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Conference Update: PEARC'26 Proceedings on our OpenTOC site

Ewing "Rusty" Lusk Travel Scholarship Opens

The Ewing "Rusty" Lusk Travel Scholarship provides conference registration plus up to $1,600 in travel reimbursement to help graduate students attend the PEARC and SC conferences when they lack institutional funding support.

This scholarship is now open for SC travel scholarship applications.

Eligibility, deadlines, and how to apply:

Visit the Ewing "Rusty" Lusk Travel Scholarship page for complete details.

Ewing “Rusty” Lusk (1943–2022)

SIGHPC Immersion Program (SIGHPCI) webinar

Are you an undergraduate student new to HPC, AI, or research? This webinar is for you.

If you’re an undergraduate student curious about high-performance computing, AI, or research—but don’t yet have experience—the SIGHPC Immersion Program (SIGHPCI) at SC26 is designed to help you get started.

Join our 1-hour SIGHPC webinar to learn how the program:

Provides your first hands-on exposure to HPC
Connects you with mentors and a global HPC community
Opens doors to research and career opportunities

You’ll hear from SIGHPCI Chair Jamie Lewis and past participants sharing their experiences and advice.

May 7 | 11:00 AM ET
Join Zoom: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1619306957?pwd=PB37hifKEMu4APaHsCyCCh7RKNkn2g.1&from=addon
Meeting ID: 161 930 6957
Passcode: 614841

Call for nominations for biannual ACM SIGHPC Education Award

(Update: deadline extended to June 15, 2026)

The ACM SIGHPC Education Chapter seeks nominations for the 2026 iteration of the biannual Educational Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computational Science Education. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to computational, data-enabled science, and HPC education and training. We are seeking nominations for candidates who have led projects or programs that have made significant contributions to computational science education, including all disciplines and all education levels. The recipient will receive a $2000 cash reward and travel support to attend SC26.

More details, including nomination forms, are available on the SIGHPC Education website. Nominations consist of a statement endorsing the nominee and up to three letters of endorsement. Applications are due Sunday, June 15, 2026 AoE.

If you have any questions, please contact award@sighpceducation.acm.org

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026 Opens

This award is open to students studying anywhere in the world who have completed a PhD dissertation with HPC in the last year as a central research theme. The award is presented during the annual SC conference. The awardee is recognized with a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and travel support to SC.

Submit your application between April 1st and May 31st, 2026.

Eligibility, deadlines, and how to apply:

Visit the Dissertation Award page for complete details.

SIGHPC Immersion @ SC26 Applications Open

If you are early in your undergraduate studies and curious about careers in computing, AI, or working with powerful supercomputers, the SIGHPC Immersion program at SC26 might be a perfect fit for you.

This program can help you:

· Understand HPC and AI career paths you might not know exist
· Gain practical experience with cutting-edge computing topics
· Build a network of mentors, peers, and professionals
· Shape your academic and professional direction much earlier than usual

See more information and apply now.

Applications close May 29th.

An Update on ACM Open

Dear Members of the Computing Community,

We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable.

By transitioning to open access, ACM is supporting a publishing environment where:

Authors retain the intellectual property to their Work - All ACM authors retain the copyright to their published work while ACM remains committed to defending those Works against copyright and integrity related violations.
Published Work Will Benefit from Broader visibility and impact — Research will be freely available to anyone in the world, increasing readership, citations, and real-world application.
Students, educators, and researchers everywhere benefit — Whether at well-resourced institutions or in emerging research communities, everyone will have direct access to the full breadth of ACM-published work.
Innovation accelerates — Open access fosters collaboration, transparency, and cumulative progress, strengthening the advancement of computing as a discipline.

This transition is the result of extensive dialogue with authors, SIG leaders, editorial boards, libraries, and research institutions worldwide. We are grateful for the community’s consistent advocacy for openness and its commitment to ensuring that computing knowledge is shared widely.

As we move toward January 2026, here is some additional information and guidance:

Our goal is to make this transition smooth and supportive for everyone who contributes to ACM’s publications and conferences.

Thank you for your ongoing dedication to advancing computing research and practice. We look forward to continuing this work, together, in a more open and accessible future.

ACM

Come Visit SIGHPC at SC25!

2025 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting

The 2024 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting will take place on November 18, 2025 at 12:15-1:15 CT at SC25 in room 145. The annual business meeting of SIGHPC is your opportunity to hear about and discuss the status of SIGHPC and its chapters. We will also be discussing upcoming plans for the year. All of the elected officers and many of the other volunteers will be present to answer your questions about SIGHPC. Representatives from our chapters will also be available, as well as FREE COFFEE!.

SIGHPC Booth at SC25

Come visit the SIGHPC Executive Council and other members of SIGHPC at the SIGHPC Booth at SC25! The booth will be located near registration in the Washington Entrance Lobby.

