November 15–20 NVIDIA at SC26
McCormick Place Convention Center | Chicago
Join us at Supercomputing 2026 (SC26) to see how AI-driven scientific workflows, quantum-enabled possibilities, and high-performance platforms are powering tomorrow’s complex challenges.
Hear from industry leaders in theater sessions hosted by Slurm in booth #1711 or visit the NVIDIA main booth #3011 to see cutting-edge demos showcasing our latest technologies, engage in activations for developers, and more.
SC26 NVIDIA Build-a-Claw and Ian Buck Special Address
Monday, Nov. 16, 1–5 p.m. CT
Join us for a Build-a-Claw—featuring hands-on demos, connect with the experts, and more.
You can then stay for the NVIDIA SC26 Special Address, where NVIDIA’s Ian Buck will highlight the latest cutting-edge breakthroughs revolutionizing high-performance computing.
Schedule:
- 1–3:30 p.m. — Build-a-Claw
- 4–5 p.m. — Special Address
SC26 Program Schedule at a Glance
Check out our daily schedule of activities in high-performance computing (HPC) at Supercomputing 2026.
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Sunday, Nov. 15
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Monday, Nov. 16
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Tuesday, Nov. 17
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Wednesday, Nov. 18
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Thursday, Nov. 19
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Friday, Nov. 20
8:30 a.m.–noon
Tutorial
Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing: A Hands-On Tutorial on Quantum-Classical Hybrid Workflows Executed on QPUs and GPUs
W185a
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Core-Level Performance Engineering
W185d
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Deep Learning at Scale: Engineering High-Resolution Scientific AI Models
W190a
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Efficient Distributed GPU Programming for Exascale
W190b
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
In-Network Computing With SmartNICs for HPC Applications
W193b
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Introduction to MLIR
W194a
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Using Containers to Accelerate HPC
W183c
9–10 a.m.
Workshop
2026 International Workshop on Performance, Portability, and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC)
W175bc
1:30–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Building Scalable Agentic Systems for Science: Concepts, Architectures, and Hands-On With Academy
W184b-c
2–3 p.m.
Workshop
High-Performance Python for Science at Scale
W183b
8:30 a.m.–noon
Tutorial
Taming AI Storage Systems
W184d
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Accelerating and Scaling Python for HPC
W185a
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial
Performance Tuning of HPC and ML/AI Applications With the Roofline Model on GPUs, APUs, and CPUs
W194a
9–10 a.m.
Workshop
WHPC: Building Community, Building Careers
W181a
10:30–10:52 a.m.
Session
Architecture-Agnostic Exascale Star-by-Star Simulation of Our Galaxy
W181abc
10:30–10:52 a.m.
Session
DeepSim: SOL-Based Explainable GPU Performance Projection With Multi-Task Learning
W178ab
10:30 a.m.–noon
Panel
AI Supercomputers—Evolution or Revolution?
W185abc
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Beyond the GPU: The Future of AI Acceleration in the Zettascale Era
W176abc
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Mixed Feelings About Mixed Precisions
W178ab
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
OpenSHMEM: Toward a Unified GPU-Aware Auxiliary Specification and 2.0
W175abc
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
SIGHPC Annual Member Meeting
W179ab
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
The Future of Python on HPC Systems
W183a
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
The Status and Future of Unified Shared Memory in the CPU+GPU Ecosystem
W183b
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Workflows Community: Next-Generation Workflows for HPC: AI, Agentic Systems, and Scientific Discovery
W181abc
1:30–3 p.m.
Panel
Building and Managing Exascale HPC/AI Supercomputing Infrastructure
W185abc
1:30–3 p.m.
Panel
Digital Twins of the Human Heart: From Exascale Simulation to Clinical Impact
W184bcd
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Confidential Supercomputing: Essential Evolution or Elegant Illusion?
