The HPEC charter is to be the premier conference in the world on the confluence of HPC and Embedded Computing.

The High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) technical committee announces the Seventeenth Annual HPEC conference to be held 24–26 September 2013 at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts. The technical committee seeks new presentations that clearly describe advances in high performance extreme computing technologies, emphasizing one or more of the following topics:
• Advanced Multicore Software Technologies
•Automated Design Tools
•Mapping and Scheduling of Parallel and Real-Time Applications
•Case Studies and Benchmarking of Applications
•Computing Technologies for Challenging Form Factors
•ASIC and FPGA Advances
•Open System Architectures
•Networking Interconnects and Distributed Computing
•Fault-Tolerant Computing
•Embedded Cloud Computing
•Digital Front Ends
•General Purpose GPU Computing
•Advanced Processor Architectures
•Data Intensive Computing
•New Application Frontiers
•Anti-Tamper Technologies

All submissions will be competitively reviewed and judged on their technical merit, novelty, and relevance to the technical program. Preference will be given to papers with strong, quantitative results. The conference will have both oral sessions as well as poster presentations. Presenters with significant hardware demonstrations are encouraged to apply to the poster sessions.

Special Topics:
•Computer Architectures (organizers: Prof. Martin Herbordt, BU and Dr. Michael Vai, MIT-LL)
•Data Intensive Computing (organizers: Dr. Chris Hill, MIT-EAPS and Dr. Albert Reuther, MIT-LL)
•Power Efficient Embedded Computing
•Security
•HPC (Power Efficient & Green)
•Databases
•Mobile/Cloud Convergence

Vendor Demo Night:
Vendors are encouraged to sign up for the Vendor Demo Night. This will allow vendors to present their HPEC technologies in an interactive atmosphere suitable for product demonstration and promotion