HiPC 2026 | December 16-19, 2026 | Bengaluru, India

Federated HPC

International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving & Collaborative High-Performance Computing

Scientific discovery increasingly depends on AI over large, distributed datasets — yet privacy rules, institutional policy, and the cost of moving data keeps those datasets apart. This workshop brings Federated learning and HPC together: training shared models across institutions without moving raw data.

In conjunction with HiPC 2026 WIP & full papers welcome
Timeline

Important dates (AoE)

Sep 1
Submission site opens
Oct 4
Full paper submissions due
Nov 1
Author notifications
Nov 9
Camera-ready version due
Dec 16
Save the date for workshop
Call for papers

Topics of interest

We welcome original research across the federated-HPC stack. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following six areas.

Orchestration

Scalable & orchestrated FL on HPC

  • FL orchestration on multi-cluster HPC environments
  • Integration with HPC schedulers and job managers
  • Multi-tier FL across data centres, clusters & the edge continuum
  • GPU- and accelerator-aware federated training pipelines
  • Containerised, reproducible FL
Trust

Privacy, security & trust

  • Differential privacy, secure aggregation, homomorphic encryption, MPC
  • Trusted execution environments & confidential computing
  • Robustness against Byzantine, poisoning & backdoor attacks
  • Membership, attribute & inference attacks and defences
Resilience

Heterogeneity, scheduling & resilience

  • Handling non-IID data and system heterogeneity
  • Resource-aware scheduling & load balancing for federated workloads
  • Fault tolerance in long-running federated HPC jobs
  • Energy-efficient and sustainable FL training on HPC
Applications

Scientific applications & domains

  • FL for healthcare & medical imaging, genomics, climate, materials, physics, remote sensing
  • Federated digital twins & simulation–ML coupling
  • Cross-facility, multi-institution scientific data collaboration
  • Federated foundation models / LLMs for science
Reproducibility

Algorithms, benchmarking & reproducibility

  • Optimisation & convergence for distributed/federated scientific computing
  • Personalised, multi-task & federated analytics for scientific workflows
  • Performance characterisation & benchmarking of FL on HPC
  • Datasets, benchmarks & artifact evaluation for reproducible federated HPC
Frontiers

Emerging directions

  • Cloud-native, serverless & cross-cloud federation for scientific HPC
  • Quantum-assisted & quantum federated learning
  • Edge-to-exascale federated intelligence

Submission & review

Early work-in-progress is encouraged alongside full papers — bring it to a forum of leading researchers in the field and build new collaborations.

Paper format

Up to Minimum 6 Pages (excluding references, figures, tables) and up to 10 pages (including references, figures, tables). double-column IEEE format (as per the conference), including references, appendix and everything.

Rigorous review

Each paper receives three reviews. Authors will be asked to raise any concerns in case of LLM-generated reviews, similarly papers will be desk-rejected with either of similarity or AI plagirisim.

Artifact evaluation

An artifact evaluation accompanies the review process to ensure reproducibility, such papers will be further forwarded for consideration of best paper.

Accepted papers will be published in a dedicated HiPC Workshops (HiPCW 2026) proceedings volume, assigned its own ISBN, and made available online.

All accepted papers must be presented in person by an author at the conference; must be supported by a full registration for the main conference.

Ready when submissions open

Submit via Linklings

The submission site opens by September 1, 2026. Full papers are due October 4, 2026.

Go to submission site

Keynote & invited speakers

Experts from academia and industry sharing perspectives on federated and high-performance scientific computing.

PV
Prabhakar Venkata
Chief Research Scientist
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
TP
TBD
Invited Speaker
Institution

Organising Team

High-Performance & Trustworthy AI Systems Lab · Dept. of CSE, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India

Workshop Chairs

VVD
Assistant Professor, IT · GVPCEW | Doctoral researcher, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India

Organising Committee Members (Doctoral Researchers, High-Performance & Trustworthy AI Systems Lab)

G
Garima
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
H
Harshvardhan
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
A
Anubhav
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
H
Himanshi
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
S
Sankalp
IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Steering Committee

CM
Professor, WMG · University of Warwick | The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK

Technical Programme committee

Anil Pradhan
Vaultree, Ireland
Dharmendra Prasad Mahato
NIT Hamirpur, India
Mahender Kumar
WMG, University of Warwick, UK
Medara Rambabu
GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India
Narendra Singh
SRM University, Vijayawada, India
Partha Sarathi Chakraborty
Inspiria Knowledge Campus, India
Ruby Rani
Newcastle University, UK
Sanjeet Kumar Nayak
IIITDM Kancheepuram, India
Santosh Kumar Mishra
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, India
Shri Prakash Dwivedi
G. B. Pant University, Pantnagar, India
Shweta Kushwaha
Bennett University, India
Srikanta Pradhan
SRM University, Vijayawada, India
Susil Kumar Mohanty
IIT Jodhpur, India
Swati Gupta
The NorthCap University, India
Ugur Atmaca
Abdullah Gul University, Turkey
Vikash Kumar Rai
National Forensic Sciences University, India