About the Workshop
ECHO brings together researchers and practitioners working across edge systems, cloud platforms, and high-performance computing environments. The workshop focuses on end-to-end workflows, system co-design, data movement, performance, reliability, and AI-enabled computing across the operational continuum.
Call for Papers
We invite original submissions on systems, software, runtime, networking, storage, data management, performance engineering, and AI-driven methods related to the edge-cloud-HPC continuum.
Topics of Interest
In-scope topics. We invite contributions on, but not limited to:
- Edge-cloud-HPC workflow integration and orchestration
- Distributed data management, movement, staging, and reduction
- Network-aware AI and communication-efficient learning systems
- Performance portability across heterogeneous computing platforms
- Cloud-backed scientific computing and HPC-on-cloud workflows
- Resilience, reproducibility, and observability in distributed systems
- Cross-layer optimization spanning applications, runtime, and infrastructure
- Operational continuum support for digital twins and scientific AI
- Performance optimization for edge/cloud AI
- Interfaces between edge, cloud, and HPC systems
- Cloud-based resource abstraction and virtualization for HPC workloads
- Performance modeling and predictability under multi-tenancy/elastic provisioning
- Efficient network-aware learning systems
- Evaluation methodologies: benchmarks, metrics, reproducibility
- Application-driven data movement optimization (e.g., smart agriculture, autonomous systems)
Out-of-scope (to maintain focus). We will de-emphasize contributions that do not connect to the workshop core question of what HPC technologies offer to edge/cloud computing or what changes in HPC-on-cloud/edge.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2026 (AoE)
- Author notification: September 5, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2026 (AoE)
- Artifact / AE materials due: September 26, 2026 (AoE)
Workshop Format
ECHO will be held as a half-day workshop in conjunction with SC '26 and will include invited talks, paper presentations, and discussion sessions around future directions for edge-cloud-HPC convergence.
Organizing Committee
- Dong Chen (Co-Chair), Colorado School of Mines, United States
- Jiannan Tian (Co-Chair), Oakland University, United States
- Jiajun Huang (Co-Chair), University of South Florida, United States
Steering Committee
- Sheng Di, Institute Fellow of NAISE, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Weisong Shi, IEEE Fellow, University of Delaware, United States
- Shiqiang Wang, IEEE Fellow, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Technical Program Committee
The list is sorted alphabetically by last name.- Daoce Wang (Chair), University of Nebraska Omaha, United States
- Sheng Di, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Liting Hu, University of California Santa Cruz, United States
- Peng Jiang, University of Nebraska Omaha, United States
- Qi Li, University of Oklahoma, United States
- Wei-Zhen Liang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States
- Robert Underwood, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Shiqiang Wang, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Miao Yin, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
- Keyang Yu, Marquette University, United States
- Kai Zhao, Florida State University, United States
Contact
For inquiries, please contact the workshop organizers.