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37th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems

                    May 14-16, 2024, Potsdam, Germany

                       https://arcs-conference.org

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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 architecture 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 architec-

tures, 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.

*Important Dates*

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* Paper submission deadline:         February 29, 2024

* Notification of acceptance:        March 28, 2024

* Camera-ready papers:               May 2, 2024

* Conference (in Potsdam, Germany):  May 14 – 16, 2024

*Topics of Interest*

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Paper submission: 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*

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Submissions should be done through the link that is provided on the

conference website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2024.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format.

They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see:

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)

and must not exceed 15 pages, including references and figures.

*Organizers*

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General Chairs

Dietmar Fey, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Benno Stabernack, Universität Potsdam / Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institut

Program Chairs

Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Mathias Pacher, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Proceedings Chair

Thilo Pionteck, Magdeburg University, Germany

Publicity and Web Chair

Lars Bauer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

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ARCS 2024 CfP: HPC – Challenges for Sustainable Computing