Workshop

2026 InPEx Workshop

April 22-25, 2025 – Niteroi (Brasil)

Workshop Presentation

Following the previous first InPEx meeting, the InPEx workshop held in Reims (France) in 2023, the InPEx 2024 workshop held in Sitges (Spain) and the InPEx 2025 workshop held in Kanagawa (Japan) the InPEx community will meet in April 2026 in Brazil. The workshop will gather around 120 experts in the HPC fields from Japan, the European Union, Latin America, Caribe and the United States.

Workshop topics

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The 2026 InPEx workshop builds on the results of the InPEx working groups and will address important topics of the current development of the Post-Exascale era:

  1. AI and HPC convergence
  2. Software Production and Management
  3. Digital Continuum and Data Management
  4. Quantum Computing

A detailed agenda of the event can be read below.

Date and place

The workshop will start on Wednesday 22d of April and will end at 1pm on Saturday 25th of April.

The workshop will be held in Brazil at the H Niteroi Hotel – Rua Dr. Paulo Alves 14, Inga, Niteroi – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Practical information for participants

Practical information concerning the organisation of the InPEx 2026 workshop can be found here.

Participants

Short bios of the workshops participants will be displayed shortly before the conference.

Funding support

This workshop has received financial support of the Brazilian Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI), the Advanced Computing System for Latin America and the Carribean (SCALAC) , Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) , Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) , Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) ,  Universidade Federal Fluminense – Instituto de Computação

(UFF)   and for the European participation of the French program NumPEx (Numeric for Exascale) .

Agenda

The agenda of the InPEx 2026 will be updated regularly

22d April 2026

18:00-20:00. Reception and dinner

23rd April 2026

08:30-09:00. Welcome onsite

09:00-09:15. Introduction to the workshop

Opening

Speaker TBC

Context and objectives of the meeting

Pete BECKMAN (Northwestern University) and Jean-Yves BERTHOU (INRIA)

09:15-10:30. Regional strategies around convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Computing - General roadmaps and projects

Japanese AI for Science mission

Chairman: Mohamed WAHIB (RIKEN)

Masaaki KONDO (RIKEN)

Japanese Quantum Computing Strategy

Chairman: Mohammed WAHIB (RIKEN)

Speaker TBC

US Genesis mission

Chairman: Pete BECKMAN (Northwestern University)

Rick STEVENS (DoE)

10:30-11:00. Coffee break

11:00-12:45. Regional strategies around convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Computing - General roadmaps and projects

US presentation on NAIRR

Chairman: Pete BECKMAN (Northwestern University)

Katie ANTYPAS (NSF)

US strategy on Quantum Computing

Chairman: Pete BECKMAN (Northwestern University)

Laura SCHULZ (ANL)

European AI Continent Action Plan

Chairman: Jean-Yves BERTHOU (INRIA)

Gosia NIKOWSKA (European Commission)

European AI Factories - some concrete implementations

Chairman: Jean-Yves BERTHOU (INRIA)

  1. Spain (Sergi GIRONA, BSC)
  2. Germany (Dennis HOPPE, HLRS)
  3. Finland (Janne IGNATIUS, CSC)
  4. France (Stephane REQUENA, GENCI)

12:45-14:15. Group photo and lunch

14:15-15:00. Regional strategies around convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Computing - General roadmaps and projects

European plans on Quantum Computing

Chairman: Jean-Yves BERTHOU (INRIA)

Martin SCHULZ (TUM)

Brazilian program in AI

Chairman: Carlos Jaime BARRIOS HERNANDEZ (INRIA)

Carla OSTHOFF (LNCC)

15:00-16:00. Presentation and discussion on the parallel sessions

Chairwoman: Rosa BADIA (BSC)

10 minutes of presentation per WG

10 minutes of general Q&A

  1. HPC/AI Convergence - Mohamed WAHIB (RIKEN)
  2. Experimenting large AI models for science "1000 scientists AI jam" - Franck CAPPELLO (ANL)
  3. Computing continuum - Gabriel ANTONIU (INRIA)
  4. International roadmapping effort - Raymond NAMYST (INRIA)
  5. GenAI and software engineering - Anshu DUBEY (ANL)

16:00-16:30. Coffee break

16:30-18:30. Subgroup session A1

Each subgroup works in parallel for 120 minutes.

  1. Experimentation Large AI models for science (session 1/1)

Chair: Franck Cappello (ANL) - Co-chair: Fabricio CARRARO (BSC)

  1. GenAI and software engineering (session 1/2)

Chair: Anshu DUBEY (ANL)

19:30-21:30. Reception and dinner

24th April 2026

08:30-09:00. Welcome onsite

09:00-11:00. Subgroup session A2

Each subgroup works in parallel for 120 minutes.

