[hpc-announce] CfP: Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools 2026 - Deadline August 5

[Boehme, David]

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          Call for Papers: ProTools 2026
Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools
          Held in conjunction with SC26.
                Chicago, IL, USA
                 November 15-16, 2026
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      Submission Deadline: August 5, 2026
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Understanding program behavior is critical to overcome the expected
architectural and programming complexities, such as limited power budgets,
heterogeneity, hierarchical memories, shrinking I/O bandwidths, and performance
variability, that arise on modern HPC platforms. To do so, HPC software
developers need intuitive support tools for debugging, performance measurement,
analysis, and tuning of large-scale HPC applications. Data collected from these
tools can be far too large and too complex to be analyzed in a straightforward
manner. We therefore need automatic analysis and visualization approaches to
help application developers intuitively understand the effects that algorithmic
choices have on application correctness or performance.

Moreover, the recent rise of AI creates new challenges and opportunities for
tool developers and users. Developers urgently need robust and useful tools and
approaches for studying the performance of AI or hybrid AI/HPC workloads.
Simultaneously, combining performance data collection and analysis techniques
with AI-based methodologies offers tremendous benefits for understanding and
optimizing application performance.

Covering all aspects of HPC program and performance analysis - data collection,
visualization, and tools - the Workshop on Programming and Performance
Visualization Tools (ProTools) brings together HPC application developers, tool
developers, vendors, and researchers from the visualization, performance, and
program analysis fields for an exchange of new approaches to assist developers
in analyzing, understanding, and optimizing programs for extreme-scale platforms.


Workshop Topics:

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Performance tools for scalable parallel platforms
* Scalable displays of performance data
* Debugging and correctness tools for parallel programming paradigms
* Case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice
* Program development tool chains (incl. IDEs) for parallel systems
* Methodologies for performance engineering
* Data models to enable scalable visualization
* Graph representation of unstructured performance data
* Tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power)
* Tool support for accelerated architectures and large-scale multi-cores
* Presentation of high-dimensional data
* Visual correlations between multiple data source
* Measurement and optimization tools for networks and I/O
* Tool infrastructures and environments
* Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data
* Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration
* Application developer experiences with programming and performance tools


Paper Submission:

We solicit papers that focus on performance, debugging, and correctness tools
for parallel programming paradigms as well as techniques and case studies at
the intersection of performance analysis and visualization.

Submissions are limited to 12 two-column pages (U.S. letter – 8.5” x 11”),
excluding the bibliography, using the IEEE proceedings template. The IEEE
conference proceeding templates for LaTeX and MS Word provided by IEEE eXpress
Conference Publishing are available for download. See the templates here.

To enhance the accessibility, accuracy, and longevity of references in all
submitted manuscripts, authors are strongly encouraged to include Digital Object
Identifiers (DOIs) for all cited works whenever available.

All papers must be submitted through the Supercomputing 2026 Linklings site:
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Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published
in the SC26 workshop proceedings.


Important Dates:

* Submission deadline: August 5, 2026 (AoE)
* Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2026 (AoE)
* Camera-ready deadline: September 25, 2026 (AoE)
* Workshop: November 15 or 16, 2026

Workshop Chairs:

David Boehme, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Ahmad Tarraf, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Thomas Gruber, FAU, Germany