How can we understand increasingly complex systems, make better decisions, and push scientific simulations to entirely new scales? The answers increasingly lie at the intersection of HPC, simulation, AI, and advanced mathematical methods.
From September 14-17, 2026, the NHR Conference ’26 will bring together HPC users and the NHR centers in Paderborn. The conference provides a platform to present research projects, exchange ideas through contributed talks and poster sessions, and connect directly with the consulting and operations teams of the NHR centers.
The team from NHR4CES will be there to discuss all the news from the Lichtenberg HPC system and CLAIX, the HPC system in Aachen.
This year’s conference is organized in cooperation with the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) and focuses on the following three topics:
- HPC-Driven Decision Science: Optimization, Simulation, and AI for Economics and Management
- Advances in Atomistic Simulations
- Low and Mixed-Precision Computing for Simulation and AI
The NHR Conference ’26 is more than a platform for presenting research results. It is the place to be to connect disciplines, spark new collaborations, and bring researchers into direct dialogue with HPC experts and NHR centers. Whether through a contributed talk, a poster, or a conversation over coffee, the conference offers opportunities to share your work, discover new perspectives, and explore what becomes possible when scientific questions meet cutting-edge computing.
NHR Conference ’26
September 14-17, 2026 | Paderborn, Germany
Regular Price: 120 EUR, 240 EUR for industry representatives
Registration Deadline: September 04, 2026
Location: Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum | Fürstenallee 7 | 33102 Paderborn
Have a look at the contributions by NHR4CES
Starting strong: Vasileios Karanikolas, member of our SDL Materials Design, will present his work “Machine learning and Monte Carlo methods for understanding the thermodynamic properties of CIGS thin-film solar cell materials” on Monday, September 14, 2026 – 1.50 – 2.10 pm, lecture hall 1.
Our NHR graduate students are excited to tell you more about their work in NHR4CES at the poster session on Monday, September, 4:40 – 6:40 pm.
Jonas Kupschus – SDL Digital Patient – GPU-Accelerated Bayesian Longitudinal Item Response Theory
Hang Song – SDL Fluids – Extraction of moment closures for strongly non-equilibrium flows via machine learning
Christian Gutschka – SDL Materials Design – Coupling Ab Initio Calculations to PVD Synthesis of Thin Films – A Multi-Methodic Approach
Marvin Kaster – CSG Parallelism & Performance – Towards brain-scale simulation with structural plasticity: A GPU port of RELeARN
Vahid Badrkhani, member of our SDL Fluids, will give the talk “Assessing Opportunities for Mixed-Precision Computing in High-Order Navier–Stokes Simulations with BoSSS” on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 – 9:30 – 9.55 am, Lecture Hall 2.
NHR4CES members will also shape the networking part of the NHR conference: Marcel Nellesen, member of our CSG Data Engineering & AI, will cohost a BOF about RSE
Hesheng Bao from our SDL Energy Conversion will present the work on “GPU porting progress of CFD software codes” during the scientific xonsulting at the NHR Alliance-session on Thursday.
Benjamin Juhl, part of our infrastructure team in NHR4CES@TUDa, will cohost the internal working group “Export Control Regulations for HPC” on Thursday.
