Energy Efficient HPC State of the Practice Workshop 2026

6th Energy Efficient High Performance Computing State of the Practice Workshop
In conjunction with SCA/HPCAsia 2026
📅 January 26, 2026
🕤 9:30 – 16:30 (JST)
📍 Osaka, Japan 

Keynote 

Dr. Tan Tin Wee – Former Founding Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) Singapore;

Currently, 

Associate Professor and Co- Director, MSc Programme in Precision Health and Medicine, Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Della S. Lee Professorship in Mental Health and Digital Science, Mind Science Centre, National University of Singapore

BIO: Currently the Co-Chairman of the Asean HPC-AI-Quantum Task Force, Dr Tan Tin Wee is a pioneering force in Asia’s Internet, advanced networking and high-performance computing landscape. He was recently the founding Chief Executive of Singapore’s national supercomputing efforts, former Chair of the A*STAR Computational Resource Centre. As an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, Dr. Tan continues to influence global developments at the intersection of HPC, networking, and scientific innovation. Renowned as one of Asia’s earliest Internet pioneers, particularly in applications for the life sciences, he has spent more than three decades advancing computational biology, bioinformatics, and next-generation networking.  His contributions have earned numerous awards, international and regional recognitions including being an inaugural inductee in the Internet Hall of Fame alongside Internet luminaries like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. As  a proponent of environmentally green data centers, he was involved in establishing the data centre business of Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation Ltd in the early 2000s and listing the DC assets as  Keppel Data Centre REIT  on the Singapore Stock Exchange as a founding director in 2013 and building supercomputing DCs at A*STAR and NUS over the past 15 years. His leadership has shaped major HPC and advanced networking initiatives across the Asia-Pacific, including Singapore’s first high-performance Internet link to Internet2, the founding of the Bioinformatics Centre at NUS, and the establishment of national and regional cyberinfrastructure platforms, including the founding  of the SupercomputingAsia conference series. His current interests have expanded to Systems Thinking, Mental Wellness, Caregiving Research, Precision Health and Symbiotic Medicine.

Abstract 

As the performance, power, and heat density of supercomputers continues to grow — driven by the integration  of high-power heterogeneous components such as multi-core CPUs, GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth interconnects — coordinated strategies  across facilities, utilities, HPC systems, and applications are required to manage energy use, reduce environmental  impact, and ensure long-term operational viability.

The Energy Efficient HPC State of the Practice workshop will focus on the operational, infrastructural, and  environmental challenges of deploying and managing modern high-performance computing systems. The primary objective of this workshop is to capture and  disseminate best practices, case studies, and reproducible operational experiences from HPC centers, facilities,  and vendors worldwide. 

While energy efficiency has long been recognized as a critical constraint, sustainability metrics such as  greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, embodied carbon, and water consumption are now also coming into focus. This workshop will explore how to address these  challenges across the full lifecycle of HPC systems — from design and manufacturing through daily operations,  reuse, and decommissioning.

This year’s workshop also broadens its lens to consider AI infrastructure, which increasingly mirrors HPC  in system architecture and operational demands. There are lessons to be learned from the HPC community that should help with the operation of Megawatt-scale  AI racks, warm-water cooling, and hyperscale deployments. The convergence of these domains presents  an opportunity to align practices, metrics, and innovations in service of a shared future where performance and sustainability must coexist.

As part of this peer-reviewed workshop, we solicit papers that capture best practices, policies, procedures,  and technologies. The vision is to help the broader community benefit from these experiences. The papers are intended to identify use cases, lessons  learned, and best practices in design, commissioning, and operations.  The solicited papers will be generally  descriptive with concrete, reproducible, and empirical data gathered through surveys, case studies, and research for practice.