Slides from Member Meeting and other SC25 content can be found:
SIGHPC @ SC25 Information

2025 SIGHPC Fellows Announced

ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the six recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2025. The fellowships are highly competitive and are awarded after a rigorous merit review.

The fellowship program, funded exclusively by SIGHPC, is intended to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women as well as students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the computing field. The fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world.

2025 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner Dr. Marcin Copik

ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Marcin Copik has won the 2025 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year. Nominations were evaluated on the novelty of the work, quality of scholarship, significance of the research contributions, and potential impact on theory and practice. The award includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'25) in November 2025.

Dr. Copik's dissertation research bridges the domains of high-performance computing (HPC) and modern cloud computing, confronting the critical challenge of resource underutilization in supercomputing systems by adapting and integrating serverless programming models in HPC. By conducting a comprehensive evaluation of a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing stack, his work represents a foundational shift in how HPC resources can be better managed and utilized to ultimately deliver a more efficient approach to supercomputing. Dr. Copik makes fundamental advances from the hardware interface up to system-level design and optimization, including RDMA networking in FaaS, co-location of HPC workloads, serverless disaggregation using ephemeral FaaS, and enabling efficient data movement and MPI-style collective communication algorithms essential for optimizing distributed serverless workloads. He also contributed the SeBS benchmarking suite for serverless functions that provides methodologies crucial for performance analysis in the emerging hybrid cloud-HPC computing environments. The dissertation further introduces Process-as-a-Service, a generalized programming model inspired by classical operating system processes, where serverless processes overcome the limitations of FaaS paradigms, effectively bringing the richer semantics of distributed applications into the serverless cloud environment.

"Dr. Copik received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where he was advised by Prof. Torsten Hoefler. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Sunita Chandrasekaran Named 2025 Recipient of the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has named Prof. Sunita Chandrasekaran as the 2025 recipient of the Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award.

She is recognized for leading groundbreaking GPU-accelerated workflows on Exascale systems, seamlessly integrating in-transit machine learning to transform scientific simulations and set new standards in exascale computing. The award is presented at the annual SC conference, the HPC community's most prestigious gathering.

Prof. Chandrasekaran, an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware (UD) and the Director of the First State AI Institute at UD, has emerged as a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). She holds the David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair, and serves as Vice Chair of the State of Delaware AI Commission. At the national level, she is an active member of DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) and ORNL’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD).

Ewing "Rusty" Lusk Travel Scholarship Opens

The Ewing "Rusty" Lusk Travel Scholarship provides conference registration plus up to $1,600 in travel reimbursement to help graduate students attend PASC, PEARC, and SC conferences when they lack institutional funding support.

This scholarship is now open for SC travel scholarship applications.

Eligibility, deadlines, and how to apply:

Visit the Ewing "Rusty" Lusk Travel Scholarship page for complete details.

Ewing “Rusty” Lusk (1943–2022)

SIGHPC SC25 Early Career & Student Travel Grants Open

SIGHPC offers travel grants to help undergraduate, graduate students, and early career professionals attend the SC conference.

Applications are now open, August 1 - September 5, 2025

Who's eligible:

Students: undergraduate or early graduate, enrolled in an accredited university in any country, and who are members of SIGHPC

Early career professionals: working in the high performance computing field in any country, who are members of SIGHPC, and have less than 7 years of full-time experience in the field.

Visit the Travel Grants page for details on eligiblity and how to apply.

Come Visit SIGHPC at SC24!

2024 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting

The 2024 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting will take place on November 19, 2024 at 12:15-1:15 ET at SC24 in room B201. The annual business meeting of SIGHPC is your opportunity to hear about and discuss the status of SIGHPC and its chapters. We will also be discussing upcoming plans for the year. All of the elected officers and many of the other volunteers will be present to answer your questions about SIGHPC. Representatives from our chapters will also be available.

SIGHPC Booth at SC24

Come visit the SIGHPC Executive Council and other members of SIGHPC at the SIGHPC Booth at SC24! The booth will be located in B Lobby.

Slides from Member Meeting and other SC24 content can be found:
SIGHPC @ SC24 Information

Amanda Randles TechTalk - ACM TechTalks

Register to watch a special free ACM-SIGHPC TechTalk, "Developing Vascular Digital Twins to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Care," that was presented on Wednesday, October 30 by 2023 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Amanda Randles, Professor at Duke University. ACM Distinguished Scientist Michela Taufer, Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Watch a recording by registering for the session, and continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner Dr. William S. Moses

ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. William S. Moses has won the 2024 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year. Nominations were evaluated on the novelty of the work, quality of scholarship, significance of the research contributions, and potential impact on theory and practice. The award includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'24) in November, 2024.

