Nowadays, sustainability is becoming a key challenge in science as in many human activities. As it is declined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by United Nations member states in 2015, the term intertwines the need for a more socially just society with the protection of planetary boundaries. HPC systems shall play their part in the achievement of such an ambitious goal, not only by investigating ways to reduce their environmental impact at hardware level, but also by studying the sustainability of high performance algorithms, proposing methods and tools to assess the sustainability of parallel software in practice, and also by defining parallel programming paradigms intrinsically oriented to sustainability. As efficiency goals have led to the development of a significant number of offline auto-tuning libraries for performance optimization in the last decade, the current social and environmental situation urges us to consider additional goals, such as energy consumption, or wider-range, sustainability-related factors. The identification of "best practices" to promote sustainability at the software level could represent a crucial guideline for HPC developers.

SHiPS wants to encourage the exchange of ideas and, possibly, build a community of researchers working on sustainable HPC algorithms, platforms, programming paradigms, and theoretical models.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Regular papers: at least 10 pages -- including references
• Short papers: min 5 pages, max 7 pages -- including references

Submissions should be double-blinded (i.e. authors' names should not be included in the submissions) in English in PDF format (LNCS one-column). For further details and templates see https://events.unibo.it/ships25/call-for-papers

List of Topics

• Sustainability of parallel and high-performance scientific algorithms
• Sustainability of  decentralized algorithms
• Sustainable AI and machine learning algorithms
• Theoretical carbon footprint modelling of parallel computing systems and/or workloads
• Sustainability-oriented parallel programming paradigms, HPC schedulers and tools
• Heterogeneous solutions for increased energy efficiency and reduced carbon footprint
• Compiler tools for sustainable parallel computing
• Benchmark and data sets targeting sustainability in parallel computing
• Data-driven predictive models for sustainable parallel workload
• User-targeted tools and pricing models to foster sustainable parallel computing

Committees

Program Committee

• TBD

Organizing Committee

• Daniela Loreti, University of Bologna
• Andrea Borghesi, University of Bologna

Invited Speakers

• Andrea Bartolini, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", University of Bologna

Publication

Proceedings with all accepted papers shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.

Venue

The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, co-located with HiPEAC 2025

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to daniela.loreti@unibo.it and andrea.borghesi3@unibo.it

Sponsors

SHiPS is partially sponsored by the EU project SEANERGYS

Call: HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-ENERGY-04.

Type of action: HORIZON-JU-RIA.

Proposal number: 101177590.