Annual High Performance Container Workshop at ISC'26¶

The High Performance Container Workshop series assembles thought leaders to provide the 'state of containers' and the latest trends since 2015.

For 2026 the 12^th Annual High Performance Container Workshop was accepted as a full-day workshop with proceedings and will be held in Hamburg on 6/26.

Friends of HPC Containers Boat Trip¶

Over the last couple of years we established the Friends of HPC Containers (Boat) Trip to assemble on the evening before the workshop (6/25, Thursday at approx 6:30PM). We will do something similar again - Learn more

Sponsors¶

To cover the costs we are looking for sponsors to fund the trip.

Tentative Agenda¶

We are going to revise the agenda as we getting closer to the conference. Please check in to stay up-to-date.

CEST	Title	Speaker	Affiliation	Type
09:00	Workshop Welcome	Christian Kniep	QNIB Solutions
	Components and Project Updates
	Pause, Resume, Collaborate: Introducing the Checkpoint Restore Working Group	Adrian Reber	RedHat	⚡
	Sarus Suite: Cloud-native Containers for HPC	Alberto Madonna	CSCS	⚡
	Evaluating Checkpoint and Restore for Containerized Workloads on Spot Instances	Robin Allgeier		📃
11:00	Coffee Break
	Security
	HPC Container Supply Chain Security	Barbara Krasovec		📃
	In-depth Look Into Unprivileged Containerization Solutions for HPC	Sergei Shudler		📃
	Containerized Usage of System-wide Programming Environments on Supercomputers: Lessons Learned and Best Practices	Sergei Shudler		⚡
13:00	Lunch
	Scheduling in HPC & ML/AI
	Provisioning and Scaling Bare-metal Slurm Clusters via Cluster API and Virtual Kubelets	Michele Tagliani		📃
16:00	Coffee Break
	AI Factories
	HPC Containers for EBRAINS: Towards Portable Cross-Domain Software Environment	Krishna Kant Singh		📃
	Reproducible and Performance-Optimized Environments for Large-Scale ML Applications	Felix Ruhnke		📃
	MetaHub: A Context-Aware OCI Container Registry for Hardware-Optimised	Christian Kniep	QNIB Solutions	📃
18:00	Workshop End