7th edition of the Half-day Workshop on “Energy Efficient High Performance Computing State of the Practice” (EE HPC SOP 2027) in conjunction with HPC Asia 2027.

Conference Dates: February 17–19, 2027 (Workshop Date TBD)
Workshop Location: Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/eehpcsopworkshop
 

Workshop Timeline

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, November 27, 2026
Paper Acceptance Notification: Monday, December 21, 2026
Camera-Ready Deadline: Friday, January 8, 2027

Abstract

As the performance, power, and heat density of supercomputers continue to grow—driven by the integration of high-power heterogeneous components such as multi-core CPUs, GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, and high-bandwidth interconnects—coordinated strategies across facilities, utilities, HPC systems, and applications are required to manage energy use, reduce environmental impact, and ensure long-term operational viability. The Energy Efficient HPC State of the Practice workshop will focus on the operational, infrastructural, and environmental challenges of deploying and managing modern high-performance computing systems. The primary objective of this workshop is to capture and disseminate best practices, case studies, and reproducible operational experiences from HPC centers, facilities, and vendors worldwide. While energy efficiency has long been recognized as a critical constraint, sustainability metrics such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, embodied carbon, and water consumption are now also coming into focus. This workshop will explore how to address these challenges across the full lifecycle of HPC systems—from design and manufacturing through daily operations, reuse, and decommissioning.

The workshop also considers AI infrastructure, which increasingly mirrors HPC in system architecture and operational demands. There are lessons to be learned from the HPC community that should help with the operation of Megawatt-scale AI racks, warm-water cooling, and hyperscale deployments. The convergence of these domains presents an opportunity to align practices, metrics, and innovations in service of a shared future where performance and sustainability must coexist. As part of this peer-reviewed workshop, we solicit papers that capture best practices, policies, procedures, and technologies. The vision is to help the broader community benefit from these experiences. The papers are intended to identify use cases, lessons learned, and best practices in design, commissioning, and operations. The solicited papers will be generally descriptive with concrete, reproducible, and empirical data gathered through surveys, case studies, and research for practice.

Workshop Topics

Workshop Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following areas:
* Operational Data Analytics
* HPC performance for power, energy, carbon, and/or water
* Monitoring and control of power & energy
* Cooling technologies
* Mechanical and electrical system design
* Procurement considerations
* Sustainability modeling, measurement, monitoring, and management
* Energy-efficient computing across hardware, software, system architecture, and operations, including application-centric approaches
* Emerging challenges in HPC and AI workloads
* Digital twins

Submission Guidelines

All authors should submit manuscripts for single-blind review in a two-column format. All manuscripts will undergo a minimum of three single-blind peer reviews. Manuscripts must be in PDF format including figures and references, formatted according to the ACM Proceedings Style. The ACM template for LaTeX is shown below. Also, ACM has partnered with Overleaf and the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform is available.
LaTeX: https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip
Use a "sigconf" format option (Please refer to samples/sigconf.tex).
Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary-article-template/wbvnghjbzwpc
Use a "sigconf" format option.

Paper submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eehpcsop2027
Full paper: 8 content pages + 2 additional pages for references/appendix
Short paper: 4 content pages + 1 additional page for references/appendix

Instructions for Authors

At least one author of each accepted workshop paper must complete the author registration.
All participants must complete the registration and pay registration fee for HPC Asia 2027.
Travel information is available on the HPC Asia 2027 Website: https://hpcasia2027.org/2027/pages_information/venue.vm

Workshop Organizers

General Co-Chairs: Fumiyoshi Shoji (RIKEN) and Jim Rogers (ORNL)

Executive / Steering Co-Chairs: Michael Ott (LRZ) and Natalie Bates (EE HPC WG)

Program Co-Chairs: Ayesha Afzal (NHR@FAU) and Akihiro Nomura (Science Tokyo)

Web and Publicity Chair: Melissa Romanus (LBNL)

Logistics Chair: Ji-Hoon Kang (KISTI)

Contact

Email contact for further information: nbates@lbl.gov