35th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
October 17-20, 2023 — Porto Alegre, Brazil
Call for Papers
The IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
(SBAC-PAD 2023) will take place from October 17th to 20th,
2023, in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference series, which presents the latest trends,
current research and developments, and novel tools and applications in the fields of Computer
Architecture, High-Performance Computing, and Parallel and Distributed Computing technologies. SBAC-PAD
is open to industry, faculty, researchers, practitioners, and undergraduate and graduate students from
around the world. Its scientific program is composed of high-quality submitted papers, selected by a
thorough peer review process, and invited talks from renowned researchers.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline
June 2nd, 2023
June 25th, 2023 AoE (FIRM)
Paper submission deadline
June 9th, 2023
June 25th, 2023 AoE (FIRM)
Rebuttal period
July 31st — August 2nd, 2023
Author notification
August 11th, 2023
Camera-ready submission
September 4th, 2023
The program committee will select the top-ranked papers as finalists, and one paper will be selected
during the conference as the Best Paper. Selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended
version to a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
Topics of Interest
Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts to one of five tracks that address challenges in any
of the following areas related to the fields of Computer Architecture (CA) and High-performance and
Distributed Computing (HPDC). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Application-specific systems;
Architecture and programming support for emerging domains: Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine
learning, Cognitive Systems;
Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for CA and HPDC, and CA and HPDC for Artificial
intelligence applications;
Benchmarking, performance modeling, analysis, and evaluation;
Blockchain and distributed ledgers;
Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems;
Data-intensive workloads and tools;
Data management, storage, and I/O;
Embedded and pervasive systems;
GPUs, FPGAs, and accelerator architectures;
Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming;
Modeling and simulation methodologies;
Operating systems and virtualization;
Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, models, and applications;
Power and energy-efficient systems;
Predictive models to improve performance of scientific applications
Processing-in-memory or near-data processing technologies
Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture;
Quantum computing in CA and HPDC;
Real-world applications and case studies;
Reconfigurable, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems;
Security and privacy in CA and HPDC;
Workflow systems.
Paper submission
Papers submitted to SBAC-PAD 2023 must present original research results and must not have been published
or concurrently be submitted anywhere else. Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using
the submission link:
Paper submissions must be in English, have 10 pages maximum (excluding the references), and follow the
IEEE conference manuscript formatting guidelines for double-column text using a single-spaced 10-point
font on 8.5 × 11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Papers that do not meet these requirements might be rejected without a review. To be published in the
conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, one of the authors must
register at the full rate and present his/her work at the conference.
The SBAC-PAD 2023 submissions will undergo a double-anonymized review process, where reviewers
will not know the authors' identities, and vice-versa. Therefore, authors should “anonymize” their
submission by adopting the following guidelines, otherwise papers will be rejected without review:
The authors cannot include their names, affiliations, funding sources, or acknowledgments in any
part of the for-review version of their paper;
Self-references that are relevant to the work are allowed, but they should not appear in the text in
the first person. Instead, they should be referenced in the third person, like “Smith et al. found
that… [4].”, and;
For the authors' own unpublished work, they need to use anonymous citations.
Conference Organisation
General Chairs
Tiago Ferreto (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Dalvan Griebler (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul/SETREM, Brazil)
Cesar A. F. De Rose (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Vinod Rebello (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Track Chairs
Computer Architecture: Krishna Kavi (University of North Texas, USA)
Distributed Systems, Networking, and Storage: Fabíola Greve (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
Parallel Applications and Algorithms: Bertil Schmidt (University of Mainz, Germany)
Performance Evaluation: Rafael Ferreira da Silva (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
System Software: Josef Spillner (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Program Committee Members
Computer Architecture
Chair: Krishna Kavi (University of North Texas, USA)
Joseph Arul (Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong)
