Call for Papers
The workshop name
Castanets are a percussion musical instrument that consists of two small round pieces of wood that you hold in the hand and hit together with the fingers to make a noise. In this workshop, the two shells represent AI and HPC interacting between them.
The CASTANET workshop focuses on the mutual interaction between High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering advances, best practices, and energy sustainability in these fields. The workshop brings together researchers to explore topics like energy-aware AI and HPC models, sustainable architectures, and resource optimization.
Topics of Interest:
- AI-driven optimization of HPC resources
- HPC algorithms and software tools for AI and ML
- Mathematical methods for reducing dataset dimension
- Mixed-precision algorithms for AI and HPC
- Sustainable Machine Learning architectures
- AI for Energy Management
- HPC for big data analytics and visualization
- Performance and energy consumption trade-off
- Sustainable AI model training techniques
- Decentralized AI systems
- Intelligent resource allocation in sustainable computing
- Ethical considerations in AI and HPC energy consumption
- Energy-aware neural network design
- Interaction of AI and HPC in the Computing Continuum
- AI for climate change mitigation
Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: February 24th (EXTENDED), 2025
- Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2025
- Camera-ready deadline: March 14th, 2025
Submission Guidelines:
- Paper submission will follow the main conference rules.
- Papers must not exceed 10 pages, IEEE format, double-blind review.
- Submissions should be original and not under review elsewhere.
- Accepted papers will be published through IEEE Press.
Organizers
Salvatore Cuomo
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Fabio Giampaolo
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Marco Lapegna
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Francesco Piccialli
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Event Venue
CASTANET is co-located with the main conference IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing.
Please refere to the conference webpage CCGrid 2025 for venue information and registration
Program Committee
- Valeria Mele – University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
- David Camacho – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Jesus Carretero – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
- Diletta Chiaro – University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
- Jerry Chun-Wei Lin – Silesian University of Technology (Poland)
- Horacio González-Vélez – National College of Ireland (Ireland)
- Raffaele Montella – University of Naples Pathenope (Italy)
- Edoardo Prezioso – University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
- Giuliano Laccetti – University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
- Diego Romano – Italian National Research Council (Italy)
- Roman Wyrzykowski – Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland)
- Jiechen Zhao - University of Toronto (Canada)
Program
| Monday 19th May | ||
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| CAS1 (09:00–10:30) — Chairman: Marco Lapegna | ||
| 09:00 |
Keynote (40 min): DAGonStar, a computational workflow engine designed for HPC and AI environmental modeling orchestration Raffaele Montella (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy) |
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| 09:40 |
Paper 1 (20 min): DiasDNN-VD: Divide-and-conquer Model for Asynchronous Training of Large-Scale DNNs using Variational Dropouts Sonali C. S., Ruchil Prajapati, Giri Prasad, Sathish Vadhiyar (Indian Institute of Science, India) |
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| 10:00 |
Paper 2 (20 min): Leveraging High-Performance Computing for Generating Large-Scale Synthetic Datasets of Focal Mechanisms in Seismic Networks Daniela Annunziata, Edoardo Prezioso, Stefano Izzo, Marzia Canzaniello, Martina Savoia, Sara Amitrano, Pian Qi, Fabio Giampaolo, Francesco Piccialli (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) |
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| CAS2 (11:00–12:30) — Chairman: Francesco Piccialli | ||
| 11:00 |
Paper 3 (20 min): Guidelines for the Quality Assessment of Energy-Aware NAS Benchmarks Nick Kocher, Christian Wassermann, Leona Hennig, Jonas Seng, Holger Hoos, Kristian Kersting, Marius Lindauer, Matthias Müller (RWTH Aachen University and Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) |
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| 11:20 |
Paper 4 (20 min): Hierarchical Matrices in Graph Convolutional Deep Neural Network context: performance evaluation in a case study Valeria Mele, Luisa Carracciuolo (University of Naples Federico II and National Research Council, Italy) |
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| 11:40 |
Paper 5 (20 min): Enabling IoT Rejuvenation Through Machine Learning on Cloud/Edge Continuum: a Study to Fight the Proximity Sensor Ageing Installed in Intelligent Street Pole Lamps Antonio Celesti, Giovanni Lonia, Antonino Quattrocchi, Roberto Montanini, Massimo Villari, Maria Fazio (University of Messina, Italy) |
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| 12:00 |
Paper 6 (20 min): The prediction of bacteria contamination in farmed mussels at scale: HPC and AI join the forces Ciro Giuseppe De Vita, Gennaro Mellone, Francisco Javier Garcia Blas (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy) |
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