3rd International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC 2025)

– August 25, 2025 –

Colocated with the 31st International
European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2025), in Dresden, Germany.

Program

The “Compute Continuum” paradigm is transforming how we manage the heterogeneity and dynamism of widespread computing resources. By seamlessly integrating resources across the edge, fog, and cloud, this paradigm enhances data locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy efficiency, and other non-functional properties. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and segregation in tiers, allowing applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a continuum of resources spanning from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal scaling patterns, the Compute Continuum also introduces fine-grained adaptation actions tailored to specific infrastructure components (e.g., optimizing energy consumption or leveraging specialized hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs). These capabilities unlock significant benefits, including support for latency-sensitive applications, reduction of network bandwidth consumption, improved privacy protection, and enable the development of novel services across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by application developers without having to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed. To fully harness the potential of the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and infrastructure-aware management is essential. This calls for novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit optimization theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods.

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Important dates

Submission deadline: ~~May 5, 2025~~ May 21, 2025 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2025
Camera-ready deadline: July 7, 2025
Workshop dates: August 25, 2025

August 25, 2025

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Keynote: “Breaking Boundaries: Converging HPC and Cloud for the Next Era of Scalable Computing”, Ivy Peng (KTH, Sweden)

Abstract: High-Performance Computing (HPC) has entered the Exascale era, a milestone marking the pinnacle of computational capability. As we look beyond, new challenges emerge: improving resource utilization, integrating disruptive technologies such as quantum computing, and meeting the diverse demands of complex workflows and machine learning applications. These trends expose the limitations of traditional static models in HPC and highlight the need for more adaptive and flexible computing paradigms. This talk will present an updated perspective on the convergence of HPC and Cloud computing, drawing on state-of-the-art solutions and real-world case studies. We will assess its feasibility as a path forward in the next Era, where breaking the boundaries between HPC and Cloud can deliver the best of both worlds: greater resource efficiency, dynamic adaptivity, and timely access to emerging computing hardware. Realizing this vision, however, requires addressing barriers, including virtualization overheads, performance variability, scheduling complexity, resilience, and application adaptation. As the last part of the talk, we will highlight ongoing efforts from system, middleware, and application levels to tackle these challenges.