The premier international conference for high-performance computing, networking, and storage. 10,000+ attendees, a massive vendor expo, and a technical program that includes the Top500 list announcement.

Supercomputing sites are the proving ground for extreme density and cooling. The liquid cooling deployments, high-power-density rack designs, and fabric architectures presented at SC are a preview of what mainstream data centers will adopt as AI workloads scale up.

Produced by: IEEE Computer Society / ACM SIGHPC
Format: Conference + exhibition + competitions
Focus: HPC, AI infrastructure, networking, storage, scientific computing, exascale systems
Features: SCinet (custom research network), 43+ workshops, Student Cluster Competition, job fair
Registration opens: July 8, 2026