ARCS 2024

This year’s focus: HPC - Challenges for Sustainable Computing

The ARCS conferences series has over 36 years of tradition reporting leading edge research in computer architectures and operating systems.

High performance computing represents an important tool for tackling climate change. In many other HPC application fields, the need for more high computing power has increased enormously in recent years, especially due to the high demand of AI-specific workloads. The operation of correspondingly powerful computing systems therefore represents an increasing problem in terms of energy requirements and the associated CO2 emissions. HPC is therefore not only part of the solution to tackling climate change, but also part of the overall problem.

Heterogeneous computer architectures promise a significant increase in the energy efficiency of HPC systems. The selection of different accelerator architectures can contribute significantly to increasing efficiency, but there is currently a lack of appropriate concepts for their seamless and scalable integration, as well as the support through appropriate programming models.

The focus of the ARCS’24 conference will be on novel accelerator architectures, which are suited for the integration into HPC systems. This includes fine and coarse grain reconfigurable architectures as well as new ideas for their integration to achieve higher energy efficiency as typical homogeneous architectures. In addition, the topics cover HPC-specific research at the level of computer architectures, runtime and operating systems, design tools and HPC programming models and algorithms.

In addition to the main conference, ARCS will host special tracks on Organic Computing and Dependability and Fault Tolerance.

The proceedings of ARCS 2024 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. A best paper and best presentation award will be presented at the conference.

In addition, selected papers will be invited for a Special Issue in the Elsevier Journal of System Architecture.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers on one or more of the following topics:

Hardware Architectures

• HPC-workload specific accelerator architectures
• Reconfigurable architectures
• Advanced computing architectures
• System-on-chip
• Distributed systems
• High performance systems
• Heterogeneous multi- and many-core architectures
• Architectures for real-time and mixed-criticality systems
• Coarse- and fine-grained reconfigurable architectures
• Flexible I/O support
• Advanced computing architectures
• Using new non-volatile memory for energy-efficient architectures
• New smart network technologies (e.g. SmartNICs, SmartSwitches)

Programming Models and Runtime Environments

• HPC programming models for heterogeneous computing
• Tools to monitor and to optimize the power consumption of HPC architecture
• Operating systems, programming models, algorithms, and data structures for heterogeneous HPC architectures
• Operating systems, hypervisors and middleware for homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-/many-core computing platforms
• System management including but not limited to scheduling, memory management, power/thermal management, and RTOS
• Domain-specific languages and programming models
• Architecture specific code generation and optimization
• Architectural simulation

Cross-sectional Topics

• Near-memory and in-memory computing
• Memory and network compression technologies
• Organic computing
• Pervasive systems
• Autonomous systems
• Approximate Computing
• Mixed-criticality systems
• Support for safety and security
• Hardware in the loop simulations

Submission guidelines

Submissions should be done via EasyChair. Papers must be submitted in PDF format.

They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 15 pages, including references and figures.
 

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: February 29, 2024 March 7, 2024 (extended)  March 17, 2024 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2024
Camera-ready papers: May 5, 2024
Conference (in Potsdam, Germany): May 14 – 16, 2024