SDSC at SC26

Join SDSC in booth 4645 for the annual Supercomputing Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. SDSC will highlight our leading machines, showcase high-impact national projects and the impact brought to America’s researchers over the last 40 years. The SDSC booth is a community gathering spot so we look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

Subject to change

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16

• 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Building the National Innovation Ecosystem
  • A conversation with leaders from Academia, Government, Industry and Philanthropy
    
    • Chris Malachowsky, Philanthropist / NVIDIA Cofounder
    • Katie Antypas, U.S. National Science Foundation
    • Ian Fisk, Simons Foundation
    • Frank Wuerthwein, SDSC

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

• 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: From Curiosity to Qubits: Commercial Cloud Quantum Resources Through CloudBank
  • Sean Dague, IBM
  • Nick White, AWS
  • Microsoft Representative
  • Infleqtion Representative
  • Rob Fatland, UW Cloud & Data Solutions 
  • Shava Smallen, SDSC
• 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Break with Refreshments
• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: AI and HPC Infrastructure: Serving the Spectrum of National Users
  
  • Mike Norman (Expanse2 and CloudBank2), SDSC
  • Mahidhar Tatineni (NRP), SDSC
  • Igor Sfiligoi (Cosmos), SDSC
  • Amit Majumdar (Voyager), SDSC
  • Subhashini Sivagnanam, SDSC 
  • AMD Representative
• 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Powering the National Innovation Ecosystem
  • Accelerating Grid-Interactive Data Centers and Universal-Scale Storage
    • Brian Balderston, SDSC
    • Alderbuck Representative
    • Qumulo Representative
• 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Networking & Gathering

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

• 11:00 am - Noon: Building the National Data Ecosystem
  • Advancing Discovery and Innovation through the NSF National Data Platform and the DOE American Science Cloud
    
    • Ilkay Altintas, SDSC
    • Georgia (Gina) Tourassi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Break with Refreshments
• 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: NAIRR: Super Intelligence Infrastructure for Science
  • Introducing the NSF NAIRR Operations Center and the Future of Open and Accessible Research Infrastructure 
    • Brian Stone, Performing the duties of the NSF Director
    • Frank Wuerthwein, NAIRR-OC (Director and PI), SDSC
• 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: From Access to Impact: Discovery Highlights
  • Accelerating Neurodegeneration Discovery with Agentic AI Systems in C-BRAIN
    • Adith Jagadish Boloor, Washington University In St. Louis (WUSTL)
  • The Age of Agents: Agents, skills and MCP servers for CMS and the DOE Genesis Mission
    • Daniel Diaz, SDSC
• 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Networking & Gathering
  
  

Thank you to our sponsors!

TECHNICAL PROGRAM - Join the many SDSC staff participating! 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
10:30am - 10:45am | Location: W183b
hpcGPT: A Flexible Framework for Agentic User Support in HPC, Marty Kandes, Amit Majumdar, Paul Rodriguez

11:30am - 11:35am | Location: W175a
National Data Platform, National Research Platform and Open Science Data Federation: How they collectively enable data-intensive science, Fabio Andrijauskas, Frank Wuerthwein

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16
9:00am - 9:05am | Location: W181c
Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2026), Sandra Gesing

9:05am - 10:00am | Location: W175bc
The Relationship Between AI and Research Data Management, Christine Kirkpatrick

3:30pm - 4:00pm | Location: W183a
The Evolution of the Coaraci HPC Infrastructure: Operational Lessons from a Brazilian Research Computing Center, Fabio Andrijauskas

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
10:00am - 5:00pm | Location: Skyline Ballroom North Pre-Function
Agents of Intelligence: Lowering the Barrier to AI for Domain Scientists, Ilkay Altintas

12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W183b
The Status and Future of Unified Shared Memory in the CPU+GPU Ecosystem, Igor Sfiligoi

12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W180
Reproducibility of Computational Research: Building a Community of Practice for the AI Era, Sandra Gesing

3:30pm - 5:00pm | Location: W181abc
ACM Gordon Bell Climate Modeling Finalists Presentations, Session Chair: Ilkay Altintas

5:15pm - 6:45pm | Location: W183b
Blended Infrastructure for Advanced Computational Workflows: From Accelerated Discovery to Agentic Automation, Ilkay Altintas

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W185d
A Single Pane of Glass for AI Supercomputing: Interoperable Access Portals Worldwide, Ashley Atkins

5:15pm - 6:45pm | Location: W180
Inference Services and Agents on HPC: Scaling Scientific AI for Academic Community, Frank Wuerthwein

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
12:15pm - 1:15pm | Location: W190b
AI-Assisted Engineering in HPC, Sandra Gesing

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20
10:55am - 11:05am | Location: W178ab
From dispersed training materials to a centralized learning solution: The conceptualization of the SDSC Learning Hub, Fernando Garzon, Mary Thomas

11:18am - 11:30am | Location: W192b
Automated Task Placement for Hybrid HPC-Serverless Workflows, Tainã Coleman