HIGH PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING
State of the Art, Emerging Disruptive
Innovations and Future Scenarios
An International Advanced Workshop
Cetraro Italy, June 22 - 26, 2026
Main Aim
The tools and techniques of High Performance
Computing (HPC) have gained broad acceptance in wide areas of research and
industry due to sustained progress in computational hardware and software
technologies, ranging from hybrid CPU/GPU systems, multicore and distributed
architectures, and virtualization, to relatively new paradigms such as cloud
computing, explosive growth of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
techniques in myriad applications, and advances in quantum computer
realizations. At the same time, the extremely fast pace of the field introduces
new challenges in technological, intellectual, ethical and even political areas
that must be addressed to continue to enable wider acceptance, implementation,
and ultimately societal impact of high performance
computing technologies, applications, and paradigms.
The main aim of this workshop is to present and
debate advanced topics, open questions, current and future developments, and
challenging applications related to advanced high-performance distributed
computing and data systems, encompassing implementations ranging from
traditional clusters to warehouse-scale data centers, and with architectures
including hybrid, multicore, distributed, cloud models, and systems targeted
for AI applications. In addition, quantum computing has captured intense and
widespread interest in the last few years, in large part due to the deployment
of several systems with diverse architectures. This workshop will provide a
forum for exploration of both challenges and synergies that might arise from
exchange of ideas across the many aspects of HPC and its applications.
The rapid uptake of AI methods to tackle myriad
applications has led to rethinking of the relevant algorithms and of the
microarchitectures of computers that are optimized for such applications.
Although machine and deep learning are the AI technologies that are in the
headlines daily and flood submissions to conferences and journals, other
aspects of AI are also maturing and in some cases
require HPC resources.
Similarly, the growing deployment of quantum
computers, some of which are accessible to the open research community, is
spurring experimentation with reformulation of problems, algorithms, and
programming techniques for such computers. Quantum sensing and quantum
communication are also beginning to have physical instantiations.
The importance of Cloud Computing in HPC
continues to grow. We are seeing more and more cloud
testbeds and production facilities that are used by government agencies,
industry and academia. However, careful application benchmarking of different
cloud infrastructures still have to be performed to
find out which HPC cloud architecture is best suited for a specific
application.
From an application standpoint, many of the
most widely used application codes have undergone many generations of
adaptation as new architectures have emerged, from vector to MPP to cluster to
cloud, and more recently to multicore and hybrid. As exascale systems move
toward millions of processing units the interplay between system and user
software, compilers and middleware, even programmer and run-time environment
must be reconsidered. For example, how much resilience and fault-tolerance can,
or should, be embedded transparently in the system versus exposed to the
programmer? Perhaps even greater challenges arise from the complexity of
applications, which are increasingly multi-scale and multi-physics and are
built from hundreds of building blocks, and from the difficulty of achieving
portability across traditional architectures.
Finally, discussions and presentations related
to emerging and strategically challenging application areas will also be an
important part of the workshop. A special emphasis will be given to the
potential of computational modeling and advanced analytics related to complex
systems, including the associated diverse data sources and streams. Similarly,
the challenges of data integration and use for new types of data sources such
as the Internet of Things, will be examined. These and other new application areas
enabled by new sources of data, including IoT and sensor networks, represent an
interesting new set of HPC challenges.
Summarizing, the aim of this special workshop
is to shed some light on key topics in advanced high performance computing
systems and, in particular, to address the aforementioned contemporary scheduling, scaling, fault
tolerance, and emerging application topics. The four and a
half day program of this workshop will include roughly forty invited
talks and associated panels by experts in the field.
Workshop Topics
Workshop topics will be related to, but are not
limited to, any of the following ones:
- General
Issues in High Performance Computing, including:
- Quantum Computing
- Machine and Deep Learning
- Exascale Computing
- Neuromorphic Computing
- Brain-inspired Computing
- Biocomputing
- System software, workflows, programming
models
- Novel applications, advances and
challenges
- Traditional and Emerging Computer
Architectures for HPC, including:
- Quantum Computer architectures
and Qbit technologies
- Architectures tailored for Artificial Intelligence
- Communication networks
- Heterogeneous systems, including CPU,
GPU, FPGA, etc.
