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23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

May 19–21, 2026 | Catania, Italy

The 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'26) took place at the end of May in Catania. Computing Frontiers is an interdisciplinary conference focused on emerging technologies across the broad field of computing. It brings together researchers exploring new computing models and paradigms, advances in hardware, systems and network architectures, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, IoT, and other areas shaping the future of computing.

The conference provides a forum for sharing and discussing forward-looking research, from embedded and wearable devices to supercomputers and data centres, with the aim of advancing scientific breakthroughs that support society.

This year, CINECA hosted the first edition of the SP4Sci workshop, organised by Nitin Shukla in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Salerno, Politecnico di Milano, and E4 Engineering. The workshop was aligned with several European initiatives, including SPACE CoE. Another highlight of the conference was the presentation by Alessandro Romeo, titled “On the Limits of Performance Portability in Directive-Based GPU Programming”.

More information about CF'26 can be found here: https://www.computingfrontiers.org/2026/index.html

Find out more about the SP4Sci workshop: https://sp4sci.github.io/

23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2026

May 18–21, 2026 | Beskydy mountains, Czech Republic

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2026 (HPCSE 2026) is a long-running international conference organised by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. The event brings together leading experts in high-performance computing, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, high-performance data analytics, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced visualisation to share results, exchange ideas, and launch new collaborations.

The conference attracted 84 attendees who gathered in the Beskydy Mountains in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Petr Strakoš from IT4Innovations took this opportunity and presented the poster “Multi-Resolution Grid Reconstruction for Efficient Volume Rendering of Large-Scale Simulation Data”, promoting the SPACE Centre of Excellence. His colleague Milan Jaroš who also attended the conference presented a poster related to the SPACE project, titled “Visualisation of massive black hole orbital decay in dark matter halos”.

More information about HPCSE 2026 can be found here: https://hpcse.it4i.cz/HPCSE26/index.php

Check the posters here: https://hpcse.it4i.cz/HPCSE26/program.php#posters

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2026

KUKDM 2026

April 13–15, 2026 | Zakopane, Poland

ACC Cyfronet has been organising the HPC Users' Conference since 2008. Its basic assumption is to initiate annual scientific meetings gathering users who perform calculations using high-performance computers and software provided by Cyfronet.The topics of the KUKDM focus on large-scale calculations and simulations, new algorithms in computer science, tools and techniques in high-performance computing systems, as well as artificial intelligence methods and analysis of large data sets. The conference offers lectures of invited guests and sponsors, plenary and poster sessions, meetings with suppliers of computer equipment and software, as well as discussions on the effective use of computer resources. A highlight of the conference was the series of presentations delivered by invited speakers and sponsors, including Elisabetta Boella from E4 Computer Engineering, who presented the activities of the SPACE CoE in her talk, “RISC-V: Performance, Platforms, and Potential in HPC.

More information about KUKDM 2026 can be found here: https://www.cyfronet.pl/en/events/our-conferences/kukdm-2026

High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation workshop

March 25–27, 2026 | Cluj-Napoca, Romania

The High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) workshop was held as part of PDP 2026, the 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, which took place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from 25 to 27 March 2026.

HPCMS focuses on the role of high-performance computing in modelling and simulation across scientific and engineering disciplines. The workshop provides a platform for researchers, developers, educators, practitioners, and experts to exchange knowledge on trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art advances in computational science.

We are pleased to share the information that the paper “Accelerating the Particle-In-Cell Code ECsim with OpenACC” received the Best Paper Award in the HPCMS session. The paper, authored by Elisabetta Boella, Nitin Shukla, Filippo Spiga, Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, Matt Bettencourt, and Maria Elena Innocenti, brings together expertise from academia and industry to push the boundaries of high-performance computing.

