Call for Research Software Engineering Lightning Talks

Overview

The 35th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) will include a session featuring Research Software Engineering (RSE) for clouds, clusters, grids, big data, massively multicore, and extreme-scale computing systems.

We welcome lightning talk submissions of 2-page extended abstracts on the wide range of software developed for and by the HPDC community. The topics of interest focus on the software frameworks, development tools and RSE best practices for software projects in support of conference topics including but not limited to:

  • Cloud, Cluster, and Edge computing, Continuum platforms
  • Big data
  • Massively multicore systems
  • AI for systems
  • Systems for AI
  • Distributed computing
  • Hybrid memory systems
  • Disaggregated storage, accelerators, and memory systems
  • Quantum computing and data management
  • Extreme-scale computing systems
  • Distributed Storage Systems
  • Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and Analysis
  • Power-aware systems

Poster presentations will be held on one of the conference days between 14 and 16 July.

Important Dates AoE

  • May 1, 2026. Lightning Talk Submission Deadline

  • May 24, 2026. Notification of Acceptance (RSE Lightning Talks)

Calls
RSE Chairs
  • Karen Tomko
    Ohio Supercomputer Center, USA

RSE Lightning Talk Submission Guidelines

We invite authors to submit poster contributions in the form of a two-page extended abstract and a poster draft. Abstracts shall be submitted via the lightning talk submission website and should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (for LaTeX, use \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}; for MS Word use the template provided by ACM here).

Each submission should include a title, all author names and affiliations, notes on whether any of the authors are students, and an indication of which author is corresponding/presenting the material. Lightning talk abstracts will be reviewed by the RSE program committee through a single-blind process and will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  1. Submissions must describe research software engineering projects, best practices or software products related to HPDC topics of interest.
  2. Submissions can present work in progress, but authors are strongly encouraged to include preliminary results, software artifacts or links to public repositories as appropriate.
  3. Student submissions meeting the above criteria will be given preference.

Please submit your extended abstract here (link TBD). You can also reach the submission site by clicking on the blue submit button below.



Key Dates

Lightning Talk Submission Deadline: May 1, 2026
Notification of Acceptance (Lightning Talk): May 24, 2026

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