IEEE SC Conference 2026

IEEE SC Conference 2026 is held in Chicago, Illinois.

The Doctoral Showcase audience includes doctoral students nearing completion, prospective employers, and junior graduate students.

It is most useful for PhD students near graduation and for employers recruiting them, since the Doctoral Showcase lets students present a whole dissertation in a talk and poster, which differs from the format of papers and ordinary posters. Junior graduate students can use it to survey current high performance computing research, with speakers from places like AMD and the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center; practitioners wanting product-focused content would get less from the showcase portion.

Attendees at high performance computing and academic research conferences usually wear casual to business casual, such as jeans or slacks with a polo or button-down, and comfortable shoes for long days in a large city venue.