ContinuumRI 2026 — The 2nd Workshop on Research Infrastructures for Experimenting across the HPC–Cloud–Edge Continuum
Co-located with CCGRID 2026, Sydney, Australia, May 18, 2026.
=======================================================
Important Dates:
Paper submission: February 15, 2026 (recommended)
Notification: March 8, 2026 (firm)
Camera-ready: March 15, 2026 (firm)
======================================================
Scope. We invite short/full papers on research infrastructures and experimental methods across the HPC–Cloud–Edge continuum, including use cases, operations, reproducibility tooling, and community building. Topics include (but are not limited to): emergent use cases; reproducibility; testbed features; continuum-ready infrastructures; experimental tooling and artifact sharing; usability; operations; impact evaluation; sustainability.
Description. The emergence of new opportunities in AI, advanced networking, edge computing, and IoT opens powerful avenues for scientific discovery—but also challenges our assumptions about the role and shape of research infrastructure (RI). Effective exploration of the edge-to-cloud-to-HPC continuum requires reconfigurable, at-scale RI where these challenges can be investigated and where new ideas can be developed, deployed, replicated, and shared as repeatable digital artifacts.
Such RI already exists in systems like Chameleon (US - www.chameleoncloud.org), SLICES (EU - https://www.slices-ri.eu/), FABRIC (US - https://portal.fabric-testbed.net/), and PAWR testbeds (US - http://www.pawr.org/), each addressing distinct—yet overlapping—parts of the problem.
ContinuumRI will bring together RI designers, operators, and users to exchange on: emergent use cases and modes of usage; operations and feature roadmaps that support teh computing continuum; interfaces and usability; reproducibility tooling and artifact sharing; building and sustaining RI user communities; evaluating impact and long-term sustainability for RI.
By focusing on clusters, clouds, and internet/edge computing—with an emphasis on experimental methods, reproducibility, and community building—ContinuumRI is a natural complement to CCGRID’s core topics and audience.
Topics of Interest
● Emergent use cases across the HPC–Cloud–Edge continuum
● Modes of usage (e.g., reproducibility, teaching with testbeds, training)
● Testbed/RI solutions and features (hardware diversity, orchestration, reconfigurability)
● Infrastructures enabling continuum research (data, compute, network programmability)
● Experimental tooling favoring reproducibility & artifact sharing
● User interfaces and usability for experiment design and execution
● Operations at scale (allocations, telemetry, security, federation)
● Impact evaluation of testbeds and RIs (metrics, case studies)
● Sustainability (funding models, governance, partnerships, incentives)
======================================================
Workshop Organizers
Kate Keahey (ANL/U. Chicago)
Gabriel Antoniu (Inria)
Christian Perez (Inria)
Alexandru Costan (UPB)
Program Committee (to be completed)
Panayiotis Andreou, UCLan Cyprus
Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Silvina Caino Lores, Inria
Alexandru Costan, UPB
Fraida Fund, NYU, Tandon
Are Magnus Bruaset, Simula, SLICES
Tamas Maray, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Jelena Mirkovic, SPHERE
Cédric Prigent, CNRS/INSA Lyon
Brecht Vermeulen, imec, SLICES
======================================================
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically, through EasyChair. The papers should be submitted in PDF, using IEEE format for conference proceedings. Paper length must not exceed 8 pages (including figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers determined to be under active review elsewhere will be rejected without review. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information.
Publication
All accepted papers will be published as part of the CCGRIDW proceedings (CCGrid Workshops proceedings). All previous CCGrid proceedings have been published by the IEEE and available online through IEEE Digital Library (EI indexing).