PDP 2026 Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS)

Event Dates

Mar 27, 2026 - Mar 29, 2026

Location

Cluj-Napoca

Submission Deadline

Oct 31, 2025

(sorry for cross postings)

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

12th Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and

Simulation (HPCMS)

The 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and

Network-Based Computing

Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

25-27 March 2026

https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/

Deadline: October 31st, 2025

Contact: William Spataro – spataro@unical.it

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AIMS AND SCOPE

The development of models that allow computers to simulate the

evolution of artificial and natural systems is central to advancing

knowledge across scientific and engineering disciplines. In recent

decades, growing computational power has greatly expanded the scope of

such methodologies, enabling their application in research, industry,

and the quantitative study of complex systems. This progress has

fostered both the extensive use of numerical methods for solving

differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, PIC) and the

exploration of alternative paradigms such as Cellular Automata,

Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Swarm Intelligence. These

complementary approaches have proven particularly effective when

conventional simulation techniques are constrained by spatial or

temporal limitations, opening new possibilities for modelling complex

phenomena.

Now in its twelfth edition at PDP, the HPCMS Workshop aims to serve as

a platform for a multidisciplinary community of scholars, researchers,

developers, educators, practitioners, and experts from leading

universities, institutions, agencies, and companies in Computational

Science. Its mission is to foster the exchange of perspectives on

trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art advances in computational

problems and high-performance computing, with applications spanning

engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology,

sociology, traffic control, economics, and beyond.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

– High Performance Computing in computational science:

intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications

– Complex systems modelling and simulation

– Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm

Intelligence implementations

– Integrated approach to optimization and simulation

– MPI, OpenMP, Sycl and CUDA applications in Computational Science

– Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to

optimization in Computational Science

– High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g.,

biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and

humanities problems

– Performance models and their integration into the design of

efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms

– Hardware approaches (e.g., FPGAs, Neuromorphic computing, etc) of

high performance computing in modeling and simulation

– HPC Applications in Quantum Computing (e.g., Optimization and

Scheduling, Simulation, etc)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 31 October 2025

Acceptance notification: 10 December 2026

Camera ready due: 27 January 2026

Conference: 25 – 27 March 2026

Submission guidelines

Authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE

Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt) and

follow format guidelines found at

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

For submission, please refer to the Easychair submission system as

indicated in the Conference webpage, selecting the “High Performance

Computing in Modeling and Simulation (HPCMS) submission link

(https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/).

Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only

the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the

authors own work should appear as “omitted for blind review” entries.

Chairs

William Spataro – University of Calabria, Italy

Giuseppe A. Trunfio – University of Sassari, Italy

Rocco Rongo – University of Calabria, Italy

Andrea Giordano – ICAR-CNR, Italy

Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy

HPCMS Program Committee

Gladys Utrera, Universitat Polit cnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain

Donato D’Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy

Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Lou D Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA

Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy

Marisa Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy

Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK

Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy

Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy

Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy

Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy

Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy

Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK

Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy

Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy

Xavier Martorell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat

Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Davide Macri, ICAR-CNR, Italy