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This year’s conference theme is Complex Analytic Workflows. Large-scale analytics is at an inflection point: expanding data volumes and faster, more capable compute platforms have made it easier to prototype and deploy systems across supercomputers, cloud infrastructure, and distributed edge networks. This “democratization” is accelerating scientific discovery, enabling real-time insight, and transformative optimization in both industry and government.
Click here to read more about why this theme was chosen for 2026.
Kevin Barker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Almadena Chtchelkanova, Committee Advisor
John Feo, MambaQ
Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David Haglin, Rocketgraph
Dave Mountain, Committee Advisor
Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard Murphy, MambaQ
Justin Newcomer, Sandia National Laboratories
Steve Prichard, Committee Advisor
Brad Spiers, Committee Advisor
Lara Kisielewska, Conference Organizer
The conference has been held each fall in Annapolis, Maryland since 2012, convening experts from the government, national laboratories, academia and private industry to discuss challenges and implications of the emergent field of large-scale data analytics. Topics cover a wide range of subjects, from applications to algorithms to hardware to security and policy. CLASSIC drives critical conversations amongst decision makers in high-performance computing and analytics.
Attendance at CLASSIC is by invitation only; the number of attendees is intentionally limited to around 150 people to foster the kind of informal discussion and interaction that can lead to greater collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the field.
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We are presently building out the full website for CLASSIC 2026, including agenda, speakers, sponsors, and travel information. Please check back next month for more information. In the meantime, you can review previous years’ conference information here.
