TCPP April 2025 Newsletter

Dear TCPP Members,

In the current time when science is debated with opinion, ignored, or silenced, we are happy to reunite ourselves into a technical community that helps tighten our ties and advance our knowledge. By having people work together, we find new ideas, and our community helps to share these with our future members. This cycle of advancement in knowledge is a precious asset, may we help it last through our gathering and events!

Speaking of which, you will find in this newsletter reminders for upcoming gathering events, and deadlines for events happening a little later. You will also find a message from Alfredo Goldman, Chair since last June, who reflects on his (almost complete) first year in position. And as usual, we will congratulate the last award recipients!

TCPP news from the Chair Alfredo Goldman

Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of newsletters these last times, I am getting used to be TCPP chair (and now, I know that Anne Benoit had a lot of work).

• To engage more students in Parallel Computing and HPC, TCHPC and TCPP (Manish and I) created a joint call to allow students to attend two leading conferences (SC and IPDPS);
• To promote education on Parallel Computing, we created this year the TCPP Award for Excellence in Parallel and Distributed Computing Education, the first recipient will be announced at IPDPS in Milano in June.

I would also like to announce that we have two vice-chairs to support TCPP activities: Alba Melo and Ananth Kalyanaraman

To finish, I want to let you know that we have some new conferences under the TCPP umbrella.

I hope to see you soon at IPDPS in Italy!

Awards

We congratulate the following people for their awards in the field of HPC:

[Early Career]  Maciej Besta (ETH Zurich), Guanpeng Li (University of Iowa), and Xin Liang (University of Kentucky) received the 2024 IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.

[Charles Babbage Award] Srinivas Aluru (Georgia Institute of Technology) received this award for pioneering contributions to the field of Parallel Computational Biology.

[Ken Kennedy Award] David A. Padua (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) received this award for innovative and usable contributions to the theory and practice of parallel compilation and tools, as well as service to the computing community.

[Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award] William M. Tang (Princeton University) received the 2024 Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award for contributions in fusion energy research accelerated by high-performance computing and deep learning.

[Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award] Norman P. Jouppi (Google) received this award for the design and deployment of special-purpose supercomputers for artificial intelligence.

Upcoming deadlines and events

The following deadlines are to be noted for this year:

• May 2, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 24th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2025) that will be held in Rennes, France
• May 19, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 21st IEEE International Conference on e-Science (https://www.escience-conference.org/2025/) that will be held in Chicago, USA
• May 19, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 22nd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2025) that will be held in Doha, Qatar
• May 20, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 2025 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2025) that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic
• June 16, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 37th IEEE/SBC Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2025) that will be help in Bonito, Brazil
• June 25, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 32nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2025), that will be held in Hyderabad, India
• November 17, 2025 — Deadline for paper submission to the 24th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), that will be held in Pisa, Italy

The following TCPP events are getting closer as well:

• 2025 IPDPS conference, June 3-7, 2025 (http://www.ipdps.org/) — with the traditional TCPP reception on Wednesday evening
• EduPar-24 workshop, June 4, 2025 https://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum/?q=edupar24