[hpc-announce] Extension - Sustainable HPC State of Practice - Cluster'24 - Japan

[Siddhartha Jana]

[Deadline Extension]

** Sustainable High Performance Computing State of the Practice
Workshop  (Sustainable HPC SOP Workshop) in conjunction with Cluster
2024.
September 24, 2024
Kobe, Japan


** Workshop Timeline:
** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Full Papers Due:  June 30th, 2024
Paper Acceptance Notification:  July 23rd, 2024
Camera Ready Deadline:  August 9, 2024


** Abstract:
The demand for ever more-capable high performance computing (HPC) is
driving significant changes across the design and manufacturing space,
as manufacturers turn to heterogeneous systems that integrate
increasing die-count, from multi-core CPUs to accelerators,
traditional memory architectures to high-bandwidth memory, modern
interconnects, and massive storage servers. These designs require
substantially higher energy, with commensurate methods for managing
heat, in increasingly dense packages.

To effectively manage and operate these systems, HPC and Data Center
(DC) practitioners must balance and coordinate constraints across many
domains: environment, utilities, data center, HPC system hardware and
software, and end-user applications.

While the capital costs for the acquisition of these systems have long
been recognized, the energy needed to power and cool these systems has
similarly become a first-order constraint. Now, increasingly, other
constraints related to the overall sustainability of these systems are
being examined, among them, the associated production of greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions and water consumption.

While the community has made significant improvements to operational
efficiency of data centers, notably through direct liquid cooling of
specific system components, there is a broader scope of environmental
impacts, across the life cycle of our facilities and systems, that
must be considered. This includes the full life cycle costs for
producing these HPC systems during their entire lifetime, from system
design, manufacturing, daily operations, reusability, eventual
decommissioning, and recyclability. Only by analysis and optimization
of these elements can we understand and manage the full life cycle
cost and carbon footprint of these systems.

This workshop seeks to leverage the experiences of early adopters and
innovators in operational practices and technologies that can improve
energy and power management capabilities, reduce GHG emissions, and
provide careful stewardship of natural resources, like water. This
workshop will explore these operational and technological innovations
that span the full stack of HPC computational systems as well as
building infrastructure.

As part of this peer-reviewed workshop, we solicit papers that capture
best practices, policies, procedures, and technologies. The vision is
to help the broader community benefit from these experiences. The
papers are intended to identify use cases, lessons learned, and best
practices in design, commissioning, and operations.  The solicited
papers will be generally descriptive with concrete, reproducible, and
empirical data gathered through surveys, case studies, and research
for practice.


** Workshop Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the
following areas:
Operational data analytics
Metrics and benchmarks
Monitoring and control of Power & Energy telemetry
Liquid cooling
Mechanical and electrical systems
Procurement considerations
APIs, standards, specifications, open solutions
HPC performance for power, energy, carbon, and/or water
Reliability, availability, serviceability, and maintainability
Emergency response
Sustainability modeling, measurement, monitoring, and management
Digital twins


** Paper Submission:

Abstracts and papers to be submitted via Easy Chair -
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sustainablehpcsop202__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eBqgfc_QBTXdHtHNU5YXapV_BhWhYyQVXN-P61hCtFcEW28699gp3-GKjp8D-ekC7JvG99aa4StK2gDTqZTEgLAIp2sVBAsPYQ$ 

- Workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Cluster 2024 proceedings.
-- Full paper (8 pages + 2 additional pages)
-- Short paper (4 pages + 1 additional page)
- The papers should be in IEEE format

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://conferences.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/author-ethics/guidelines-and-policies/submission-policies/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eBqgfc_QBTXdHtHNU5YXapV_BhWhYyQVXN-P61hCtFcEW28699gp3-GKjp8D-ekC7JvG99aa4StK2gDTqZTEgLAIp2u9Ikemfw$ 


** Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text
The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in a
paper (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code)
shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any paper
submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be
identified, and specific sections of the paper that use AI-generated
content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation
regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the
content.  The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is
common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the
above policy. In this case, disclosure as noted above is recommended.

* Instructions for authors and participants
 - At least one author of each accepted WS paper must complete the
author registration by August 2, 2024 (AoE).

 * VISA application
 - Citizens of certain countries are required to obtain a visa to
enter Japan. Please check the website [
https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eBqgfc_QBTXdHtHNU5YXapV_BhWhYyQVXN-P61hCtFcEW28699gp3-GKjp8D-ekC7JvG99aa4StK2gDTqZTEgLAIp2uB-tSwDw$  ] of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) to know if you need to obtain a
visa and visa application procedures.
 - Please contact us [cluster2024-workshop at ml.riken.jp] if you need
Visa support.

 * Participation
 - All participants (including invited speakers) must complete the
registration and pay registration fee (further instruction will be
available at https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://clustercomp.org/2024/registration/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eBqgfc_QBTXdHtHNU5YXapV_BhWhYyQVXN-P61hCtFcEW28699gp3-GKjp8D-ekC7JvG99aa4StK2gDTqZTEgLAIp2tHJF6Vmg$ ).


** Workshop Organizers:
Siddhartha Jana/Intel,
Torsten Wilde/Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
Jim Rogers/Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Fumiyoshi Shoji/RIKEN,
Ryan Grant/Queen’s University,
Natalie Bates/EE HPC WG


** Email contact for further information:
nbates at lbl.gov