8th Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools

(ProTools 26)

       

Held in conjunction with SC26: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, and supported by the Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS).

When: November 15-16, 2026

Where: Chicago, IL, USA

Background

Understanding program behavior is critical to overcome the expected architectural and programming complexities, such as limited power budgets, heterogeneity, hierarchical memories, shrinking I/O bandwidths, and performance variability, that arise on modern HPC platforms. To do so, HPC software developers need intuitive support tools for debugging, performance measurement, analysis, and tuning of large-scale HPC applications. Data collected from these tools can be far too large and too complex to be analyzed in a straightforward manner. We therefore need automatic analysis and visualization approaches to help application developers intuitively understand the effects that algorithmic choices have on application correctness or performance.

Moreover, the recent rise of AI creates new challenges and opportunities for tool developers and users. Developers urgently need robust and useful tools and approaches for studying the performance of AI or hybrid AI/HPC workloads. Simultaneously, combining performance data collection and analysis techniques with AI-based methodologies offers tremendous benefits for understanding and optimizing application performance.

Covering all aspects of HPC program and performance analysis - data collection, visualization, and tools - the Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools) brings together HPC application developers, tool developers, vendors, and researchers from the visualization, performance, and program analysis fields for an exchange of new approaches to assist developers in analyzing, understanding, and optimizing programs for extreme-scale platforms.

Workshop Topics

• Performance tools for scalable parallel platforms
• Debugging and correctness tools for parallel programming paradigms
• Scalable displays of performance data
• Case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice
• Program development tool chains (incl. IDEs) for parallel systems
• Methodologies for performance engineering
• Data models to enable scalable visualization
• Graph representation of unstructured performance data
• Tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power)
• Tool support for accelerated architectures and large-scale multi-cores
• Presentation of high-dimensional data
• Visual correlations between multiple data source
• Measurement and optimization tools for networks and I/O
• Tool infrastructures and environments
• Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data
• Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration
• Application developer experiences with programming and performance tools

Previous Workshops

The ProTools workshop combines two prior SC workshops: the Workshop on Visual Performance Analytics (VPA) and the Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools (ESPT).

• ProTools 25 (St. Louis, MO, USA)
• ProTools 24 (Atlanta, GA, USA)
• ProTools 23 (Denver, CO, USA)
• ProTools 22 (Dallas, TX, USA)
• ProTools 21 (virtual)
• ProTools 20 (virtual)
• ProTools 19 (Denver, CO, USA)
• ESPT 18 (Dallas, TX, USA)
• VPA 18 (Dallas, TX, USA)
• ESPT 17 (Denver, CO, USA)
• VPA 17 (Denver, CO)
• ESPT 16 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
• VPA 16 (Salt Lake City, UT)
• ESPT 15 (Austin, TX, USA)
• VPA 15 (Austin, TX)
• ESPT 14 (New Orleans, LA, USA)
• VPA 14 (New Orleans, LA)
• ESPT 13 (Denver, CO, USA)
• ESPT 12 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)