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08/12/2026

📸 photos are ready!

Looking for your PEARC26 headshot or photos from your time at the conference? Headshots and day-to-day event photos are now available in our read-only photo folder. Browse, find your favorites, and download the photos you’d like to keep or share.

View and download PEARC26 photos here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IlgW1XgGSkCaDuAmNjNV1S4D0qFpJiTP

08/12/2026

🎉 Celebrate 10 years of in style! 🎉

The Pop-Up Shop is open now, featuring special 10-year anniversary hats and jackets created to mark a decade of the PEARC community. Whether you’ve been part of PEARC from the beginning or joined us along the way, it’s a great chance to pick up some commemorative gear and celebrate this milestone with us.

🛍️ The pop-up shop is open through August 28, so don’t miss your chance to order: https://shoppearc26.vernonpromo.com/en/

08/11/2026

🎉 As we reflect on an incredible week at , we want to extend a special thank you to the ten leaders who joined us on stage for "Ten Years of : A Retrospective on our Roots, Communities & Connections."🎉

Moderated by John Towns, our past and present General Chairs: David Hart ('17), Sergiu Sanielevici ('18), Tom Furlani ('19), Gwen Jacobs ('20), Jackie Milhans, PhD ('21), Julie Wernert ('22), Shelley Knuth ('23), Shawn Brown ('24), Dana Brunson ('25), and Tabitha Samuel ('26) looked back on the moments, risks, and conversations that turned a new conference into a community.

A decade in, the through-line was clear in every answer, and on the storyboards our attendees filled out all week: the technical program brings us here, but the relationships are what we take home. As one note put it, what people learned at PEARC is that there is a community for them. 💙

Thank you to everyone who shared a story, and to our 44 Super Attendees who have been with us since 2017. Closing remarks from General Conference Co-Chairs Shafaq Chaudhry, Ph.D., Tabitha Samuel and Shava S. sent us off with plenty to build on.

Here's to the next ten: see you in for , July 11–15, 2027 with our amazing co-chair Kathryn Kelley and Hakizumwami Birali Runesha! 🎉

08/10/2026

🏆 Congratulations to the award recipients! 🏆

Thank you to Technical Program Co-Chairs Gladys Andino, PhD and Weronika Filinger, Awards Co-Chair Katharine Cahill, our track chairs, and the 241 reviewers whose work made these selections possible!

🥇 Phil Andrews Award (presented by John Towns):
Henry Neeman, Julie Wernert, Kathryn Kelley, Dana Brunson, James Wilgenbusch

📄 Best Full Papers
• Systems: Joshua Winchell, Dhruva Chakravorty, Sean Anderson, Julia Ma, Alan Chalker, Lissie Fein, Andrew Pasquale, William Horka, Marinus Pennings, Karen Tomko, Keegan Smith, Alan Sussman
• Applications: Esen Gokpinar Shelton, John-Paul Navarro, Dinuka De Silva, Eric Blau, Winona Snapp-Childs
• Workforce Development: Henry Neeman, Julie Wernert, Kathryn Kelley, Dana Brunson, James Wilgenbusch
• Research Software Engineering: Eric Melin, Nasir Eisty, Gregory Watson, Addi Malviya-Thakur

📝 Best Short Papers
• Systems: Bipin Gaikwad, Shraddha Singh, Manasvita Joshi, Nikolay Simakov, Thomas Furlani, Joseph White, Abani Patra
• Applications: Kevin Menear, Kadidia Konate, Sergio Iserte
• Workforce Development: Kerk Kee, Richard Knepper, Harmony Jankowski, Winona Snapp-Childs

🎓 Best Student Papers

• Full, Systems: Mingkai Zheng, Fangru Linghu, Sikan Li, Marty Kandes, Niall Gaffney, Ian Foster, Zhao Zhang
• Full, RSE: Md Ariful Malik, Jeffrey Carver, Nasir Eisty
• Short, Systems: Suné Toerien, Vele Nefale, Ntandoyenkosi Memela, Mubeen Dewan, Anand Patel, Quinn Reynolds, Charles Crosby, Bryan Johnston
• Short, Applications: Daniel Morales, Brian Lin, Mats Rynge, Christina Koch, Brian Bockelman, Miron Livny

📊 Best Poster: Nourin Shahin, Izzat Alsmadi

🖥️ Best Visualization: George Takahashi, Jake White

Read the award-winning work in the PEARC26 proceedings, now open access in the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3785462

👏 Awardees: tag yourself, your co-authors, and your institutions in the comments so we can celebrate you properly! With authors spanning many organizations, we'd rather you claim the credit than have us guess.

🎉 Congratulations to all and see you at in Raleigh! 🎉

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08/08/2026

🎤 The conversations at were made even richer by the expertise and perspectives of our Technical Track invited speakers! A special thank you to Vanessa Sochat ( ), Daniel S. Katz ( ), Michael D. Weiner ( ), and Carol X. Song and Jeanette Sperhac ( ).

Across four technical tracks, they shared insights on the evolving landscape of , from agentic and to workforce development and in the era.

Thank you for sharing your expertise with the community and inspiring conversations that will continue beyond PEARC26. We hope to see you again at ! 👏

07/31/2026

🎉 As we reflect on an incredible week at , we'd like to extend a special thank you to our outstanding plenary speakers, Amanda Randles and Glenn K. Lockwood. Through inspiring keynote presentations and engaging discussions, our plenary speakers challenged us to think boldly about the future of and data, while celebrating the remarkable growth of the community over the past decade. Their insights sparked conversations that will continue long after the conference concludes.

Thank you for being part of PEARC26 and we look forward to continuing these conversations and hope to welcome you back at !

07/31/2026

🎉🎉 As wrapped up on July 30, we want to thank all of our attendees, authors, speakers, exhibitors, committee members, volunteers, students, and everyone who made this such a memorable event for the community with our amazing general chairs Shafaq, Tabitha, and Shava! 🎉🎉

Over the past week, our community came together to exchange ideas, showcase innovative , build new , and celebrate the people who make and data possible in the past 10 years. Every presentation, conversation, question, and connection helped make a truly special experience.

Hope you had a safe trip, and let's keep the conversations going! We can't wait to welcome you back for at , NC!

07/30/2026

🙏 As we approach the end of , we like to say THANK YOU to our amazing exhibitors: title exhibitor Computer; platinum exhibitor Amazon Web Services ( ), and Cloud; gold exhibitor , , Cloud Services, Technologies, Packard Enterprise, , | and Public Sector; silver exhibitor , Inc., III Systems | and National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( ) ; bronze exhibitor , , COALITION FOR ACADEMIC SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION INC ( ), , Networks, .org, , Inc., Technologies | , National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of , OnDemand, Systems LLC., Northwest National Laboratory, Group LLC, Supercomputing Center, University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, , San Diego Supercomputer Center ( ), Sustainable Horizons Institute ( ), US Research Software Engineer Association ( -RSE)! Thank you so much for showcasing cutting-edge advancements and support to , and we hope to see you at !