40th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium

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New Orleans, USA
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The 40th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) provides a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. Taking place in New Orleans on May 25-29, 2026, Argonne researchers are serving on several IPDPS program committees, including Valerie Taylor (Applications), Ian Foster (Measurement Learning and AI), Zhiling Lan (Measurement, Performance, and Experiments), and Avinash Kumar Maurya (System Software). Swann Perarnau is Tutorials co-chair.  

Workshops 

A distinguishing feature of the IPDPS conference is the many co-located workshops. Argonne researchers are involved in several of these. 

HPC for AI Foundation Models & LLMs for Science (HPAI4S’26) will address high performance, scalability and energy efficiency of foundation models through a combination of system-level and algorithmic aspects, parallelization techniques, data reduction strategies and low-overhead checkpointing, as well as evaluation and benchmarking. 

Argonne organizers are Franck Cappello (General Chair), Bogdan Nicolae (General Vice-Chair), Avinash Maurya (Organizing Chair), Robert Underwood (Program Committee Chair), Romain Pereira (Program Committee member). 

Argonne paper presentations include (with Argonne co-authors listed below):

  • Generalizing Scaling Laws for Dense and Sparse Large Language Models — Xingfu Wu, Valerie Taylor 
  • Evaluating LLM Coding Agents on SZ-Family Lossy Compression Across Architectures — Sheng Di 
  • CelloAI Benchmarks: Toward Repeatable Evaluation of AI Assistants — Salman Habib 
  • Prefill/Decode-Aware Evaluation of LLM Inference on Emerging AI Accelerators — Venkatram Vishwanath 

8th Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE 2026) seeks to gain feedback and solutions to challenges facing edge computing, including control flows, infrastructure, data flows and applications. Argonne organizers are Yongho Kim and Seongha Park (Program Committee members) and Raj Sankaran (Workshop organizer).   

Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW) will seek novel ideas from both the research and industry communities on theoretical and practical aspects of computing in heterogeneous computing environments. Argonne organizer: Murali Emani (Technical Program Committee member).   

Sixteenth International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Emerging Systems (AsHES). This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators and heterogeneous designs on the hardware systems, porting applications, performing compiler optimizations and developing programming environments for current and emerging systems. Argonne organizer: Jiayuan Meng (Steering Committee member). 

7th Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analysis (ESSA 2026). This workshop brings together researchers and developers in data-related fields — such as storage, I/O, processing, and analytics — on extreme-scale infrastructures, including HPC systems, clouds, edge systems, and hybrid combinations to discuss advancements and potential solutions to the new challenges encountered. Argonne organizers: Matthiew Dorier (Program Committee member) and Franck Cappello (Steering Committee member). 

29th Workshop on Jobs Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2026). JSSPP aims to enhance scheduling techniques, reproducibility, and real-world impact by providing a forum for research papers, workload traces, and open problem descriptions.   

Argonne paper presentations include (with ALCF co-authors listed in bold below):

  • From Petascale to Exascale: Evolving User Behavior on the Polaris and Aurora Systems — Niccolò Brembilla, Zhiling Lan and Michael E. Papka
  • Fusing System Data to Navigate Power-Saving Opportunities — Melanie Cornelius, Greg Cross, Shilpika, Zhiling Lan, and Michael E. Papka
  • SafeWall: A Risk-Aware Job Walltime Recommendation for HPC Scheduling — Kanglin Xu, Zhiling Lan, and Michael E. Papka

Tutorials 

Building Scalable Agentic Systems for Science: Concepts, Architectures, and Hands-On with Academy.  This half-day tutorial will introduce participants to the design, deployment, and management of scalable agentic systems for scientific discovery.  Argonne’s Ian Foster is presenting.  

For further program details, visit the IPDPS 2026 website at ipdps​.org. 

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