Boise State University's Research Computing will host the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) 2026 High-Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium on May 12–14, 2026, at the Student Union Building, Boise State University, 1700 W. University Drive, Boise, Idaho. The event welcomes researchers, faculty, principal investigators, system administrators, students, and industry partners from across the intermountain region. Register today!

The symposium opens Tuesday, May 12, with a keynote from Boise State's Dr. Steven Pentland on AI-resilient assessment in the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI), followed on Wednesday, May 13, by Idaho National Laboratory's Bryan Smith on computing infrastructure for next-generation nuclear energy.

Faculty and principal investigators can attend sessions on applying AI to research workflows, fine-tuning language models, accelerating scientific discovery with computational tools, and a cross-discipline panel on how AI is transforming research. System administrators can attend sessions on cluster provisioning, workload monitoring and alerting, software stack management, benchmarking on heterogeneous hardware, pipeline migration, and dashboard tooling, along with a dedicated meetup for peer knowledge exchange.

Student programming includes a deep learning workshop on multi-graphics processing unit (GPU) training (limited to 30 attendees), a career panel with hiring professionals from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Idaho National Laboratory, and Omnibond, and a student poster competition. Partner institutions can explore sessions on sovereign AI initiatives, community support for smaller schools, and multi-institutional workforce development.

Date: May 12–14, 2026 Time: 12:00pm to 5:00pm on May 12th; 8:00am to 7:30pm on May 13th; 8:00am to 1:00pm on May 14th Location: SUB Simplot and Jordan Ballrooms, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho Who is invited: Open to the general public Cost: $30 student registration; $175 general admission - Boise State faculty and staff get $75 off with code ‘Boisediscount’ (parking included) Registration: https://www.colorado.edu/partnerships/rmacc/hpc-symposium/registration