Workshop on Disruptive Continuum Computing for a Sustainable Future
Chairs Workshop
- Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez – Industrial University of Santander, Colombia
- Jean Luca Bez – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Philippe Navaux – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Silvio Rizzi – Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Lucia Drummond – Universidad Federale Fluminense, Brazil
- Daniel Cordeiro – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Description of the workshop
The boundaries separating high-performance computing (HPC), cloud, edge, and emerging quantum platforms are rapidly dissolving, giving rise to a unified computing continuum in which workloads flow flexibly across heterogeneous resources. This workshop addresses the convergence of three disruptive forces shaping the future of large-scale digital infrastructure: Continuum Computing, encompassing seamless orchestration from micro-edge devices to exascale HPC centers; Sustainability-Aware Design, including carbon-aware scheduling, energy-proportional architectures, and circular-economy hardware strategies; and Disruptive Technologies, spanning quantum edge and cloud, neuromorphic nodes, reconfigurable fabrics, and AI-driven self-optimization. By convening researchers, practitioners, and infrastructure operators, the workshop aims to explore how these forces intersect and collectively reshape advanced computing.
Key objectives include identifying research gaps in hybrid quantum-edge-HPC workflows, producing a roadmap for sustainability-aware continuum computing, and fostering cross-community collaboration across the HPC, quantum, edge, and sustainability domains. Peer-reviewed contributions will highlight benchmark use cases — such as materials modeling and smart grid optimization — while advancing the integration of disruptive architectures with energy-efficient design toward resilient, adaptable, and sustainable digital infrastructures.
Call for papers submissions for Workshop
- Workshop Abstract Submission Deadline: July 19, 2026
- Workshop Notification of Acceptance: July 26, 2026
Submission site for papers and posters for workshops: https://meteor.springer.com/carla2026
Workshop papers & posters will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings https://ceur-ws.org/
| Hour | Title | Presenter / Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome | All Chairs |
| 9:10 – 10:00 | « The French NumPEx project: preparing the post-exascale era » | Raymod Namist, INRIA Bordeaux |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | OpenCL and PTX Acceleration for Latin America Energy-Transition Analytics on Commercial GPUs | Chair: Daniel Cordeiro |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Performance Boost of On-policy versus Off-policy Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in the ReLiEF Workflow Cloud Autoscaler | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | ☕ Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Impact of Hardware Heterogeneity on the Reproducibility of Energy Consumption in Distributed ML Inference | Chair: Lucia Drummond |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | JIT Payoff for WebAssembly Edge Inference in InferEdge | |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | A Continuum Architecture for Orchestrating the LAGO Astroparticle Pipelines | |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Closing Remarks | All Chairs |