Call for Papers
SUSTAIN-HPC 2026 Call for Papers
SUSTAIN-HPC 2026, the Workshop on Sustainable Computing for High-Performance and Distributed Systems, invites original research papers, short papers, position papers, and work-in-progress contributions on sustainable and green computing for high-performance and distributed systems. The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICPP 2026 in Singapore on September 28, 2026.
The workshop seeks contributions that address sustainability as a full-stack computing challenge, spanning applications, algorithms, system software, runtime systems, programming models, scheduling, architecture, infrastructure, and emerging computing substrates. The scope also includes emerging computing technologies such as processing-in-memory, near-data computing, neuromorphic computing, photonic and optical computing, analog computing, quantum devices, domain-specific accelerators, and other beyond-CMOS technologies, especially when studied in the context of practical HPC and distributed computing systems.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sustainable and green computing for HPC and distributed systems
- Energy-efficient and carbon-aware system design
- Resource-efficient parallel and distributed computing
- Energy-aware and carbon-aware scheduling, placement, and orchestration
- Runtime systems for sustainable heterogeneous computing
- Programming models and abstractions for energy-efficient computing
- Sustainable AI and scientific computing workloads
- Energy-to-solution, carbon-to-solution, and cost-to-solution metrics
- Benchmarking and profiling methodologies for sustainable computing
- Green data centers, cooling-aware computing, and infrastructure-aware optimization
- Cross-layer co-design across applications, algorithms, systems, architecture, and hardware
- Sustainable computing with emerging hardware substrates
- Processing-in-memory and near-data computing for energy-efficient workloads
- Neuromorphic, photonic, optical, and analog computing in HPC contexts
- Quantum devices and hybrid quantum-classical workflows for sustainable computing
- Domain-specific accelerators for energy-efficient HPC and AI
- Reliability, lifetime, and lifecycle sustainability of future computing systems
- Total cost of ownership and operational sustainability of large-scale computing infrastructure
Submission Categories
- Full papers: 6–8 pages
- Short papers / Work-in-progress papers: 2–4 pages
All submissions should follow the ACM proceedings format required by ICPP workshops. Please use the ACM template located here.
Submission Instructions
All papers must be submitted electronically through the workshop's HotCRP submission system:
Submit Your Paper → Submission site: https://sustain-hpc26.hotcrp.com/
Review Process
All submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process:
- Each full paper will receive at least three independent reviews.
- Each short paper, position paper, or work-in-progress paper will receive at least two independent reviews.
Papers will be evaluated based on relevance to the workshop theme, technical quality, novelty and originality, clarity of presentation, potential impact on sustainable computing for HPC and distributed systems, appropriateness of evaluation methodology and metrics, and degree of cross-layer or system-level insight. The review process encourages constructive feedback, especially for emerging or interdisciplinary topics. The review policy (single-blind or double-blind) will follow ICPP workshop guidelines and will be clearly stated here once finalized.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM ICPP Workshops proceedings, subject to the publication policies of ICPP 2026. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the workshop and present the work.
Important Dates (AoE)
- Paper Submission: July 10, 2026
- Acceptance Notification: July 20, 2026
- Camera-ready Deadline: July 30, 2026
- Workshop: September 28, 2026