Dr. Moses' dissertation addresses how general-purpose compilers can efficiently support domain-specific abstractions. The tools he developed enable domain experts to exploit high-performance computing without becoming HPC experts themselves. His research work overturns the conventional wisdom that domain-specific abstractions must be implemented by source-code tools. For instance, Moses' Tapir compiler optimizes parallel code by embedding parallelism directly into the compiler's internal representation. Tapir now forms the basis of the open-source OpenCilk compiler. As another example, the Enzyme compiler showed that derivatives of arbitrary functions expressed as program code can be generated automatically, yielding significant performance improvement over source-based tools. A key advantage of Moses' compiler-based approach is composability, allowing seamless combination of compiler tools.

Dr. Moses received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, he is in his first year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Moses is also a researcher at Google Deepmind.

Dr. Kathryn Mohror announced as Winner of the 2024 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

Dr. Mohror is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Deputy Director of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She is recognized for her innovative and transformative contributions to HPC I/O and programming models and tools, as well as exemplary service and leadership in the HPC community. 

The Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award honors mid-career women within the technical and HPC sectors. The award is presented annually in recognition of the awardee’s technical contributions and impact in growing the HPC community through service and mentorship. The award is presented at the annual SC conference, the HPC community's most prestigious gathering.

Dr. Kathryn Mohror received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry, and her master’s and Ph.D. in computer science from Portland State University, Portland, OR. Throughout her professional career, she has received numerous honors, fellowships, and awards, including the 2022 Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program Fellowship, a 2019 DOE Early Career Research award, and R&D 100 Awards for the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart Framework (2019) and the UnifyFS file system (2024).

2024 SIGHPC Fellows Announced

ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the two recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2024. The fellowships are highly competitive and are awarded after a rigorous merit review.

Come Visit SIGHPC at SC23!

2023 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting

The 2023 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting will take place on November 14, 2022 at 12:15-1:15 MT at SC23 in room 505. The annual business meeting of SIGHPC is your opportunity to hear about and discuss the status of SIGHPC and its chapters. We will also be discussing upcoming plans for the year. All of the elected officers and many of the other volunteers will be present to answer your questions about SIGHPC. Representatives from our chapters will also be available.

2023 Annual meeting slides now available for download.

SIGHPC Booth at SC23

Come visit the SIGHPC Executive Council and other members of SIGHPC at the SIGHPC Booth at SC23! The booth will be located in Lobby A/F, right across from registration.

SC23 Information

Visit our SC23 page for more information, slides, and other materials from SC23 meetings and sessions.

Prof. Amanda Randles announced as Winner of the 2023 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

Dr. Amanda Randles is the 2023 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner. Dr. Randles is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University and holds positions with the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Engineering and Materials Science, and Computer Science. She is also member of the Duke Cancer Institute. She is recognized for her innovative work in developing new approaches to circulatory blood flow simulation at all scales of computing, as well as her dedicated mentorship and community service.

The Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award is unique in recognizing mid-career women in the technical and high performance computing communities. The award is presented annually in recognition of the candidate’s impact on her chosen field, as indicated by early career achievements and her commitment to growing our community through service and mentorship. The award is presented at the annual SC conference, the HPC community's most prestigious annual gathering.

Dr. Randles received her bachelor’s degree in Physics and Computer Science from Duke University, and her Masters and PhD in Applied Physics and Computational Science from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. She also served as a CA Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, and worked at IBM developing software for the Blue Gene series.

2023 SIGHPC Fellows Announced

ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the six recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2023. The fellowships are highly competitive, and are awarded after a rigorous merit review.

Students were nominated by their graduate advisors. Nominees spanned disciplines from computational biology and data visualization to mechanical engineering and deep learning for quantum systems. They represented large, mid-sized, and small institutions in countries around the world. More than 85% of nominees were female, and 71% identified as an underrepresented minority in their country of study.

2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner Dr. Keren Zhou

ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Keren Zhou has won the 2023 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year. Nominations were evaluated on the novelty of the work, quality of scholarship, significance of the research contributions, and potential impact on theory and practice. The award includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC’XY) in November.

Dr. Zhou's dissertation tackled the difficult research problem of understanding the performance of application codes accelerated on graphical processing units (GPUs), through the design and development of innovative techniques for performance instrumentation, measurement, and analysis, particularly in the context of the latest GPU technologies in use on high-end HPC platforms. His work not only made novel contributions to the state of performance art, but the methods have been integrated in real HPC tools and applied in the optimization of real-world heterogeneous HPC applications on modern supercomputers.

Dr. Zhou received his PhD in Computer Science from Rice University in 2022. Following completion of his graduate studies, Dr. Zhou worked as a member of the technical staff at OpenAI. Dr. Zhou will be an Assistant Professor at George Mason University starting in August 2023.