[hpc-announce] Durham HPC Days 2026: Call for presentations

[Nick Brown]

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                  Call for presentations
                      HPC Days 2026
               Durham, 15 June – 19 June 2026
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Website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bjEnEh9Xfa36_ocbHJZwDxKp780RRR2G0Bywhl5PTO2fj9WdC9WTpTcB36Dk-otDvrOkuWreU3TxSOvwhRIXluYcflSr$ 
Submission deadline: 13th of March AoE
Notification: 14th of April

Durham HPC Days bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to explore the frontiers of high-performance computing, data analysis, and scientific innovation. With a mixture of workshops, tutorials and contributed talks there will be a wide range of topics covered in the week.

Call for presentations
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We invite proposals for talks, typically 15-25 minutes long, which will be embedded into a wider programme hosting invited speakers and vendor presentations.

Suggested topics of interest for this conference include (but are not limited to):
* Optimisation of HPC, AI and ML workloads to deliver increased efficiency and scaling on HPC machines
* Use of novel technologies, techniques and architectures to deliver improved energy efficiency
* Software, programming, and algorithmic approaches for reducing power consumption by codes
* The convergence of AI/ML and HPC applications and algorithms
* Success stories around efforts to encourage Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the HPC workforce
* Approaches to user training
* How we are able to share hardware designed for AI/ML with HPC and vica-versa
* Going beyond the batch system, for instance the use of interactive computing such as Jupyter notebooks, on traditional HPC machines
* HPC centre policy to enable non-traditional workloads
* Lessons learnt from energy efficient HPC centre operation

As HPC is a large community that encompasses many different roles, we welcome both technical and non-technical contributors at all career levels to submit their work in order to broaden the knowledge of all those who attend our event.

Submission details
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We request submission of an abstract, approximate length 300 words which will be peer reviewed, via the conference website at https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/call-for-talks/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bjEnEh9Xfa36_ocbHJZwDxKp780RRR2G0Bywhl5PTO2fj9WdC9WTpTcB36Dk-otDvrOkuWreU3TxSOvwhRIXlnU1RS-I$ 

Review Committee
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* Marion Weinzierl, ICCS, University of Cambridge
* Gokberk Kabacaoglu, Durham University
* Eleanor Broadway, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
* Eva Fernandez-Amez, Durham University
* Nick Brown, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
* Tobias Weinzierl, CS, Durham University
* Xingran Ruan, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
* Alastair Basden, DiRAC/ICC, Durham University
* Darren White, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
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