SC26 event calendar

Lawrence Livermore heads to the 38th annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC26), which will be held November 15–20. Follow Computing at LLNL on LinkedIn and @Livermore_Comp on X with the hashtags #LLNLatSC and #SC26.

All times are listed in Central Standard Time. Please see the Digital Experience page for information about which sessions will be available virtually. (BoF indicates Birds of a Feather.)

Sunday, Nov. 15

Start time CST	Session type	Event title (linked to description)	LLNL participants
8:30am	Tutorial	Compression for AI and Scientific Data	Peter Lindstrom
8:30am	Tutorial	Flux: Workload Management for HPC and AI/ML Simulation in Cloud	Vanessa Sochat, Daniel Milroy, Tom Scogland, William Hobbs
9:00am	Workshop	2026 International Workshop on Performance, Portability, and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC)	Kenneth Weiss
9:00am	Workshop	HUST-26: 13th International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools	Elsa Gonsiorowski
9:05am	Workshop	From Vision to Impact: Lessons in National-Scale Collaboration and Research Impact from the Exascale Era	Lori Diachin (featured speaker)
9:50am	Workshop	Descriptive Execution of HPC Applications and Workflows	Vanessa Sochat, Daniel Milroy
10:30am	Workshop	Bridging Reasoning and Verification: A Generative AI Approach to Chemistry	Tal Ben-Nun, Bhavya Kailkhura, Brian Van Essen
10:30am	Workshop	Examining QRMI as a Unified Interface for Quantum-HPC Integration	Vanessa Sochat, Daniel Milroy
11:20am	Workshop	LLMs as Packagers of HPC Software	Caetano Melone, Daniel Nichols, Todd Gamblin, Harshitha Menon
12:06pm	Workshop	A Multi-Layer Workflow for Diagnosing Performance Portability in RAJA Applications	Stephanie Brink, Olga Pearce
1:30pm	Tutorial	Reproducible Benchmarking for High-Performance Computing Applications	Olga Pearce, Greg Becker, Michael McKinsey, Nathan Hanford
2:00pm	Workshop	17th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems (ScalAH'26)	Erik Draeger
2:00pm	Workshop	AI4S: 8th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Applications	Brian Van Essen (invited speaker)
2:00pm	Workshop	EESP 2026: 3rd International Workshop on Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance: Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices	Bronis de Supinski
2:00pm	Workshop	ISAV26: In Situ AI, Analysis and Visualization	Nicole Marsaglia
3:30pm	Workshop	MailRail: Mitigating Incast Congestion with User-Space, Node-Based Flow Control	Trevor Steil, Roger Pearce
3:30pm	Workshop	sundials4py: State-of-the-Art Time Integrators for High-Performance Python	Cody Balos, David Gardner, Steven Roberts, Carol Woodward
4:00pm	Community	First-Timers Orientation	Edgar León
4:15pm	Workshop	HPC-CARLA: Closed-Loop Evaluation of Autonomous Driving Agents as a Resilient, Schedulable HPC Workload	Jae-Seung Yeom

