<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Aptos;
panose-1:2 11 0 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#467886;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">\u2014 Apologies for multiple postings. Share this CFP with anyone you believe may be interested. \u2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">========================================================================</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">AHPC3 2026: The 3rd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Affiliated with the 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel,</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Distributed and Network-Based Processing ( PDP 2026 )</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">March 25-27, 2026, Cluj-Napoca, Romania</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Workshop site:
<a href="http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/">http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Conference site:
<a href="https://www.pdp2026.org/">https://www.pdp2026.org/</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Submission site:
<a href="http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/2026/#submission">http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/2026/#submission</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">========================================================================</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">IMPORTANT DATES</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">---------------</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- October 30, 2025: Submission of paper abstracts</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- November 11, 2025: Submission of short/regular papers</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- December 16, 2025: Notification to authors</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- January 20, 2026: Submission of camera-ready</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">OVERVIEW</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">--------</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">This workshop explores the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">modern cloud-edge architectures. With HPC demand expanding across many domains</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">and the boundaries between HPC and cloud blurring, the aim is to examine how</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">cloud and edge technologies - such as serverless computing, microservices and</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">load balancers - can be adapted to efficiently and scalably support HPC</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">applications. Key topics include lightweight virtualisation, dynamic execution</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">environments, advanced scheduling, orchestration, data management, fault</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">tolerance, security and monitoring. Special focus is given to sustainability</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">through green computing and intelligent resource management. Contributions on</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">hardware acceleration (FPGA/GPU), hybrid resource management and innovations in</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">continuous cloud-edge and hybrid HPC environments are welcome.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">TOPICS</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">------------------</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Adaptation of cloud-edge technologies and methodologies for HPC (e.g.,</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">serverless, microservices, task offloading)</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Cloud-edge computing architectures for HPC (e.g., resource federation )</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Lightweight virtualization tools and execution environments (e.g., WebAssembly, unikernels, and microVM)</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Orchestration, deployment techniques, algorithms, and scheduling for High-</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">performance workflows in Cloud-Edge environments</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Programming paradigms for High Performance Cloud-Edge computing</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Communication and Data management for Cloud-Edge computing</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Fault tolerance, reliability and security in the Cloud-Edge continuum</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Data-intensive workloads and tools</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Methodologies and tools for heterogeneous resource management</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Tools and techniques for monitoring HPC Cloud-Edge applications</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Sustainable and energy-efficient computing for HPC in the cloud-edge continuum</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Accelerated computing architectures for cloud-edge environments (e.g., GPU-</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> based execution, hardware accelerators for AI/ML)</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Data stream processing with FPGA/GPU in cloud-edge computing</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Federated resource-sharing mechanisms for hybrid HPC environments.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Federated learning in the Cloud/Edge Continuum</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Novel and efficient techniques and algorithms for Cloud/Edge orchestration</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- ML/AI based algorithms to support Cloud/Edge computing</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">SUBMISSION</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">--------------------------</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">LINK:
<a href="http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/2026/#submission">http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/2026/#submission</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Submissions must be original and not under consideration elsewhere.<br>
All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Papers (regular: max 8 pages, short: max 4 pages) must follow IEEE conference format.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">At least one author must register and present the paper.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">SPECIAL ISSUE</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">--------------------------</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Authors of outstanding research papers will be invited by the workshop chairs </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of a journal. </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Further details will be provided following the workshop.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">ORGANISERS (all from University of Pisa)</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">----------</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Luca Ferrucci -
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:luca.ferrucci@unipi.it"><span lang="IT">luca.ferrucci@unipi.it</span></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
(General Chair)</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Stefano Forti -
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:stefano.forti@unipi.it"><span lang="IT">stefano.forti@unipi.it</span></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
(General Chair)</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Valerio Besozzi -
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:valerio.besozzi@phd.unipi.it"><span lang="IT">valerio.besozzi@phd.unipi.it</span></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
(Program Chair)</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Jacopo Massa -
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:jacopo.massa@di.unipi.it"><span lang="IT">jacopo.massa@di.unipi.it</span></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
(Program Chair)</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">- Matteo Della Bartola -
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:matteo.dellabartola@di.unipi.it"><span lang="IT">matteo.dellabartola@di.unipi.it</span></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
(Web Chair)</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>