March 14, 2025 — Registration is open for the spring HPC User Forum, to be held in Santa Fe, NM and hosted by HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research: https://www.hpcuserforum.com or directly at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2025/
Here’s the updated agenda:
Tuesday, April 8th:
7:15 – 8:00 am Breakfast and Badging
8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome and Meeting Overview
- Welcome & Logistics, Piyush Mehrotra and Earl Joseph
- HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph, Hyperion Research
(Session Leader: Piyush Mehrotra)
8:30 – 10:30 am New Developments in HPC and AI
- AI Projects at NASA, Donovan Mathias, NASA
- Assessing the Nature of Large Language Models, Ann Speed, Sandia National Laboratories
- DOE Data Requirements, Concerns and Trends, John Aaron Westlund, LLNL
- NAIRR Update, John Towns, NCSA
- Lessons from El Capitan: Shaping LLNL’s Future HPC Center Vision, Terri Quinn, LLNL
10:30 – 11:00 am Break
11:00 – 11:15 am Vendor Update: Molly Presley, Hammerspace
11:15 – 11:45 am Panel on Mission Changes Within US Agencies
11:45 – 12:00 pm Vendor Update: Mike Vildibill, HPE
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
(Session Leader: David Martin, ANL)
1:00 – 2:30 pm New Directions in Combining HPC with Quantum Computing
- QC Market and Technology Trends, Bob Sorensen, Hyperion Research
- QC at Alice & Bob, Juliette Peyronnet, Alice & Bob
- QC at Quantinuum, Nash Palaniswamy, Quantinuum
- QC at NASA, Rupak Biswas, NASA
- QC at QuEra, Yuval Boger, QuEra
- Panel Discussion
2:30 – 3:30 pm Innovative Technologies Showcase: FedData (Dr. Gianluca Longoni), IBM (Chris Maestas), Linaro (Andrew Westgren), QuEra (Yuval Bolger), DDN
3:30 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm The Evolving Use of Clouds to Run HPC and AI Workloads
- Progress in Developing HPC/AI Infrastructure, Sam Skillman, Google
- Research Perspectives on Using Clouds for AI and HPC Workloads, Mark Nossokoff, Hyperion Research
- News from Cloud Providers: AWS, IBM (Chris Maestas), etc.
5:30 – 6:00 pm Break
6:00 – 8:30 pm Special Dinner Presentation: Introduction to Santa Fe by Peter Weiss, Social Historian
Wednesday, April 9th
7:15 – 8:00 am Breakfast
8:00 – 8:05 am Welcome and Meeting Logistics
(Session Leader: Rupak Biswas, NASA)
8:05 – 10:00 am HPC Site Updates:
- El Capitan Update, Erik Draeger, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Sandia Overview and Update, Doug Kothe and Rob Hoekstra, Sandia National Laboratory
- PNNL Site Update, Roger Cass, PNNL
- ANL Site Update, David Martin, ANL
10:00 – 10:15 am Break
10:15 – 10:45 am NASA Update, Eric Nielsen, NASA
10:45 – 11:15 am Update on EU AI and HPC Activities, Antonio Moreno, EU (video)
11:15 – 11:30 am Early Results on Testing the Intel Gaudi Coprocessor, Gianluca Longoni, FedData
11:30 – 12:00 pm Update on HPC and AI at DHS, Amy E. Henninger, DHS
11:45 – 12:00 pm Vendor Update: Thomas Metzger, Intel
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
(Session Leader: Brendan McGinty, NCSA)
1:00 – 3:00 pm Cyber Security in HPC/AI
- Cyber Security Architectures for HPC and AI at DOD, Josef Allen, DOD
- Cyber Security from the National Lab HPC Point of View, Ian Lee, DoE Cyber Security lead for the DoE Labs
- Cyber Security from a DoD Point of View, LCDR Parmentar, DOD
- SELinux Cyber Security From a DC-MLS® POV, Joe Swartz
- Performance Impacts with the SELinux Approach, Mike Bellor
3:00 – 3:15 pm Break
3:15 – 3:30 pm Vendor Update
3:30 – 5:00 pm HPC and AI at LANL
- From Leader to Fast Follower Through the Barren Cloudy HPL Valley, Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Artificial Intelligence for Mission, Earl Lawrence, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Enabling Manufacturing with Machine Learning, Nathan Debardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory
5:00 – 5:10 pm The Trillion Parameter Consortium Fall Conference, Tom Tabor, HPCwire
5:10 – 5:15 pm Conclusions, Piyush Mehrotra and Earl Joseph
5:10 – 6:00 pm Break
6:00 – 8:30 pm Dinner and Networking Time
