30th Annual
IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference
14 - 18 September 2026
HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the field.
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2026 Kenote Speakers
DAY 1
Prof. Danna Freedman
Keyes Prof Chemistry, MIT; Quantum@MIT Director; MacArthur Fellow - Expanding Quantum: MIT's Quantum Initiative
DAY 2
Gregory Kurtzer
CEO CIQ & Founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS, Singularity/Apptainer - 30 Years of HPC==The Blueprint of AI
DAY 3
Dr. CJ Newburn
Nvidia Distinguished Engineer; NVIDIA IO and HPC Software Strategy Architect
GPU-Initiated Data Access: A Disruption to the Storage Industry
DAY 4
Prof. Daniela Rus
Viterbi Prof EESC MIT, CSAIL Director; AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, MacArthur & NAE Member/Fellow
Intelligence Where the Task Is
DAY 5
Dave Martinez
MIT Lincoln Lab Fellow; IEEE Fellow - HPEC 30th Year Anniversary: Reflections and a Forward-Looking Perspective
2026 Invited Speakers
- Prof. Saman Amarasinghe (Perkins Prof, MIT EECS; ACM Fellow) – Compiler 2.0: Compilers in the Era of Machine Learning
- Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam (President New England Complex Systems Institute) – Cybersecurity: What Security?
- Prof. Alvin Cheung (UC Berkeley EECS)
- Jatin Ganhotra (Senior Software Engineer, IBM) – Green Means Stop – Building the Reward Signal Code Optimization We Never Had
- Dr. Sandra Gesing (Sr. Researcher SDSC, Exec. Dir. US-RSE) – AI Can Write the Code. Now What? Rethinking RSE Education
- Prof. Sigal Gottlieb (Chancellor Prof Math, UMass Dartmouth; SIAM & AWM Fellow) – Mixed Model, Mixed Method, and Mixed Precision Runge–Kutta Method
- Justin “Goju” Gottschlich (Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist, Merly, Inc) – LLMs are Great at Code Generation, but What About Code Adaptation?
- John Gustafson (Arizona State Univ.) – Variable Precision Formats that Preserve Dynamic Range
- Dr. Hong Jiang (Intel Fellow) – Intel Crescent Island
- Prof. Tim Kraska (MIT EECS; former Dir. of Applied Science, AWS) – The Post-Developer Era
- Pere Monclus (VP Engineering Cisco Networking) – When High Performance Is Not Enough: Rethinking HPC for Enterprise AI
- Dr. Romulo Pinho (Sr. Distinguished Engineer Dell) – Management & Orchestration for Hybrid Quantum-Classical HPC Systems
- Prof. Katsuhisa Ozaki (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
- Prof. Rohan Basu Roy (University of Utah) – Developing Control Plane to Stabilize Hybrid Classical-Quantum Algorithms
- Laura Schulz (Argonne National Lab) – Quantum-HPC Supercomputing: From Fault-Tolerant Hardware to a Managed Scientific Ecosystem
- Dr. Roger Waleffe (NVIDIA, Senior Research Scientist) – Language Model Architecture
- Dr. Shashank Yellapantula (National Laboratory of the Rockies)
- Dr. Chaojie Zhang (Microsoft, Senior Research SDE) – Rearchitecting the Datacenter Lifecycle for AI
Special Events
- Age of Mixed-Precision: Algorithms, Libraries, and Applications; organizer: Dr. Piotr Luszczek (MIT LLSC & UTK ICL)
- Bridging Quantum and High Performance Computing; organizer: Prof. Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern Univ.)
- GenAI Opportunities and AI Challenges; organizer: Dr. Vijay Gadepally (MIT LLSC), Dr. Daniel Burrill (MIT LLSC), Dr. Christian Prothmann (MIT CSAIL)
- Fastcode @ HPEC; organizer: Dr. Bruce Hoppe (MIT)
- SPIRAL Tutorial: Accelerating AI and other workloads on GPUs, CPUs, and QPUs; organizers: Prof. Franz Franchetti and Naifeng Zhang (http://www.spiral.net/tutorial-spiral.html)
- MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge
- GraphBLAS Forum to Define Standard Building Blocks for Graph Algorithms; organizers: Dr. Timothy Mattson (HLG), Dr. Ben Brock (Intel), and Dr. Scott McMillan (CMU SEI)
- BRAINS: Building Resilience through Artificial Intelligence for Networked Systems; organizers: Dr. Sandeep Pisharody (MIT LL) and Dr. Thomas Hardjono (MIT)
- Scaling Research Computing Education; organizers: Dr. Julie Mullen (MIT LLSC), Dr. Hayden Jananthan (MIT LLSC), and Robert Thoelen III (Pratt & Whitney)
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