Check out the summary video from last year’s summer school for a glimpse of what the summer school is like.
The HiPEAC summer school, ACACES (‘Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-performance Embedded Systems’), is returning to Fiuggi on 12-18 July for a week of courses by world-class computing experts.
The programme offers a range of courses covering the computing continuum from edge to cloud to high-performance computing, including cyber-physical systems, and investigating logic, memory, and compilation. Courses include cutting-edge lectures on using large language models (LLMs) for hardware and software design, innovative paradigms and platforms such as quantum computing and RISC-V, and perspectives on perennially important topics such as efficiency, security, and sustainability, among others.
This year’s courses are as follows:
- Security for cyber-physical systems (CPS) – Morley Mao, University of Michigan
- LLMs for hardware design – Nathaniel Pinckney, NVIDIA
- Compiler design for AI chips and programming frameworks – Uday Bondhugula, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
- Hardware / software co-design of energy-efficient RISC-V edge AI platforms – Angelo Garafalo, Univeristy of Bologna
- LLMs for software design – Stijn De Pauw, TechWolf
- Feeding the beast: Three decades of wasted (CPU) cycles – Boris Grot, University of Edinburgh
- Hyperscale cloud data centres in the era of specialization – Sagar Karandikar, University of California, Berkeley
- Memory consistency and cache coherence –Daniel J. Sorin, Duke University
- Entrepreneurship – Omar Mohout, Deloitte
- Introduction to quantum computer architecture – Swamit Tannu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Will AI boil the planet or help save it? – Vlad Constantin Coroamă, Roegen Centre for Sustainability
The summer school will be kicked off by a technical keynote talk by Ruchir Puri (IBM) on 12 July, while SEGGER founder Rolf Segger will give an invited talk on 13 July.
Find out more on the ACACES 2026 webpage, and register by 1 May for your chance to win a grant covering course and accommodation costs.
Videos from ACACES 2025, ACACES 2024 and ACACES 2023, including a selection of full lectures, are available on the HiPEAC YouTube channel, HiPEAC TV.
