EESP Workshop 2026

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

The EESP workshop fosters the exchange of innovative strategies, tools, and best practices to enhance energy efficiency across modern computing environments. With rising energy costs, increasing CO2 emissions, and growing pressure on power infrastructure, optimizing energy use is now critical for sustainable computing. The workshop explores how to balance performance, power, and sustainability, providing participants with a guidebook of actionable strategies for exascale, Tier-1, and Tier-2 centers. Through greener, cost-effective, energy-efficient practices, including system–application co-design, attendees gain a competitive edge in advancing sustainability. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, EESP promotes collaboration between HPC and AI communities to support environmentally responsible innovation. It offers guidance for system operators and facility managers on reducing Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and sourcing green energy, while helping users design energy-conscious experiments. EESP also addresses full-lifecycle sustainability, from system design and operation to reuse and decommissioning, and examines how HPC strategies can support energy-efficient AI infrastructure amid growing convergence. While current tenders often emphasize raw hardware metrics, the workshop highlights sustained (application) performance, rather than peak performance, as the key measure of long-term success.

EESP invites academia, supercomputing centers, industry, national laboratories, and policymakers to collaborate on advancing energy-efficient practices. To achieve end-to-end visibility and adaptability in energy usage, EESP emphasizes cross-layer innovation, encompassing advances in hardware, software, runtime systems and system-application co-design. This includes data-driven analytics and monitoring, energy-efficient methodologies, operational case studies, benchmarking frameworks, AI–HPC convergence, and sustainability metrics that extend beyond energy efficiency, such as carbon emissions. The workshop fosters dialogue between Tier-0/1 and Tier-2 centers to help adapt Tier-0/1 innovations for more constrained budgets. While investment priorities differ across tiers, challenges in software and applications remain universal, serving as a unifying link. It targets financial and technical solutions applicable to HPC clusters, data centers, and cloud infrastructures worldwide.