HCW 2026 Program
The thirty-fifth Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW) will be held at the New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, USA, on May 26, 2026. This is an in-person workshop requiring prior registration. All times indicated on this page are in the Central Daylight Time (UTC-5) time zone.
The New Orleans Marriott is located at 555 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70130. HCW 2026 will be held in Salon GH.
Session 1: Introductions and Keynote Presentation (8:50-10:00 am)
Session Chairs: Seyong Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US) and Kamesh Madduri (Pennsylvania State University, US)
8:50 am
Welcome and Introductions, HCW’26 overview
9:00 am
Xipeng Shen, Professor at North Carolina State University, will deliver the HCW 2026 keynote.
Title: Efficient AI through and for Intelligent Programming Systems
Break (10:30-11 am)
Session 2: Panel Discussion (10:30 am-12:00 pm)
Panel Topic: Convergence of Heterogeneous Computing and AI
Panelists: Xipeng Shen (North Carolina State University, US), Keita Teranishi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US), Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University, US), Martin Kong (Ohio State University, US)
Lunch break (12:00-1:30 pm)
Session 3: Research Papers (1:30-3:00 pm)
1:30 pm
Greedy Adaptive Task Splitting with Prediction and Placement for Heterogeneous Systems
Thomas Morin (CNRS / Inria / LaBRI / Université de Bordeaux, FR), Samuel Thibault (CNRS / Inria / LaBRI / Université de Bordeaux, FR), Abdou Guermouche (CNRS / Inria / LaBRI / Université de Bordeaux, FR), Nathalie Furmento (CNRS / Inria / LaBRI / Université de Bordeaux, FR), Pierre-André Wacrenier (CNRS / Inria / LaBRI / Université de Bordeaux, FR)
2:00 pm
Heterogeneous Acceleration Framework for Unified Rendering of Hybrid NeRF-Mesh Representation
Yaqian Zhao (IEIT SYSTEMS (Beijing) Co., Ltd., CN), Xiaohui Zhang (IEIT SYSTEMS (Beijing) Co., Ltd., CN), Yuefeng Zhang (ShanghaiTech University, CN), Lihua Lu (IEIT SYSTEMS (Beijing) Co., Ltd., CN), Ruyang Li (IEIT SYSTEMS (Beijing) Co., Ltd., CN), Hui Wei (IEIT SYSTEMS (Beijing) Co., Ltd., CN), Xin Lou (ShanghaiTech University, CN)
2:30 pm
SkipPar: A Hybrid CPU-GPU Framework for Accelerating LLM Training via Efficient Scheduling of Parameter Updates
Dheemanth Joshi (Texas A&M University, US), Karthik Namboori (Indian Institute of Science, IN), Kevin Mahesh Kuriakose (Indian Institute of Science, IN), Sathish Vadhiyar (Indian Institute of Science, IN), Avanindra Singh (Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd., IN), Subhasis Banerjee (Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd., IN)
Break (3:00-3:30 pm)
Session 4: Research Papers (3:30-4:30 pm)
3:30 pm
Identifying and Addressing HMM Data Migration Overhead on NVIDIA GPUs
Nicholas Cassarino (UNC Charlotte, US), Tyler Allen (UNC Charlotte, US), Erik Saule (UNC Charlotte, US)
4:00 pm
AutoBAS: Automatic Topology-Aware Broadcast Algorithm Selection
Maren Wessel-Berg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO), Magnus Jahre (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO), Jan Christian Meyer (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO)
Session 5: Best Paper Award and Closing Remarks (4:30-5:00 pm)
Session Chair: Seyong Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
Best Paper Award
To Be Announced at HCW 2026.
Author Discussions and Closing Remarks