Sustainable HPC State of the Practice Workshop 2024

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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:

** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)


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 community benefit from these experiences. The papers are intended to identify use cases, lessons learned, and best practices in design, commissioning, and operations.  The solicited papers will be generally descriptive with concrete, reproducible, and empirical data gathered through surveys, case studies, and research for practice.


Workshop Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following areas:


Paper Submission:

Abstracts and papers to be submitted via Easy Chair -

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sustainablehpcsop202

 - Workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Cluster 2024 proceedings.

 -- Full paper (8 pages + 2 additional pages)

 -- Short paper (4 pages + 1 additional page)

 - The papers should be in IEEE format

https://conferences.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/author-ethics/guidelines-and-policies/submission-policies/



Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text

The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in a paper (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any paper submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the paper that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.  The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the above policy. In this case, disclosure as noted above is recommended.


Instructions for authors and participants

 - At least one author of each accepted WS paper must complete the author registration by August 2, 2024 (AoE).

 * VISA application

 - Citizens of certain countries are required to obtain a visa to enter Japan. Please check the website [ http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html ] of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) to know if you need to obtain a visa and visa application procedures.

 - Please contact us [cluster2024-workshop@ml.riken.jp] if you need Visa support.

 * Participation

 - All participants (including invited speakers) must complete the registration and pay registration fee (further instruction will be available at https://clustercomp.org/2024/registration/).