W181abc
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
OpenACC Forum—The Future of Programming Accelerators With Directives
W190b
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Training Without Sharing: Federated Learning on the World’s HPC Systems for Science
W179ab
10:30 a.m.–noon
Panel
Emerging Storage Technology
W184bcd
11:37 a.m.–noon
Session
Every Microsecond Matters: Achieving Near Speed-of-Light Latency in GPU Collectives
W178ab
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Applications, Libraries, and Tools in Modern Fortran (alt.fortran)
W175abc
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Autonomous Science Network: A Grassroots Community for Trustworthy Science
W183a
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Communication Libraries in HPC and AI
W178ab
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
HPC Developments for Fusion Energy Applications
W180
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Unified Communication X (UCX) Community
W192b
1:30–1:52 p.m.
Session
DySpin: A Plug-and-Play Library Advancing Dynamic Sparse Long-Context Inference
W178ab
1:30–1:52 p.m.
Session
hZCCL2: Co-Designing Collective Communication With Vectorized Homomorphic Compression
W176abc
3:30–5 p.m.
Panel
The Future of the HPC Workforce: Skills, Scale, and Sustainability
W184bcd
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Digital Twins in HPC: From Shared Definitions to Shared Standards
W175abc
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Inference Services and Agents on HPC: Scaling Scientific AI for Academic Community
W180
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Numerical Linear Algebra in the Age of Coding Agents
W185d
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Scientific Software and the People Who Make It Happen: Building Our Communities and Practices
W194a
9:37–10 a.m.
Session
GPU Faults Across Cloud Providers: Characterization and Operational Insights at Scale
W176abc
10:30–10:52 a.m.
Session
LLM-PRISM: Characterizing Silent Data Corruption From Permanent GPU Faults in LLM Training
W175abc
10:52–11:15 a.m.
Session
Distributed Variational Quantum Linear Solver
W179ab
11:37 a.m.–noon
Session
Characterizing the Scalability and Performance of Large-Scale AI Training Under Multi-Tenancy
W178ab
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Open MPI State of the Union 2026
W178ab
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Real-Time Scientific Data Streaming to HPC Nodes: Challenges and Innovations VI
W176abc
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Birds of a Feather
Trustworthy Data at Scale: HDF5 in the Age of AI-Driven Science
W185d
1:30–3 p.m.
Panel
Orchestrating the Future: Heterogeneous Disaggregation at Scale for Agentic AI Workloads
W185abc
3:30–5 p.m.
Panel
Beyond the Add-On: Absorbing Quantum Into the HPC Ecosystem
W184bcd
8:30–10 a.m.
Panel
Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing: AI, HPC, and the Quantum Applications Worth Betting On
W185abc
8:30–10 a.m.
Workshop
Fourth International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2026)
W176abc
SC26 Slurm + NVIDIA Theater Sessions
Daily schedule of Slurm + NVIDIA Theater Sessions happening in Slurm Booth #1711 at SC26, Tuesday–Thursday
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Tuesday, Nov. 17
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Wednesday, Nov. 18
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Thursday, Nov. 19
11–11:20 a.m.
Slurm on NVIDIA Vera Rubin: Mastering GPU Topology and Multi-Node Workload Placement
Ben Glines, Sr. System Engineer, Slurm, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
11:30–11:50 a.m.
Agentic AI for HPC Development: Faster Code, Fewer Experts Required
Dr. Jeff Hammond, Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
noon–12:20 p.m.
Architecture-Agnostic Exascale Star-by-Star Simulation of Our Galaxy
Dr. Keiya Hirashima, Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN
Slurm booth #1711
1–1:50 p.m.
What’s New With Slurm 26.11
Tim Wickberg, Director, Slurm and Slinky, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
2–2:20 p.m.
Nemotron for Science
Geetika Gupta, Sr. Director, Product Management, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
2:30–2:50 p.m.
Slinky 101: Slurm for Kubernetes
Vivian Hafener, Sr. System Engineer, Slinky, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
3–3:20 p.m.
Taming the BEAST: Training a Bayesian AI Weather Model at Extreme Scale
Dr. Charlotte Debus, Research Group Leader, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Slurm booth #1711
3:20–3:50 p.m.
Black Hole Tomography With NVIDIA cuPhoton: Gaussian Splatting the Kerr Spacetime
Dr. Daniel Palumbo, Clay Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Slurm booth #1711
4–4:20 p.m.
