[hpc-announce] Extension of S-HPC 2025 workshop submission deadline

[Dutta, Sankha]

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Please help us in announcing the extension of S-HPC workshop. Thank you.


          4th International Workshop on Cyber Security in High Performance Computing
                                         S-HPC 2025
                                      Call For Papers
                               https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://hpc.pnl.gov/S-HPC/2025/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eqDzm8bC1e2SbYRzzIl0I8Ww7M9v8Q1s0vEMEFWt0RQH4pgMgXsX_xxp3FUeUWhbUptknbH90ClzMzQISM0TZN9W$ 

          In conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing,
             Networking, Storage and Analysis, (SC 25), November 16-21, 2025, St. Louis,
                                       Missouri, USA

                         Extended Paper Submission: August 15th, 2025

Overview:
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in cybersecurity and HPC. Security in high performance computing (HPC) has traditionally been an “operational" challenge (i.e., restricting access and usage to certified users). Thus, despite significant advances in our understanding and mitigation of vulnerabilities, the cybersecurity research community has been somewhat disconnected from the HPC community. Recent increases in the heterogeneity of both the underlying platforms of HPC and the community of HPC-level users and applications point to an important and growing need for connection and synergy between these two communities.

Security vulnerabilities in HPC arise from several factors, including: the common practice of early technology adoption; from extreme heterogeneity (including distributed computing ecosystems); novel network technologies/topologies; massive resource management orchestration including power, compute, networking, and storage; heavy reliance on open-source software; and common use of experimental software not hardened by numerous deployments. In addition, there has been a recent shift to increasing data analytics and machine learning as part of HPC workflows. This expands potential attack surfaces to include data capture, storage, and transmission; and expands platforms of interest to large scale clusters and commercial data centers. At the same time, a great deal of cybersecurity research has ignored the challenges of extreme scaling and heterogeneity, causing some key advances to be unusable in the HPC space. The S-HPC workshop has been created to meet this need.  The first three workshops have been very successful with last year's attendance being between 90 to 120 people (in person) at any point.ˇ

We invite two types of submissions for S-HPC:  research papers and position papers.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Data privacy related to emerging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models
* Data provenance in large-scale and distributed computing workflows
* Attack surfaces of HPC and distributed computing ecosystems
* Attack surfaces of HPC data feeding instruments and sensors
* Attack detection methods and tools and their effectiveness in HPC systems
* Tradeoffs between performance, power, and security
* Security enhanced co-design of HPC systems
* Security enhanced operation of HPC systems
* Security enhanced prescriptive programming of HPC systems
* Security challenges of extreme heterogeneity and proposed solutions
* Security challenges of large-scale resource management
* The scalability of current and proposed security solutions
* Evaluation of the current and proposed security solutions in extreme heterogeneous environments

Research papers (max length 8 pages) should describe original research, not previously published, with a focus on the intersection of security, scalability, and performance. Position papers (max length 4 pages) should describe experiences with problems and/or solutions (realized or proposed) in this space.  All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process with at least three reviews per paper. Review criteria are originality, potential impact, technical quality, presentation quality, and fit to the topics of interest.  Accepted papers will be published via ACM. Papers should not exceed eight single-spaced pages (including figures, tables, and references) and conform with the formatting requirements of SC 25. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for another venue. You can submit your paper at https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://submissions.supercomputing.org/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eqDzm8bC1e2SbYRzzIl0I8Ww7M9v8Q1s0vEMEFWt0RQH4pgMgXsX_xxp3FUeUWhbUptknbH90ClzMzQISKLUP3oq$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://submissions.supercomputing.org/__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!BvJhqRUl-fZEYPvlVQ3IFcMb7gMZf_u0o4WL31hi3SIWYcnZkYqGhZVB9T9voYoxeDUCAretkyEFZ_2VCxciJvESl0U$ >.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Extended Paper Submission: August 15th, 2025
Paper Notification: September 8th, 2025
Final Paper Due: September 22nd, 2025

ORGANIZATION
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General Chairs:   Andres Marquez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
                                        Yang Guo, NIST
                                        Sean Peisert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
                                        Kevin J. Barker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
                                        Nael B Abu-Ghazaleh, University of California Riverside

Program Chairs:   Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University
                                        Joseph Manzano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Publication Chair:  Sankha Dutta, Brookhaven National Laboratory    

Program Committee:
Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel
Adwait Jog, University of Virginia
Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University (co-chair)
Erika Leal, Baylor University
Joseph B. Manzano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (co-chair)
Apoorve Mohan, IBM Research
Andrew Prout, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Ziming Zhao, Northeastern University