- Clouds for HPC
- Energy efficient technologies
- Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on
HPC and vice versa
- HPC-enabled AI applications
- Impact of AI on architectures,
algorithms, system software
- Workflows that include simulation, AI,
and large-scale data analytics
Programme
Only invited papers will be presented at the
workshop. Keynote overview talks will be given together with research and
industry presentations. Nine sessions will be planned together with two panel
discussions. The program will include several sessions on Artificial
Intelligence, Big Data, Quantum Computing, Machine Learning and Exascale
Computing, all of which will play an important role in the workshop programme. Invited speakers from different sectors, public
and private, will debate the most critical issues related to their development
strategies for Research and Enterprise.
International Programme Committee (provisional)
LUCIO GRANDINETTI
Department
of Computer Engineering, Electronics, and Systems Science
University
of Calabria UNICAL
and
Center
of Excellence for High Performance Computing
ITALY
GIOVANNI ALOISIO
Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation)
CMCC Strategic
Advisor
Former
Director, CMCC Supercomputing Center
and
Emeritus
Professor, Computer Engineering
Department
of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento
ITALY
FRANK
BAETKE
EOFS
European
Open File System Organization
formerly
Hewlett
Packard Enterprise
Munich
GERMANY
PETER
BECKMAN
Northwestern
University
Evanston,
Illinois
USA
RUPAK
BISWAS
NASA
Exploration
Technology Directorate
High End
Computing Capability Project
NASA Ames
Research Center
Moffet
Field, CA
USA
CHARLIE
CATLETT
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois
USA
SUDIP
DOSANJH
Director
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley,
CA
USA
IAN FOSTER
Argonne National Laboratory
Data
Science and Learning Division
Argonne, IL
and
Dept. of
Computer Science
The
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
USA
WOLFGANG
GENTZSCH
Executive
Director & Co-founder of SimOps
Regensburg
GERMANY
and
Sunnyvale,
CA
USA
VLADIMIR
GETOV
Distributed
and Intelligent Systems Research Group
School of
Computer Science and Engineering
University
of Westminster
London
UNITED
KINGDOM
VLAD
GHEORGHIU
University
of Waterloo
Institute
for Quantum Computing
Waterloo,
Ontario
CANADA
FRANCESCA
GUERRIERO
Department
of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering
University
of Calabria UNICAL
KIMMO KOSKI
CSC The
Finnish IT Center for Science
Helsinki
FINLAND
SALVATORE
MANDRÁ
Research
Scientist
Google
Quantum AI
Mountain
View, CA
USA
STEFANO
MARKIDIS
KTH Royal
Institute of Technology
Computer
Science Department
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SALVATORE
MANDRÁ
Research
Scientist
Google
Quantum AI
Mountain
View, CA
USA
STEFANO
MARKIDIS
KTH Royal
Institute of Technology
Computer
Science Department
Stockholm
SWEDEN
SATOSHI MATSUOKA
RIKEN
Director
Center for Computational Science
Kobe
and
Department
of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Tokyo
Institute of Technology
Tokyo
JAPAN
KEVIN
OBENLAND
Quantum
Information and Integrated Nanosystems
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Lincoln
Laboratory
Boston, MA
USA
VALERIO
PASCUCCI
Center for Extreme
Data Management, Analysis and Visualization
and
Scientific
Computing and Imaging Institute
School of
Computing, University of Utah
and
Laboratory
Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USA
RAFFAELE SANTAGATI
Quantum Group
Boheringen Ingelheim
GERMANY
THOMAS
STERLING
Senior
Research Scientist
University
of Texas at Austin
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
Austin, TX
USA
WILLIAM
TANG
Princeton
University Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory
and
Center for
Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)
and
Princeton
Institute for Computational Science & Engineering (PICSciE)
Princeton
University
USA
Organizing Committee
L. GRANDINETTI (Chair) (ITALY)
M. ALBAALI (OMAN)
F. BAETKE (GERMANY)
W. GENTZSCH (GERMANY)
L. MIRTAHERI (ITALY)
Workshop Agenda
The Agenda of the workshop
will be detailed and fixed in the Final Programme that will be posted in the
workshop website.
