EURO-PAR 2026 WORKSHOPS: 32ND INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING WORKSHOPS
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, August 24th Tuesday, August 25th

Monday, August 24th

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09:00-10:30 Session 1A: Workshop BigHPC 1
Location: Room B
09:00
Adaptive Distributed Inference for Heterogeneous Edge Clusters (abstract)
09:30
Combining Separate Parallelization Strategies: A Challenge for Data-intensive Computing (abstract)
10:00
Analyzing Communication Schemes in Stencil-Based in SpMV (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1B: Workshop PECS 1
Location: Room B1
09:00
Welcome Message from the PECS 2026 Chairs
09:30
Energy-Aware Edge-Cloud Vision-Language Inference (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1C: Workshop WSCC 1
Location: Room C1
09:00
Welcome from the WSCC 2026 Chairs
09:15
Presentation of the ACM Chapter on Computing Continuum
09:25
Supporting QoS Across the Compute Continuum: Are We There Yet? (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1D: Workshops VHPC + GraphSys 1
Location: Room D
09:00
Welcome Message from the VHPC 2026 Chairs
09:05
A Kernel-Bypass Data Path for the DistWalk Distributed Workload Emulator
PRESENTER: Nicolò Mulè
09:30
Epico: Long-Lived WebAssembly Components for High-Performance Serverless Stream Processing
09:55
RASER: Resilient Agent Scheduling and Execution Runtime for HPC Clusters
10:20
Closing Remarks
09:00-10:30 Session 1E: Minisymposium EUPEX 1
Location: Room C
09:00
EUPEX Software Stack Overview
09:20
Building Ocean, an HPC Software Stack (abstract)
09:55
ParaStation MPI: A Scalable Execution Environment and Runtime for Modular Supercomputers (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 2B: Workshop PECS 2
Location: Room B1
11:00
FedE-ator: A Reproducible Framework for Studying Energy Consumption in Federated Learning Systems (abstract)
11:30
On the Suitability of the amd-pstate Driver for Frequency Scaling in Energy-Efficient Scheduling (abstract)
12:00
How Accurately Can the Energy Use of Spark Applications Be Estimated Based on Resource Utilisation? (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2C: Workshop WSCC 2
Location: Room C1
11:00
FPGA Implementation of a Chaos-Based Symmetric Image Encryption Algorithm (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cuong Pham-Quoc
11:25
LMEdge: A QoS-Aware LLM Inference Orchestration on Edge Clusters (abstract)
11:50
Replication-Aware Placement of Functions and Data in the Edge-Cloud Continuum (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dario D'Abate
12:15
WASP: A Configurable Framework for Portable Stateful Serverless Applications in the Edge-Cloud Continuum (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matteo Cenzato
12:40
Closing Remarks
11:00-13:00 Session 2D: Workshop VHPC + GraphSys 2
Location: Room D
11:00
The Case for Portable GPU Graph Processing: from Classic Algorithms to Molecular Matching (abstract)
11:30
GNN-Based Compiler Optimization Selection: A Comparative Study of AST, CFG, and PDG Representations (abstract)
12:00
HPC Anomaly Prediction with Feature Attribution and Temporal Causal Discovery (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jože M Rožanec
11:00-13:00 Session 2E: Minisymposium EUPEX 2
Location: Room C
11:00
ARGOS, a tool to get insights on applications in production environments (abstract)
11:35
Integrating Parallax KV Store with ECMWF’s Fields Database for High-Performance I/O (abstract)
12:10
Closing: Q&A / Panel Discussion (abstract)
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 3A: Workshop BigHPC 3
Location: Room B
14:00
Comparison of Quantum and High-Performance Computing to address Point-Pattern Matching in Archaeoastronomy (abstract)
14:30
Edge-Oriented Object Detection: A Review across Industrial Inspection, Surveillance, and Medical Imaging (abstract)
15:00
Benchmarking Lossy Compression for High-Energy Physics Data (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 3B: Workshop PECS 3
Location: Room B1
14:00
HPC Benchmark Game: Status Update and Language Extensions (abstract)
14:30
WAVE: A Workload-Aware Vessim Extension for HPC Sustainability Simulation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pedro Carvalho
15:00
Trace-Driven Energy Dispatch for HPC Clusters: Cost-Carbon Trade-offs under Grid Power Constraints (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 3C: Workshop RISE 1
Location: Room C
14:00
Welcome Message from the RISE 2026 Chair
14:05
Keynote: Optimizing Execution of Real-Time Distributed Services in Cloud/Edge Infrastructures (abstract)
14:40
Cost-Aware O-RAN Transport Dimensioning for Robotic Services in the Edge-Cloud Continuum (abstract)
15:05
