EduHPC-26 Technical Program
Sunday, November 15, 2026

Location: Room W176a, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

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Time*
Event
Presenters
9:00a

Welcome

Sushil Prasad, UT San Antonio and Suzanne J. Matthews, United States Military Academy

9:05a

EduHPC Featured Talk

Title: BURGS: Breaking the Perception Barrier in Undergraduate HPC Systems Research

Kirk Cameron

Boeing Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Computing, Virginia Tech

Abstract: Systems research can look intimidating from the outside: technically demanding, hard to enter, and disconnected from the things students care about. In this talk, I’ll share how the Broadening Undergraduate Research Group for Systems (BURGS) breaks that perception barrier by creating a welcoming community where undergraduates can engage directly in hands-on HPC systems research — and what we learned from more than 200 graduates along the way.

10:00a
Morning Coffee Break
 
10:30a

EduHPC Paper Session

Session Chair: Suzanne J. Matthews

  • 10.30a – Validation of a Parallel and Distributed Computing Instrument for Early Computing Research (Most Distinguished Paper Award) (Link to paper),
    Chris Bourke, David Bunde, Charlotte Gruner, Mary Smith, Xiaoyuan Suo
  • 10.45a – A Portuguese-Language Ecosystem for HPC Education; Design, Formative Development, and Evidence of Adoption (Link to paper),
    Gabriel Silva, Calebe Bianchini, Evaldo Costa
  • 11.00a – A Free Online Textbook and Interactive Exercises for Introducing Parallel Computing (Link to paper),
    Suzanne J. Matthews, Tia Newhall, Kevin Webb
  • 11.15a – An AI-anchored Pathway into HPC Practice: Design and Initial Evaluation of a Three-Day Summer School in Vietnam (Link to paper),
    Thanh Hoang Le Hai, Thin Nguyen Manh, Huy Nguyen Tuan, Nhan Nguyen Phuc, Thanh Nguyen Van Cong, Duong Nguyen Anh, Van Vo Tran Thi My, Trang Nguyen Thi Thuy, Luong Phan Hao, Hao Thoai, Nhan Tran Thien, Khanh Vo Huy, Dang Tran Hai, Nhien Ho Minh, Duc Le Dinh, Nam Thoai
  • 11.30a – From a Last-Week Add-On to First Day Practice: Three Years of Integrating MPI Performance Analysis into HPC Education with EduMPI Suite (Link to paper),
    Anna-Lena Roth, Jonas Posner

11:40a

Peachy Parallel Assignments

(Link to paper)

Joel Adams, Calvin University

  • 11:40a – Overview of Peachy Parallel Assignments,
    Joel Adams, Session Chair – Peachy Assignments
  • 11:45 – Power grid blackout: An assignment for OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA/HIP/OpenCL,
    Deigo Garciá-Álvarez, Yuri Torres, Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano
  • 11:53 – Parallel & Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs,
    Sriram Srinivasan, Hoda El Sayed, Hamdan Alabsi, Rand Obeidat
  • 12:01 – Green Eggs and MapReduce: An Unplugged Word-Frequency Assignment for Introducing Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts,
    Lisa Lacher, Uma Chinta, Nathan Bean, Richard Weiss
  • 12:10 – Peachy Q&A
12:20a

CDER Announcements

Sushil Prasad, UT San Antonio

12:30a

Closing