[hpc-announce] FTXS 2025 @ ICPP 2025: Call for papers

[Levy, Scott Larson Nicoll]

CALL FOR PAPERS
15th Workshop on Fault-Tolerance for HPC at eXtreme Scale (FTXS 2025)

In conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2025)
San Diego, California, USA September 8 - 11, 2025
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Important Dates
* Submissions open: May 19, 2025
* Submission of papers: June 19, 2025
* Author notification: July 17, 2025
* Camera-ready papers: July 31, 2025
* Workshop: September 8, 2025

Authors are invited to submit original papers on the research and practice of
fault-tolerance in extreme-scale distributed systems (primarily HPC systems,
but including grid and cloud systems). Resilience and fault-tolerance remain
a major concern for supercomputing and advances in this area are needed.
Therefore, we are broadly interested in forward-looking papers that seek to
characterize and mitigate the impact of faults.

We are particularly interested in papers that address issues related to the
following developments in extreme-scale systems:

* Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML): Significant research
has recently been published on how AI/ML can be leveraged to improve the
performance of extreme-scale systems. In the context of fault tolerance and
resilience, AI/ML applications have the potential to exhibit novel failure modes
during both training and inference. Additionally, AI/ML may help to mitigate 
failures  by either: predicting when and where failures may occur, or by reducing 
the impact of failures that do occur. Our understanding of AI/ML along these two
dimensions of fault tolerance is developing rapidly and is an important area 
of research.

* System Heterogeneity: Modern HPC systems increasingly include GPUs,
FPGAs, and other types of accelerators. New networking devices like Data
Processing Units (DPUs) and SmartNICs are also starting to be deployed.
However, there are many resilience and fault tolerance issues associated
with these devices that still need to be resolved. Papers at prominent recent
conferences demonstrate that understanding the fault tolerance implications
of heterogeneous compute devices is an important and active area of research.

* Computing Paradigms: Novel non-von Neumann computing paradigms, including
quantum and neuromorphic computing, have attracted significant research interest.
Recent publications demonstrate that understanding the fault tolerance implications
of these computing paradigms is also an area of active research.

* Machine Learning: Algorithms that rely on elements of machine learning are
becoming more and more prevalent on HPC systems.  Understanding how these
algorithms react and respond to the frequency and variety of faults that occur on
HPC systems is critical to ensuring that they continue to provide accurate and timely
answers.

Additional topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*   Algorithmic-Based Fault Tolerance (ABFT) techniques to address 
    undetected (silent) errors
*   Silent data corruption (SDC) detection / correction techniques
*   Novel fault-tolerance techniques and implementations
*   Failure data analysis and field studies
*   Power, performance, resilience (PPR) assessments / tradeoffs
*   Emerging hardware and software technology for resilience
*   Advances in reliability monitoring, analysis, and control of highly complex systems
*   Failure prediction, error preemption, and recovery techniques
*   Fault-tolerant programming models
*   Models for software and hardware reliability
*   Metrics and standards for measuring, improving, and enforcing 
     effective fault-tolerance
*   Scalable Byzantine fault-tolerance & security from single-fault and fail-silent
     errors
*   Atmospheric evaluations relevant to HPC systems (terrestrial neutrons,
     temperature, etc.)
*   Near-threshold-voltage implications and evaluations for reliability
*   Benchmarks and experimental environments including fault injection
*   Frameworks and APIs for fault-tolerance and fault management

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
We are accepting REGULAR papers (10 pages, not including references) and 
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (4 pages, not including references).

Submissions shall be submitted electronically at:
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and must conform to the IEEE conference style (see our website for details).  We do
not have an upper limit on the number of papers that we will accept.  We will make
every effort to make sure that every high-quality submission will be included in our
workshop.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Scott Levy - Sandia National Laboratories
Bo Fang - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Keita Teranishi - Sandia National Laboratories
John Daly - Laboratory for Physical Sciences

Questions? Contact Scott Levy (sllevy at sandia.gov) or Bo Fang (bo.fang at pnnl.gov)