[hpc-announce] 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing

[Demetris Trihinas]

1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) is a 
hybrid event hosted in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

LOCO will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen 
interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will 
provide a forum for sharing new ideas, for presenting ongoing work and 
early results, as well as for bringing forward well-founded criticism.

LOCO 2024 is an initiative of the Scottish Programming Languages 
Institute (SPLI), supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer 
Science Alliance (SICSA), and was inspired by the Programming for the 
Planet (PROPL) workshop.

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Call for papers:

The carbon footprint of ICT is rising despite the urgent need to 
decarbonise society and to stay within planetary tolerance levels. The 
operational and embodied carbon emissions from ICT are estimated to 
already contribute 2 to 3 percent of the global emissions – very much 
rivalling aviation – and ICT’s footprint is expected to rise further 
over the next decades. This development is due to major computing trends 
such as AI/ML, Big Data, and the Internet of Things, and this growth in 
emissions from computing is unsustainable.

The LOCO workshop aims to provide a forum for ideas, work, and criticism 
that aims to reduce the emissions from computing. We invite researchers 
and practitioners across research areas and application domains to take 
part and contribute to our workshop.

The main focus of the workshop is on the reduction of greenhouse gas 
emissions from computing. However, computing science research and 
practice that helps to reduce other emissions or to mitigate the effects 
of climate change in another way is also in scope.

We welcome submissions that describe new ideas and visions, just as much 
as reports describing ongoing work, completed projects, and practical 
tools. In addition, we also welcome work that uncovers and criticises 
significant problems with established ways and emerging trends.

Topics of interest for LOCO 2024 include but are not limited to:

Measurements, testbeds, and simulation
- carbon footprint estimation methodologies for compute resources and 
software systems

- testbeds for sustainable and low carbon computing methods (e.g. 
co-simulation of computing and energy systems, hybrid testbeds, emulation)

Sustainable software engineering
- practices and tools for low carbon and sustainable software engineering

Energy efficiency
- energy-efficient programming languages and compilers (e.g. 
resource-aware type systems, low-overhead language implementations, 
energy-efficient compilation to heterogeneous systems)
- energy-efficiency of applications, e.g. green AI/ML, big data 
analytics, search

Hardware efficiency
- cloud computing and virtualisation techniques to efficiently share 
compute resources
- edge computing and other locality-aware approaches to reduce resource 
usage, energy consumption, and carbon emissions
- load balancing, resource allocation, scheduling and placement, as well 
as other compute resource management - mechanisms to improve resource usage

Carbon awareness
- carbon-aware and grid-aware load migration, time shifting, and scaling 
mechanisms
- energy-efficient and carbon-aware networking
- carbon-aware data centre design and operation

Embodied carbon and circular economy
- methods for extending the useful life of compute resources (e.g. 
reliable monitoring and early-warning systems for long-living hardware)
- low-carbon and sustainable data storage and caching
- circular economy: compute resource reuse and recycling

Frugal computing
- frugality/sufficiency, demand reduction, degrowth computing
- human-computer interaction that encourages considerate use of 
ultimately limited computing resources
- sociological and economical aspects of low-carbon computing, e.g. 
end-user behaviour, business models

Computing for climate science, other scientific computing, and energy 
informatics
- effective programming and efficient execution of software for climate 
science
- sustainable scientific computing and workflow management
- methods and tools for forecasting weather and energy availability

Paper or Lightning Talk Submission and Review Process

Normal talks: extended abstract with optional post-workshop full paper
We follow a post-proceeding model: Authors initially submit an extended 
abstract of up to 2 pages, plus references. Authors of accepted extended 
abstracts will be expected to present at the workshop (in person or 
online) and will afterwards be invited to submit full workshop papers of 
up to 8 pages, plus references. Full workshop paper submissions will be 
reviewed again and, where possible, we will assign the same reviewers as 
for the extended abstracts. Where authors of accepted extended abstracts 
choose not to submit a full workshop paper, we will include the extended 
abstracts in our post-proceedings.

Lightning talks: short abstracts
In addition to the normal talks, there will be a lightning talk session 
with talks of no more than five minutes — back to back. Authors submit a 
short abstract of no more than 1 page (plus references). These will be 
reviewed separately from the extended abstracts, and the review criteria 
are more relaxed. Short abstracts of accepted lightning talks will be 
included in the workshop proceedings unless authors choose to omit them.

Important Dates
Extended abstracts and workshop presentations:

Extended abstract submission: 24 Sep 2024 (AoE)
Notification of acceptance: 5 Nov 2024
Workshop day: 3 Dec 2024
Post-proceedings:

Proceedings paper submissions: 28 Feb 2025
Notifications of acceptance: 11 Apr 2025
Revised final camera-ready papers: 6 Jun 2025
Lightning Talk Submissions:

Lightning Talk abstract submission: 1 Oct 2024 (AoE)
Notifications of acceptance: 12 Nov 2024
Workshop day: 3 Dec 2024

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Demetris Trihinas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
School of Sciences and Engineering
46 Makedonitissas Avenue, CY-2417
P.O.Box 24005, CY-1700, Nicosia, Cyprus
email: trihinas.d at unic.ac.cy
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