Call for Posters ● Cluster 2026

IEEE Cluster 2026 is soliciting submissions from academia, laboratory, and industry professionals to present their latest research findings and work-in-progress in all aspects of cluster, cloud, and grid technologies in the form of posters, which will be included in the conference proceedings. The topics of interest are in the areas of:

1. Application, Algorithms, and Libraries
2. Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management,
3. Programming and System Software,
4. Data, Storage, and Visualization,
5. Performance tools, Measurement, and Analysis,
6. Big Data,
7. Distributed Storage Systems
8. AI for systems,
9. Systems for AI, and
10. Disaggregated storage, accelerators, and memory systems

in addition to the topics in Cluster 2026 Call for Papers.

Students and young researchers are especially encouraged to submit a poster and present their work in the conference. All submissions will be reviewed by the Posters Program Committee , and the highest-quality student poster will be awarded the Best Student Poster Award.

Accepted posters will be prominently displayed and presented during a session in the conference. Additionally, posters will be made available on the conference website.

PLEASE NOTE: final posters must be in portrait format, posters in landscape format cannot be displayed.

Submissions

The poster submission consists of:

1. A 2-page extended abstract (including references) describing the poster content, and the research ideas in the poster. If accepted, this extended abstract will be published in the proceedings of the conference.

The 2-page extended abstract should be structured similar to a technical paper, and may not exceed two letter sized (8.5" x 11") pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (PDF, single-spaced, double column, 10pt text).

Please submit the extended abstract and the poster draft via the online submission system

Important Dates

• Poster submission opens: April 28, 2026 AoE
• Poster submission deadline: July 10, 2026 AoE
• Acceptance Notification: July 26, 2026 AoE
• Camera-ready deadline: August 6, 2026 AoE

Contact

Posters Co-Chairs

• Arnab K. Paul, BITS Pilani, Goa, India
• Hariharan Devarajan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States of America

Poster Committee Members

• Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Awais Khan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Chaitanya Gunupudi, University of Maryland, USA
• Chen Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Dan Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Houjun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Jacopo Massa, University of Pisa, Italy
• Jaime Cernuda, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Jean Luca Bez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Karim Youssef, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• M. Mustafa Rafique, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Mike Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Ming-Hung Chen, IBM Research, USA
• Ozgur Kilic, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
• Philippe Deniel, CEA, France
• Pradeep Kumar, College of William and Mary, USA
• Ricardo Macedo, INESC TEC, Portugal
• Sarah Neuwirth, University of Mainz, Germany
• Swaroop Pophale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Xianwei Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Xiaohui Peng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Xiaoyi Lu, University of Florida, USA
• Youngjae Kim, Sogang University, South Korea
• Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China