Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in the United States and other select countries are eligible to apply. School fees, meals, housing, and flights will be covered for all accepted students. The summer school will familiarize the best students in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange, and open up further career options.
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia are invited to apply for the 16th International High Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School. The school is held July 12-17, 2026 in Perth, Australia, and is sponsored by Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey) in Australia, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC), the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) in Europe, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Japan, along with other institutions in South Africa and the U.S.
Summer school topics
The summer school will familiarize the best students in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange and open up further career options.
Leading computational scientists and HPC technologists from partner regions will offer instruction in parallel sessions on a variety of topics. Sample technical topics include the following:
- HPC and big data challenges in major scientific disciplines
- Shared-memory programming
- Distributed-memory programming
- GPU programming
- Performance analysis and optimization on modern CPUs and GPUs
- Software engineering
- Numerical libraries
- Big data analytics
- Deep learning
- Scientific visualization
- Australian, Canadian, European, Japanese, and U.S. HPC infrastructures
Application and Cost
School fees, meals, and housing will be covered for all accepted applicants to the summer school. Reasonable flight costs will also be covered for those traveling to/from the school. The application deadline is 23:59 AOE on January 31, 2026.
For more information and to apply, please visit the International HPC Summer School 2026 event page.