More information about HPCMS can be found here: https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/

Check the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.16624

High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation workshop

2026 CERN openlab Technical Workshop

March 4–5 | 2026 Geneva, Switzerland

The event took place at CERN between 4 and 5 March 2026, and it provided a perfect opportunity for the industrial partners to meet with the students and fellows working on common projects. The event featured technical talks, networking sessions, and a technology track dedicated to the industrial partners. At the 2026 CERN openlab Technical Workshop were also reviewed the R&D projects carried out during the last year and discussed future plans. The attendance was reserved for the CERN community, researchers, research institutions, and industry partners working, or looking to collaborate with CERN openlab. Elisabetta Boella from E4 Computer Engineering presented the results of the SPACE CoE in her presentation “Porting and Performance Assessment of a Gravitational N-body code on the RISC-V-Based Tenstorrent Wormhole accelerator". Her work demonstrates the potential of Tenstorrent RISC-V–based accelerators for scientific HPC by offloading an astrophysical N-body kernel with TT-Metalium, achieving over 2× CPU speedup and around 50% lower energy consumption while showing feasible multi-accelerator scaling despite NVIDIA GPUs still delivering higher absolute performance. Find out more details from her presentation or the recording of the session.

The abstract of the session: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1587839/contributions/6917157/

Link to the event: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1587839/overview

Astroinformatics 2026

February 23–27, 2026 | Cologne, Germany

Astroinformatics 2026 was hosted by the University of Cologne from 23 to 27 February 2026. Held within the focus of the Key Profile Area “Dynamics of the Universe” and DYNAVERSE, the conference continued a series dedicated to the latest advances in computational methods for processing and analysing astronomical data.

The event highlighted the growing importance of astroinformatics as an interdisciplinary field connecting astronomy, computer science, data science, and information technology. Its programme covered topics such as data mining, machine learning and AI, database management, visualisation, simulation integration, and e-science infrastructures.

Partners from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies contributed to the conference programme. Romain Chazotte took part in the “Confronting Models with Data” session, where he presented a talk titled “Improved O(2) Equivariance via Embedding in Zernike Polynomial Space”. His colleague Bernd Doser introduced a SPACE CoE poster focused on representation learning for Gaia XP DR3.

More information about Astroinformatics 2026 can be found here: https://ai2026.astro.uni-koeln.de/

Check the poster HERE

USC-C Computing General Assembly

March 9–13, 2026| Trieste, Italy

The SPACE Centre of Excellence was featured at the USC-C General Assembly, held in Trieste from 9 to 13 March 2026. Hosted at the Savoia Excelsior Palace, the assembly gathered INAF personnel working across data and computing technologies that support research, development, and innovation in astronomy and astrophysics.

The event focused on sharing competences and skills across ICT areas, including data management, archives, computation, software tools, networks, hardware, AI technologies, quantum computing, and digital infrastructures. It also provided opportunities to exchange experiences, discuss common challenges, and strengthen collaboration across the INAF community.

Two presentations highlighted key tools and developments connected to SPACE CoE. Luca Tornatore presented OpenGadget3, a cosmological simulation code used to model the formation and evolution of cosmic structures. The talk showcased ongoing developments aimed at improving its performance and scalability on exascale systems.

Nicola Tuccari introduced VisIVO, a powerful visualisation and data analysis environment designed to handle the increasingly large and complex datasets produced by modern astrophysical simulations.

More information can be found here: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/3368/

World RISC-V Days

February 23–27, 2026| Turin, Italy and worldwide

World RISC-V Days took place at the end of February 2026 as a global, community-driven event dedicated to connection, learning, and collaboration across the RISC-V ecosystem.

At the event organised by the SemiTO-V Student Team at Politecnico di Torino, Elisabetta Boella, HPC product specialist at E4 Computer Engineering, took the stage in front of an enthusiastic audience of students, educators, developers, and industry leaders. She showcased the latest work on RISC-V-based CPUs and accelerators developed within the framework of the RISCV4ASTRO, MaX CoE and SPACE CoE projects.

As a proud partner of RISC-V International, E4 Computer Engineering strongly believes in the strategic value of RISC-V, not only as a driver of innovation in high-performance computing, but also as a key enabler of European technological sovereignty. The event also offered an opportunity to highlight how the future of open computing is being built through collaboration across research, education, and industry.

