HPDC 2025: Call for Papers

The 34th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2025) will take place from July 20-23, 2025, in Notre Dame, IN, USA.

Overview

HPDC is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing.

Scope and Topics

Submissions are welcomed on high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC) topics including but not limited to:

• clouds, clusters, grids, big data, massively multicore, and extreme-scale computing systems.
• Experience reports of operational deployments that provide significantly novel insights for future research on HPDC applications and systems are also welcome.

Specific topics of interest include:

• Datacenter, HPC, cloud, serverless, and edge/IoT computing platforms
• Heterogeneous computing accelerators and non-volatile memory systems
• File and storage systems, I/O, and data management
• Operating systems and networks
• System software and middleware for parallel and distributed systems
• Programming languages and runtime systems
• Big data stacks and big data ecosystems
• Scientific applications, algorithms, and workflows
• Resource management and scheduling
• Performance modeling, benchmarking, and engineering
• Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
• Operational guarantees, risk assessment, and management
• Energy efficiency and sustainability
• AI topics, which must relate to parallel and distributed computing systems
• Novel post-Moore computing technologies including neuromorphic, brain-inspired computing, and quantum computing

HPDC welcomes submissions that utilize AI to enhance the above topics of interest or that utilize distributed systems to enhance AI frameworks, but submissions must address and articulate their connection with parallel and distributed computing research.

Paper Submission Categories

Submissions can be made in one of the following two categories:

1. Regular Papers: Primary focus should be on new research ideas supported by experimental implementation and evaluation.
2. Open-Source Tools and Data Papers: Primary focus should be on the design, development, and evaluation of new open-source tools or novel data sources.

Authors are required to indicate the category as a part of the submitted manuscript's title, using "Paper Type: Regular" or "Paper Type: Open-source tools and data paper". Submissions in both categories will be evaluated to the same standards.

ACM Publication

Papers accepted and presented at HPDC 2025 will be published in the ACM Digital Library at no additional cost to the authors.

Submission Guidelines

• Technical papers should be at most 11 pages in PDF format, excluding references. Accepted papers may use an additional page for camera-ready to incorporate reviewer feedback.
• Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (using sigconf from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
• Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or journal.

Anonymizing Submissions

HPDC uses dual-anonymous reviewing. Avoid identifying yourself or your institution explicitly or by implication.

• The first page should use the paper ID assigned during registration in place of author names.
• Reference your past work in the third person, as you would any other piece of related work.
• If your submission extends a previous workshop paper or relates to a submission under review, cite the other work anonymously and email the deanonymized work to the PC chairs.
• If reporting on system experiences at your institution, refer to the system anonymously but describe necessary properties. Consider describing frameworks using a different name and not sharing open-source code repositories if they are widely used.

arXiv Submission Policy

Having an arXiv paper does not prohibit submission to HPDC. arXiv papers are not peer-reviewed and do not count as prior work. Authors are encouraged to use preventive measures to reduce the chances of accidental breach of anonymity (e.g., use a different title and do not revise the arXiv version during the review period).

Author List After Acceptance

The author list cannot be changed after acceptance.

Conflict of Interest Declaration

All authors must indicate their conflict of interest (institutional, collaborative, or personal) with PC members at the time of submission. Refer to the submission website for detailed guidelines.

HPDC Policy on the use of AI

• HPDC permits the use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly) for language rectification.
• Authors must verify the accuracy of AI-generated results.
• AI tools are not eligible for authorship.
• The use of any AI-generated text must be disclosed in the acknowledgments section, citing the AI system used. The acknowledgments section must still follow dual-anonymous guidelines.

ACM Policy on Authorship

Refer to the ACM Policy on Authorship and the ACM's frequently asked questions page for policies on generative AI tools.

Contact PC Chairs

• Ivona Brandić (ivona.brandic@tuwien.ac.at)
• Robert Wisniewski (bobww123@gmail.com)

Submissions

Submit via the HPDC Submission Site: HPDC Submission Site

Suggestions for Document Preparation for Authors

Authors are encouraged to structure their introduction section as follows:

• Motivation: Clearly state the objective and provide quantitative support for the problem.
• Limitation of state-of-art approaches: Review prior works, articulate limitations, and explain novelty.
• Key insights and contributions: Articulate major insights, specify novelty, describe key ideas, and list contributions.
• Experimental methodology and artifact availability: Specify infrastructure, methodological details, and indicate artifact availability.
• Limitations of the proposed approach: Clearly articulate major limitations and sensitive conclusions.

Ethical Considerations

If research describes a new security-related attack, consider responsible disclosure. Papers should follow ethical principles and not alter security/privacy/equality expectations of users.

Inclusive Description of Research Contributions

Consider using gender-neutral pronouns, diverse examples, and making the paper accessible to visually impaired or color-blind readers.

Important Dates (AoE)

• [Past] December 9, 2024: Workshop and Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline
• [Past] December 16, 2024: Notification of Acceptance (Workshops and Tutorials)
• [Past] February 6, 2025: (Firm) Paper Submission Deadline (Technical Papers)
• [Past] February 28, 2025: HPDC 2025 Achievement Award Nomination Deadline
• [Past] March 13, 2025: Poster Submission Deadline
• [Past] March 21, 2025: Notification for HPDC 2025 Achievement Award
• [Past] April 4, 2025: Notification of Acceptance (Technical Papers)
• [Past] April 7, 2025: Notification of Acceptance (Posters)
• [Past] April 13, 2025: Travel Grant Application Deadline
• [Past] April 21, 2025: Notification of Awards (Travel Grant)
• [Past] May 1, 2025: Camera-ready Version (Technical Papers)
• [Past] June 20, 2025: Hotel Booking Deadline
• [Past] June 23, 2025: Late Registration Deadline
• July 18, 2025: Slide and Poster PDF Submissions
• July 20, 2025: HPDC Workshops
• July 21-23, 2025: HPDC Main Conference