Under the motto “HPC unites,” this year’s SuperComputing Conference (SC26) will bring together leading experts from academia, industry, and politics in Chicago, Illinois (USA), from November 15 to 20, 2026.
As one of the world’s most important events in High Performance Computing (HPC), SC26 provides a platform for discussing the latest trends, innovations, and challenges in HPC and artificial intelligence (AI). Alongside keynote presentations and technical sessions, the conference offers a diverse program of workshops, tutorials, and networking opportunities.
Experts from NHR4CES will be part of this major international HPC event:
Workshop
Title: Saving Energy Costs and Time on Supercomputers: Scheduler-Integrated Recurring Node Shutdown Exploiting Malleable Jobs
Presenters: Paul Schäfer, Anna-Lena Roth, Peter Arzt, Felix Krull, Sebastian Krenz, Felix Wolf, Jonas Posner
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2026, 4:28pm to 4:40pm (CST)
Location: W176a
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Workshop Organization
Title: 8th Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools)
Organizers: David Boehme, Ahmad Tarraf, Thomas Gruber
Date: Monday, November 16, 2026, 9:00am to 5:30pm (CST)
Location: W179b
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Workshop
Title: Who You Gonna CALL? Static Whole-Program Call Graphs for Fortran
Presenters: Marek Rouven Beckmann, Peter Arzt, Tim Heldmann, Felix Wolf
Date: Monday, November 16, 2026, 2:30pm to 2:37pm (CST)
Location: W178a
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Workshop
Title: Fantastic Hardware Counters and How to Use Them for Noise-Resilient Performance Modeling
Presenters: Alexander Geiß, Ahmad Tarraf, Felix Wolf
Date: Monday, November 16, 2026, 3:54pm to 4:18pm (CST)
Location: W179b
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Poster
Title: DPGraph: Code Optimization with Dynamic Program Graphs Using Heterogeneous GNNs
Presenters: Quazi Ishtiaque Mahmud, Lukas Rothenberger, Le Chen, Felix Wolf, Ali Jannesari
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 10:00am to 5:00pm (CST)
Location: Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function
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Tutorial
Title: Mastering OpenMP Tasking: from Start to Free-agent Tasks
Presenters: Michael Klemm, Stephen L. Olivier, Bronis R. de Supinski, Christian Terboven
Date: Monday, November 16, 2026, 8:30am to 5pm (CST)
Location: W192b
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Workshop
Title: A Tool Infrastructure for Runtime Correctness Checking of Device-Initiated Multi-GPU Communication
Presenters: Semih Burak, Matthias Müller, Felix Tomski
Date: Monday, November 16, 2026, 9:35am to 9:50am (CST)
Location: W178b
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Workshop
Title: A Unified Semantic Interface Specification for Parallel Programming Tools
Presenters: Semih Burak, Joachim Jenke, William Moses, Matthias Müller, Felix Tomski
Date: Monday, November 16, 2026, 4:42pm to 5:06pm (CST)
Location: W179b
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Birds-of-a-Feather Presentation
Title: The Impact of GenAI on HPC Programming and Programming Models
Presenters: Rosa Badia, Bradford Chamberlain, Michael Garland, Martin Schulz, Chris Siefert, Christian Terboven
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 12:15pm to 1:15pm (CST)
Location: W183c
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