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 

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.