The workshop will begin on
Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. (with the first session State of the art and future
scenarios).
Provisional sketch
1st
day
State
of the Art, Key Developments and Future Scenarios
Emerging
Computer Systems and Solutions
2nd
day
Advances
in Supercomputing Systems and Projects
Advances
in Data Processing and Big Data Analytics
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE on HPC Platforms: Current and Potential Synergies
3rd
and 4th day; 5th day (only morning)
QUANTUM
COMPUTING PROMISES and REALISTIC DEPLOYMENTS: state of the art and future
developments
(Including
PANEL Session)
Sample AI Session (provisional)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Session
Provisional Agenda
Organizer and Chairman: Pete Beckman, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
The concept for the session is to expose advances in a
broad spectrum of AI, not only in Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL);
explore current and potential synergies among the areas; describe selected uses
of AI; and identify challenges to making major progress (e.g., algorithms,
programming languages, data analytics, standards, and computer architectures).
Preliminary session title:
The AI
Spectrum: trends, challenges, synergies with other technologies/methods
Topics to be covered
(tentatively)
1.
ML and
DL trends and synergies
2.
ML and
DL in HPC applications
- AI for the
Instrument to HPC Continuum
4.
AI for
Materials Science
- Embodied AI for
Robotics
6.
Numerical
methods in AI
- T.B.D.
8.
T.B.D.
Sample QC Session (provisional)
Quantum Computing (QC) Session
Quantum Computing Promises and
Realistic Deployments
The
entire architecture of a quantum computing system, capable to integrate
algorithms and basic q-units, is one of the crucial challenges, requiring
contributions by different expertises, skills,
experiences on quantum properties and technology implementations. The main aim
of this workshop is to shed light on the properties and technologies basic for
a realistic development of quantum systems. Therefore very good speakers
experienced in different quantum fields will contribute to assess the
fundamental and practical limits of building quantum computing devices and to
overview the potential applications of quantum systems to information and
computer science and engineering.
Subset of Speakers (Complete list and talks schedule in
preparation)
Andrew Bestwick, Rigetti
Computing
Salvatore Mandrá, GOOGLE
Quantum AI
Vlad
Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Alexander
Glatzle, Planqc
Nobuyasu Ito, RIKEN, Japan
Dylan
Mahler, Xanadu
Stefano
Markidis, KTH, Stockholm
Irwan Owen,
D-Wave Systems
Kevin
Obenland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kristen
Pudenz, Atom Computing (t.b.c.)
Pete
Shadboldt, PSIQuantum Corp.
Mark
Saffman, Infleqtion & University Wisconsin (t.b.c.)
Andre Saraiva, Diraq
Seetharami Seelam,
IBM
Niccoló Somaschi, Quandela
Michael Streif, Boehringer Ingelheim
Sergii Strelchuk, Oxford
University, UK
Andrea Tabacchini, Quantum
Brilliance
Daniele Dragoni, Leonardo SpA
Lorenzo Leandro, Quantum
Machines
Aleksander
Wennersteen, Pasqal ( t.b.c.)
Speakers
(provisional, list extension in progress)
San Diego Supercomputer Center
and
Workflows for Data Science (WorDS) Center of Excellence
and
WIFIRE Lab
University of California at San
Diego, CA
USA
PETE BECKMAN
US DOE Argonne National Laboratory
and
University of Chicago
and
Northwestern University / Argonne
National Lab. Institute for Science and Engineering
USA
ANDREW BESTWICK
RIGETTI Computing
USA
GIL BLOCH
NVIDIA Mellanox
Tel Aviv
ISRAEL
CHARLIE CATLETT
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois
USA
TIM CLARKE
Sambanova Systems
USA
SUDIP DOSANJH
Director National Energy Research
Scientific Computing Center
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Berkeley, CA
USA
DANIELE DRAGONI
Leonardo S.p.A.
