Call for Abstracts!

HPPSS is accepting submissions for talks that demonstrate the application of a technology that greatly enhance the performance and capability of Python at scale. Technologies that are applicable to a wide range of use-cases and accessible to a broad user base are of particular interest. Showing technologies applied to specific use-cases can be very helpful for the audience’s understanding, but be sure to show and discuss how they generalize.

Note that submissions will not be included in the SC proceedings. The purpose of the review process are to help us plan the event and provide feedback to submitters. Our intention is that this makes it easier for submitters and we get a broader engagement from the community. We plan to provide links to submissions through the HPPSS GitHub and website.

Important Dates

  • Submission opens: June 8, 2026

  • Abstract submission deadline: August 14, 2026

  • Decisions: September 4, 2025

  • SC26 conference: November 15-20, 2026

  • HPPSS half-day workshop: afternoon of November 15th

Interest Areas

Submissions in the following areas are well-suited for HPPSS:

  • packaging and Python user environments,

  • accelerated computing,

  • programming of federated/distributed workflows,

  • data management between Python libraries, processes, and with storage,

  • parallelization and asynchronous communication,

  • AI and agentic workflows

  • profiling and observability

How to Submit

Abstract Submission

We are using a simplified submission process this year. Each presentation submission must include:

  • short abstract (less than 100 words),

  • presentation description (less than 500 words),

Reviews will focus on the presentation description.

Submit abstracts through SC26 Submissions (SC Workshop: HPPSS) by the end of the day (AoE) 8/14/2026.

Optional Demo Video

Video recordings of demos should be submitted through Zenodo. Submitted recordings should include audio commentary describing the demo and what is being shown. Submissions accepted to the conference will have an opportunity to produce an updated video that should not include commentary. The presenter should be prepared to describe the demo video as part of their presentation (ie don’t just play the video and say nothing).

We have created a Zenodo 1 community: HPPSS – Zenodo for contributors to upload their video submissions for the workshop.

Zenodo Instructions

  1. Login / Create a Zenodo Account

  2. Follow the link to the HPPSS community submission page

  3. Upload your submission using the New upload button on the HPPSS community page

  4. Add appropriate metadata and populate fields with required information 2

  5. Fill in keywords

  6. Choose a license and determine access rights.

Additional References

1

Zenodo is an open system managed by CERN, OpenAIRE and the European Commission. Visit https://help.zenodo.org/ for more information.

2

Ignore the DOI field, Zenodo will assign / create one for you.