This page tracks conferences that are relevant to research software engineering (RSE), scientific computing, and HPC.

US-RSE

  • Website: https://us-rse.org/usrse26/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 location: San Jose, CA
  • Notes: A strong venue for RSE and HPC topics, with many attendees from academia and research organizations.

RSECon (Society of Research Software Engineering)

  • Website: https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 location: Sheffield, UK
  • Notes: Often described as one of the original RSE-focused conferences; UK-centered but connected to the broader international RSE community.

SciPy

  • Website: https://conference.scipy.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 location: Minneapolis, MN
  • Notes: A highly active Python scientific-computing community event with strong talks, tutorials, and broad RSE participation.

UCAR SEA ISS (Improving Scientific Software)

  • Website: https://sea.ucar.edu/iss/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • Typical location: Boulder, CO (including this year)
  • Notes: Hosted by the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA), with focus on scientific software and HPC practices; useful for both virtual and in-person participation.

HPDC (ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing)

  • Website: https://hpdc.sci.utah.edu/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • Scope: High-performance parallel and distributed computing research and systems
  • Notes: A good fit for teams working at the intersection of distributed systems, performance engineering, and scientific/HPC workloads.

PEARC (Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing)

  • Website: https://pearc.acm.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • Scope: Advanced research computing practice across infrastructure, operations, software, and user support
  • Notes: Broad, practitioner-friendly conference with strong relevance for research computing operations and software-enabled science.

BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)

  • Website: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/about/
  • Cadence: Annual (running since 2000)
  • 2026 timing/location: July 14-15, 2026, in Washington, DC and online (as part of ISMB 2026)
  • Scope: Open source bioinformatics and open science, including tooling, standards/ontologies, reproducibility, and community sustainability
  • Notes: Organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF); typically connected with ISMB and often accompanied by CollaborationFest (CoFest), a collaborative working session.