Energy-Efficient SHA-3 Acceleration for Authentication in UAV Edge Networks (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 3D: Workshop Q-WORKS 1
Location: Room C1
14:00
Welcome Message from the Q-WORKS 2026 Chairs
PRESENTER: Paolo Viviani
14:05
Building an HPC-Oriented Quantum-HPC Hybrid Computing Platform: Design, Deployment, and Lessons Learned (abstract)
14:50
Optimizing the Execution Strategy of Node-Local Quantum Decision Trees via Circuit Batching (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mario Bifulco
15:10
Toward Fault-Tolerant Variational Optimization: QAOA under [[4,2,2]] Error Detection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matteo Child
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 4A: Workshop BigHPC 4
Location: Room B
16:00
Black-Box Autoscaling for Microservices Applications (abstract)
16:30
From HPC to Cloud: Evaluating Spark-Kafka Streaming Across the Computing Continuum (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 4B: Workshop PECS 4
Location: Room B1
16:00
Carbon-Aware Caching for tasks graphs at the Edge (abstract)
16:30
GreenPipe: Power Modeling for Containerized DNN Inference on Kubernetes Edge Nodes (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 4C: Workshop RISE 2
Location: Room C
16:00
vAccel-LO: Adaptive Hybrid Execution for Real-Time Edge-Assisted LiDAR Odometry (abstract)
16:25
A Study on Cooperative Edge Object Detection Using Adaptive YOLOv8 and Feature Fusion (abstract)
16:50
Closing Remarks
16:00-18:00 Session 4D: Workshop Q-WORKS 2
Location: Room C1
16:00
Quantum Excellence Centre for Quantum-Enhanced Applications (QEC4QEA) (abstract)
16:15
European Quantum Centre of Excellence (QEX) (abstract)
16:30
Operational Validation of Cloud-Native MLOps for Hybrid Quantum–Classical Machine Learning Workflows (abstract)
16:50
Polypus: A Distributed Quantum Computing Library (abstract)
17:10
FluxPulse: A Pulse-Level Simulator for Superconducting QPUs (abstract)
17:30
Q-CAR: A Noise and Congestion-Aware Deployment Scheme for Quantum Job Scheduling on Slurm Clusters (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jiwon Ha
17:50
Closing Remarks
PRESENTER: Paolo Viviani
Tuesday, August 25th

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09:00-10:30 Session 5A: Workshop HeteroPar 1
Location: Room B
09:00
Welcome Message from the HeteroPar 2026 Chair
09:05
Accelerated computing for the masses: programming a (NVIDIA) GPU today is nothing like 10 years ago! (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 5B: Workshop HiPES 1
Location: Room C
09:00
Welcome Message from the HiPES 2026 Chair
09:15
A Malleable Ad-hoc In-memory File System for HPC Ephemeral Data (abstract)
10:00
Völ: A domain-specific language and runtime for AI-native workflows (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 5C: Workshop EuroQHPC 1
Location: Room A1
09:00
Welcome Message from the EuroQHPC 2026 Chairs
09:30
QDMI in Practice: Connecting Quantum Backends, Cloud Services, and HPC Workflows (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 5D: Workshop FRAME 1
Location: Room C1
09:00
Welcome Message from the FRAME 2026 Chairs
10:00
Smart Adaptive Computing Across the Continuum: LLMs in IoT-Edge-Cloud Resource Management (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 5E: Minisymposium PEPSC 1
Location: Room B1
09:00
Welcome Message from the PEPSC 2026 Chairs
09:10
Semi-implicit PIC codes on current and next-generation supercomputers: lessons learned and future directions (abstract)
09:50
Recent Developments & Updates of The BIT1 PIC MC Code (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 6A: Workshop HeteroPar 2
Location: Room B
11:00
Execution-Guided LLM Translation of Parallel Programs: A CUDA-to-SYCL Study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ruben Laso
11:30
PortLBM: A Portable Lattice Boltzmann Tool Leveraging SYCL on AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alexander Strack
12:00
C++ Parallel STL on GPUs: A Performance Evaluation of CUDA and SYCL Backends (abstract)
12:30
Microbenchmarking modern AMD GPUs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Juan Ferrand
11:00-13:00 Session 6B: Workshop HiPES 2
Location: Room C
11:00
BiJuTy: An Interactive HPC-Aware Big Data Cluster Lifecycle Manager and Performance Assessment Utility for JupyterHub (abstract)
11:30
Resilient Metadata Orchestration: Enhancing Availability in Cross-Institutional Scientific Collaborations (abstract)
12:00
Unifying von-Neumann HPC and Neuromorphic Acceleration via the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure: A Framework for High-Performance Workflows (abstract)
12:30
A Reproducible Deep Learning Pipeline for Embryo Localization in Time-Lapse IVF Microscopy (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 6C: Workshop EuroQHPC 2