High Performance Computing Lab.
Genova
ITALY
IAN
FOSTER
Argonne
National Laboratory
Data
Science and Learning Division
Argonne,
IL
and
Dept.
of Computer Science
The
University of Chicago
Chicago,
IL
USA
ANDREA GENTILE
Pasqal
FRANCE
WOLFGANG GENTZSCH
Executive Director & Co-founder
of SimOps
Regensburg
GERMANY
and
Sunnyvale, CA
USA
VLADIMIR GETOV
Distributed and Intelligent Systems
Research Group
School of Computer Science and
Engineering
University of Westminster
London
UNITED KINGDOM
VLAD GHEORGHIU
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo
and
SoftwareQ Inc, Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA
DHIREESHA KUDITHIPUDI
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
USA
LORENZO LEANDRO
Quantum Machines
Milan
ITALY
DMITRY LYAKH
NVIDIA
USA
DYLAN MAHLER
Xanadu
CANADA
STEFANO MARKIDIS
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Computer Science Department / Computational
Science and Technology Division
Stockholm
SWEDEN
ERIC MUELLER
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg
GERMANY
KEVIN OBENLAND
Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Boston, MA
USA
TOMAS OPPELSTRUP
Cerebras
USA
IRWAN OWEN
D-Wave Systems Inc
CANADA - USA
XAVIER PEREIRA
Quandela
FRANCE
JOHANNES SCHEMMEL
European Institute for Neuromorphic
Computing
and
Kirchoff Institute for Physics
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg
GERMANY
SEETHARAMI SEELAM
IBM Research
USA
PETE SHADBOLT
Co-founder
PsiQuantum Corp.
Palo Alto, California
USA
NICCOLO SOMASCHI (t.b.c.)
CEO of Quandela
FRANCE
THOMAS STERLING
Senior Research Scientist
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Austin, TX
USA
MICHAEL STREIF
Boehringer
GERMANY
SERGII STRELCHUCK
Oxford University
Oxford
UK
ANDREA
TABACCHINI
Quantum
Brilliance
AUSTRALIA
and GERMANY
WILLIAM TANG
Princeton University
Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory
and
Center for Statistics
and Machine Learning (CSML)
and
Princeton Institute for
Computational Science & Engineering (PICSciE)
Princeton University
USA
ALEKSANDER WENNERSTEEN
Pasqal
FRANCE
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Proceedings
All contributions to the Workshop are invited original research papers not previously
published.
It is planned to publish a selection of
papers presented at the Workshop in a Proceedings Volume or in a
well-established international journal.
Workshop venue, address and logistics
The workshop will be held at the Grand Hotel
San Michele, a charming Hotel on the Tyrrhenian coast of Southern Italy
with surrounding green park, golf facilities and private beach.
The Hotel is very close to a seaside fisherman village named Cetraro, near Cosenza, a city of Southern Italy (for
more, see the next title How to Reach Cetraro).
Hotel phone number: +39 0982 91012
Information as well as accommodation and
other local arrangements will be handled by the workshop Secretariat supervised
by:
Dr. Maria Teresa
Guaglianone
Universitá della Calabria
87036,
Rende (Cosenza), Italy
lugran @ unical.it and
cetrarohpc2026
@ gmail.com
Participation, deadlines and
guidelines
NO REGISTRATION FEES ARE REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE WORKSHOP.
This policy encourages wide Workshop participation in
order to increase awareness of the scientific aspects and practical
benefits of HPC Technologies, to facilitate professional relations and to
create technology transfer opportunities.
