[hpc-announce] [CfP] Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC) co-located with Euro-Par 2026

[Matteo Nardelli]

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WSCC 2026: Euro-Par 2026 International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum
Date: 24 or 25 August 2026
Location: Pisa, Italy
Workshop web page: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://wscc.di.unipi.it/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!dANvABpx1eHAJXhGZ1QWmF_6VOGNjBVF83nJe4F4a4huL6Ze4ESakY826jgL7L7aRHyzd91hYxrVxFZ7v_K7moYl8Na2KvE$  
Euro-Par web page: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://2026.euro-par.org/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!dANvABpx1eHAJXhGZ1QWmF_6VOGNjBVF83nJe4F4a4huL6Ze4ESakY826jgL7L7aRHyzd91hYxrVxFZ7v_K7moYlrTXs3vs$ 
Submission site: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2026workshops__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!dANvABpx1eHAJXhGZ1QWmF_6VOGNjBVF83nJe4F4a4huL6Ze4ESakY826jgL7L7aRHyzd91hYxrVxFZ7v_K7moYl-sQ5Q6w$ 
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* Call for Papers
The "Compute Continuum" paradigm is transforming how we manage the heterogeneity and dynamism of widespread computing resources. By seamlessly integrating resources across the edge, fog, and cloud — and potentially extending towards emerging domains such as satellite-enabled infrastructures — this paradigm enhances data locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy and carbon efficiency, and other non-functional properties. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and segregation in tiers, allowing applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a continuum of resources spanning from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal scaling patterns, the Compute Continuum also introduces fine-grained adaptation actions tailored to specific infrastructure components (e.g., optimizing energy consumption, offloading computation across heterogeneous links, or leveraging specialized hardware such as GPUs and FPGAs). These capabilities unlock significant benefits, including support for latency-sensitive applications, reduction of network bandwidth consumption, improved privacy protection, and the development of novel services across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by application developers without having to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed.

At the same time, traditional deployment and execution assumptions are increasingly challenged by the dynamism and heterogeneity of continuum infrastructures. Lightweight execution environments and runtimes — including unikernels, microVMs, and WebAssembly-based sandboxes — are emerging as promising solutions to reduce overheads and enable fine-grained control over resource usage, while raising new challenges for orchestration, coordination, and scheduling across the continuum.

To fully harness the potential of the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and infrastructure-aware management is essential. This calls for novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit optimization theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods.

In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the area of distributed systems with particular emphasis on support for geographically distributed platforms and autonomic features to deal with variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures.

A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following:
- Scalable architectures and systems for the Compute Continuum
- Orchestration, deployment, and management of resources and applications in the Compute Continuum
- Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum
- Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis
- Function-as-a-Service and Backend-as-a-Service in the Compute Continuum
- Energy-efficient and carbon-aware solutions for sustainable Compute Continuum
- Lightweight virtualization and execution environments for the Compute Continuum (e.g., unikernels, microVMs, WebAssembly)
- AI-driven optimization and AI-related workloads in the Compute Continuum (e.g., federated, distributed, decentralized learning)
- Compute Continuum architectures for AI workloads
- Scalable applications for the Compute Continuum (e.g., IoT, microservices, serverless)
- Data processing and analytics in the Compute Continuum
- Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum
- Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum
- Heterogeneous hardware acceleration and domain-specific architectures
- Workflows in the Compute Continuum
- Convergence and integration of HPC and Continuum platforms
- Resilience and fault-tolerant strategies for the Compute Continuum
- Benchmarks, reproducibility frameworks, and real-world experimental platforms


* Submission Instructions
The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They should be between a minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 pages.

* Special Issue
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Journal Special Issue. We are in contact to propose a Special Issue in a high-quality journal. Information will appear soon on the WSCC web site.

* Important Dates
  May 15th, 2026         Paper submission deadline
  June 12th, 2025        Paper acceptance notifications
  July 10th, 2025        Camera-ready due

* Workshop Co-Chairs
 - Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
 - Valeria Cardellini,        University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
 - Matteo Nardelli,           Bank of Italy
 - Gabriele Russo Russo,      University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

We look forward to receiving your contributions!