The High Performance Software Foundation is pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for HPSFCon 2026 are officially open! We invite the community to submit talks, discussions, and research that advance high performance computing and open source software. Submit to speak by January 11, 2026.
Submit your proposal here!
The second annual HPSFCon brings together HPC engineers, researchers, open source maintainers, and organizations building the software that powers next generation supercomputers, accelerated AI workloads, and large scale scientific systems. Whether you are deeply experienced in HPC or newer to the field, this conference offers an opportunity to contribute your expertise and connect with peers working across the ecosystem.
What we’re looking for
We welcome submissions for sessions, Birds of a Feather discussions, lightning talks, and posters across the following areas:
- Building and Sustaining Communities: Approaches for growing effective open source and HPC communities, lessons from other collaborations, methods for encouraging cross organization participation, strategies for supporting early career and underrepresented contributors, and perspectives from groups interested in partnering with HPSF.
- User Experiences: Insights into HPC needs in research, academia, and industry, challenges involved in setting up or scaling environments, experiences adopting HPSF supported software, and examples of HPC use in new or unexpected fields.
- Contributor Experiences: Maintainer and contributor stories, approaches for onboarding and supporting contributors, factors that shape an inclusive contributor experience, considerations when joining an established project compared to starting one, and guidance on collaboration with external teams.
- Project and Ecosystem Growth: Technical updates from projects, case studies demonstrating adoption in diverse domains, experiences deploying or scaling HPSF supported software, and reflections from projects considering HPSF membership.
- Productivity, Performance, and the HPC Pipeline: Workflows for building and deploying software in HPC environments, efforts to improve productivity and performance, DevOps practices for scientific software, and approaches for managing testing and access for external contributors.
- Trust, Security, and Open Collaboration: Challenges and solutions related to permissions, testing, and contributions from external collaborators, security considerations for open scientific software, and policies or tools that support safe and open development.
- Emerging Technologies and the Future of HPC: The evolving role of AI and ML at scale, ways modern software must adapt to new hardware and architectures, how HPC tools connect with other software ecosystems, and perspectives on the future direction of high performance software.
Registration + Sponsorship
Early Bird registration is available through January 30, so register today and secure your spot!
Sponsorship opportunities are also open. Supporting the conference provides a direct way to contribute to the continued growth of the high performance computing community and the advancement of open, community driven software.
See you in Chicago in March! 🍀