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 12th 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
BoF: Federated AI Hub¶
We also do have a BoF that will touch on similar topics Towards a European AI Hub - Learn more.
Sponsors¶
We found a sponsor to fund the boat trip. Thank you Do IT Now for beeing a recurring sponsor.
Agenda¶
| CEST | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Workshop Welcome | Christian Kniep | QNIB Solutions | ||
| Security | |||||
| 09:05 | Securing the HPC Container Lifecycle: From Supply Chain to Runtime Detection | Barbara Krasovec | Jozef Stefan Inst. | 📃 | |
| 09:30 | In-depth Look Into Unprivileged Containerization Solutions for HPC | Sergei Shudler | HPE | 📃 | |
| 09:55 | Containerized Usage of Programming Environments on Supercomputers | Alfio Lazzaro | HPE | 📃 | |
| 10:15 | Protecting data access in AI environments. | CJ Newburn | NVIDIA | ⚡ | |
| 10:30 | Panel Discussion | * | |||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| Components and Project Updates | |||||
| 11:30 | Sarus Suite: Cloud-native Containers for HPC | Alberto Madonna | CSCS | ⚡ | |
| 11:45 | Evaluating Checkpoint and Restore for Containerized Workloads on Spot Instances | Robin Allgeier | Uni Tübingen | 📃 | |
| 12:15 | Pause, Resume, Collaborate: Introducing the Checkpoint Restore Working Group | Adrian Reber | RedHat | ⚡ | |
| 12:30 | Panel Discussion | * | |||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| AI Factories | |||||
| 14:00 | HPC Containers for EBRAINS: Towards Portable Cross-Domain Software Environment | Krishna Kant Singh | FZ Juelich | 📃 | |
| 14:25 | Reproducibility and Performance by Containers for Distributed Machine Learning Applications | Felix Ruhnke | Uni Stuttgart | 📃 | |
| 14:50 | MetaHub: A Context-Aware OCI Container Registry | Christian Kniep | QNIB Solutions | 📃 | |
| 15:15 | Panel Discussion | * | |||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| Scheduling in HPC & ML/AI | |||||
| 16:30 | Provisioning and Scaling Bare-metal Slurm Clusters via Cluster API and Virtual Kubelets | Michele Tagliani | E4 Computer Eng. | 📃 | |
| 17:00 | It's not about just GPUs anymore | Eduardo Arango | NVIDIA | ⚡ | |
| 17:15 | Tesseracts on Kubernetes: A Production Architecture for Composable, Differentiable HPC Workloads | Astrid Walle | Pasteur Labs | ⚡ | |
| 17:30 | Panel Discussion | * | |||
| 17:50 | Closeout | Christian Kniep | QNIB Solutions | ||
| 18:00 | Workshop End |