The Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) is an active community-led forum for sharing industry best practices, techniques, tools, etc., for maximizing efficiency on Intel platforms and products. IXPUG SCA/HPCAsia 2026 Workshop is an open workshop on high-performance computing applications, systems, and architecture with Intel technologies. This is a half-day workshop with invited talks and contributed papers. The workshop aims to bring together software developers and technology experts to share challenges, experiences, and best-practice methods for the optimization of HPC, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics workloads on Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series, Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series, Intel® Gaudi®, Intel® FPGAs, and any related hardware/software platforms. The workshop will cover application performance, and scalability challenges at all levels — from intra-node performance up to large-scale compute systems. Any research aspect related to Intel HPC and AI products is welcome to be presented in this workshop.

Paper Topics of Interest

• Applications of AI to HPC (Machine Learning / Deep Learning)
• GPU applications and system software
• Application porting and performance optimization
• Vectorization, memory, communications, thread, and process management
• Multi-node application experiences
• Programming models, algorithms, and methods
• Software environment and tools
• Benchmarking and profiling tools
• Visualization development
• FPGA applications and system software

Paper Submissions

Paper submissions are welcomed via EasyChair. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Regular papers up to 18 pages with single column in PDF format including figures and references
• Short papers up to 10 pages with single column in PDF format including figures and references
• While the main conference is double-blinded, the review of this workshop will not be double-blinded.
• The paper format is described in the “Call for Papers” section of SCA/HPCAsia2026 at: https://www.sca-hpcasia2026.jp/submit/papers.html 

All accepted papers will be included in ACM Digital Library as a part of the SCA/HPCAsia 2026 Workshop Proceedings. For SCA/HPCAsia 2026, in order for papers accepted for the workshops to be published in the ACM Workshop Proceedings, the "paper type" of each paper is expected to be "abstract", "full paper", or "short paper". All paper types accepted by ACM are listed in the PDF file: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/papertypes-csvfields-current.pdf

Committees

Chair

• Toshihiro Hanawa, The University of Tokyo

Program Committee

• Aksel Alpay, Heidelberg University
• Glenn Brook, Cornelis Networks
• Steffen Christgau, Zuse Institute Berlin
• Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories
• Nalini Kumar, Intel Corporation
• James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
• Christopher Mauney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Amit Ruhela, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Venue

• Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan
  • 5-3-51 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to events@ixpug.org