SC26 Comes to Chicago: Our Group has 10 Papers, 4 Posters, and an Art of HPC Piece

Created on November 15, 2026

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SC26 is at McCormick Place in Chicago this year, November 15–20, and we are excited to have the supercomputing community in our own backyard. It is a short trip for our UIC students and Argonne colleagues, and a chance to show off the city.

On Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 pm, there is a special SC26 showing of Where Data Becomes Light: The Beauty of Scientific Visualization on ART on THE MART. The projection, a collaboration between Argonne and UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory, covers the 2.5-acre river facade of THE MART and brings work from past SC Art of HPC exhibits and Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcases to the city’s skyline.

Our group is part of 15 contributions to the program: a technical paper, nine workshop papers, four posters, and a piece in the Art of HPC exhibition.

Technical paper:

  • BitIR: Cross-Architecture Fault Injection for Resilience Analysis of Heterogeneous GPU Applications, Maisy Dunlavy, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan

Workshop papers:

  • AskALCF: A Self-Improving Agentic System for Intelligent HPC User Support (HUST-26), Jingyan Jiang, Akhilesh Bondapalli, Krishna Rauniyar, Murat Keceli, Yasaman Ghadar, Haritha Siddabathuni Som, Venkatram Vishwanath, Michael E. Papka, Rong Ge, Huihuo Zheng
  • CQTwin: A Digital-Twin Toolkit for Operational Analytics of HPC Schedulers (HPC-ODA), Kanglin Xu, Yash Kurkure, Yihe Zhang, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan
  • Distributed Volumetric Generation of Neuronal Morphology at Scale (AI4S), Jyotsna Rajaraman, Thomas Uram, Mark Hereld, Michael E. Papka
  • EcoShift: Performance-Aware Power Management for Power-Constrained Heterogeneous Systems (Sustainable Supercomputing), Zhong Zheng, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan
  • Execution-Path- and Restriction-Aware Autotuning for MPI Collective Operations (ExaMPI26), Kunting Qi, Hui Zhou, Ke Fan, Michael E. Papka, Sidharth Kumar, Rajeev Thakur
  • Heterogeneous Energy Characterization of GPU-Powered Datalog Engines (EESP 2026), Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Yihao Sun, Zhiling Lan, Swann Perarnau, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Michael E. Papka, Sidharth Kumar
  • Mechanism-Aware Analysis of Cross-Platform GPU Fault-Injection Outcomes (HPCTESTS 2026), Maisy Dunlavy, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan
  • N-VEG: 3D Gaussian Encoding for Neural Volume Compression (ISAV26), Eero Dunham, Qi Wu, Landon Dyken, Victor Mateevitsi, Silvio Rizzi, Joseph Insley, Mengjiao Han, Janet Knowles, Michael E. Papka
  • OPSERVE: Opportunistic LLM Inference over Fragmented GPU Capacity in HPC Systems (AI on HPC), Patrick Watters, Xiaolong Ma, Harry Yu, Ian Foster, Michael E. Papka, Lei Yang, Feng Yan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu

Posters:

  • OpenCosmo Visualization: In-Browser Exploration of Cosmological Particle Data, Idunnuoluwa A. Adeniji, Joseph Insley, Michael E. Papka
  • Toward HEPScore4GPU: Scaling and Power of Real HEP GPU Applications on the A100 and H100, Smita Darmora, Michael E. Papka
  • Field-preserving Gaussian Splatting for Interactive Visualization of Large-Scale Cosmological Simulations, Md Robiul Islam, Mengjiao Han, Joseph Insley, Janet Knowles, Victor A. Mateevitsi, Michael E. Papka, Silvio Rizzi, Steve Petruzza
  • VisKnacks: Agentic ParaView Visualization on HPC, Nicholas Synovic, George K. Thiruvathukal, Manish Mathai, Mengjiao Han, Joseph Insley, Janet Knowles, Victor Mateevitsi, Silvio Rizzi, Michael E. Papka

Art of HPC:

The work runs from resilience, power, and scheduling on leadership-class systems to agentic user support and new ways of seeing large scientific data. Congratulations to the students presenting this week.

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