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JSC @ Supercomputing Conference SC 26

SC26, the leading international exhibition and conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, will take place from 15 to 20 November 2025 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. JSC together with its partners from the Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing research group of the Goethe-University Frankfurt will present their diverse range of activities at JSC’s booth #2254.

Unleashing Next-Gen Computing Power

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This year is a special one for us, as the Jülich Supercomputing Centre will celebrate its 65^th birthday, which happens to coincide with the conference week. Keep an eye out for our daily announcements on our social media channels to join our celebrations.

With 27 colleagues on site this year, the JSC is presenting itself under the slogan Unleashing Next-Gen Computing Power. Alongside topics such as HPC (Tools), Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, as well as European projects and collaborations, Europe's first exascale system JUPITER will once again be the focus of attention.

At our booth, we look forward to showing you our achievements in the field of supercomputing and quantum computing. One example ist JSC's Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ), which is unique worldwide and offers access to state-of the-art quantum systems. We are delighted to offer visitors the opportunity to programme our D-Wave Advantage™ System JUPSI, live via JUNIQ. In addition, our partners from the Goethe-University Frankfurt will present research and developments in the area of hybrid algorithms for modular supercomputing and quantum computing.

As part of the exhibition programme, JSC will present its accomplishments and plans in several EU-funded projects. This year’s event focusses on artificial intelligence, featuring updates and success stories relating to JSC's strategy and support in the filed of HPC for AI. In addition, JSC's in-house HPC tools like LLview, JUBE, and Scalasca as well as its support infrastructure will be demonstrated.

Particular highlights at SC26 will be the presentations of the ACM Gordon Bell finalists: This includes the paper “Architecture-Agnostic Exascale Star-by-Star Simulation of Our Galaxy”, to which JSC colleague Mathis Bode contributed. It will be presented in the ACM Gordon Bell Finalists Presentations (Tuesday, November 17^th, 10:30am - 10:52am in room W181abc). As a finalist for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, the paper “4D Parallelism Unlocks Exascale Bayesian Neural Networks for High-Fidelity Atmospheric Modeling” will be presented (Tuesday, November 17^th, 3:30pm - 3:52pm, room W181abc). Involved were JSC researchers Mathis Bode, Andreas Herten and Chelsea John. Furthermore, the poster “JUNIQ Benchmark Suite: A Decade of Application Benchmarks on Quantum Computers” is among the SC26 poster finalists, featuring JSC colleagues Ashwin Kumar Karnad and Dennis Willsch. It will be on display during the poster session (Tuesday, November 17^th, from 10:00am - 5:00pm, in the Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function). The "best poster finalist presentations" will take place on Wednesday, 18^th November (time t.b.d., room W185d).

Beyond that, the JSC is also involved in 11 workshops, six Birds of Feather, three panels, one tutorial and two talks.

Here is a detailed list of all JSC activities and exact dates of the events. Make sure to scroll all the way down!

Events with JSC participation - All times are Central Standard Time (CST)

Sunday, 15 November

Tutorial: Efficient Distributed GPU Programming for Exascale
Full Session: 8:30am - 5:00pm | Location: W190b
General Chair (JSC): Andreas Herten

Workshop: RISE 2026: 1st International Workshop on “Rising Innovators in Sustainable Exacomputing”
Full Session: 9:00am - 12:30pm | Location: W181c
Program Commitee (JSC): Sarra Refai
Panel: Career Pathways Panel
Time: 10:30 am - 11:10am
Panelist (JSC): Estela Suarez

Workshop: HUST-26: 13th International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools
Full Session: 9:00am - 12:30pm | Location: W183b
Session Chair (JSC): Ilya Zhukov

Workshop: SAV26: In Situ AI, Analysis and Visualization
Full Session: 2:00pm - 5:30pm | Location: W176b
Program Chair (JSC): Jens Henrik Göbbert
Presentation: Bridging In-Situ Visualization to Game Engines : From ParaView Catalyst via ANARI to Unreal Engine
Time: 2:40pm - 3:00pm
Authors/Presenters (JSC): Thomas George, Jens Henrik Göbbert, Jonathan Windgassen & Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan

Workshop: 17th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems (ScalAH’26)
Full Session: 2:00pm - 5:30pm | Location: W181c
Presentation: A GPU-Accelerated Blocked Adaptive Randomized Range Finder Based on an Implicit Householder QR Decomposition
Time: 4:10pm - 4:30pm
Authors/Presenters (JSC): Carolin Penke & Andreas Herten

Monday, 16 November

Workshop: WHPC: Building Community, Building Careers
Full Session: 9:00am - 5:30pm | LocationW181a
Presentation: Super(comptuing) Heroes
Session Chair (JSC): Cristina Manzano
Time: 9:01am - 10:00pm

Workshop: Sixth International Symposium on Quantitative Co-design of Supercomputers
Full Session: 2:00pm - 5:30pm | Location: W175a
Organizers (JSC): Estella Suarez
Presentation: Co-Design for new processor and system architectures at JSC
Time: 4:20pm - 4:45pm
Author/Presenter (JSC): Hans-Christian Hoppe
Panel: Moderated Panel Discussion
Time: 4:45pm - 5:25pm
Moderator (JSC): Estela Suarez
Panelists (JSC): Hans-Christian Hoppe

