Co-located with PPAM 2026, this is the second edition of workshops devoted to all aspects of the RISC-V technology with a special emphasis on high-performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and AI/ML. The first edition was successfully carried out in Ostrava on September 9, 2024, during PPAM 2024.

Background
The goal of this workshop is to continue building the RISC-V community, sharing the benefits of RISC-V with computer science specialists and domain scientists. RISC-V is an open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that enables the royalty-free development of CPUs and accelerators, as well as the common software ecosystem. Following this community-driven ISA standard, a very diverse set of CPUs suited to a range of workloads has been, and continues to be, developed, alongside domain-specific platforms. While RISC-V has already become very popular in some fields, like embedded and edge computing, it has yet to gain traction in general-purpose computing, including HPC and AI/M. In particular, recent advances in RISC-V make it a more realistic proposition for HPC workloads than ever before. An example is the vectorization extension, which provides essential performance advantages for HPC workloads but was only standardized in early 2022, so we are only now seeing mature CPUs that fully implement this extension. Another milestone on the way to the wider adoption of the RISC-V architecture in HPC is the recent ratification of the RVA23 Profile. It is essential for software portability across many hardware implementations and helps to avoid vendor lock-in.

By sharing the benefits of the architecture, success stories, and techniques, the second edition of this Workshop aims to popularize RISC-V among the PPAM community, bringing together specialists involved in developing RISC-V hardware/software and those looking to exploit the potential of new computer architectures in a broad spectrum of domains, including general-purpose computing, HPC, embedded and edge computing, AI/ML, etc.

This Workshop is organized in technical cooperation with Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and EPCC Edinburgh, as well as with InspireSemi and E4 companies.

Paper Submission and Publication

All rules of paper submission of the PPAM 2026 conference apply. In particular:
- Papers will be refereed and accepted based on their scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics.
- Papers presented at the Workshop will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer in the LNCS series after the conference.
- Before the Workshop, abstracts of accepted papers will be posted on this site.
- Authors should submit papers (PDF files) using the online submission tool.
- Papers are not to exceed 15 pages (LNCS style).
- Alternatively, abstracts delivering original works are invited to be presented at the Workshop. They should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format on 2 pages.
- Accepted abstracts will be posted on the workshop site before the conference.

Best paper award
A special award including 500 euros will be awarded to the authors of the best paper/presentation.

Important Dates

Full-paper due: April 30, 2026
2-page abstract due: May 7, 2026
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2026
Workshop: August 31- September 1, 2026
Camera-ready: October 31, 2026

Workshop Chair
Roman Wyrzykowski - Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
roman@icis.pcz.pl

Program Committee (non-final list)
Nick Brown – EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK
Denis Dutoit - CEA, France
Paweł Gepner - Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Daniele Gregori - E4 Company, Italy
Andreas Herten - Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Aleksandar Ilic - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Filippo Mantovani - Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Manolis Marazakis - FORTH, Greece
Norbert Meyer – Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Tomasz Olas - Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Estela Suarez - Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Olivier Perks - Rivos Inc., USA
Lilia Zaourar - CEA, France