HPDC 2025: Call for Papers

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

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:

• 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 its connection with parallel and distributed computing research.

Paper Submission Categories

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

1. Regular papers
2. Open-source tools and data papers

The authors are required to indicate the category of the paper as a part of the submitted manuscript's title using one of the two phrases:

• Paper Type: Regular
• Paper Type: Open-source tools and data paper

ACM Publication

Papers accepted and presented at HPDC 2025 will be published in the ACM Digital Library at no additional cost to the authors. (The transition to ACM OPEN publication fees will take place in 2026.)

Submission Guidelines

• Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 11 pages in PDF format, excluding references.
• Accepted papers will have the flexibility to use an additional page in the camera-ready to incorporate feedback from the reviewers.
• 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 a journal.

Anonymizing Submissions

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

arXiv Submission Policy

Having an arXiv paper does not prohibit authors from submitting a paper to HPDC 2025. Authors are not expected to compare against arXiv papers that have not formally appeared in previous conference or journal proceedings. If a submitted paper is already on arXiv, please continue to follow the double-blind submission guidelines.

Author List After Acceptance

The author list cannot be changed after acceptance.

Conflict of Interest Declaration

At the time of submission, all authors must indicate their conflict of interest with the PC members.

HPDC Policy on the use of AI

HPDC permits the use of AI tools to help improve the submission text. The authors should verify whether the results are accurate before submission. Only the authors are fully responsible and accountable for the contents of their papers. AI tools are not eligible for authorship.

The use of any AI-generated text must be disclosed in the acknowledgments section. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text should have a citation to the AI system used in the acknowledgments section.

ACM Policy on Authorship

Please refer to the ACM Policy on Authorship for all other guidelines.

Contact PC Chairs

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

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline (Technical Papers): February 6, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance (Technical Papers): April 4, 2025
• Camera-ready Version (Technical Papers): May 1, 2025