SC26 — The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

SC26 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, running 15-20 November 2026 at McCormick Place in Chicago, with the exhibition floor open 17-19 November. Jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM through TCHPC and SIGHPC, SC is the leading venue for original HPC research and combines a peer-reviewed technical programme with the largest supercomputing trade floor in the world. Papers are submitted across ten tracks — including a dedicated HPC for Machine Learning track — reviewed double-anonymously by three to four reviewers, and required to carry an Artifact Description appendix, with accepted work archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. The surrounding programme covers tutorials, workshops, Birds of a Feather sessions, research posters and a job fair. For scale: SC25 in St. Louis drew over 16,000 registrants and roughly 524-560 exhibitors, behind SC24's record 18,104 attendance.

• Camera-ready final paper deadlineAug 28, 2026
• Poster acceptance notificationSep 9, 2026
• Housing closesOct 10, 2026
• Standard registration closesOct 14, 2026
• Late registration closesNov 20, 2026

Date

November 15–20, 2026

Location

McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois

Format

Hybrid

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

IEEE Computer Society and ACM (TCHPC and SIGHPC)

Added

Jul 8, 2026

Updated

Aug 6, 2026

• ✓HPC Director and Centre Lead
• ✓Research computing leader
• ✓AI infrastructure architect
• ✓Systems and performance engineer
• ✓Computational scientist
• ✓PhD student and postdoc
• ✓Data centre and facilities lead
• ✓Government research programme manager

SC is where an enterprise building serious AI training or inference capacity gets to compare notes with the people who have already run these systems at national-lab scale — on interconnects, liquid cooling, storage bandwidth and the operational reality behind vendor spec sheets. The exhibition floor is now dominated by cooling and data-centre infrastructure vendors, which makes it the most efficient single place to shortlist a facility build. The technical programme adds what a trade show cannot: reproducible, peer-reviewed evidence on what actually scales. A technical-program pass at USD 700-850 before 14 October is unusually cheap for the depth on offer.

• ✓Technical papers programme across ten tracks: Algorithms; Applications; Architecture and Networks; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; HPC for Machine Learning; Performance Measurement, Modeling and Tools; Post-Moore and Quantum Computing; Programming Frameworks; State of the Practice; System Software and Cloud Computing
• ✓Full exhibition floor open 17-19 November 2026 (SC25 fielded 524-560 exhibitors)
• ✓One-day and two-day tutorials with their own registration tiers
• ✓Workshops programme, included in the Technical Program pass
• ✓Birds of a Feather sessions, research posters and panels
• ✓Job fair for HPC and AI infrastructure recruiting
• ✓Double-anonymous review with three to four reviewers per paper plus mandatory Artifact Description appendix
• ✓Best paper, best student paper and reproducibility-advancement awards; proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore
• ✓Digital Experience registration for remote attendance of the technical programme

• ★The only venue where the peer-reviewed HPC research programme and the world's largest supercomputing exhibition run in the same building — you can read the paper and then argue with the vendor selling the hardware it ran on
• ★Dedicated 'HPC for Machine Learning' paper track, so AI-at-scale work is reviewed on systems merit rather than benchmark leaderboards
• ★Mandatory Artifact Description appendix on every paper, with an optional Artifact Evaluation appendix and a dedicated reproducibility award — reproducibility is enforced, not encouraged
• ★The centre of gravity has visibly shifted from FLOPS to outcomes: SC25's Gordon Bell work centred on a sub-0.2-second four-step workflow on 128 nodes rather than peak performance, and independent observers described SC25 as the first SC where decision-makers openly chose AI over classical HPC in tradeoffs
• ★Where national HPC and AI policy gets announced — SC25 carried public-private infrastructure announcements involving Oracle and NVIDIA adjacent to DOE facilities
• ★In-person presentation is required for a paper to appear in the proceedings, so the authors of the work you care about are actually there

Registration opened 8 July 2026; standard rates close 14 October 2026 and late registration closes 20 November 2026. In-person Technical Program (includes workshops) is USD 700 member / USD 850 non-member / USD 300 student member on or before 14 Oct, rising to USD 900 / USD 1,050 / USD 400 from 15 Oct. Workshops only: USD 300 / 400 / 150 early, USD 400 / 500 / 200 late. One-day tutorials USD 600 / 700 / 200 early; two-day tutorials USD 900 / 1,100 / 300 early. Exhibits Only is USD 200 for the whole window. The Digital Experience Technical Program is USD 300 member / USD 400 non-member early, USD 500 / 600 late. Housing closes 10 October 2026.

When is SC26?

SC26 takes place November 15–20, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois.

Where is SC26 held?

SC26 is held in Chicago, Illinois. The event format is hybrid.

What is the SC26 submission deadline?

The next SC26 deadline is camera-ready final paper deadline on Aug 28, 2026. Remaining dates: Poster acceptance notification — Sep 9, 2026; Housing closes — Oct 10, 2026; Standard registration closes — Oct 14, 2026; Late registration closes — Nov 20, 2026.

How much does SC26 cost?

SC26 is paid. Registration opened 8 July 2026; standard rates close 14 October 2026 and late registration closes 20 November 2026. In-person Technical Program (includes workshops) is USD 700 member / USD 850 non-member / USD 300 student member on or before 14 Oct, rising to USD 900 / USD 1,050 / USD 400 from 15 Oct. Workshops only: USD 300 / 400 / 150 early, USD 400 / 500 / 200 late. One-day tutorials USD 600 / 700 / 200 early; two-day tutorials USD 900 / 1,100 / 300 early. Exhibits Only is USD 200 for the whole window. The Digital Experience Technical Program is USD 300 member / USD 400 non-member early, USD 500 / 600 late. Housing closes 10 October 2026.

Who should attend SC26?

SC26 is aimed at HPC Director and Centre Lead, Research computing leader, AI infrastructure architect, Systems and performance engineer, Computational scientist, PhD student and postdoc, Data centre and facilities lead, Government research programme manager.

What topics does SC26 cover?

SC26 covers High performance computing, HPC for machine learning, AI infrastructure and accelerators, Parallel algorithms and programming frameworks, Architecture, networks and interconnects, Data analytics, visualization and storage, Quantum and post-Moore computing, Performance measurement and modelling, Cloud-HPC convergence, Liquid cooling and data centre infrastructure.

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