How to participate
The HiPEAC Student Challenge is an opportunity to test your programming skills, tackle real-life problems and learn research methodologies. Participating students based in Europe will be able to attend the 2025 HiPEAC conference (20-22 January 2025, Barcelona) for free and are also entitlted to funding to cover their travel and accommodation costs (up to €1,000 per team).
There are two different ways to take part in the challenge:
Option A
Present a project that improves a situation (transportation, work, study, environmental, etc.), facilitates a task (search, movement of material, storage, ordering, organization, etc.), or addresses another scenario where something could be improved. Examples include:- An internet-based solution to promote socializing by older people.
- Making agricultural irrigation systems more water efficient.
- System alarms to share information among neighbours.
- Increasing the speed of updating data over the network.
- Energy saving in backups performed in large companies (such as banks).
Once you’ve settled on a problem, your team will work on a specific solution to the problem: either:
- developing a new solution, if existing solutions aren’t suitable from your point of view; or
- basing your solution on one which already exists and trying to improve it, update it, identify a cool app for users…
You will need to explain how the data involved is managed: whether a lot of data is needed at a given time or for a specific period, whether the data will be distributed over different locations, whether the data is in different formats, and so on. There’s no need to deliver a full implementation, but you will need to set out the goals to achieve, along with a framework with the main parts which need to be to be implemented (it would be good to have a chosen platform, maybe a specific architecture, or anything else you clearly envision in your “product”).
Option B
Choose a published scientific paper from the following list and try to reproduce the code on a different platform.Select a paper (with code) accepted for the HiPEAC conference, either the 2025 edition or previous years – the organizers can help you select a suitable paper. Work to build/run and produce the results of the paper, either using your local computing resources or remote resources if needed. Optional: Improve or optimize the proposed solution in the paper.
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Important dates
- 10 September: Email the organizers to register your interest in attending. Send the names of your team members, your institution name, and the name of your advisor. Note: only students can be team members.
- 30 November: Send your title and report (4-6 pages, in the form of an IEEE-style paper), explaining your goals, methodology, how you overcame obstacles and why you think your solution works (or works better than others). Based on these reports, we will select the five best performing teams to present their work.
- 21 January: Prepare a presentation of your work and present it at the Student Challenge at the HiPEAC conference. You are also welcome to bring a poster so that attendees can visualize your work better.
Questions? Ask the organizers:
Isil Oz (İzmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)
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Raffaella Folgieri (University of Milan)
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Georgios Goumas (ICCS/NTUA, Greece)
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Chris Fensch (Arm Norway)
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Marisa Gil (UPC/BSC, Spain)
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