[hpc-announce] CfP: 2nd Workshop on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in AI, HPC, and QC at CARLA 2026

[Höb, Maximilian]

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                      Deadline: July 19, 2026

                 2nd Workshop on Energy Efficiency
         and Sustainability in AI, HPC, and Quantum Computing

         Latin America High Performance Computing Conference
                            CARLA 2026

                          Córdoba, Argentina
                         September 22, 2026

              https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ee-workshop.for.lrz.de/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqY5e13m_A$ 

       Proceedings: Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería (ACI)

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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline : July 19, 2026

Author notification : August 8, 2026

Workshop date       : September 22, 2026

Camera-ready papers : Late 2026

IMPORTANT LINKS
Submission portal   : https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://meteor.springer.com/carla2026__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqYTD0CeP4$ 

Workshop website    : https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ee-workshop.for.lrz.de/call-for-papers/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqYoiF4_Y4$ 

Conference website  : https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://carlaconference.org/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqY2vuHOqY$ 

Please select the track “Workshop: Energy Efficiency” when submitting.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2nd Workshop on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in AI, HPC, and Quantum Computing will be held in conjunction with CARLA 2026, the Latin America High Performance Computing Conference.

Date: September 22, 2026
Location: UNC Cultural Center, Córdoba, Argentina
Submission deadline: July 19, 2026
Format: Half-day workshop
Proceedings: CARLA 2026 Workshop Proceedings, published in Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería (ACI)

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

High-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing are essential technologies for scientific discovery, engineering innovation, and data-driven decision-making. At the same time, the continued growth of compute-intensive workloads is increasing energy consumption, infrastructure requirements, and operational costs.
The rapid expansion of large-scale AI training and inference infrastructures—including GPU-intensive AI factories and sovereign AI initiatives—has further increased the need for sustainable and energy-aware computing strategies.
The workshop provides a forum for researchers, application developers, system architects, hardware and software specialists, data center operators, and policy makers to discuss approaches for improving the energy and resource efficiency of advanced computing infrastructures.
We particularly welcome research contributions, operational experiences, position papers, and case studies addressing sustainability challenges in HPC, AI, and quantum computing. Contributions originating in or applicable to Latin America are especially encouraged.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Energy-efficient algorithms, AI models, and foundation-model training and inference
- Scheduling, orchestration, and workload management for energy and power efficiency
- Hardware-software co-design and optimization for sustainable computing
- Low-power, accelerator-based, and heterogeneous computing architectures
- Monitoring, telemetry, modeling, and benchmarking of energy consumption
- Carbon-aware computing and energy-aware resource management
- Sustainable GPU computing and large-scale AI infrastructures
- Renewable-energy integration and sustainable data center operation
- Energy-aware data center design, cooling technologies, and waste-heat reuse
- AI-based optimization of infrastructure energy consumption and operation
- Operational experiences from HPC, AI, and quantum computing infrastructures
- Sustainability challenges in AI factories and exascale systems
- Policy, governance, and education for sustainable digital infrastructures
- Energy-efficient quantum computing and hybrid HPC–quantum workflows

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submission types:
- Full research papers
- Experience reports
- Position papers

Requirements:
- Length: 6–15 pages, including references
- Language: English
- Format: Microsoft Word or LaTeX using the ACI template
- Review process: Double-blind peer review

Submission guidelines and templates:
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://revistas.usfq.edu.ec/index.php/avances/about/submissions__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqYe-YCxTI$ 

Submission portal:
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://meteor.springer.com/carla2026__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqYTD0CeP4$ 

Please select:
“Workshop: Energy Efficiency”

All accepted papers must be presented during the workshop and will be published in the CARLA 2026 Workshop Proceedings in Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería (ACI).

ORIGINALITY AND GENERATIVE AI POLICY

Submissions must present original work, must not be under review elsewhere, and must comply with the applicable CARLA and Springer policies.

Generative AI tools may be used to improve language clarity, but not to produce scientific content or experimental results. The use of such tools must be disclosed in the final manuscript. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism will result in rejection.

WORKSHOP FORMAT
- Invited keynote talk
- Presentations of accepted papers
- Discussion on future directions for sustainable HPC, AI, and quantum computing

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Arthur Francisco Lorenzon
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

João Carlos Garcia da Cunha Barbosa
IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Maximilian Höb
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Munich, Germany

CONTACT
For questions regarding submissions or participation, please contact:
Maximilian Höb, maximilian.hoeb at lrz.de

Further information:
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ee-workshop.for.lrz.de/call-for-papers/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fQXNX9VCBi-m2aWoOsSL8Sa76Ur_anvVW1ycCrcrhy7YsvzHACcj-SFwvthCkRqGGEPyCNaiRZ8Ew_X7L8e6Sz6UbLW6KoqYoiF4_Y4$