Location: Room A1
11:00
Mesoscopic Aware Hierarchical Layouts for Lattice Surgery Quantum Compilation (abstract)
11:30
From ECR to Generalized Gate Support: Extending the Qulacs Quantum Simulator (abstract)
12:00
Parallel QEC Decoding Applied to Distributed Quantum Computing (abstract)
12:30
Benchmarking Distributed Quantum Computing Emulators: Scalability, Fidelity, and Architectural Trade-offs (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 6D: Workshop FRAME 2
Location: Room C1
11:00
Structured Pruning for Efficient Transformer Inference: Edge to HPC Performance and Energy Analysis (abstract)
11:30
Improving the Performance of Inference Pipelines under Interference (abstract)
12:00
ContinuumBench: Benchmarking Joint Autoscaling and Placement Across Evaluation Regimes in the Cloud-Edge Continuum (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lanpei Li
11:00-13:00 Session 6E: Minisymposium PEPSC 2
Location: Room B1
11:00
On the Vectorization of BIT1 for RISC-V and x86 Architectures (abstract)
11:40
Simulating Matter under Extreme Conditions in the Exascale Era (abstract)
12:20
mallocMC: Performant and Portable Many-Core Memory Allocation (abstract)
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 7A: Workshop HeteroPar 3
Location: Room B
14:00
Energy-Performance Analysis of CPU-GPU Workloads Under Power Capping (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paweł Czarnul
14:30
RCC-Preserving Online Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous GPU Sharing with Finite Availability Windows (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gennai Yuki
15:00
Accelerating HLS-based FPGA Development in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 7B: Workshop HiPES 3
Location: Room C
14:00
The INTERSECT Scientific Data Layer An Ontological Framework for Data Provenance for Complex Scientific Workflows (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sheikh Ghafoor
14:30
A FAIR Cross-Backend Workflow for Latin America Energy Analytics on Commercial Hardware (abstract)
15:00
Spritz: An On-Demand Workflow for Air-Quality Impact Modeling of Wildfires and Arson (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 7C: Workshop EuroQHPC 3
Location: Room A1
14:00
Distributed VQE: Embarrasingly Parallel strategies on NISQ (abstract)
14:30
Implementing an Entanglement-Agnostic DEGGA via Virtual Quantum Communication using CUNQA (abstract)
15:00
Approximate Quantum State Preparation Through Proximal Policy Optimization (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 7D: Workshop FRAME 3
Location: Room C1
14:00
Controlling Fragility: Governance-Driven Spectral Dynamics for Phase Transitions in AI System Risk (abstract)
PRESENTER: Songhee Kang
14:30
A BLP Model for User-Centric Serverless Edge Container Placement (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hanna Kavalionak
15:00
Accelerating Dynamic Graph Clustering on GPU Architectures with cuGraph (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 7E: Minisymposium PEPSC 3
Location: Room B1
14:00
Accelerating Gyrokinetic Turbulence Code GENE-X on GPUs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jordy Trilaksono
14:50
In-Situ Techniques for GENE-X (abstract)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 8A: Workshop HeteroPar 4
Location: Room B
16:00
SYCL-HD: Parallel Framework for Hyperdimensional Computing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Leonel Sousa
16:30
Parameter Savings Are Not Memory Savings: Butterfly Attention on a Tile Processor (abstract)
17:00
Latent Motifs Discovery via Matrix-Accelerated IMF Modeling using GPU Tensor Cores (abstract)
17:30
Closing Remarks
16:00-18:00 Session 8B: Workshop HiPES 4
Location: Room C
16:00
Before Malleability: ParaStation MPI Runtime Performance Assessment (abstract)
16:30
Panel Discussion (abstract)
17:15
Closing Remarks
16:00-18:00 Session 8C: Workshop EuroQHPC 4
Location: Room A1
16:00
Practical Considerations for Processing Massive Classical Data via Quantum Oracle Sketching (abstract)
16:30
Workshop Discussion and Closing Remarks
16:00-18:00 Session 8D: Workshop FRAME 4
Location: Room C1
16:00
Panel - The Future of Efficient, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Computing (abstract)
17:00
Closing Remarks
16:00-18:00 Session 8E: Minisymposium PEPSC 4
Location: Room B1
16:00
Performance Engineering of a Highly Load-Imbalanced Hybrid-Vlasov Simulation at Scale (abstract)
16:40
MPI Pancake: Improving Communication Overheads in Large-Scale Hybrid-Vlasov Simulations (abstract)
17:20
Panel - Pushing Lighthouse Plasma Simulation Codes to Tackle Exascale-Enabled Grand Challenges
17:50
Wrap-up & Closing Remarks