SBAC-PAD 2025: Call for Papers

The 37th IEEE/SBC Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) will take place from October 28 to 31, 2025, at Zagaia Eco Resort in Bonito, MS, Brazil.

SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference that presents the latest trends, current research and developments, and novel tools and applications in the fields of Computer Architecture, High-Performance Computing, and Parallel and Distributed Computing technologies. The conference has strong international participation with an acceptance rate below 30% in recent years.

Tracks of Interest

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts to one of five tracks that address challenges in any of the following areas related to the fields of Computer Architecture (CA) and High-performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC):

• Computer Architecture (CA)
  • Application-specific systems;
  • Architecture and programming support for emerging domains: (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems);
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for CA and HPDC, and CA and HPDC for Artificial intelligence applications;
  • Benchmarking, performance modeling, analysis, and evaluation;
  • Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture;
  • GPUs, FPGAs, and accelerator architectures;
  • Power and energy-efficient systems;
  • Reconfigurable, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems;
  • Security and privacy in CA and HPDC;
  • Processing-in-memory or near-data processing technologies;
• High-performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC)
  • Blockchain and distributed ledgers;
  • Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems;
  • Data-intensive workloads and tools;
  • Data management, storage, and I/O;
  • Embedded and pervasive systems;
  • Languages, compilers, models and tools for parallel and distributed programming;
  • Modeling and simulation methodologies;
  • Operating systems and virtualization;
  • Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, models, and applications;
  • Predictive models to improve performance of scientific applications;
  • Real-world applications and case studies;
  • Workflow systems.

Submission Guidelines

• Papers submitted to SBAC-PAD 2025 must present original research results and must not have been published or concurrently submitted elsewhere.
• Submissions should be made via the JEMS system.
• Papers must be in English, have a maximum of 10 pages (excluding references).
• Follow the IEEE conference manuscript formatting guidelines for double-column text using a single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5 × 11-inch pages. Templates are available here.
• Papers that do not meet these requirements might be rejected without a review.

Review Process

The SBAC-PAD 2025 submissions will undergo a double-anonymized review process.

To ensure anonymity:

• Authors cannot include their names, affiliations, funding sources, or acknowledgments in any part of the for-review version of their paper.
• Self-references should be referenced in the third person (e.g., "Smith et al. found that... [4].") and avoid first-person references.
• For the authors’ own unpublished work, use anonymous citations.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: June 9th, 2025 (AoE)
• Paper submission deadline: July 7th, 2025 (AoE Hard)
• Rebuttal period: August 14th – August 18th, 2025
• Author notification: August 25th, 2025
• Camera-ready submission: September 22nd, 2025

Awards

The program committee will select the top-ranked papers as finalists, and one paper will be selected during the conference as the Best Paper.

Publication

Selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing – JPDC (pending approval).

Registration

To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, one of the authors must register at the full rate and present his/her work at the conference.

Call for Workshop Proposals

• Deadline for Workshop Proposals: May 2nd, 2025.
• Notification of acceptance: May 9th, 2025.