More information about World RISC-V Days can be found here: https://riscv.org/world-risc-v-days/

HiPEAC 2026

January 26-28, 2026 | Krakow, Poland

The HiPEAC conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general-purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. Areas of focus and integration include safety-critical dependencies, cybersecurity, energy efficiency and machine learning. The HiPEAC 2026 conference took place in Kraków, Poland. Associated workshops, tutorials, special sessions, several large poster sessions and an industrial exhibition ran in parallel with the conference.

WORKSHOP
Centres of Excellence (CoEs) are initiatives supported by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, aiming at developing a robust software ecosystem for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Quantum Computing (QC) across academia and industry. These efforts are designed to deliver tangible benefits, particularly in addressing scientific and societal challenges. HPC and quantum computing are rapidly evolving disruptive technologies. Harnessing their full potential demands significant adaptations or even a complete rewrite of existing application codes. This presents a considerable challenge, as legacy algorithms must be re-engineered to perform efficiently on next-generation, heterogeneous supercomputing architectures.

The workshop titled “Rethinking scientific applications for exascale and emerging architectures: the Centre of Excellence challenge” built on the success of the workshops held at HiPEAC 2024 and 2025, continuing the dialogue among Centres of Excellence in HPC and the European Quantum Excellence Centres. It brought together researchers from different CoEs to share their experiences in modernising or developing algorithms for emerging architectures. Key challenges and potential solutions in porting CoE applications to cutting-edge platforms were discussed, fostering knowledge exchange within the community.
The event represented a remarkable opportunity to exchange best practices, explore innovative approaches, and strengthen collaboration across CoEs and the broader HPC community. To promote inclusivity, contributions from early-career researchers and scientists from underrepresented groups were encouraged.

This workshop was organised by several CoEs: ChEESE, EoCoE, Esiwace, Excellerat, Max, MultiXscale, POP and SPACE.

POSTER
SPACE CoE also took the opportunity to introduce its activities and especially flagship codes in the poster session. The poster “Scalable Parallel Astrophysical Codes for Exascale” was presented by Nitin Shukla from CINECA and Daniele Gregori from E4. It attracted many attendees of the conference and set the floor for further networking.

Find more details about HiPEAC 2026 at www.hipeac.net

SPACE HPC Winter School – The Future of HPC in Astrophysics and Cosmology

December 14-19, 2025 | Sesto Pusteria, Italy

The SPACE HPC Winter School was an onsite training that formed part of the larger event called “The Universe in a Chip: Final ICSC Spoke‑3 Meeting on HPC & Big Data in Astrophysics.” It took place in Sesto Pusteria (Italy) from 14 to 19 December 2025 and was hosted at the Sexten Center for Astrophysics.

A cutting‑edge infrastructure for HPC and big data management leverages both existing resources and upcoming technology. During the event, SPACE partners engaged with the strategic scientific fields of astrophysics and cosmos observations, which aims at the exploitation of cutting-edge solutions in HPC and big data processing and analysis for problems of interest in the following research areas: cosmology, stars and galaxies, space physics (earth, solar and planetary), radio astronomy, observational and time domain astrophysics, high energy astrophysics, cosmic microwave background, large scale structure of the universe, clusters of galaxies, multi-messenger astrophysics, and numerical simulations and modelling.

Throughout the programme, the main achievements of two initiatives – SPACE CoE and Spoke 3 of the National Centre for HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing – were presented through talks and poster sessions. The SPACE Centre of Excellence explained its aim of advancing to exascale paradigms seven of the most utilised European codes. The school facilitated knowledge exchange and integration of results across the projects. SPACE CoE prepared three dedicated sessions presenting exascale applications, machine‑learning and visualisation tools, as well as a hands‑on session offering practical tutorials on the SPACE exascale applications.

The school was delivered in partnership with the Italian National Centre on High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, a project created and managed by the ICSC Foundation. It is one of the five National Centres funded within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) promotes and supports research and development activities to advance HPC and big-data analytics.

More information can be found here: https://www.sexten-cfa.eu/event/icsc-spoke3-fm/

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