Argonne @ ISC 2026

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At ISC High Performance 2026, Argonne researchers will present their latest work in advancing HPC and AI for science. Join us for sessions on programming novel AI accelerators, co-designing next-generation supercomputers, applying LLMs to HPC, large-scale benchmarking, and more. The lab's conference activities are highlighted below. 

ISC High Performance (June 22 - 26, 2026)

Building Scalable Agentic Systems for Science: Concepts, Architectures, and Hands-On with Academy

Tutorial
Argonne Speaker: Ian Foster
Date/Time: Monday, June 22, 2026, 9:00 AM–1:00 PM CEST

Programming Novel AI Accelerators for Scientific Computing

Tutorial
Argonne Speaker: Murali Emani, Varuni Katti Sastry
Date/Time: Monday, June 22, 2026, 2:00–6:00 PM CEST

Ranking Before Serving: Low-Latency LLM Serving via Pairwise Learning-to-Rank

Research Paper
Argonne Speaker: Michael Papka
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 4:00-4:20 PM CEST

Optimizing the Lifecycle: Performance, Efficiency, and Sustainability in HPC

Panel
Argonne Speaker: Valerie Taylor
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 4:00-5:00 PM CEST

AI Factories and Gigawatt Datacenters

Panel
Argonne Speaker: Jini Ramprakash
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 1:00-2:00 PM CEST

The Next Wave of Confluence: Agentic Workflows in HPC and Cloud

Birds of a Feather
Argonne Speaker: Michael Papka, Rick Stevens
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 2:15-3:15 PM CEST

European Systems and Software Summit (EQS3): Four Years, Four Themes and Eight Insights

Poster
Argonne Speaker: Laura Schulz
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 3:45–5:15 PM CEST

MonteQ: A Monte Carlo Tree Search Based Quantum Circuit Synthesis Framework

Research Paper
Argonne Speaker: Paul Hovland
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 4:00– 4:20 PM CEST

The Role of AI and the HPC-Edge Continuum in Urgent Science

Panel
Argonne Speaker: Nicola Ferrier
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 4:00–5:00 PM CEST

Co-Designing Next Generation Supercomputing Systems

Birds of a Feather
Argonne Speaker: Valerie Taylor
Date/Time: Thursday, June 25, 2026, 4:00–5:00 PM CEST

Quantum Computing and the Future of the Technical Workforce: A Cross-Sector Birds-of-a-Feather Session

Birds of a Feather
Argonne Speaker: Laura Schulz
Date/Time: Thursday, June 25, 2026, 4:00–5:00 PM CEST

Understanding Large-Scale HPC System Behavior Through Cluster-Based Visual Analytics

Paper
Argonne Contributors: Shilpika Shilpika, Yan To Linus Lam, Yun-Hsin Kuo, Venkatram Vishwanath, Michael E. Papka, Kwan-Liu Ma
Date/Time: Thursday, June 25, 2026, 4:20-4:40 PM CEST

7th ISC HPC International Workshop on “Monitoring, Observability, and Operational Data Analytics”

Workshop
Argonne Speakers: Kevin Brown
Date: Friday, June 26, 2026, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CEST

Workshop on Sustainable Practices for Reproducibility in HPC

Workshop
Argonne Speaker: Kate Keahey
Date: Friday, June 26, 2026, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CEST

3rd Trillion Parameter Consortium Workshop at ISC: Bridging the AI and HPC Gap

Workshop
Argonne Speakers: Murali Emani, Carlo Siebenschuh
Date/Time: Friday, June 26, 2026, 2:00–6:00 PM CEST

Multi-Agent Orchestration for High-Throughput Materials Screening on a Leadership-Class System

Workshop
Argonne Contributors: Thang Duc Pham, Harikrishna Tummalapalli, Fakhrul Hasan Bhuiyan, Álvaro Vázquez Mayagoitia, Christine Simpson, Riccardo Balin, Venkatram Vishwanath, Murat Keçeli
Date: Friday, June 26th, 2026

5th Workshop on Quantum and Hybrid Quantum/Classical Computing Approaches

Workshop
Argonne Speaker: Laura Schulz
Date/Time: Friday, June 26, 2026, 2:00–6:00 PM CEST