HAMBURG, Germany, January 14 – ISC High Performance is pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Martin Schulz, a leading European expert in large-scale parallel computing, will deliver the ISC 2026 Opening Keynote. Titled “HPC: A Heterogeneous Future,” the keynote address on Tuesday, June 23, will focus on what he believes will be the most significant architectural shift in supercomputing history.
For decades, high performance computing (HPC) advancements followed the steady progression of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling. As these trends have slowed dramatically, the industry faces a “complexity wall” where data movement, memory bandwidth, and energy efficiency have become the main challenges to future gains in supercomputing performance.
Schulz argues that small incremental changes, such as the shift to GPUs, are no longer enough. To succeed in the post-Moore era, the industry will need to adopt a radical shift toward integrated heterogeneity.
During his presentation, Schulz will explore emerging technologies, including quantum computing, neuromorphic architectures and photonics. Instead of viewing these various architectures as obstacles, Schulz will propose a strategy to turn this diversity into an advantage. The main highlight will be a real-world case study on quantum acceleration, showcasing a unified software stack that ensures portability and accessibility for HPC users of all stripes.
About Martin Schulz
Professor Dr. Martin Schulz brings decades of HPC experience to the ISC stage. He currently chairs the Department of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and serves on the board of directors at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ). His career includes pivotal roles at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Cornell University.
His research interests include parallel and distributed architectures and applications; performance monitoring, modeling and analysis; memory system optimization; parallel programming paradigms; tool support for parallel programming; power-aware parallel computing; and fault tolerance at the application and system level, as well as quantum computing and quantum computing architectures and programming, with a special focus on HPC and QC integration.
Schulz has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and currently serves as the chair of the MPI Forum, the standardization body for the Message Passing Interface. He was a recipient of the IEEE/ACM Gordon Bell Award in 2006 and an R&D 100 award in 2011.
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