[hpc-announce] HPDC 2025: Call for Award Nominations, Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops

[Skluzacek, Tyler]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit nominations for the HPDC 2025 Achievement Award,
and proposals for tutorials and workshops for the 34th ACM International Symposium on High-
Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, or HPDC 2025.

HPDC 2025 will be held July 20 - 23, 2025, at Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Workshop
and tutorials proposed are planned to take place on July 20, 2025.

The winner of the HPDC 2025 Achievement Award will be recognized at the conference July 20
- 23, 2025, with additional details available below.

HPDC 2025 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Special
Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) and the Special Interest Group on High
Performance Computing (SIGHPC).

Please read through the requirements for each call for submissions and nominations and note
the deadlines below:


Key Dates

Workshop and Tutorial Proposal Submissions: Monday, December 9, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, December 16, 2024.
Accepted workshops must have their own websites online by Wednesday, January 15, 2025,
with workshop paper submission dates no later than Tuesday, April 15, 2025.

HPDC 2025 Achievement Award nomination deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025, 11:59 AOE.

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials

Overview

HPDC warmly invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to take place on July 20, 2025.
Workshops offer a platform for valuable discussions among researchers and practitioners,
focusing on key topics and emerging research areas in the field of High-Performance
Computing (HPC) and distributed computing.

Workshops typically feature a blend of invited talks, peer-reviewed papers, panel discussions,
and work-in-progress presentations. Workshop organizers are encouraged to structure their sessions for an audience of approximately 20-40 participants, with flexibility for either a full day
or half day format depending on interest and space availability.

We welcome proposals for workshops on new, innovative topics as well as submissions to
continue successful workshops from previous years. Proceedings of HPDC workshops will be
published by the ACM as part of the proceedings.

The selected workshops and tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference: July 20,
2025.


Workshops and Tutorials Submission Process

To submit, please email your proposal as a PDF document to the Workshops Chair:
malawski at gmail.com<mailto:malawski at gmail.com>

Workshop Proposals Formatting Guidelines

Please adhere to the following formatting guidelines for workshop proposals. Your proposal
should be submitted as a single PDF document containing 2 to 4 pages and should include the
following information:
● Workshop name: provide the complete workshop title along its acronym.
● Duration: specify whether the workshop is intended for a full day or a half day.
● Workshop Theme and Key Topics: describe the overarching theme of the workshop and
its core topics. Emphasize the focused nature of the theme.
● Relevance to HPDC: highlight how the proposed workshop complements the main
HPDC program.
● Workshop Structure: Peer-reviewed articles, invited articles, invited talks, panels, etc.
Refereed and invited papers will be published along with the HPDC proceedings.
● Workshop Structure: explain the workshop’s structure, including elements like peer-
reviewed articles, invited talks, panels, and more.
● Invited Speakers and Panelists: propose the names of potential invited speakers and
panelists and describe how they will contribute to the workshop’s discussions.
● Program Committee: Provide initial key members of the program committee.
● Review Process: detail the review process for workshop paper acceptance.
● Call for Workshop Papers (Optional): if applicable, include a preliminary version of the
Call for Workshop Papers (CFP).
● Paper Publication: specify the type and length of papers to be accepted if the workshop
plans to publish papers.
● Intended Audience: outline plans for attracting submissions and workshop attendees.
● Attraction and Engagement: a plan for attracting submissions and attendees to the
workshop.
● Organizer Bios: briefly introduce the workshop organizers with their biographical
information.

● Previous Workshop Data (if applicable): share details of past workshop editions,
including attendance, submitted papers, and accepted papers.
● Workshop Setup: accepted workshops should be prepared to establish a dedicated
website. If you plan to use a paper submission process with peer review, provide the
submission link.
Tutorial Proposals Formatting Guidelines

Tutorial proposals should be formatted as a single PDF document of 2-4 pages, describing the
following:
● The full name and acronym of the Tutorial.
● Abstract, objectives and motivation, and intended audience.
● Name and a short biography of each tutorial presenter.
● A description of the topics that the tutorial will address, emphasizing their timeliness.
● An outline of the tutorial content, including its tentative schedule and the presenters for
different parts.
● Possibility of and suitability for a virtual presentation of the tutorial.
● A description of the past/relevant experience of the speaker(s) on the topic of the
tutorial.
● A description of previous tutorial experience of the speaker(s), and past versions of the
tutorial.

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your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications
Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy
or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of
your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the
publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start
and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published
authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and
contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in
these efforts.

Call For Nominations: HPDC 2025 Achievement Award

Overview

The HPDC Annual Achievement Award, established in 2012, is presented to an individual who
has made long-lasting, influential contributions to the foundations or practice of the field of high-
performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC).

These contributions may include one or more of the following:
● Conceptual advances that have influenced the design or operation of HPDC systems or
applications.
● Innovative techniques or tools for the design or analysis of HPDC systems or
applications.
● Design, implementation, and deployment of innovative (components of) HPDC systems
or applications.
● Analysis of innovative (components of) HPDC systems or applications.

In selecting the achievement award recipient, the Award Selection Committee will place
particular emphasis on seminal contributions and a sustained record of high impact in the field.

Achievement Award Talk

The winner of the HPDC Annual Achievement Award must be available to receive the award in-
person at the HPDC 2025 conference to be held in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States, from
July 20 - 23, 2025, and present an achievement award talk at the conference.

Nomination Guidelines
Candidates may nominate a colleague by uploading a letter of nomination as a PDF file to
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The letter of nomination should be about one page and contain:
1. The nominee’s current professional affiliation(s).
2. A brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the
nominee is qualified for the award.
3. A description of the technical contributions of the nominee and their significance and
impact.
Each nomination received will be retained and considered by the committee for three
consecutive years. Self-nominations will not be accepted.

Award Selection Committee
● Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
● Manish Parashar
● Douglas Thain
● Jarek Nabrzyski
● Devesh Tiwari
The award selection committee is chaired by a member of the HPDC steering committee and
includes the General Chair(s) and the Program Committee Chair(s) of the current HPDC
conference, and the previous year’s award winner. An award committee member cannot be a
nominator or be selected as the winner.

Past Winners
● 2024: Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, for pioneering development of task-based adaptive
parallel programming models and runtime systems, leading to a new category of highly
scalable scientific applications.
● 2023: Manish Parashar, for pioneering contributions in high performance parallel and
distributed computational methods, data management, in-situ computing, and
international leadership in cyberinfrastructure and translational computer science.
● 2022: Franck Cappello, for his pioneering contributions in methods, tools, and testbeds
for resilient high performance parallel and distributed computing.
● 2021: Rosa M. Badia, for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models,
workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high-performance computing
research community.
● 2020: No award made.
● 2019: Geoffrey Fox, for his foundational contributions to parallel computing, high-
performance software, the interface between applications and systems, contributions to
education, and outreach to underrepresented communities.
● 2018: Satoshi Matsuoka, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and
application of high-performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed
systems.
● 2017: David Abramson, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and
application of high-performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed
systems.
● 2016: Jack Dongarra, for his long-standing and far-reaching contributions in high
performance linear algebra and large-scale parallel and distributed computing.
● 2015: Ewa Deelman, for her significant influence, contributions, and distinguished use of
workflow systems in high-performance computing.
● 2014: Rich Wolski, for pioneering and high-impact contributions to grid, cloud, and
parallel computing.
● 2013: Miron Livny, for his significant contribution and high impact in the area of high-
throughput computing.
● 2012: Ian Foster, for his initiative in the creation and development of grid computing and
his significant contributions to high-performance distributed computing in support of the
sciences.