Monday, Nov. 16

Start time CST	Session type	Event title (linked to description)	LLNL participants
8:30am	Tutorial	Managing HPC Software Complexity with Spack	Greg Becker, Kathleen Shea, Caetano Melone, Alec Scott, Todd Gamblin
8:30am	Tutorial	Mastering OpenMP Tasking: from Start to Free-agent Tasks	Bronis de Supinski
8:30am	Tutorial	Rigorous Evaluation of LLM Components in HPC Research	Daniel Nichols, Harshitha Menon
9:00am	Workshop	10th International Workshop on Software Correctness for HPC Applications (Correctness ‘26)	Ignacio Laguna
9:00am	Workshop	8th Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools)	David Boehme
10:30am	Workshop	Agentic Orchestration of HPC Applications in Cloud	Vanessa Sochat, Daniel Milroy
10:30am	Early Career	Effective Communication	Kristi Belcher
10:30am	Workshop	Orion: Observability Framework for Hybrid Workflow-centric I/O monitoring in HPC systems	Hariharan Devarajan, Aniruddha Marathe, Nikoli Dryden
10:30am	Workshop	Tighter Error Bounds Using Structural Floating-Point Properties and Tail Bounds	Mohit Tekriwal, Ignacio Laguna
10:54am	Workshop	DataCrumbs: Efficient Cross-Layer Data Capture for Explainable I/O Performance in HPC Storage Stacks	Vanessa Sochat, Thomas Scogland, Daniel Milroy
11:42am	Workshop	PInsight: Enabling In-Situ Performance Analysis for Parallel Applications	Chunhua Liao
12:06pm	Workshop	A Heuristic Based Cache Miss Classifier	Bronis de Supinski
1:30pm	Tutorial	Navigating Mixed-Precision: Tools and Techniques for Floating-Point Error Profiling	Ignacio Laguna
2:00pm	Workshop	ExaMPI26: Workshop on Extreme Scale MPI	Nikoli Dryden
2:00pm	Workshop	Sharing a Fabric with Collective Communication: Two Storage Penalties in DL Training	Hyojin Kim, Jae-Seung Yeom
2:00pm	Workshop	Software for Large Scale Application	Vanessa Sochat
3:30pm	Early Career	Career Pathways	Kristi Belcher (moderator)
3:30pm	Workshop	Deriving Vendor-Agnostic GPU Metrics from AMD MI300A and NVIDIA H100 Hardware Counters	Michael McKinsey, David Boehme, Stephanie Brink, Olga Pearce
4:30pm	Workshop	Evaluating OpenMP API Version 6.1 Target Kernel Language	Kevin Sala
4:55pm	Workshop	DPUCrumbs: Dissecting DPU Pathways	Nikoli Dryden, Hariharan Devarajan
5:00pm	Workshop	Instrumentor: Customizable and Generic Instrumentation for LLVM	Kevin Sala

Tuesday, Nov. 17

Start time CST	Session type	Event title (linked to description)	LLNL participants
10:00am	Poster	Communication Strategies for Wafer-Scale Iterative Solvers	Nathan Hanford, Edgar León
10:00am	Poster	Extending I/O Observability to Explainability for Targeted Optimization	Nikoli Dryden, Hariharan Devarajan
10:00am	Poster	FBench: A Flexible Benchmark for CFG-Based What-If Exploration of HPC I/O Patterns	Kathryn Mohror
10:00am	Poster	FPGA-Accelerated Simulation of a RISC-V Vector Architecture	Maya Gokhale
10:00am	Poster	HPC and AI Water Usage: Findings from 11 Leading Supercomputing Centers	Chris DePrater
10:00am	Poster	Plexus-v2: Extreme-Scale GNN Training with Communication Free Sampling and 4D Hybrid Parallelism	Daniel Nichols
11:37am	Paper	The Design and Organization of the El Capitan Center of Excellence for Application Readiness	Ramesh Pankajakshan, David Richards, Judith Hill, Bronis de Supinski
12:15pm	BoF	Beyond the GPU: The Future of AI Acceleration in the Zettascale Era	Tal Ben-Nun
12:15pm	BoF	The Future of Python on HPC Systems	Todd Gamblin
1:30pm	Panel	Building and Managing Exascale HPC/AI Supercomputing Infrastructure	Tom Scogland
1:30pm	Paper	Exascale Distillation Workflows for Protein Structure Prediction on El Capitan Gordon Bell Finalist	Nikoli Dryden, Tal Ben-Nun, Pier Fiedorowicz, Tom Benson, Bronis de Supinski, Brian Van Essen
3:30pm	Awards	Test of Time Award Presentation	Lori Diachin (presenter)
5:15pm	BoF	Liquid Cooling Interfaces: Optimizing Temperature, Telemetry, Water, and Heat Reuse	Chris DePrater
5:15pm	BoF	U.S. National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure in an Age of Change and Challenge	Todd Gamblin

