Abstract high-performance computing interconnects, robotics, and physical AI systems

8th Arm HPC User Group workshop

AHUG at ISC 2026

The Arm HPC User Group (AHUG) annual workshop gathers users, developers, system operators, researchers, and technology providers involved in the growing Arm for HPC ecosystem.Co-located with ISC High Performance conference (https://isc-hpc.com)

Location
CCH - Congress Center Hamburg, Germany
Date and time
09:00-13:00, friday, june 26, 2026

Overview

A practical forum for the Arm HPC ecosystem

{"The workshop covers a full-stack view of Arm in HPC"=>"silicon and hardware platforms, site updates from government and academic labs, application porting and tuning, cloud-based HPC, AI and machine learning acceleration, bioinformatics, analytics, edge-to-HPC workflows, co-design, and simulation techniques."}

The programme combines invited presentations and open community submissions to ensure a diverse set of talks across research, development, deployment, and operations.

Agenda

All times are shown as provided in the agenda draft.

Time Duration Session Speaker(s)
09:00-09:05 5 mins Welcome and Logistics
09:05-09:25 20 mins High-Performance LLM Serving with vLLM and OpenVINO on Arm HPC Servers Abhishek Jain (Fujitsu)
09:25-09:55 20 mins Breaking a Quantum Record on JUPITER Andreas Herten (JSC)
09:55-10:15 20 mins
  • High-fidelity particle-in-cell simulations for the space charge compensation of hydrogen ion beams on Isambard3
  • Large-eddy simulation and multiphysics coupling for thermo-fluid and structural analysis on Arm-based HPC systems
 Stefano Rolfo (STFC)
10:15-10:35 20 mins Accelerating Sequence Alignment on Arm using SIMD Instructions Cristian Iniguez (BSC)
10:35-10:55 20 mins Benchmarking the ECMWF IFS weather model on Arm CPUs Ioan Hadade (ECMWF)
11:00-11:30 30 mins Coffee break
11:30-11:45 15 mins Outcomes of co-design activities on Arm with European Domain Specific Benchmark Erwan Raffin (BULL)
11:45-12:00 15 mins A cross-platform evaluation of parallel profiling tools on modern HPC systems: Arm vs x86 Samar Aseeri (KAUST)
12:00-12:15 15 mins TPBench: Agile Micro Benchmarking for Many-Core Systems James Lin (SJTU)
12:15-12:30 15 mins An Overview of the Maturity of Kokkos for AArch64 Etienne Renault (SiPearl)
12:30-12:45 15 mins FugakuNEXT and FUJITSU-MONAKA series Yoshihiro Kusano (Fujitsu)
12:45-12:50 5 mins Silicon vendor pitch: NVIDIA Vera CPU Filippo Spiga (NVIDIA)
12:50-12:55 5 mins Silicon vendor pitch: Arm AGI CPU Conrad Hillairet (Arm)
13:00 Closing Remarks

Scope

Topics for 2026

Programming for Arm-compatible platforms SVE and SME vectorization strategies Developer tools for Arm CPU-only and accelerated Arm systems Co-design and simulation-based exploration Edge-to-datacentre intelligent computing Community actions for software ecosystem maturity

People

Chairs and programme committee

Workshop chair

Filippo Spiga

NVIDIA Corporation

Workshop chair

Conrad Hillairet

Arm Ltd

Workshop chair

Brendan Bouffler

AWS

Programme committee

  • Simon McIntosh-Smith, BriCS - University of Bristol
  • Miwako Tsuji, RIKEN R-CCS
  • Nikolay Simakov, University at Buffalo
  • Filippo Mantovani, BSC
  • John Cazes, TACC
  • Vincent Casillas, SiPearl
  • Andreas Herten, JSC
  • Norihisa Fujita, University of Tsukuba

After the workshop

Keep the conversation going

AHUG will use this site to collect edition pages and shared materials. Slides and supporting links can be added to this page after the workshop.

Diversity and inclusion

AHUG aims for broad promotion, gender balance, early-career speaker opportunities, and geographic balance across speakers, panelists, and committee members.