EVL at SC26 in Chicago
SC26, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, comes to Chicago November 15–20. EVL faculty and students, with collaborators at Argonne National Laboratory and elsewhere, will be there with a technical paper, nine workshop papers, five posters, and an Art of HPC piece that will also be screened on the Chicago Riverwalk.
Technical paper
Maisy Dunlavy, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan. “BitIR: Cross-Architecture Fault Injection for Resilience Analysis of Heterogeneous GPU Applications.” SC26 Technical Papers, Thursday, November 19, 9:15–9:37am, Room W176abc.
Workshops
Jingyan Jiang, Akhilesh Bondapalli, Krishna Rauniyar, Murat Keceli, Yasaman Ghadar, Haritha Siddabathuni Som, Venkatram Vishwanath, Michael E. Papka, Rong Ge, Huihuo Zheng. “AskALCF: A Self-Improving Agentic System for Intelligent HPC User Support.” HUST-26 Workshop, Sunday, November 15, 9:35–9:50am, Room W178a.
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Yihao Sun, Zhiling Lan, Swann Perarnau, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Michael E. Papka, Sidharth Kumar. “Heterogeneous Energy Characterization of GPU-Powered Datalog Engines.” EESP 2026 Workshop, Sunday, November 15, 2:50–2:55pm, Room W175bc.
Jyotsna Rajaraman, Thomas Uram, Mark Hereld, Michael E. Papka. “Distributed Volumetric Generation of Neuronal Morphology at Scale.” AI4S Workshop, Sunday, November 15, 3:30–3:50pm, Room W183a.
Eero Dunham, Qi Wu, Landon Dyken, Victor Mateevitsi, Silvio Rizzi, Joseph Insley, Mengjiao Han, Janet Knowles, Michael E. Papka. “N-VEG: 3D Gaussian Encoding for Neural Volume Compression.” ISAV26 Workshop, Sunday, November 15, 4:50–5pm, Room W178b.
Patrick Watters, Xiaolong Ma, Harry Yu, Ian Foster, Michael E. Papka, Lei Yang, Feng Yan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu. “OPSERVE: Opportunistic LLM Inference over Fragmented GPU Capacity in HPC Systems.” AI on HPC Workshop, Monday, November 16, 2:01–2:13pm, Room W183b.
Kunting Qi, Hui Zhou, Ke Fan, Michael E. Papka, Sidharth Kumar, Rajeev Thakur. “Execution-Path- and Restriction-Aware Autotuning for MPI Collective Operations.” ExaMPI26 Workshop, Monday, November 16, 4:42–5:06pm, Room W175bc.
Zhong Zheng, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan. “EcoShift: Performance-Aware Power Management for Power-Constrained Heterogeneous Systems.” Sustainable Supercomputing Workshop, Friday, November 20, 9:40–10am, Room W179ab.
Kanglin Xu, Yash Kurkure, Yihe Zhang, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan. “CQTwin: A Digital-Twin Toolkit for Operational Analytics of HPC Schedulers.” HPC-ODA Workshop, Friday, November 20, 11–11:20am, Room W190b.
Maisy Dunlavy, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan. “Mechanism-Aware Analysis of Cross-Platform GPU Fault-Injection Outcomes.” HPCTESTS 2026 Workshop, Friday, November 20, 11:10–11:30am, Room W178ab.
Posters
Idunnuoluwa A. Adeniji, Joseph Insley, Michael E. Papka. “OpenCosmo Visualization: In-Browser Exploration of Cosmological Particle Data.” SC26 Poster Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 5:15–7pm, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function.
Smita Darmora, Michael E. Papka. “Toward HEPScore4GPU: Scaling and Power of Real HEP GPU Applications on the A100 and H100.” SC26 Poster Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 5:15–7pm, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function.
Md Robiul Islam, Mengjiao Han, Joseph Insley, Janet Knowles, Victor A. Mateevitsi, Michael E. Papka, Silvio Rizzi, Steve Petruzza. “Field-preserving Gaussian Splatting for Interactive Visualization of Large-Scale Cosmological Simulations.” SC26 Poster Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 5:15–7pm, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function.
Nicholas Synovic, George K. Thiruvathukal, Manish Mathai, Mengjiao Han, Joseph Insley, Janet Knowles, Victor Mateevitsi, Silvio Rizzi, Michael E. Papka. “VisKnacks: Agentic ParaView Visualization on HPC.” SC26 Poster Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 5:15–7pm, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function.
Matilde Restelli, Ke Fan, Aadirupa Saha, John Holmen, Sidharth Kumar. “Evaluating All-Reduce Operations in DDP Training with FABRIC: Framework for Architecture, Backend, and Reduction Interchange Comparison.” SC26 Poster Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 5:15–7pm, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function.
Art of HPC
Michael E. Papka, Daria Tsoupikova, Zainab Ahmed, Beth Cerny, Joseph Insley, Farah Kamleh, Krystofer Kim, Janet Knowles, Victor Mateevitsi, Julie Parente, Silvio Rizzi, Laura Wolf. “Where Data Becomes Light: The Beauty of Scientific Visualization.” SC26 Art of HPC Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 5:15–7pm, Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function.
Michael E. Papka, Daria Tsoupikova, Zainab Ahmed, Beth Cerny, Joseph Insley, Farah Kamleh, Krystofer Kim, Janet Knowles, Victor Mateevitsi, Julie Parente, Silvio Rizzi, Laura Wolf. “Where Data Becomes Light: The Beauty of Scientific Visualization.” SC26 Art of HPC Special Screening, Wednesday, November 18, 7:30–8pm, Art on THE MART, Chicago Riverwalk between Wells and Franklin Streets.
