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HPSF Community Summit 2026 Call for Abstract
Build the Future of High Performance Software with the High Performance Software Foundation. Join the the leading minds that drive the advancement of community-driven software solutions for performance, portability, and productivity in HPC: engineers, researchers, developers, and users, from academia, industry, and government laboratories alike. The first HPSF Community Summit in Europe covers all aspects of building software for HPC, from the users and contributors point of view, spanning small systems to the largest supercomputers, in link with AI, and accelerated computing, with a special focus on HPSF software. Join us to connect, learn, and lead the charge in transforming how we build and use software.
Learn what’s new with HPSF projects, give us feedback on your use of HPSF software, meet with project communities, and tell us how to grow and improve them. Submit an abstract for a presentation, or a poster and present your unique point of view and insight to explore together how open collaboration and a foundation for high performance software can unlock new possibilities for high performance computing.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
- Author Notification: 6 February 2026
Submissions should be made using the link at the end of page.
Submission guidelines
Any subject related to HPSF project is welcome, either from a user or contributor point of view, whether it covers technical or community and societal aspects.
Submission formats include:
- 20 minutes talks,
- posters.
Depending on the number of submissions, we might offer some submitters to switch submission type in order to be accepted, including 7 minutes lightning talks.
- Submissions will undergo a single-blind review process.
- Talk abstracts should target around 500 words and be no more than 1500 words.
- Poster submissions should describe the content of the poster in around 500 words and no more than 1500 words; attaching a draft of the poster is strongly recommended.
- Posters must be printed by the attendee and should fit in a standard poster stand intended for A0 portrait format.
- Generative AI may be used to improve grammar and style, and this should acknowledged. It must not be used to generate the content.
Suggested topics
Suggested topic for presentations and posters include (but are not limited to)
- HPSF Software from the user point of view:
- Successes and challenges in adopting HPSF software in your domain.
- Lessons learned setting up or scaling HPSF software for your use-case.
- Your needs as a user, in engineering, research, academia, industry, or any other field.
- Impact of a project being part of HPSF on its adoption andimage in your community.
- Showcase of HPSF software use in unconventional fields.
- HPSF Software from the contributor point of view:
- Updates and technical deep dives from projects.
- Factors that encouraged or discouraged you from contributing to a project vs. starting a new one. What makes a welcoming and inclusive contributor experience?
- Successes and challenges, lessons learned setting up a development model for open-source HPC software.
- HPC DevOps tools, practices, and automation strategies.
- Case studies of adoption or impact of HPSF software in unusual or emerging domains.
- HPSF Software from a community leader point of view:
- Strategies for attracting, onboarding, and supporting new contributors.
- Approaches to increase diversity and inclusion within technical communities.
- Lessons learned from other foundations and collaborations.
- Best strategies to encourage collaboration across different HPC communities and organizations.
- Handling permissions, testing, and code contributions from external collaborators; policies and tools that enable safe and open collaboration.
- HPSF in a larger ecosystem
- Collaborations with external contributors, project teams, or institutions.
- Stories from outside communities interested in partnering with HPSF.
- Projects interested in joining HPSF – motivations, benefits, and expectations.
- Adaptation of HPC software and infrastructure to an AI-driven ecosystem and new fields such as quantum computing.
- Evolving the software of today to handle the hardware of tomorrow.
