HPC4EES High-Performance Computing for Environmental and Earth Sciences

A workshop at the International Conference for High Performance Computing: Networking, Storage, and Analysis
November 15-20, 2026
Chicago, IL

About the Workshop

Workshop Topics

The HPC4EES workshop invites submissions covering a broad range of topics at the intersection of high-performance computing, AI, and environmental and Earth sciences, with particular emphasis on scalable modeling, robust simulation and forecasting, and reliable, efficient, and reproducible computational methods.

High-Performance Computing for Environmental and Earth Sciences

  • Large-scale weather and climate modeling and forecasting, including climate change and extreme events
  • HPC-enabled atmospheric modeling, including chemistry, air quality, and air-pollution simulations
  • Scalable Earth-system modeling, including ocean, coastal, cryosphere, and coupled atmo- sphere–land–ocean systems
  • High-performance geophysical and hazard modeling, including seismology, ground-motion, and disaster prediction
  • Scalable hydrology and water-resource modeling, including flood forecasting and risk as- sessment
  • Large-scale AI, machine learning, and statistical methods for environmental and Earth science applications
  • Digital twins and emerging HPC technologies for environmental sustainability and Earth- system science
  • Scalable numerical algorithms, solvers, and uncertainty quantification methods for envi- ronmental and Earth science applications
  • Performance portability, workflow design, and energy-efficient computing for large-scale environmental HPC workloads

Important Dates

July 1
2026

Workshop Paper Submission Opens

Notification: June 1st, 2026

August 7
2026

Workshop Paper Submission Deadline

Deadline: July 31, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE August 7, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE (Closed)

September 4
2026

Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification

Notification: September 4th, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE

September 25
2026

Workshop Camera-ready Paper Submission

Deadline: September 25th, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE

Nov. 15
2026

Workshop Date

Join us for the HPC4EES workshop at SC 2026

Organizing Committee

Sameh Abdulah

Sameh Abdulah

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Rosa Badia

Rosa Badia

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain

Dorit Hammerling

Dorit Hammerling

Colorado School of Mines, USA

Mario Acosta

Mario Acosta

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain

Program Committee

Mary Salvana

Mary Salvana

University of Connecticut, USA

Hari Dasari

Hari Dasari

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Javier Conejero

Javier Conejero

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain

Yan Song

Yan Song

The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada

Hua Zhou

Hua Zhou

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Josep

Josep de la Puente

Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Hirofumi Tomita

Hirofumi Tomita

RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan

Mohamed Wahib

Mohamed Wahib

RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan

Anshu Dubey

Anshu Dubey

RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan

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Bilel Hadri

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Kin W. NG

Kin W. NG

The University of Tennesse, Knoxville, USA

Xiran Zhang

Xiran Zhang

Skyverse Technology Co., China

Invited Speaker

Torsten Hoefler

Photo: Natalia Hoefler / ETH Zurich

Invited Speaker

Torsten Hoefler

Full Professor of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
Director, Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL)
Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

Biography

Torsten Hoefler is a Full Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where he directs the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL). He is also the Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and a long-term consultant to Microsoft in the areas of large-scale AI and networking. His research focuses on understanding and improving the performance of parallel computing systems, spanning computer architecture, parallel programming, algorithms, high-performance networking, weather and climate simulations, and distributed deep learning.

He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of Academia Europaea. His honors include the ACM Prize in Computing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award, and the inaugural ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and has contributed to the MPI standard.

Accepted Papers

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at HPC4EES 2026.

Adaptive Block Mixed-Precision Cholesky Factorization for Large-Scale Space-Time Gaussian Processes

Authors: Mary Lai Salvana

University of Connecticut, USA

Toward GPU-Resident Climate Models: A Feasibility Study on Lossy Compression for the Spherical Harmonic Transform’s Communication Bottleneck

Authors: Lorenzo Breschi, Flavio Vella

University of Trento, Italy

Modernizing Hercules for GPU-Accelerated Earthquake Ground Motion Simulation on NVIDIA GPUs

Authors: Wenyang Zhang, Yinzhi Wang

Texas Advanced Computing Center / University of Texas at Austin, USA

Efficient Bayesian Spatially Clustered Factor Analysis with Adaptive Parallel Gibbs Sampling

Authors: Lutong Li, Yiping Hong

Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Portable, High-Performance and Differentiable Ocean Simulations with Unstructured Grids in Julia

Authors: Arjit Seth, Joseph Kump, Andrew Nolan, Michel Schanen, Steven Brus, Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Luke Van Roekel, Balasubramanya Nadiga, Patrick Heimbach, Valentin Chiravity, William Moses

University of Texas at Austin; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Argonne National Laboratory; Saarland University; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rapid Earthquake-to-Tsunami Waveform Generation via Large-Scale Multi-GPU FFT Convolution Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Authors: Bowen Shi, Sreeram Venkat, Stefan Henneking, Omar Ghattas

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Paper Submission

We invite submissions of novel research on HPC-enabled methods for spatial statistics, environmental and Earth sciences for the HPC4EES workshop.

Submission Deadline

July 31st, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE)

August 7th, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE) (Closed)

Paper Format

IEEE format, 4-8 pages

Target Audience

Researchers and practitioners working across high-performance computing (HPC), spatial statistics, Earth sciences, and AI for Earth applications

Submission Portal

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