12th Annual High Performance Containers Workshop

The High Performance Containers Workshop (HPCW) convenes researchers, operators, and industry to advance HPC, AI/ML, and cloud‑native container workflows across supercomputers, clouds, and edge sites.
The rapid growth of GPU-driven AI workloads is fundamentally reshaping infrastructure design. Traditional public cloud platforms increasingly struggle to meet the demands of predictable performance, cost efficiency, and data sovereignty. Meanwhile, conventional HPC environments lack the agility required to support dynamic AI workflows. This gap is driving a shift toward hybrid infrastructures, Kubernetes-based AI platforms, not merely as orchestration tools, but as catalysts for a broader architectural transformation in HPC.
This workshop will explore containerized HPC/AI deployments, especially automated MLOps platforms designed to power emerging “AI factories”: environments purpose-built for continuous model development, deployment, and monitoring. We’ll examine how container-native infrastructure, GPU-aware scheduling, checkpointing, and open-source tooling enable reproducible, resilient AI pipelines in multi-tenant settings and adjacent topics.

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Organizers:

• Christian Kniep
• Barbara Krašovec
• Alfio Lazzaro
• Andrew Younge
• Abdulrahman Azab