IPDRM 2025

Seventh Annual Workshop on Emerging Parallel and Distributed Runtime Systems and Middleware

America’s Center Convention Complex, Room 261

Friday, November 21, 2025

St.Louis, Missouri, USA.

Held in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, (SC 25), November 16-21, 2025, St. Lousi, Missouri, USA.

Overview

The dawn of the exascale era has ushered in unprecedented complexity in high-performance computing (HPC) systems, characterized by extreme parallelism spread across heterogeneous architectures with intricate memory hierarchies. In this landscape, runtime systems and middleware are essential, playing a crucial role in managing these complexities by dynamically managing resources, orchestrating data movement, and facilitating computation, thereby enabling programmers to harness the full potential of these intricate architectures.

This year, IPDRM will emphasize the system software that bridges classical node architectures with increasingly prevalent non-traditional computing paradigms. The heterogeneous hardware landscape is expanding to include post-Moore's Law compute technologies such as quantum, neuromorphic, and analog computing. This workshop seeks contributions that explore novel approaches to middleware and runtime systems that can effectively integrate and manage these diverse computing resources.

The IPDRM workshop builds on a strong tradition of promoting discussions about advanced runtime and middleware technologies. We aim to attract a diverse group of international researchers. We invite you to share your innovative ideas and solutions that tackle the evolving challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating future runtime systems and middleware.

Topics

This workshop will emphasize novel, disruptive research ideas over incremental advances. We will solicit papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Runtime System/Middleware Techniques, Design, and Evaluation

• System software for post-Moore’s law (e.g., Quantum, neuromorphic, or analog computing)
• Runtime/middleware for large-scale computing, accelerators, or appliances
• Network and IO middleware technology
• Modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems
• Runtime-architecture co-design

Constraints and Issues for Runtime Systems and Middleware

• Heterogeneous resource management
• Data movement
• Memory models

Design Principles and Programming Support

• High-level programming models (e.g., thread and task based models, data parallel models, and stream programming) and domain-specific languages
• Programming frameworks, parallel programming, and design methodologies
• Methodologies and tools for runtime and middleware design, implementation , verification, and evaluation

Submissions

• Paper Submission: August 15, 2025
• Paper Notification: September 8, 2025
• Final Paper Due: September 22, 2025

Submission Guidelines

Full submission will be up to 8 pages long using the same format as the SC25 conference (i.e. using the ACM conference template). This limit includes all materials (figures, bibliography, appendixes, etc). All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process and each will have at least three reviews by members of the program committee. Papers will be accepted based on their technical contributions. “Crazy and Wild ideas” are welcome. Accepted papers will have quick lighting presentations on the workshop day to spark conversation and discussion. Papers can be submitted at SC Submission site

Organizing Committees

General Chairs

• Barbara Chapman, HPE, USA
• Shirley Moore, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
• Eunjung Park, Qualcomm, USA
• Joshua Suetterlein, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Program Chair

• Oceane Bel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chair

• Joseph B. Manzano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Program Committee

• Kevin J. Barker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Mehmet Belviranli, Colorado School of Mines
• Ivy Peng, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Bin Ren, William and Mary
• Shubbhi Taneja, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Zhijia Zhao, University of California Riverside
• Stephane Zuckerman, ETIS Laboratory, CY Cergy Paris University

Distinguished Speaker

Catherine (Katie) Schuman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee (UT)

Bio

Catherine (Katie) Schuman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee (UT). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT in 2015, where she completed her dissertation on the use of evolutionary algorithms to train spiking neural networks for neuromorphic systems. Katie previously served as a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where her research focused on algorithms and applications of neuromorphic systems. Katie co-leads the TENNLab Neuromorphic Computing Research Group at UT. She has over 100 publications as well as seven patents in the field of neuromorphic computing. She received the Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2019.

Title

A Software Framework for Neuromorphic Computing

Program

Time	Paper / Session Title	Authors
08:30-08:35	Welcome	Shirley Moore (University of Texas El Paso)
08:35-09:30	Distinguished Speaker: A Software Framework for Neuromorphic Computing	Catherine (Katie), Schuman Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee
09:30-10:00	Invited Speaker: ChempComp: A Compilation Framework for Computing with Chemical Reaction Network	Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Technical Paper: MPI Commuictaion Performance on AMD MI300A: Microbenchmarks and Applications	Kuncham, Zhang, Mohammad, Chen, Panda
11:00-11:30	Technical Paper: Error Analysis of Globally Distributed Workflow Management System	Dutta, Kilic, Korchuganova, Nilsson, Klimentov, Hoisie, Park, Ren, Vatsaval, Hsu, Chowdhury, Khan
11:30-12:00	SmartNIC Data Exchange Framework	Savoie, Sicoie, Grant
12:00-12:02	Closing	Shirley Moore (University of Texas El Paso)