**Few participants will join remotely**

  1. HPC/AI convergence (session 1/2)

Chair: Mohamed WAHIB (RIKEN)

  1. Computing continuum (session 1/2)

Chair: Gabriel ANTONIU (INRIA) - Co-chair: Mario ACOSTA (BSC)

11:00-11:30. Coffee break

11:30-12:30. Presentation of subgroups A1 and A2 wrap-up and discussion

Chairwoman: Jack DONGARRA (U. Tennessee)

15 minutes per subgroup

12:30-14:00. Lunch

14:00-16:00. Subgroup session B1

Each subgroup works in parallel for 120 minutes.

  1. Computing continuum (2/2)

Chair: Gabriel Antoniu (INRIA) - Co-chair: Mario ACOSTA (BSC)

  1. GenAI and software engineering (session 2/2)

Chair: Anshu DUBEY (ANL)

16:00-16:30. Coffee break

16:30-18:30. Subgroup session B2

Each subgroup works in parallel for 120 minutes.

  1. HPC/AI convergence (session 2/2)

Chair: Mohamed WAHIB (RIKEN)

  1. International roadmapping effort (1/1)

Chair: Raymond Namyst (INRIA)

19:30-21:30. Reception and dinner

25th April 2026

08:30-09:00. Welcome onsite

09:00-10:45. Presentation of subgroups B1 and B2 wrap-up and discussion

Chairman: Jens DOMKE (RIKEN)

30 minutes for the following subgroups: 15 minutes of presentation/15 minutes of open discussion.

  1. GenAI and software engineering
  2. HPC/AI convergence
  3. Computing continuum

15 minutes for the following subgroup:

  1.  International roadmapping effort

10:45-11:30. Next steps of the InPEx initiative and conclusion of the workshop

Some perspectives EU/Japan/LAC/US

Preparation of the next InPEx workshop

Pete BECKMAN (Northwestern University) and Jean-Yves BERTHOU (INRIA)

11:30-13:30. Break and lunch

Presentation of the topics

Parallel sessions

International roadmapping effort

This session is dedicated to exchange regional roadmapping effort in AI/HPC/Quantum convergence.

GenAI and software engineering

Several questions will be adressed under this topic:

  1. Software heritage: an opportunity for digital resilience, sovereignty and reference data set for advance AI model training
  2. AI acceleration of development cycles
  3. Profiling oracles: AI-driven analysis to identify bottlenecks
  4. Trace-based learnings: collect structured traces to optimise partitioning and scheduling
  5. Trust and benchmarking: audit and validation of AI-generated HPC code / GenAI impact on training young generation

Experimenting large AI models for science, "1000 scientists AI Jam"

This session will be dedicated to share experiences from the US and Japan, initiate a European AI Jam and work on possible plans for international collaborations (for instance: Tri-Million Parameter Consortium – TPC)

HPC/AI convergence

This session will adress the following subjects:

  1. Model updates
  2. Training/inference at scale
  3. Data generation
  4. Drift monitoring
  5. Co-design

The following questions will be addressed:

  1. Co-design: Algorithms and architectures for transformers / foundation models
  2. Scalability: Memory limits, heterogeneous architecture, slow interconnects and low-precision
  3. Distributed learning: Train on inherently distributed data (simulation traces)
  4. Sovereignty: Build-vs-buy for European AI-HPC stack
  5. Data: Access, open models vs open data, PB-scale science datasets

Computing continuum

This session aims to continue the work started at InPEx 2025 aiming to build a representative picture of relevant active regional and international use cases of interest to explore expectations, design and effective implementation of computing continuum components.

During the previous sessions, each use case proposed challenges/roadblockers and initial approaches to tackle them. To help identifying commonalities, all use-case representatives have been requested to comment on the criteria identified and potentially propose new criteria if relevant.

Among the studied use cases we can mention:

  1. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a workflow-intensive project that would benefit significantly from operating across multiple infrastructures;
  2. High-energy physics (HEP) use cases;
  3. EsiWACE – a high-performance climate and weather benchmark;
  4. Urgent computing: facilitating trade-off management on the Edge – Cloud Computing Continuum for Urgent Science;
  5. Micro-meteorology control;
  6. Disaster digital twins.

This new session aims to complete the picture with other relevant use cases and additional challenges, to build an updated view on major existing projects addressing these challenges and to discuss on concrete operational steps to enable international collaborations in this area. The ideal outcome of the session is a solid updated vision on the aforementioned topics at an international level, which can serve as a basis for upcoming roadmapping documents and funding strategies.

Practical information for participants
 

Location

The InPEx 2026 conference will take place at:

H Niteroi Hotel

Rua Dr. Paulo Alves 14, Inga, Niteroi – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

https://hniteroi.com.br/