[DMANET] Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) 25 Call for Proposals

Dear Colleagues,

we are happy to announce that the call for proposals for Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) 25 is live.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing

PASC25

FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch
Windisch, Switzerland

16-18 Jun 2025

https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org<https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org/>

Deadline: 06 Dec 2024 (no extensions)

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The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) invites research paper submissions for PASC25, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). PASC25 will be held from June 16 to 18, 2025, at FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland. The guidelines for submissions are published at https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org/submission/guidelines-for-papers/.

The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational science with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, workflows, application challenges, and novel techniques in the context of scientific usage of high performance computing.

The technical program of PASC25 is organized around the following scientific domains:

* Chemistry and Materials (incl. ceramics, metals, and polymers)
* Climate, Weather, and Earth Sciences (incl. solid earth dynamics)
* Applied Social Sciences and Humanities (incl. behavioral, economic, legal, political and business sciences, philosophy, languages, the arts, ethics in computing including climate impact of HPC, biases in machine learning, etc.)
* Engineering (incl. CFD, computational mechanics, computational engineering and materials, turbulent flow)
* Life Sciences (incl. biophysics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience, and computational biology)
* Physics (incl. astrophysics, cosmology, plasma modelling, and quantum information sciences)
* Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics

PASC25 solicits high-quality contributions of original research related to scientific computing in all of these domains. Proposals that emphasize the theme of PASC25 - "Supercomputing for Sustainable Development" - are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Extreme scalable methods in computational science and engineering, such as algorithms and software for scalable multi-scale, multi-physics, and high-fidelity computational science and engineering problems.
* Numerical methods, algorithms, or large-scale simulations in computational fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, computational engineering materials, turbulent flow, and computational cosmology.
* Effective use of advanced computing systems for large-scale scientific applications, including modern multi- and many-core CPUs and accelerators with deep memory hierarchies, and energy-efficient architectures.
* Best practices and tools for productive and sustainable scientific and engineering software development.
* The integration of large-scale experimental and observational scientific data and high-performance data analytics and computing.
* Reproducibility for computational science and engineering.
* Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification.
* Domain specific languages; toolchains for source-to-source translation/adaption.
* Runtime systems and middleware, such as task- and data-driven computation on heterogeneous architectures.
* Algorithms and strategies for effective use of machine learning, deep learning or AI to accelerate computational science.
* Machine learning / AI in the context of large parallel HPC applications, data sets or workflows.
* Unstructured vs. structured meshes for computational science applications at exascale
* Numerical algorithm development for post-exascale computing, including, but not limited to, communication avoiding algorithms, use of reduced or mixed precision, and integration of scalable numerical libraries in application software.
* Computational approaches for social sciences such as finance, urban planning, mobility or disaster response.

Papers accepted for PASC25 will be presented as talks, and published in the Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM Digital Library. A selection of the highest quality papers may be given the opportunity of a plenary presentation. In selecting papers for plenary presentation, the Papers Committee will place particular weight on impact, interdisciplinarity and interest to a broad audience.

The goal of the PASC Conference Papers Program is to advance the quality of scientific communication between the various disciplines of computational science and engineering in the context of HPC. The program was built from an observation that the computer science community traditionally publishes in the proceedings of major international conferences, while domain science communities publish primarily in disciplinary journals - and neither of which is read regularly by the other. The PASC Conference provides a unique venue that enables interdisciplinary exchange in a manner that bridges the two scientific publishing cultures.

The Proceedings of the PASC Conference (PASC25) are published in the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM's) Digital Library. In recognition of the high quality of the PASC Conference papers track, the ACM continues to provide the proceedings as an Open Table of Contents (OpenTOC). This means that the definitive versions of PASC Conference papers are available to everyone at no charge to the author and without any pay-wall constraints for readers.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW

The PASC25 Papers Program Committee is responsible for the paper evaluation process. The committee is chaired by Sally Ellingson (University of Kentucky, US), and (Xiaoye) Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US), and comprises of domain co-chairs and committee members who are specialists in their scientific fields. Papers will be evaluated by reviewers in the PASC25 papers committee on their significance, technical soundness, originality, and quality of communication.

We employ a rigorous academic peer-review process: most notably, we allow the possibility for provisional acceptance (revision and author rebuttal). Committee reviewers are solicited for each submission, with additional external reviewers where needed. The paper selection process thus combines the strengths of conference and journal publication schemes to provide an effective, high-impact publication venue in large-scale computational science.

Contributions must be submitted through the PASC Conference online submission portal (https://submissions.pasc-conference.org<https://submissions.pasc-conference.org/>). Submissions should include the following:

* Title: Maximum 20 words.
* Scientific Domain: Select a primary and optionally secondary scientific domain(s).
* Author details: Full names and contact details of author(s).
* Short Abstract: Maximum 250 words.
* Paper:
- First Stage: Maximum 10 pages including figures, tables, and appendices; but excl. references.
- Second Stage: In the revision phase, an extra page will be granted for the final paper to accommodate review requests.

Papers must be submitted in the current ACM Article Template (sigconf proceedings) format [1].

The PASC Conference highly encourages authors to follow reproducible science principles(https://opensciencemooc.eu/modules/reproducible-research-and-data-analysis/) for their submissions, to counter the reproducibility crisis in scientific publishing and increase the community value of computational research papers. Paper authors are highly encouraged to link data & software artifacts as a reference (supplementary materials archive), e.g., using open and freely available services such as, but not limited to, Zenodo.org<https://zenodo.org/> (https://zenodo.org/), Figshare.com<https://figshare.com/> (https://figshare.com/), DRYAD (https://datadryad.org/), institutional data archival platforms, or publicly accessible GitHub/GitLab instances. As guidance, data artifacts may include, as appropriate, the used/modified source code, run & analysis scripts, input files, and/or data (raw/processed as size allows); an artifact description ("README") including used standards/schema where used, a respective data archive license, and persistent link (ie., DOI).

Paper authors should plan to present their content in-person.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

The deadline for submissions for Papers is December 06, 2024 at 11:59 pm anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12').

* 06 Dec 2024: Deadline for paper submissions (no extensions!)
* 04 Feb 2025: Review notifications
* 16 March 2025: Deadline for paper revisions
* 15 Apr 2025: Acceptance notifications

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS

Authors of papers that are accepted for PASC25 will be given 20-30 minute presentation slots at the conference, grouped in topically-focused parallel sessions. A selection of the highest quality papers may be given the opportunity of a plenary presentation. Papers that are presented at PASC25 will be published in the Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM Digital Library. Please note that speakers must register for the conference and are subject to the corresponding registration fee.

PAPERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

General Chairs
* Sally Ellingson (University of Kentucky, US)
* Xiaoye Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)

Domain Chairs
* Mark Adams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)
* Hannah Cohoon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)
* Sally Ellingson (University of Kentucky, US)
* Marta Garcia Gasulla (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
* Katharina Kormann (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
* Thomas D. Kühne (Universität Paderborn and CASUS, Germany)
* Thorsten Kurth (NVIDIA, Switzerland)
* Andreas Lintermann (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
* Duc Nguyen (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US)
* Kara Peterson (Sandia National Laboratories, US)
* Simone Pezzuto (University of Trento, Italy)
* Birgit Strodel (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
* Rio Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

If you have any questions regarding the submission or reviewing process please email info@pasc-conference.org<https://mailto:info@pasc-conference.org/>.

Notes:

[1]: www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html<https://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>; see section "LaTex Authors" for the link to download the template

Dr. Thorsten Kurth,
Co-Chair for the Climate, Weather and Earth Sciences Domain @ PASC25
NVIDIA, Switzerland

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