Registration
Registration is open.
The registration form: https://events.plgrid.pl/e/kukdm26
Introduction
ACC Cyfronet AGH has been organizing the HPC Users' Conference since 2008. Its basic assumption was to initiate annual scientific meetings gathering users who perform calculations using high-performance computers and software provided by Cyfronet.
The topics of the KU KDM focus on large-scale calculations and simulations, new algorithms in computer science, tools and techniques in high-performance computing systems, as well as artificial intelligence methods and analysis of large data sets.
The conference offers lectures of invited guests and sponsors, plenary and poster sessions, meetings with suppliers of computer equipment and software, as well as discussions on the effective use of Cyfronet's computer resources.
The formula of the conference offers participants extended opportunities to improve the use of supercomputers in scientific research during group training and individual consultations with the PLGrid support team.
Date
April 13-15, 2026
Location
Hotel Bachleda Kasprowy, ul. Szymaszkowa 20, Zakopane
Event goals
- Presentation of Cyfronet's activities and information about hardware resources, software and services offered.
- Presentation of the latest directions in the development of computer and network architectures, including resources enabling quantum calculations.
- Review of the results of work carried out using the computational resources, mass storage and software available in Cyfronet.
- Meeting with representatives of manufacturers of hardware and software installed in Cyfronet.
- Training, consultations, discussions and exchange of information between users and Cyfronet employees.
Information for Paper Authors
We invite you to participate and to submit papers related to computations carried out using high-performance computers, mass storage, and software provided by Cyfronet, including computations performed with the PLGrid and LUMI infrastructures.
Papers will be accepted based on submitted abstracts.
An abstract in English (1–2 pages, max. 2300 characters) must be submitted by February 28, 2026.
Keynote speakers
- doc. Mgr. Vít Vondrák, Ph.D.,
VSB University of Ostrava, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre, Ostrava, Czech Republic
https://www.vsb.cz/personCards/personCard.jsp?lang=en&person=von15 - Dr. Olav Zimmermann, "The stubborn old protein folding problem in the era of ExaFlops, Qbits and AI",
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Jülich, Germany
https://www.fz-juelich.de/profile/zimmermann_olav - Dr. Marian Bubak, "Towards European Infrastructure for In Silico Medicine",
Sano Centre for Computational Medicine and ACC Cyfronet AGH, Krakow, Poland
https://sano.science/, https://dice.cyfronet.pl/
Program
Conference Outline:
Monday, April 13
- 11:00–18:30 sessions and training
- 19:00 dinner
Tuesday, April 14
- 9:30–18:00 sessions and training
- 19:00 dinner
Wednesday, April 15
- 9:00–13:30 training
- 13:30 lunch
A detailed program will be available at a later date.
Conference sponsors
The KU KDM 2026 sponsors are:
Platinum Sponsor
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Gold Sponsor
- E4 Computer Engineering Spa
- Integrale IT Sp. z o.o.
- VAST Data
- WASKO S.A.
Bronze Sponsor
- Arista Networks
- DataDirect Networks (DDN)
- IQM
Additional Information
Please report any questions or problems to: kukdm (at) cyfronet.pl
