
Announcements:
- Welcome to HiCOMB 2025 in Milan!
- HiCOMB 2025 Advance Program with two Keynote Presentations.
- The Call for Papers has been posted below.
- Online HiCOMB Proceedings (covering all past editions)
Conference Venue
The IPDPS conference will be held at Politecnico di Milano – located at Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan 20133 – where we will be meeting in state-of-the-art facilities and enjoying all the resources of a modern university. The conference starts on Tuesday, June 3rd, and continues through Saturday, June 7th. Workshops and Tutorials will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Building 3, and the main conference events will be held on the last three days in "Trifoglio" (250m away). The HiCOMB 2025 Workshop takes place on Wednesday, June 4th, starting at 11 am.Keynote Speakers

Professor Srinivas Aluru
Department of Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD
Bio: Srinivas Aluru is a Regents’ Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2016 to 2024, he served as the Executive Director of the campus-wide Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Data Engineering and Science. His academic home is with the School of Computational Science and Engineering, where he held the position of Interim Chair from June 2019 to August 2020. His research areas include high-performance computing, parallel algorithms, data science, bioinformatics, systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing, and applied algorithms. He has made pioneering contributions to the field of parallel computational biology, spanning both fundamental algorithms and compelling applications, including the assembly and analysis of genomes, next-generation sequencing data analysis, inference and analysis of genome-scale networks, and the emerging fields of pangenomics and single-cell biology. Additionally, he served as chair of ACM SIGBio (2015-2021) and editor-in-chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2021-2024). Aluru is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER award, IBM faculty award, Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Government of India, and the John. V. Atanasoff Discovery Award from Iowa State University. At Georgia Tech, he received the Outstanding Senior Faculty Research and Leadership awards in the College of Computing, the Dean’s Award for faculty excellence, and the Outstanding Research Program Development Award at the institute level. He has also been honoured with the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service and Golden Core awards, is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, and is the 2025 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award.

Professor Marco Aldinucci
Department of Computer Science
University of Torino, Italy
Title: Streaming Workflows: From Scientific Applications to AI and Back
Abstract: Within the Italian National Center in HPC and Quantum Computing (ISCS), the University of Turin and Pisa have co-developed two cloud-HPC development tools. The first is StreamFlow, an implementation of the open standard CWL (Common Workflow Language) that makes it possible to design scientific workflows (aka pipelines) that can be seamlessly ported to different platforms. StreamFlow fosters declarative workflows that can be executed on HPC platforms (e.g., based on SLURM), cloud platforms (e.g., based on K8S, AWS), and hybrid platforms without code modification. The second tool is CAPIO (Cross-Application Programmable I/O), which transforms files exchanged between parallel applications into streams, introducing further parallelism and helping to avoid the I/O bottleneck. StreamFlow+CAPIO has many applications, from genomics pipelines to astrophysics and materials science workflows to AI for science pipelines.
Bio: Marco Aldinucci is a full professor and the head of the Parallel Computing research group at the University of Torino. He has authored over 200 scientific articles and has received several prestigious awards. These include the HPC Advisory Council University Award in 2011, the NVidia Research Award in 2013, the IBM Faculty Award in 2015, and the Autodesk Award in 2021. He served as the Italian delegate on the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking from 2018 to 2021, and he is currently a member of its Research and Innovation Advisory Board (RIAG). Marco has participated in over 20 EU-funded research projects that have focused on parallel, cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC), securing more than €15 million in research funds for the University of Torino. He has co-designed and contributed to several programming frameworks and libraries for parallel computing, such as Fastflow, Streamflow, and CAPIO. In 2017, Marco led the design of the HPC4AI laboratory, and in 2020, he became the founding director of the CINI HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory, which brings together researchers from 38 Italian universities. This experience was further applied to FutureHPC, the technological spoke of the Italian National Centre on HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing, where he initiated the Software & Integration national laboratory in 2023.