[hpc-announce] CFP PECS 2026 - 6th International Workshop on Performance and Energy Efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (Co-located with Euro-Par 2026)
Vincenzo De Maio
vincenzo at ec.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Mar 30 09:34:19 CDT 2026
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PECS 2026 - 6th International Workshop on Performance and Energy
Efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (Co-located with
Euro-Par 2026)
Pisa, Italy, August 24-25, 2026
Workshop web page: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://pecs-workshop.github.io__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bsKNEwXUlgtMhtA0N2zcMpvi7Y3J1Ua2cHiNeE4euD5wocawsjOdaQM3_nA-uzR8zC6eo_kLIXafgWYUBprfi8FNBeiOt98$
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Call for Papers
Nowadays, concurrent and distributed systems play a role in a variety of
computing applications. This is supported by the widespread use of
computing architectures based on multi-core processors or distributed
computing units, which have become a de facto standard at any system scale.
However, the increasing level of hardware parallelism and heterogeneity
has made concurrent and distributed systems even more challenging to
design, analyse and optimize. In particular, this concerns factors like
performance and energy efficiency, which are known to be highly
interrelated. Nevertheless, they play key roles, especially given the
recent rise in energy demand from many IT applications. Examples include
AI model training and inference, Big Data Analytics, high-performance
computing and simulation, cryptography, high-resolution video encoding,
and many more besides.
In concurrent and distributed systems, energy efficiency and performance
are affected in complex ways by multiple factors, such as the concurrent
use of computing resources, the distributed communication, the presence
of (distributed) data dependencies and the need to synchronize the
execution of concurrent threads/processes. However, these and other
factors also offer opportunities to be explored in the design of
techniques and tools for improving both energy efficiency and performance.
PECS aims to establish a venue for both academia and industry to discuss
challenges and perspectives, and to explore methods, techniques and
tools, for energy efficiency and performance analysis and optimization
in concurrent and distributed systems.
PECS calls for high-quality research papers on all aspects of energy
efficiency, performance and their interrelations in concurrent and/or
distributed computing systems, focusing on (but not limited to) the
following topics:
- Energy efficiency and performance analysis, modelling and evaluation
in concurrent and distributed systems and architectures
- Energy-Aware programming and green software design methods for
concurrent and distributed systems
- Energy efficiency and performance trade-offs in parallel and
distributed AI model training and inference
- GreenOps for concurrent and distributed software systems and
architectures
- Analysis and optimization of energy efficiency and performance in
heterogeneous computing architectures
- Energy-efficient and performance optimized algorithms and frameworks
for (Big) Data Processing
- Energy efficiency in high-performance computing platforms and
applications
- Energy efficiency and performance aspects in Cloud, IoT, Edge, Fog
computing, and Computing Continuum
- Approaches and techniques for improving energy efficiency and
performance in data management and services
- Energy efficiency and performance evaluation and optimization in
operating systems, networks and virtualized systems
- Energy impact evaluation and optimization in concurrent and
distributed algorithms for cybersecurity
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Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE
Paper Notification of Acceptance: June 19, 2026
Camera-Ready Submission: July 10, 2026
Workshop Days: August 24-25, 2026
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Paper Preparation Guidelines
PECS believes that energy plays a fundamental role in modern computer
systems. Therefore, PECS does not accept papers that focus exclusively
on performance while completely ignoring energy aspects. Papers are
expected to include at least some measurements and/or relevant
considerations related to energy usage of systems under consideration.
Papers that do not meet these requirements may be rejected prior to the
review process.
Papers should present novel contributions and should not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English,
with a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 12 pages, including text,
references, appendices, figures and any other elements. Papers with less
than 10 pages are considered short and can be presented at the workshop,
but they will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be
formatted according to LNCS guidelines
(https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bsKNEwXUlgtMhtA0N2zcMpvi7Y3J1Ua2cHiNeE4euD5wocawsjOdaQM3_nA-uzR8zC6eo_kLIXafgWYUBprfi8FN3vG8dks$ ).
Papers must be submitted via EasyChair (the submission link is available
on the PECS 2026 website - https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://pecs-workshop.github.io__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bsKNEwXUlgtMhtA0N2zcMpvi7Y3J1Ua2cHiNeE4euD5wocawsjOdaQM3_nA-uzR8zC6eo_kLIXafgWYUBprfi8FNBeiOt98$ ).
PECS employs a double-blind peer review process, i.e., the identities of
authors and reviewers are not disclosed to each other. Therefore, all
information that may allow authors to be identified must be removed from
the submitted papers. In particular, this includes author names and
affiliations, acknowledgments, funding information, and any references
to authors' previous work that may reveal their identity. Moreover,
authors should ensure that PDF metadata does not contain identifying
information. All the above details may be added later to accepted
papers. Submissions that fail to adhere to these anonymity requirements
may be rejected without review.
Authors are encouraged to ensure their papers clearly outline the
following aspects:
- Motivation of the presented research study
- Limitations of existing studies, approaches, or solutions
- Novel contributions of the paper
- Methodology and tools employed in the study
- Availability of artifacts, datasets, or other tools to support
reproducibility (where applicable)
- Validity and limitations of the proposed study
Reviewers will take these aspects into account during the evaluation
process.
Any use of AI-generated content, including text, images, data, etc.,
must be disclosed in a specific section (for example, in a section at
the end of the paper entitled "Information on AI-Generated Content"),
except in cases where AI tools are used solely for improving
presentation, such as for grammatical corrections or syntactic checks.
Authors are solely responsible for the content of their papers.
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Paper Publication
Workshop proceedings will be published in a dedicated Springer LNCS
volume. Only accepted papers presented at the workshop will be published
in the workshop proceedings (excluding short papers). At least one
author per paper is required to register for the workshop.
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Venue
PECS 2026 is co-located with the 32nd International European Conference
on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2026) and will be held
in Pisa, Italy.
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Workshop website
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://pecs-workshop.github.io__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bsKNEwXUlgtMhtA0N2zcMpvi7Y3J1Ua2cHiNeE4euD5wocawsjOdaQM3_nA-uzR8zC6eo_kLIXafgWYUBprfi8FNBeiOt98$
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Dr. Vincenzo De Maio
TU Wien
Computational Sustainability
Favoritenstrasse 9-11/194-04
1040 Vienna, Austria
University of Leicester
Lecturer in Distributed Systems
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Ken Edwards Building, University Rd
Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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