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Call for Papers (INDIS 2026 Workshop)


The 13th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS 2026) in conjunction with SC26

Chicago, Illinois, USA | November, 15-20 2026

The Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS) workshop bridges between the HPC community and networking, and it addresses the need to connect scientific infrastructure – including sensor networks, supercomputers, and AI factories. The INDIS has been consistently well-received and well-attended because it adds value for many attendees involved in R&D by driving innovations in networks and testbeds for HPC applications. In its 12 years, the INDIS workshop has mostly been a full-day event. As one standout year, INDIS 2023 had more than 250 attendees, including in-person and unique on-demand viewers. In 2025, the number of submissions to INDIS put the workshop in the top 5 among the 32 workshops taking place at SC.

The theme for the 13th INDIS workshop is Connected Science: Bridging Research and Industry — reflecting not only the role of networking in connecting scientific infrastructure, but also our community’s collaborations across different types of organizations to advance data-intensive science. These collaborations include industry and government through public-private partnerships, and industry and academia through data sharing and technology development. The workshop also serves as a platform for participants in SCinet’s Network Research Exhibitions (NRE) and Experimental Networks of the Future (XNet) teams to submit and present papers on their latest innovations, designs, and solutions, and to showcase the next generation of networking challenges and solutions for HPC.

In this spirit, we invite researchers and engineers to submit high-quality technical academic papers to the 13th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS 2026). The workshop will be held in conjunction with the SC26: IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (Supercomputing), which will be held in Chicago, Illinois, November 15-20, 2026. We invite papers proposing novel techniques that increase the capacity and functionality of scientific computing and high-performance networks. This workshop encourages submissions that address one or more of its topics, including networking research challenges and developments essential to information systems infrastructure for the scientific discovery process.

We also welcome participants from SCinet to present high-quality experimental papers on their latest designs and solutions. SCinet, as the high-speed network engine of the SC conference, represents state-of-the-art, connects many demonstrators of big science data processing infrastructures at the highest line speeds, deploys the newest technologies available, and demonstrates network instrumentation techniques and novel functionality. The show floor network connects to many laboratories and universities worldwide using high-bandwidth connections. 

Important Dates: 

Paper Submission due: August 1st, 2026

Notification of acceptance: September 4th, 2026

Camera-ready version: September 25th, 2026

Workshop Date: November 15th, 2026


Submission Guidelines:

Papers will be published in the SC26 conference workshop proceedings through IEEE TCHPC upon approval. Workshop papers are expected to be 8-10 pages (excluding references) for full papers and 5 pages (excluding references) for short papers describing novel work in the topics of interest. Short papers that highlight early experimental testbed results and network integration breakthroughs are highly encouraged. Experiments from SCinet and the show floor are encouraged (e.g. Traveling FABRIC node). Submissions should use the IEEE conference template and be submitted via the the SC Linklings system.

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