BigHPC 2026

The 4th Workshop on Big Data and High-Performance Computing

Affiliated with the 32nd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2026) – Pisa, Italy

Submit Paper Important Dates

Important Dates

Deadlines

BigHPC2026 Timeline (AoE)

Submission Deadline
(Full Papers)
May 15, 2026 May 29, 2026 (EXTENDED)
Submission Deadline
(Extended Abstracts)
May 19, 2026
Author Notification
June 26, 2026
Late Extended Abstracts Deadline
(fast-track review)
June 19, 2026
Camera-ready Deadline
(Full Papers only)
July 10, 2026
Workshop Dates
August 24-25, 2026 (Pisa, Italy)

Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

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Topics of Interest

Research Areas

HPC Architectures, Systems, and AI Workloads

HPC architectures and systems for big data and AI workloads.

Parallel and Distributed Data-intensive Computing

Parallel and distributed algorithms together with programming models for data-intensive computing.

Storage, I/O, and Data Management at Scale

High-performance storage, I/O, data placement, caching, burst buffers, and object storage at scale.

Performance Engineering for Data and AI Pipelines

Performance modeling, observability, profiling, and performance engineering for data and AI pipelines.

AI and ML Systems on HPC

Distributed training and inference, data pipelines, and accelerator-aware runtimes on HPC platforms.

Cloud-HPC and Edge-HPC Integration

Hybrid deployments, elastic resources, and workflow portability across cloud, edge, and HPC environments.

Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency and sustainability in large-scale data and AI processing.

Quantum-related Paradigms

Hybrid classical-quantum workflows, quantum machine learning for data-intensive tasks, and post-quantum security aspects in data and HPC contexts.

Organisation

Steering Committee

Patrizio Dazzi

Chair

University of Pisa

Marco Aldinucci

University of Turin

Beniamino Di Martino

University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

William Fornaciari

Politecnico di Milano

Marco Lapegna

University of Naples

Raffaele Montella

University of Naples “Parthenope”

Domenico Talia

University of Calabria

Emanuele Carlini

CNR-ISTI

Alessia Antelmi

University of Turin

Workshop Chairs

Massimo Cafaro

Workshop Chair

University of Salento

Beniamino Di Martino

Workshop Chair

University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

William Fornaciari

Workshop Chair

Politecnico di Milano

Program Committee

Michele Amoretti

University of Parma

Mario Bifulco

University of Turin

Robert Birke

University of Turin

Alessandro Celestini

IAC-CNR

Claudio Cicconetti

IIT-CNR

Massimo Coppola

ISTI-CNR

Biagio Cosenza

University of Salerno

Daniele D'Agostino

University of Genova

Andrea D'Urbano

IBM

Daniele De Vinco

University of Salerno

Diana Di Luccio

University of Naples "Parthenope"

Italo Epicoco

University of Salento

Sandro Luigi Fiore

University of Trento

Roberto Giorgi

University of Siena

Flavio Lombardi

IAC-CNR

Jacopo Massa

University of Pisa

Marco Pulimeno

University of Salento

Doriana Medic

University of Turin

Diego Romano

ICAR-CNR

Luca Roversi

University of Turin

Fabrizio Silvestri

Sapienza University of Rome

Massimo Torquati

University of Pisa

Paolo Trunfio

University of Calabria

Web Chair

Jacopo Massa

University of Pisa

Publicity Chair

Davide Rucci

ISTI-CNR

Saul Urso

University of Pisa

Corrado Baccheschi

University of Pisa

Program

Workshop Schedule

Session 1A: Workshop BigHPC 1

Room B

  • 09:00-09:30

    Paper

    Adaptive Distributed Inference for Heterogeneous Edge Clusters

    Daniel Suárez Labena, Vicente Blanco, Pedro A. Toledo and Francisco Almeida

  • 09:30-10:00

    Paper

    Combining Separate Parallelization Strategies: A Challenge for Data-intensive Computing

    H. Martin Buecker

  • 10:00-10:30

    Paper

    Analyzing Communication Schemes in Stencil-Based in SpMV

    Simone Staccone, Salvatore Filippone and Federica Montesano

  • 10:30-11:00

    Break

    Coffee Break

Session 2A: Workshop BigHPC 2

Room B

  • 11:00-11:30

    Paper

    RG32: A RISC-V Gaming Development Platform for Computing Architecture and Systems Education

    Raffaele Montella, Dario Caramiello, Carmine Coppola, Francesco Peluso, Catherine Alessandra Torres Charles, Genaro Sanchez-Gallegos, Diego Romano and Marco Lapegna

  • 11:30-12:00

    Paper

    Towards Compressed Label Propagation on Shared-Memory Systems

    Joao Alves, Kevin Tenolli and Siegfried Benkner

  • 12:00-12:30

    Paper

    High-Performance Resilient Multi-GPU Hybrid PIC MC Simulations at Scale

    Jeremy Williams, Stefan Costea, David Tskhakaya, Leon Kos, Ales Podolnik, Jakub Hromadka, Jordy Trilaksono, Yi Ju, Kallia Chronaki, Evangelos Gkolandas, Vassilis Papaefstathiou, Allen Malony, Sameer Shende, Frank Jenko, Erwin Laure and Stefano Markidis

  • 13:30-14:00

    Break

    Lunch Break

Session 3A: Workshop BigHPC 3

Room B

  • 14:00-15:30

    Paper

    Comparison of Quantum and High-Performance Computing to address Point-Pattern Matching in Archaeoastronomy

    Alberto Vecchiato, Beniamino Di Martino and Raffaele Maddaloni

  • 14:30-15:00

    Paper

    Edge-Oriented Object Detection: A Review across Industrial Inspection, Surveillance, and Medical Imaging

    Rida Maamoor and Antonio Esposito

  • 15:00-15:30

    Paper

    Benchmarking Lossy Compression for High-Energy Physics Data

    Florine Willemijn de Geus, Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano, Jakob Blomer and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu

  • 15:30-16:00

    Break

    Coffee Break

Session 4A: Workshop BigHPC 4

Room B

  • 16:00-16:30

    Paper

    Black-Box Autoscaling for Microservices Applications

    Fabio Gallone, Angelo Marchese and Orazio Tomarchio

  • 16:30-17:00

    Paper

    From HPC to Cloud: Evaluating Spark-Kafka Streaming Across the Computing Continuum

    Muhammad Arslan Tariq, Grégoire Danoy and Pascal Bouvry

The program can be subject to changes. Please check back for updates.