[hpc-announce] CFP for ProTools25 at SC25

[Weidendorfer, Josef]

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             Call for Papers: ProTools 2025
Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools
             Held in conjunction with SC25
                  St. Louis, MO, USA
                  November 17, 2025
    https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://sc-protools-workshop.github.io/protools25__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d9lZfOQ867CbZ2gfbb96Dhy1HdLMMHEAb9fFC589sPTuTQ6PmixCT5778x2Feejw7E9SKljLWRpC-QidEcxIONpBEt2fsWub12Mc$ 
          Submission Deadline: August 2, 2025
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Background:

Understanding program behavior is critical to overcome the expected
architectural and programming complexities, such as limited power budgets,
heterogeneity, hierarchical memories, shrinking I/O bandwidths, and performance
variability, that arise on modern HPC platforms. To do so, HPC software
developers need intuitive support tools for debugging, performance measurement,
analysis, and tuning of large-scale HPC applications. Moreover, data collected
from these tools such as hardware counters, communication traces, and network
traffic can be far too large and too complex to be analyzed in a
straightforward manner. We need new automatic analysis and visualization
approaches to help application developers intuitively understand the multiple,
interdependent effects that algorithmic choices have on application correctness
or performance.

The Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools)
brings together HPC application developers, tool developers, and
researchers from the visualization, performance, and program analysis fields
for an exchange of new approaches to assist developers in analyzing,
understanding, and optimizing programs for extreme-scale platforms.


Workshop Topics:

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Performance tools for scalable parallel platforms
* Scalable displays of performance data
* Debugging and correctness tools for parallel programming paradigms
* Case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice
* Program development tool chains (incl. IDEs) for parallel systems
* Methodologies for performance engineering
* Data models to enable scalable visualization
* Graph representation of unstructured performance data
* Tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power)
* Tool support for accelerated architectures and large-scale multi-cores
* Presentation of high-dimensional data
* Visual correlations between multiple data source
* Measurement and optimization tools for networks and I/O
* Tool infrastructures and environments
* Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data
* Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration
* Application developer experiences with programming and performance tools


Paper Submission:

We solicit papers that focus on performance, debugging, and correctness tools
for parallel programming paradigms as well as techniques and case studies at
the intersection of performance analysis and visualization.
For ProTools25, we adopt the model of the SC25 technical paper program.
Participation in the reproducibility initiative is optional, but highly
encouraged. See the ProTools25 web site for more details.

Authors must submit their papers in PDF format using the ACM proceedings
template available here: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d9lZfOQ867CbZ2gfbb96Dhy1HdLMMHEAb9fFC589sPTuTQ6PmixCT5778x2Feejw7E9SKljLWRpC-QidEcxIONpBEt2fseU3HWM3$ 
Templates are available for Word and LaTeX. For LateX, use the latest version
(2.12, December 2024) and the “sigconf” option.
Authors should also use the 2012 ACM Computing Classification System (CCS2012,
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.acm.org/publications/class-2012__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d9lZfOQ867CbZ2gfbb96Dhy1HdLMMHEAb9fFC589sPTuTQ6PmixCT5778x2Feejw7E9SKljLWRpC-QidEcxIONpBEt2fsViIVfJp$ ) to classify their papers. 
Papers must have between 6 and 12 pages, including references and figures.

All papers must be submitted through the Supercomputing 2025 Linklings site:
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://submissions.supercomputing.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d9lZfOQ867CbZ2gfbb96Dhy1HdLMMHEAb9fFC589sPTuTQ6PmixCT5778x2Feejw7E9SKljLWRpC-QidEcxIONpBEt2fsYmgacRc$ 
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published 
by ACM.


Important Dates:

* Submission deadline: August 2, 2025 (AoE)
* Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2025
* Camera-ready deadline: September 19, 2025 (AoE)
* Workshop: November 17, 2025


Workshop Chairs:

David Boehme, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum / TUM, Munich, Germany