)
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 01 February 2025 (AoE)

Workshop held in conjunction with ICPE 2025
York University, Toronto, Canada [May 5-9, 2025]
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Scope
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High performance computing (HPC) is no longer confined to universities
and national research laboratories, it is increasingly used in
industry and in the cloud. Education of users also needs to take this
into account. Users need to be able to evaluate what benefits HPC can
bring to their companies, what type of computational resources (e.g.
multi-, many-core CPUs, GPUs, hybrid systems) would be best for their
workloads and how they can evaluate what they should pay for these
resources. Another issue that arises in shared computing environments
is privacy: in commercial HPC environments, data produced and software
used typically has commercial value, and hence needs to be protected.

Recent general adoption of machine learning has motivated migration of
HPC workloads to cloud data centers, and there is a growing interest
by the community on performance evaluation in this area, especially
for end-to-end workflows. In addition to traditional performance
benchmarking and high performance system evaluation (including
absolute performance, energy efficiency), as well as configuration
optimizations, this workshop will discuss issues that are of
particular importance in commercial HPC. Benchmarking has typically
involved running specific workloads that are reflective of typical HPC
workloads, yet with growing diversity of workloads, theoretical
performance modeling is also of interest to allow for performance
prediction given a minimal set of measurements. The workshop will be
composed of submitted papers, invited talks and a panel composed of
representatives from industry.
List of Topics

We invite novel, unpublished research paper submission within the
scope of this workshop. Paper submission topics include, but are not
limited to, the following areas:
- Many-core CPUs, Multi GPUs, accelerators, heterogeneous system evaluation
- Performance, power, efficiency, and cost analysis
- HPC, data center, and cloud workloads and benchmarks
- System, workload, topology, and workflow configuration and optimization

Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit work as regular paper (up to 6-8 pages
including references). All papers must be prepared in ACM Primary
Article Template format: proceedings template. The submitted work
shall be in the English language. Inclusion of artefact
evaluation/description appendix is encouraged and does not count
towards the page limit.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the technical program
committee (TPC). Review of supplementary material is at the discretion
of the reviewers; papers must be complete and self-contained.

All accepted papers will be indexed and published in the ACM Digital
Library after the workshop as part of the ICPE’25’s workshop track.

Workshop submission site: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bid2025__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bP56wD9NA1AO7Q5_uMowPYPZoTWSxVUBjLKa0ccdjGoSRvuNm70vW6mIM_2TjkvWvLA-sqDREW2LJ6_vj4B3bB9ptQRhmgo$ 

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 01 February 2025 (AoE)
Author notification:               15 February 2025
Camera ready deadline:       26 February 2025
Workshop date:                    To Be Announced (May 5-9, 2025)

Venue
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York University, Toronto, Canada
Workshop held in conjunction with ICPE 2025: the 15th ACM/SPEC
International Conference on Performance Engineering 2025.

Organizing Chairs
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Awais Khan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Kaushik Velusamy (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Contact: chairs2025(at)parallel.computer