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EESP 2025: CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on “Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance: Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices”
In conjunction with ISC High Performance 2025, Hamburg, Germany

Submission deadline ------------------- February 20, 2025, AoE
Notification ------------------------------- March 28, 2025, AoE
Camera-ready deadline ---------------- April 30, 2025, AoE
Workshop --------------------------------- June 13, 2025

Workshop website: https://ayeshaafzal91.github.io/eesp/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eesp25

Objective
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The EESP workshop fosters the exchange of innovative strategies, tools, and best practices to enhance energy efficiency in computing environments. Amid rising energy costs and ambitious sustainability goals, optimizing energy use is critical for managing computing infrastructure. The workshop focuses on balancing performance, energy and power consumption, and sustainability, offering practical guidance for exascale, Tier-1, and Tier-2 centers. Attendees will gain insights into greener, cost-effective practices to drive sustainability. Aligned with Sustainable Development Goals, EESP bridges HPC and AI communities, empowering operators to help users make energy-conscious decisions. It highlights sustained performance over peak performance for future competitiveness.

Scope
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EESP invites academia, supercomputing centers, industry, and policymakers to collaborate on advancing energy-efficient practices. Topics include software development, hardware design, and energy-efficient practices across various computing environments such as HPC clusters, data centers, and cloud infrastructure. Energy efficiency is a growing challenge, particularly for Tier-2 centers with limited resources. This workshop fosters dialogue between Tier-0/1 and Tier-2 centers to adapt Tier-0/1 innovations for constrained budgets. It targets financial and technical solutions applicable to HPC clusters, data centers, and cloud infrastructures globally.

Topics of Interest
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The workshop aims to benefit the broader community by sharing use cases, lessons learned, and best practices through descriptive papers. We solicit papers which encompass the following topics of interest but are not limited to:
* Energy efficiency analysis in computing environments
* Energy-aware software optimization techniques for HPC & AI
* Energy-efficient hardware architectures and practices for HPC & AI
* Energy-efficient scheduling and resource management
* Energy-efficient data center administration and operation
* Metrics for energy-efficient sustainable performance
* Cluster-wide energy benchmarking with continuous regression analysis
* Energy modeling, measurement, and behavioral insights for CPUs and GPUs
* Tools for power and energy monitoring, management, and control
* Renewable energy sources for HPC systems
* Emerging trends and future challenges in energy consumption (e.g., AI and machine learning workloads)

Format and Proceedings
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Papers should be either short (work-in-progress, 6 pages) or regular (12 pages), including references and appendices, with an option for two additional pages after review to address reviewer feedback. Each submission will undergo a minimum of three single-blind peer reviews. Review criteria will include the originality, technical soundness, potential impact, significance, and quality of presentation. Papers must be submitted online via the EasyChair system in PDF format, using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template.
The accepted papers will be published along with the ISC proceedings as part of the Springer LNCS series.

We look forward to your contributions and participation in the EESP workshop at ISC this June!

Sincerely,

Workshop General Chair
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Ayesha Afzal - Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)

Program Co-Chairs
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Sarah Neuwirth - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Natalie Bates - Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG)
Siddhartha Jana - Intel

Proceedings Chair
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Radita Liem - RWTH Aachen University

Program Committee
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Aditya Deshpande - Samsung Semiconductor, USA
Andy Turner - University of Leeds, England
Aleksandar Ilic - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Arthur F. Lorenzon - UFRGS, Brazil
Bronis De Supinski - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Can Hankendi - Boston University, USA
Dirk Pleiter - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Diana Goehringer - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Fumiyoshi Shoji - RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan
Florina M. Ciorba - University of Basel, Switzerland
Gabriel Hautreux - National Computer Center for Higher Education (CINES), France
Georg Hager - Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen (RRZE), Germany
Hatem Ltaief - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Harald Köstler - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Kento Sato - RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan
Markus Diesmann - Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Markus Rampp - Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, Germany
Martin Frank - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Matthias Maiterth - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Michael Ott - Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Nathan R. Tallent - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Paolo Bientinesi - Umeå University, Sweden
Ralf Schneider - High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
Radu Prodan - University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Raphael Vitti - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Robert Schöne - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Roman Wyrzykowski - Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Ryan E. Grant - Queen's University, Canada
Stefano Markidis - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Thomas Gruber - Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center, Germany
Ondřej Vysocký - IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Czech Republic
Zhengji Zhao - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Collaborators
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Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)
Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG)

Contact
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Please contact workshop General Chair Ayesha Afzal for any inquiries: ayesha.afzal@fau.de.