[hpc-announce] [CFP] MODA25 Workshop at ISC 2025

[Thomas Jakobsche]

=== Call for Papers ===

6th International Workshop on "Monitoring & Operational Data Analytics" (MODA25)
In conjunction with ISC HPC 2025, June 13, 2025, Hamburg, Germany.
Website:    https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://moda.dmi.unibas.ch__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d8Lp8nzORKh2AC2uTBPNVxP7RdjfFKYaO0ogvNS98gqpJiUB17vzooTfXS6F8vLI_-5bNPd9M5pzBHCQN3vyTnjbhVVFO-VLvgOt$ 
Submission: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moda25__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d8Lp8nzORKh2AC2uTBPNVxP7RdjfFKYaO0ogvNS98gqpJiUB17vzooTfXS6F8vLI_-5bNPd9M5pzBHCQN3vyTnjbhVVFO1YVHRAU$ 

The MODA25 Workshop invites original contributions on monitoring and analyzing operational data in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and data centers. We welcome submissions on ways to collect, store, visualize, interpret, and leverage large-scale system data, as well as the use of machine learning and AI techniques to enable proactive system control and optimization. MODA25 also encourages contributions that include energy efficiency, providing a forum for HPC operators, administrators, and researchers to share best practices and motivate users toward sustainable resource usage.

=== Important Dates ===

Paper Submission:    28.02.2025 (AoE)
Author Notification: 31.03.2025
Camera-ready:        30.04.2025 (AoE)
MODA25 Workshop:     13.06.2025

=== Workshop Goals ===

The goals of the MODA workshop are to:
- Establish common frameworks and standards to guide more consistent and effective MODA practices, and encourage work that closes the gap between simply collecting data and using it effectively to achieve real improvements in HPC operations.
- Bring together experts to share practical solutions, discuss challenges, and explore new ideas for improving how we gather, analyze, and leverage operational data.
- Identify current trends, highlight critical gaps, and shape the evolution of MODA, influencing the design, planning, and procurement of future HPC systems as we move into the post-Exascale computing era.

=== Scope and Topics ===

We seek contributions that address:
- Collecting and analyzing operational data in HPC and data centers at scale
- State-of-the-practice monitoring tools, methods, and techniques
- AI/ML approaches to understand system behavior and improve operations
- Critical evaluations of AI/ML approaches to ensure practical improvements for MODA
- Integrating MODA into system software, runtime environments, and resource management
- Data-driven strategies for predictive maintenance, scheduling, and energy optimization
- Guidelines, tools, and best practices for energy efficiency and reporting
- Strategies to motivate users for sustainable resource utilization
- Approaches to ensure FAIR data practices, compliance, and trusted multitenancy
- Successful real-world MODA deployments, case studies, and work-in-progress

Contributions focused solely on application performance modeling, compiler analysis, debugging, or programming models are out-of-scope for the MODA25 workshop.

=== Submission and Publication ===

All papers submitted to MODA25 must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another venue. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the technical program committee and accepted papers are expected to be presented in-person during the workshop (speakers have to register for ISC workshops).

The workshop chairs reserve the right to reject incorrectly formatted papers. Submissions cannot have previously been peer-reviewed and published or simultaneously under another peer-review.

Accepted and presented papers will be part of the post-conference Workshop Proceedings and will be published with Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.springer.com/de/it-informatik/lncs__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d8Lp8nzORKh2AC2uTBPNVxP7RdjfFKYaO0ogvNS98gqpJiUB17vzooTfXS6F8vLI_-5bNPd9M5pzBHCQN3vyTnjbhVVFOzWle9D9$ ).

Maximum 1 page for lightning talk abstracts, between 6 and 12 pages (including bibliography and appendices) for full papers. Submissions are required to use the IEEE conference manuscript templates on the IEEE website (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d8Lp8nzORKh2AC2uTBPNVxP7RdjfFKYaO0ogvNS98gqpJiUB17vzooTfXS6F8vLI_-5bNPd9M5pzBHCQN3vyTnjbhVVFO6ThwpBw$ ).

EasyChair submission website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moda25__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d8Lp8nzORKh2AC2uTBPNVxP7RdjfFKYaO0ogvNS98gqpJiUB17vzooTfXS6F8vLI_-5bNPd9M5pzBHCQN3vyTnjbhVVFO1YVHRAU$ 

=== Workshop Organizers ===

Ann Gentile - Sandia National Laboratories, US
Thomas Jakobsche – University of Basel, Switzerland
Torsten Wilde - HPE, Germany

=== Steering Board ===

Florina Ciorba – University of Basel, Switzerland
Utz-Uwe Haus - HPE EMEA Research Lab, Switzerland
Martin Schulz - Technische Universität München, Germany

We look forward to your contributions and hope to see you at the MODA25 workshop!