Those interested to attend are requested to send an application to the
addresses below.
All contributions to the Workshop are invited original research papers
not previously published.
Participants are kindly requested to notify their registration.
Please
use the Registration form here attached
Enquiries about the technical programme
and applications for participation in the workshop should be sent to:
HPC
Workshop 2026
Prof. Lucio Grandinetti
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Modellistica,
Elettronica e Sistemistica, Università della Calabria
87036 Rende - Cosenza - Italy
Phone: +39-3351244747
Fax: +39-984-494847
e-mail: lugran @
unical.it and cetrarohpc2026 @ gmail.com
Local arrangements
Information
as well as accommodation, local transportation and other local arrangements
will be handled by the workshop Secretariat supervised by:
Dr. Maria Teresa Guaglianone
Universitá della Calabria
87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy
e-mail: lugran @ unical.it and cetrarohpc2026 @ gmail.com
Accommodation
Two
accommodation types are available at the workshop’s hotel:
1. Rooms in the main hotel building
|
Type of Accommodation |
Price in Euros |
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Double
room (double occupancy) |
140 |
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Double
room (used as single) |
210 |
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Junior
Suite* (double occupancy) |
170 |
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Suite**
(double occupancy) |
190 |
All
prices are intended PER PERSON, PER DAY.
* One bedroom for 2 persons and one sitting
room. Sea view
** One bedroom for 2 persons and a sitting
room. Terrace overlooking the sea
For accommodation of families, special
arrangements and assistance please contact the Secretariat cetrarohpc2026 @
gmail.com.
They include accommodation and full board
(breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The Hotels number of rooms available is
limited. The single rooms are very very few.
An early booking is recommended.
2. Rooms
in the Hotel annex buildings maisonnettes
The Maisonnettes are Hotel annex buildings,
located within a green park, at a walking distance
from the main building and the congress center.
The Maisonnettes can accommodate
one/two/three/four persons.
This type of accommodation is particularly suitable for small groups or
families.
The price for rooms with air conditioning is 120 euro.
The price for rooms without air conditioning is 100 euro.
The price is per person, per day,
covering both accommodation and full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The case of special arrangements (e.g. children
accommodation, etc.) is handled by the Workshop Secretariat.
The number of rooms available is very
limited.
An early booking is recommended.
Hotel reservations will be managed
by the Workshop Secretariat (e-mail:lugran @ unical.it and
cetrarohpc2026 @ gmail.com)
Please use the
to specify the accommodation required.
Local transportation
A pick-up service will be provided, free of charge, to
those who will fill in the
Website Updating
The
information given in this website and the relevant links will be updated day by
day.
Therefore,
the interested people are invited to visit the site frequently.
The
final Programme of the Workshop edition HPC2025 is still available on the
website http://www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2025
for inspection by those who wish to have a flavour of the HPC Workshop series
structure and style.
The
following books are mostly related to presentations given at very recent
editions of the HPC workshop series:
Fox,
G., Getov, V., Grandinetti, L., Joubert, G., Sterling, T. (Eds) New Frontiers
in High Performance Computing and Big Data, IOS Press, Amsterdam 2017, volume
30, ISBN 978-1-61499- 815-0 (print) ISBN 978 -1- 61499- 816-7 (online) ISSN
0927 5452 (print) ISSN 1879 -808X (online).
Lucio
Grandinetti, Gerhard R. Joubert, Kristel Michielsen, Seyedeh Leili Mirtaheri, Michela Taufer, Rio Yokota (Eds.), Future Trends
of HPC in a Disruptive Scenario, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Book Series, Advances in
Parallel Computing, Vol. 34, 2019, ISBN 978-1-61499-998-0 (print), ISBN
978-1-61499-999-7 (online), ISSN 0927-5452 (print), ISSN 1879-808X (online).
Programme flavour based on HPC 2025
In order to have a flavour of the structure of the workshop
agenda, please visit the web site of the 2025 edition of the HPC workshop
series: www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2025