Wednesday, Nov. 18

Start time CST	Session type	Event title (linked to description)	LLNL participants
12:15pm	BoF	Communication Libraries in HPC and AI	Nikoli Dryden
12:15pm	BoF	Correctness Testing of HPC Scientific Software in the Age of AI-Generated Code	Ignacio Laguna
12:15pm	BoF	Democratizing AI Accelerators for HPC Applications: Challenges, Success, and Support	Tal Ben-Nun, Brian Van Essen
12:15pm	BoF	HPC Developments for Fusion Energy Applications	Justin Angus
12:15pm	BoF	Operational Data Analytics: Agentic AI for HPC Facilities	Kathleen Shoga
5:15pm	BoF	Procurements Under Pressure: Adaptive Strategies for HPC Centers in an Uncertain World	Edgar León

Thursday, Nov. 19

Start time CST	Session type	Event title (linked to description)	LLNL participants
11:37am	Paper	SpaDA: A Spatial Dataflow Architecture Programming Language	Tal Ben-Nun
12:15pm	BoF	The Future of Dynamic Resource Utilization in HPC: Chances & Challenges	Daniel Milroy
12:15pm	BoF	Watts, FLOPs, and Impact: Rethinking Energy in the Exascale Era	Tapasya Patki
3:30pm	Awards	SC26 Awards Ceremony and SC27 Launch	Kathryn Mohror (SC27 General Chair)

Friday, Nov. 20

Start time CST	Session type	Event title (linked to description)	LLNL participants
8:30am	Panel	Brain Dump: HPC Experts Volunteer to Be Replaced by AI	Olga Pearce
8:45am	Workshop	How the Paradigm of Scientific Computing Evolves Through the Genesis Mission	Jeffrey Hittinger
9:15am	Workshop	Measuring the Impact of the Better Scientific Software Fellowship Program	Elsa Gonsiorowski
9:40am	Workshop	Machine Learning-Based Performance Prediction for RISC-V Vector (RVV) Processors	Pei-Hung Lin, Maya Gokhale
9:40am	Workshop	Tracking HPC Software Stack Drift and Performance with Benchpark	Michael McKinsey, Stephanie Brink, Olga Pearce
9:50am	Workshop	TSVC-RVV: A Diagnostic Extension of TSVC for Evaluating RISC-V Auto-Vectorization	Pei-Hung Lin, Maya Gokhale

LLNL SC Committee Members

Adam Bertsch – SCinet architecture
Aniruddha Marathe – System software and cloud computing
Barry Rountree – Performance measurement, modeling, & tools
Brian Van Essen – HPC for machine learning
Bronis de Supinski – ACM SRC posters; System software and cloud computing
Chunhua Liao – Performance measurement, modeling, & tools
Clea Marples – Community engagement chair; Digital experience
Cody Balos – Applications
Daniel Nichols – Tutorials
David Boehme – Doctoral showcase; Performance measurement, modeling, & tools
David Richards – SCinet fiber; Applications
Edgar León – New volunteers chair
Erik Draeger – Applications
Hariharan Devarajan – Performance measurement, modeling, & tools
Harshitha Menon – Early career program; Performance measurement, modeling, & tools
Holly Auten – Communications deputy chair
Jamie Lewis – Students[at]SC; SIGHPC immersion chair
Jamie Van Randwyk – Steering committee; Special advisor on contractor performance; Families[at]SC chair
Jeffrey Hittinger – Test of Time Award
Kathryn Mohror – Conference deputy chair; Steering committee; Research posters
Katrina Trujillo – SCinet contributor relations
Kevin Sala Penades – BOFs
Kristi Belcher – Early career program
Loïc Pottier – Research posters
Lori Diachin – Steering committee chair; Test of Time Award chair
Michele Bianchini-Gunn – Local arrangements
Nicole Marsaglia – Doctoral showcase
Nikoli Dryden – HPC for machine learning vice chair
Olga Pearce – System software and cloud computing
Rigoberto Moreno – SCinet cluster
Stephanie Brink – Doctoral showcase; Performance measurement, modeling, & tools; Workshops and symposiums
Sunshine Balingit – SCinet network security
Tal Ben-Nun – BOFs