Call for Papers

Call for papers: 

Sustainable High Performance Computing State of the Practice Workshop  (Sustainable HPC SOP Workshop) in conjunction with Cluster 2024.

September 24, 2024

Kobe, Japan

Workshop Timeline:  FINAL EXTENSION

** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

• Full Papers Due:  June 18, 2024   June 30th, 2024 July 6th, 2024

• Paper Acceptance Notification:  July 16, 2024  July 23, 2024

• Camera Ready Deadline:  August 9, 2024

ABSTRACT:  

The demand for ever more-capable high performance computing (HPC) is driving significant changes across the design and manufacturing space, as manufacturers turn to heterogeneous systems that integrate increasing die-count, from multi-core CPUs to accelerators, traditional memory architectures to high-bandwidth memory, modern interconnects, and massive storage servers. These designs require substantially higher energy, with commensurate methods for managing heat, in increasingly dense packages. 

To effectively manage and operate these systems, HPC and Data Center (DC) practitioners must balance and coordinate constraints across many domains: environment, utilities, data center, HPC system hardware and software, and end-user applications.

While the capital costs for the acquisition of these systems have long been recognized, the energy needed to power and cool these systems has similarly become a first-order constraint. Now, increasingly, other constraints related to the overall sustainability of these systems are being examined, among them, the associated production of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water consumption.

While the community has made significant improvements to operational efficiency of data centers, notably through direct liquid cooling of specific system components, there is a broader scope of environmental impacts, across the life cycle of our facilities and systems, that must be considered. This includes the full life cycle costs for producing these HPC systems during their entire lifetime, from system design, manufacturing, daily operations, reusability, eventual decommissioning, and recyclability. Only by analysis and optimization of these elements can we understand and manage the full life cycle cost and carbon footprint of these systems.

This workshop seeks to leverage the experiences of early adopters and innovators in operational practices and technologies that can improve energy and power management capabilities, reduce GHG emissions, and provide careful stewardship of natural resources, like water. This workshop will explore these operational and technological innovations that span the full stack of HPC computational systems as well as building infrastructure.

As part of this peer-reviewed workshop, we solicit papers that capture best practices, policies, procedures, and technologies. The vision is to help the broader com