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.
We’ll showcase a special address, theater sessions featuring industry leaders, cutting-edge demos showcasing our latest technologies, engaging activations for developers, and much more.
SC26 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
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