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PERMAVOST 2025: CALL FOR PAPERS
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5th Workshop on Performance EngineeRing, Modelling, Analysis, and VisualizatiOn STrategy
In conjunction with ACM HPDC 2025, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Submission deadline ------------------- April 15, 2025, AoE (firm)
Notification ------------------------------- May 6, 2025
Camera ready deadline ---------------- May 26, 2025, AoE
Workshop --------------------------------- July 20, 2025

Workshop website: https://permavost.github.io/

Scope
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Modern software engineering is becoming increasingly complex. Especially in high-performance computing (HPC), with cutting-edge infrastructure and novel problems of unprecedented scale, monitoring and analyzing the performance of such applications and infrastructure has become essential for their improvement, design, and maintenance. In the current era, the development and maintenance of these applications are no longer the sole responsibility of computer scientists. Instead, they involve a diverse group of experts, including mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from various disciplines. Many of these developers lack formal computer science training and increasingly rely on tools created by computer scientists to analyze and optimize their code. This growing interdependence highlights the need for a collaborative forum where different stakeholders can work together effectively.


Topics of Interest
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PERMAVOST aims to bring together key stakeholders -- application developers, domain scientists, performance analysts, and tool developers --to collaborate and bridge gaps in the following areas:
* Key metrics, patterns, and performance pitfalls: Identifying strategies to recognize and leverage performance insights to enhance application efficiency.
* Emerging challenges: Addressing issues arising from new computing architectures, programming paradigms, novel scientific problems, and the processing of data at varying scales.
* Usability in performance tools: Exploring how modern usability design principles can be integrated into performance analysis tools to better support their users.
* Broad-spectrum accessibility: Developing analysis methods and methodologies that cater to users with varying levels of HPC expertise.


Tracks
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We solicit papers which encompass the following topics of interest, but are not limited to: Performance analysis and modeling of real-world applications

* Data visualization for performance analysis
* Usability studies and user-centric design of HPC tools
* Inefficiencies in programming patterns and computing architectures
* Patterns, anomaly detection, and performance characterization in HPC applications
* Performance engineering strategies, methodologies, and use cases
* Human-computer interfaces for performance data exploration
* Energy efficiency and management in performance analysis and engineering
* Performance analysis in emerging HPC domains, including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, Containers, and Cloud computing

Format and Proceedings
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The length of the paper is 5 pages, including the bibliography. 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. The papers must be submitted online through HotCRP in PDF using the ACM master template format.
Accepted papers will be published Open Access in the ACM Digital Library with no additional fee, as part of the workshop proceeding.

We look forward to your contributions and participation in the PERMAVOST workshop at ACM HPDC this July!

Sincerely,

Workshop General Chair
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Ayesha Afzal - Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center

Program Co-Chairs
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Radita Liem - RWTH Aachen University and Sarah Neuwirth - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Publicity Chair
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Georg Hager - Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center

Program Committee
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Abdel-Hameed Badawy - New Mexico State University
Amanda Bienz - The University of New Mexico
Beth A. Plale - Indiana University Bloomington
Bertil Schmidt - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Chih-Kai Huang - Télécom SudParis / IP Paris
David Bernholdt - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Daniel Balouek - INRIA centre at Rennes University
Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda - Ohio University
Gabriele Jost - Supersmith, Maximum Performance Software
Jay Lofstead - Sandia National Laboratory
Jakob Luettgau - INRIA centre at Rennes University
Jinyang Liu - University of Houston
Keichi Takahashi - University of Osaka
Keita Teranishi - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lucas M. Schnorr - Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Mai Zheng - Iowa State University
Mohammad Alaul Haque Monil - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nathan R. Tallent - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sandra Gesing - San Diego Supercomputer Center
Shaikh Arifuzzaman - University of Nevada
Steven Hofmeyr - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wei (Celia) Xu - Brookhaven National Laboratory

Collaborator
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Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)

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