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.
Submission Deadline: JUL 07, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: AUG 19, 2026
Camera-Ready Deadline: SEP 04, 2026
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Submissions to HPEC will be accepted through the CMT submission site. Please review submissions guidelines prior to submitting. Guideline can be found on the Submission Page.
We welcome input (hpec@ieee-hpec.org) on tutorials, invited talks, special sessions, peer reviewed presentations, and vendor demos.
2026 Distinguished Speakers
- Prof. Saman Amarasinghe (Perkins Prof EESC MIT; ACM Fellow)
- Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam (President New England Complex Systems Institute)
- Craig Connors (VP & CTO Cisco Infrastructure & Security)
- Prof. Danna Freedman (Keyes Prof Chemistry MIT, Quantum@MIT Director; MacArthur Fellow)
- Prof. Sigal Gottlieb (Chancellor Prof Math UMass Dartmouth; SIAM & AWM Fellow)
- Dave Martinez (MIT Lincoln Lab Fellow; IEEE Fellow)
- Dr. CJ Newburn (Nvidia Distinguished Engineer; NVIDIA IO and HPC software strategy architect)
- Prof. Daniela Rus (Viterbi Prof EESC MIT, CSAIL Director; AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, MacArthur & NAE Member/Fellow)
Special Events (Tentative)
- 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 Mike Franusich (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) and Dr. Hayden Jananthan (MIT LLSC)
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