- The twentieth edition of the HiPEAC conference will take place in Barcelona on 20-22 January 2025. On Thursday 23 January, a special event will celebrate 20 years of HiPEAC.
- A record 740 delegates have registered for the conference, which is Europe’s premier computingsystems networking event, with three keynote talks, 41 workshops and six tutorials in addition to the main paper track.
- The HiPEAC Vision 2025 will be presented at the conference, outlining HiPEAC’s vision for the next 10 years of computing research.
- With sponsorship reaching new heights, the industry exhibition and related activities will showcase the increasingly dynamic European computing ecosystem.
- This year, student activities will welcome a further 75 people to the event: the HiPEAC STEM Student Day, with over 50 students registered, and RISC-V hackathon, with 25 participants.
Ghent, Belgium, 15 January 2025 – Taking place on 20-22 January, the twentieth HiPEAC conference will welcome a record number of participants to Barcelona. Covering the full spectrum of computing from edge to cloud to high-performance computing, the conference will provide a snapshot of the state of the art in computer architecture, compilation, systems engineering and more. In addition, an event on Thursday, 23 January will provide an opportunity to reflect on how technology – and the European computing systems community – have evolved over the last 20 years.
‘As co-founder and first coordinator of HiPEAC, it is an absolute pleasure to welcome HiPEAC 2025 delegates to Barcelona,’ comments Mateo Valero, director of Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación. ‘We have come a long way in European embedded and high-performance computing since HiPEAC was founded in 2004. Now, at the twentieth edition of the conference, it is time to embark on new challenges to revitalize the European technology sector.
‘Twenty years ago, HiPEAC started with a small group determined to supercharge computing in Europe,’ adds HiPEAC Coordinator Koen De Bosschere (Ghent University). ‘Today, with the HiPEAC community numbering 2,500 and a record number of registrations for the conference, we are delighted to bring together the key players in the computing ecosystem, from industry and academia, and from Europe and beyond.’
The conference begins on Monday, 20 January with a keynote talk by Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University) exploring how computing systems and architecture research can help us confront upcoming challenges. On Tuesday, Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL) will discuss how we can leverage design automation tools to analyse and synthesize new generations of computing machines. Lastly, Emre Ozer’s keynote talk on Wednesday, 22 January will discuss the Pragmatic Semiconductor FlexIC technology behind the concept of ‘bendable computing’.
A major highlight of this year’s event will be the presentation of the HiPEAC Vision, which, in the wake of a series of reports on European competitiveness, provides clear-sighted analysis of Europe’s current position in technology and sketches a bold plan for computing research over the next 10 years. This session is one of the 41 workshops which, along with six tutorials, are the mainstay of the HiPEAC conference programme. All of the topics covered by the HiPEAC Vision will be explored in depth at the conference, from artificial intelligence (AI) on computers large and small (see for example the CODAI, Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing, Charting the Future of Edge AI, and AccML workshops) to the computing continuum (as in the Edge-cloud Cognitive Architectures and Resources Orchestration, Advancing the compute continuum, and CompContinuum workshops, for example). There will also be the chance to reflect on one year of the DISCOVER-US project for EU-US collaborative research in distributed computing and swarm intelligence, including the presentation of the project’s first white paper.
This year, the conference’s students activities are bigger and better than ever. On Monday, 20 January, the conference will host a RISC-V hackathon, supported by Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and Openchip, offering a hands-on opportunity to dive into problem-solving using RISC-V based solutions, get access to great tools, and learn first-hand from experts. On Tuesday, 21 January, the new-look STEM Student Day offers an engaging programme of activities designed to maximize student-industry networking and help students decide their future career paths.
Following the main conference, on 23 January, a special session will take place at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC) to celebrate 20 years of HiPEAC, featuring talks by Mateo Valero, Max Lemke (European Commission), Paolo Faraboschi (HPE), and members of the HiPEAC community.
Once again, the conference has broken sponsorship records and will welcome returning sponsors along with new exhibitors. Gold sponsors this year are AMD, Arm, Do IT Now, Google, Huawei, Semidynamics and SERICs. The full list of sponsors may be found on the HiPEAC website.
View the programme on the HiPEAC25 website – note that you can filter sessions by topic: https://bit.ly/HiPEAC25_programme
Social media hashtag: #HiPEAC25
For further information, contact: Madeleine Gray at communication@hipeac.net.
About HiPEAC
Supported by the European Commission, HiPEAC (High Performance, Edge And Cloud computing) is the premier focal point for networking, dissemination and training activities in Europe for researchers, industry, and policy related to computing systems. First established in 2004, the project is now in its seventh edition. Today, its network, the biggest of its kind in Europe, numbers around 2,500 specialists.
The latest edition of the project, HiPEAC7, began on 1 December, steered by a consortium of 11 partners led by Ghent University. It focuses on networking and roadmapping activities: bringing the computing community together in Europe, exchanging ideas, building thriving European value chains and exploring the long-term vision for computing systems in coordination with other major stakeholders.
HiPEAC’s events have gained a reputation for offering superlative networking opportunities between academic and industry participants. The HiPEAC conference, the community’s flagship networking event, attracts over 600 attendees on an annual basis. The 2025 edition, which takes place at the Palau de Congressos de Barcelona, is generously supported by the following organizations and projects: the European Commission, AMD, Arm, Do IT Now, Google, Huawei, Semidynamics, SERICS, RedPitaya, ASML, Axelera AI, E4, Eclipse Foundation, EGI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, KRAI, Maxeler, Semron, UKRI, ZeroPoint Technologies, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, dAIEDGE, Embedded Computing Specialists, the European Processor Initiative, MonetDB, Springer, TASKING, and Thales.
The HiPEAC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation funding programme under grant agreement number 101069836. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
