From June 20 to 24, 2026, POP experts attended the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in sunny and beautiful Hamburg, Germany.

The International Supercomputing Conference is the world's leading event of its kind, attracting over 4,000 participants from around the world. The extensive conference programme includes a tutorial day before the event and a workshop day after, as well as a research and industry exhibition featuring almost 200 booths. The main conference days, from 21 to 25 June, saw POP experts present at the research exhibition booths of POP members BSC (#G32), IT4I (#J22) or JSC/HLRS (#K02).

POP expert Bernd Mohr (JSC) presented an overview of the POP CoE at the research booths of GCS and EuroHPC.

On the tutorial and workshop day (Jun 20), POP experts Christian Terboven (RWTH) and Xavier Teruel (BSC) contributed to the tutorials “Advanced OpenMP: Performance and 6.0 Features” and “Mastering Tasking with OpenMP 6.0”.

Finally, on June 26, POP organizes the 3rd edition of the workshop “Readiness of HPC Extreme-scale Applications”. This ISC workshop has been organized to provide a forum for HPC applications developers preparing for exascale to consider common challenges, ideas, solutions and opportunities. Following welcomes from the organizers, Marta Garcia-Gasulla (BSC) and Brian Wylie (JSC), the workshop featured six presentations from other European CoEs and projects, as well as an overview of the 'FugakuNEXT application portfolio' by Yasumichi Aoki (RIKEN R-CCS/Japan).

The workshop closed with a panel discussion with European HPC applications CoEs moderated by Guy Lonsdale (scapos/D). More details about the program as well as the slides presented can be found on the workshop homepage.