Horizon System Coming Online. Open Science’s Newest Tool
Dr. Dan Stanzione, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Associate VP for Research, The University of Texas at Austin
Slurm booth #1711
11–11:20 a.m.
Los Alamos Talking Vera: URSA Agentic AI
Galen Shipman, Computer Scientist and Chief Architect of Advanced Technology Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Slurm booth #1711
11:30–11:50 a.m.
Launch Hugging Face Models With Slurm Bridge
Skyler Malinowski, Sr. System Software Engineer, Slinky, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
12:30–12:50 p.m.
Accelerating Structural Simulation in Abaqus With NVIDIA cuDSS
Dr. Ross McLendon, Abaqus Product Manager, Dassault Systèmes
Slurm booth #1711
1–1:20 p.m.
Agentic Workflows for Cancer Drug Discovery
Dr. Danny Perez, Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Slurm booth #1711
1:30–1:50 p.m.
Using Slurm to Enable Research Computing in a Heterogeneous HPC and AI Cluster
Ryan Daniels, Principal AI Research Engineer, Research Computing Services, University of Cambridge
Slurm booth #1711
2:30–2:50 p.m.
HPC for Vascular Digital Twins: Simulating Millions of Heartbeats
Dr. Amanda Randles, Director, Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, Duke University
Slurm booth #1711
3:20–3:50 p.m.
The Evolution of Technical Computing
Dr. Dan Ernst, Senior Director of Supercomputing Products, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
4–4:20 p.m.
Accelerating Science With NVIDIA’s Full Stack Architecture
Jeff Larkin, Director of Supercomputing Solutions Architecture, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Slurm Birds of a Feather Roadmap
Danny Auble, Sr. Director, Slurm and Slinky, NVIDIA; Tim Wickberg, Director, Slurm and Slinky, NVIDIA
Slurm booth #1711
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FAQs
NVIDIA at Supercomputing 2026 (SC26) takes place November 15–20, 2026, at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. The event features a special address, theater sessions, live technology demos, and developer activations.
- Download event details and Add to Calendar.
- Learn more about the venue and conference updates on the official Supercomputing 2026 website.
NVIDIA will present daily sessions, panels, tutorials, and workshops covering high-performance computing (HPC), AI-driven scientific workflows, quantum-classical hybrid computing, distributed GPU programming, exascale systems, and agentic AI for science.
- Review the complete schedule of activities on the NVIDIA SC26 Event Page.
- Explore top technical talks and sessions from previous events on the GTC On-Demand Playlist.
You can save SC26 to your schedule immediately using the “Add to Calendar” link on the event page. Registration for the NVIDIA Special Address opens on October 5.
- Download the event calendar file via Add to Calendar.
- If you have questions regarding registration, please contact the team directly or visit the NVIDIA Events Hub.
Developers can participate in hackathons, local meetups, livestreams, hands-on training tutorials, and technical gatherings. You can also connect with fellow supercomputing builders by subscribing to the NVIDIA Luma calendar.
- Connect with fellow builders and subscribe to the NVIDIA Events Luma Calendar.
- Stay informed on new releases and tutorials by signing up for NVIDIA Developer News.
NVIDIA offers hands-on training and certification opportunities through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI), as well as developer technical posts and session recordings.
- Earn certificates of competency and explore courses with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.
- Read technical insights and how-to guides on the NVIDIA Developer Blog.
Startups attending or interested in SC26 can participate in NVIDIA Inception, a global program supporting over 18,000 cutting-edge startups with go-to-market support, technical expertise, training, and funding opportunities.
- Discover program benefits and apply via NVIDIA Inception for Startups.
NVIDIA features industry partner collaborations across cloud infrastructure, hardware, and research institutions at SC26. Attendees can explore joint solutions and partner showcases in the booth and partner areas.
- View featured partner logo gardens and details on the NVIDIA SC26 Partner Showcase.
For inquiries regarding registration, session details, or event logistics, you can reach out to the NVIDIA events team using the Contact Us link on the event page.
- Get in touch with the team via the NVIDIA Contact Us Page.
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