[hpc-announce] FGCS Special Issue Call for Paper Leveraging Cutting-Edge High Performance Computing for Large-Scale Applications

[Wisser, Grace]

CALL FOR PAPERS FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Leveraging Cutting-Edge High Performance Computing for Large-Scale Applications
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/321306/leveraging-cutting-edge-high-performance-computing-for-large-scale-applications__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZgJgvm_Ot6Sc0NtJjffeO3SWkz77YPqPBGPtXuUVxPv57cxwwUZn_Bl5CFHAVNM8fRiommnaZDYNU6a058KHVl0$ 
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MOTIVATION AND SCOPE

High Performance Computing (HPC) recently entered into the exascale era, marking an important milestone of its history. High-end supercomputers and clusters with remarkable level of performance are now commonly available for standard and specific computational needs, thereby increasing the focus on HPC and related topics. Leveraging the potential of large-scale supercomputers is an HPC skillful task that requires in-depth knowledge on both hardware and software. Indeed, the architectural structure of cutting-edge HPC processors is rather complex, with each feature provided by a specialized mechanism, the processing overhead of which can turn out to be an efficiency bottleneck. This challenge becomes more pronounced as the potential processing power of the machine increases. For example, at the compute node level, processors with many cores might have a NUMA architecture, a deeper memory hierarchy and/or wide SIMD capabilities. At the interprocessor level, hardware support for data exchanges can also significantly increase running time. There is a wide range of applications that genuinely need a whooping computing speed, one of them being the training of large-scale AI models. The evolution of HPC appears closely tied to the growing demand for speed from such large-scale applications. As a result, the implementation of cutting-edge techniques should remain scalable on large-scale machines. Achieving this level of efficiency is challenging but highly sought after by HPC community, including end-users.

This special issue aims at addressing the aforementioned technical context and scientific challenges, thus expecting to gather insightful contributions on how to leverage the increasing potential of HPC systems for cutting-edge applications. We invited various types of submissions: research papers (fundamental and experimental), position papers, extended version of conference papers, and surveys. 

Papers are solicited on a broad range of topics including (but not limited to):

*Scalability with large-scale parallel machines (issues, limits, methods, applications)
*Efficiency with large clusters of accelerators (e.g. FPGAs, GPUs, AI accelerators)
*Parallel algorithms and scheduling for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical systems
*Fault-tolerance for large-scale HPC systems
*Models and tools for performance/energy evaluation on large-scale HPC systems
*Power consumption and carbon footprint of large-scale HPC solutions
*Applications that need cutting-edge HPC
*Combinatorial optimization from the exascale standpoint
*AI in the exascale era
*Large-scale Cloud systems
*Quantum computing (efficiency perspectives)
*Integrating Classical and Quantum Computing

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GUEST EDITORS

Claude TADONKI
Mines Paris, PSL University, Paris, France
claude.tadonki at minesparis.psl.eu

Gabriele MENCAGLI
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
gabriele.mencagli at unipi.it

Leonel SOUSA
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
las at inesc-id.pt

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: September 30, 2025

Latest acceptance deadline for all papers: December 30, 2026

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The FGCS’s submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from April 14, 2025. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type VSI: HPCLAP.

All submissions deemed suitable by the editors to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production to be published in the special issue. Point of contact for authors for further information: Shiva Raj Pokhrel.

All manuscripts must conform to the Guide for authors - Future Generation Computer Systems - ISSN 0167-739X | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. Papers previously published in a conference must have at least 40% new content. The page limit for this special issue is 18 pages.

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MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING GUIDELINES

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To view a complete list of the Call for Papers for Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, visit: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems/about/call-for-papers__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZgJgvm_Ot6Sc0NtJjffeO3SWkz77YPqPBGPtXuUVxPv57cxwwUZn_Bl5CFHAVNM8fRiommnaZDYNU6a0GOlQkF4$ 

Sent on behalf of Michela Taufer, Editor-in-Chief


Grace Wisser
Assistant Director, Global Computing Lab
Assistant to Editor in Chief, FGCS Journal