Tuesday, 17 November

Award: ACM Gordon Bell Finalist, Awards and Award Talks, Paper
Full Session: 10:30am - 12:00pm | Location: W181abc
Presentation: Architecture-Agnostic Exascale Star-by-Star Simulation of Our Galaxy
Time: 10:30am - 10:52am
Author/Presenter (JSC): Mathis Bode

Panel: Building and Managing Exascale HPC/AI Supercomputing Infrastructure
Full Session: 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Location: W185abc
Panelist (JSC): Benedikt von St. Vieth

Award: ACM Gordon Bell Climate Modeling Finalist Presentations
Full Session: 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Location: W181abc
Presentation: 4D Parallelism Unlocks Exascale Bayesian Neural Networks for High-Fidelity Atmospheric Modeling
Time: 3:30pm - 3:52pm
Authors/Presenters (JSC): Mathis Bode, Andreas Herten & Chelsea Maria John

Wednesday, 18 November

Panel: The Future of the HPC Workforce: Skills, Scale, and Sustainability
Full Session: 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Location: W184bcd
Panelist (JSC): Benedikt von St. Vieth

BoF: The International Post-Exascale (InPEx) Project
Full Session: 5:15pm - 6:45pm | Location: W175abc
Session Lead (JSC): Bernd Mohr

BoF: Who Shapes the Future of Public HPC? Planning, Priorities, and Investment in the Age of AI and Quantum Computing
Full Session: 5:15pm - 6:45pm | Location: W190b
Session Lead (JSC): Florian Berberich

Thursday, 19 November

Talk: Energy and Contention in Large-Scale AI Training
Full Session: 10:30am - 12:00pm | Location: W178ab
Presentation: Cross-Layer Energy Analysis of Multimodal Training on Grace Hopper Superchips
Time: 11:15am - 11:37am
Author/Presenter (JSC): Mathis Bode
Presentation: Characterizing the Scalability and Performance of Large-Scale AI Training Under Multi-Tenancy
Time: 11:37am - 12:00pm
Author/Presenter (JSC): Andreas Herten

Panel: HPC–Quantum Integration: Software, Systems, and Hybrid Workflows
Full Session: 10:30am - 12:00pm | Location: W185abc
Panelists (JSC): Kristel Michielsen

BoF: Designing Open, Heterogeneous System Monitoring Around OpenCHAMI
Full Session: 12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W194a
Additional Session Leader (JSC): Sarra Refai

BoF: HPC User Support in the AI and Exascale era
Full Session: 12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W180
Additional Session Leaders (JSC): Thomas Breuer & Ilya Zhukov

BoF: The future of dynamic resource utilization in HPC: Chances & Challenges
Full Session: 12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W185abc
Additional Session Leaders (JSC): Estela Suarez & Hans-Christian Hoppe

BoF: Watts, FLOPs, and Impact: Rethinking Energy in the Exascale Era
Full Session: 12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W175abc
Additional Session Leader (JSC): Mathis Bode

Friday, 20 November

Workshop: International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC (RISCVHPC)
Full Session: 8:30am - 12:00pm | Location: W175abc
Presentation: Accelerating Fast Fourier Transforms with the RISC-V Vector Extension
Time: 2:40pm - 3:00pm
Authors/Presenters (JSC): Thomas George, Jens Henrik Göbbert, Jonathan Windgassen & Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan

Workshop: Fourth International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2026)
Full Session: 8:30am - 12:00pm | Location: W176abc
Presentation: JUPITER: From Consistent Imaging to Continuous Benchmarking
Time: 8:35am - 9:20am
Session Chair (JSC): Andreas Herten
Author/Presenter (JSC): Benedikt von St. Vieth
Panel: HPCTESTS Panel 2026
Time: 11:30am - 12:00pm
Session Chair (JSC): Andreas Herten
Panelist (JSC): Benedikt von St. Vieth

Workshop: 13th International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools (HUST 2026)
Full Session: 9:00am - 12:30pm | Location: t.b.a.
Organizer (JSC): Ilya Zhukov

Workshop: Thirteenth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education
Full Session: 8:30am - 12:00pm | LocationW178ab
Presentation: Beyond the helpdesk: a lightweight, reproducible model for just-in-time HPC learning and support
Time: 11:30am - 11:40am
Author/Presenter (JSC): Ilya Zhukov

Posters Display | Tuesday, 17 November | 10:00am - 5:00pm | Location: Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function

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Presentation(Finalist): JUNIQ Benchmark Suite: A Decade of Application Benchmarks on Quantum Computers
Authors/Presenters (JSC): Ashwin Kumar Karnad, Dennis Willsch, Carlos Daniel Gonzalez Calaza, Jhon Alejandro Montanez-Barrera Montanez-Barrera, Orkun Şensebat, Madita Willsch, Kristel Michielsen
Poster finalist presentations: Wednesday, 19 November, in room W185d (exact time to be announced).

Presentation: Tensor Compilers for AI and HPC
Authors/Presenters (JSC): Paul Mifsud & Stefan Kesselheim

Live Presentations at our Booth (#2254)

Join us for exciting insights, fresh perspectives, and engaging discussions. We’re currently putting the finishing touches on the schedule and topics, so stay tuned for more details!

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