Agenda
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Day One | Monday, 7 April
| Time | Session | Speaker | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Registration and Welcome | |||
| 09:00 | Opening and HPCAIC Overview View Slides |
Brian Sparks (HPCAIC), Hussein Harake (CSCS) | ||
| 09:25 | AI for PDEs View Slides |
Siddhartha Mishra (ETH Zurich) | ||
| 10:15 | The Case for High Performance Research Desktops View Slides |
Robert Henschel (Indiana University) | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 | Modern Software Deployment on a Multi-Tenant Cray-EX System View Slides |
Ben Cumming (CSCS) | ||
| 12:00 | Facilitating Synergies Between AI and HPC: Update on HPE SmartSim Strategy View Slides |
Alessandro Rigazzi (HPE) | ||
| 12:20 | Building Switzerland's Open and Transparent Language Models View Slides |
Imanol Schlag (ETH) | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | The Alps Research Infrastructure at CSCS: Enabling World-Class ML Research in Switzerland View Slides |
Mohamed Fawzi Roberto (CSCS) | ||
| 14:40 | From Vision to Velocity: The VDURA Story and the Unveiling of the V5000 View Slides |
Kieran Penwill (VDURA) | ||
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:20 | Using Natural Language Models to Support Pharmaceutical Applications View Slides |
Valentin Planes (Do IT Now) | ||
| 16:00 | Practical Performance Modeling for Large-Scale Distributed GPU Workloads View Slides |
Marcel Ferrari (ETH) and Nina Mujkanovic (CSCS) | ||
| 17:00 | Close Day 1 + Day 2 Preview | Brian Sparks (HPCAIC), Hussein Harake (CSCS) |
Day Two | Tuesday, 8 April
| Time | Session | Speaker | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Day 2 Opening | Brian Sparks (HPCAIC), Hussein Harake (CSCS) | ||
| 09:10 | Computational Biogeodynamics: Deciphering Influence of Plate Tectonics on Life Evolution and Habitability View Slides |
Taras Gerya (ETH Zurich) | ||
| 10:00 | Developing an ML-ready Framework for Numerical Geodynamic Modelling View Slides |
Marcel Ferrari (ETH) | ||
| 10:40 | Evolving HPC: towards a Reconfigurable Paradigm for a Data-Intensive Era View Slides |
Giordano Mancini (E4) | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 | Sarus and the Future of HPC Container Services at CSCS View Slides |
Alberto Madonna (ETH Zurich / CSCS) | ||
| 12:00 | Architecting for Insight: How HPC and AI Differ in Data and Storage Requirements View Slides |
Jan Heichler (VAST Data) | ||
| 12:20 | FLASK: Foundation Learning AI for Synthesis Knowledge | Brian Van Essen (LLNL) | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Optimizing HPC and AI Infrastructure with Standard Linux and Advanced Storage Architectures View Slides |
Trond Myklebust (Hammerspace) | ||
| 14:20 | Recent advances in EUROfusion Simulation Software: Towards a Predictive and Design Oriented Tool View Slides |
Gilles Fourestey (EPFL) | ||
| 15:00 | AI-Augmented Scientific Explorations View Slides |
Kemal Delic (The Open University (UK)) | ||
| 15:20 | Unleashing the Power of AI , AI-Ready Networking and Storage Solution of Huawei View Slides |
Dachuan Huang (Huawei) | ||
| 15:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00 | Open Rack v3 - A New Form-Factor for High Density Computing View Slides |
Marco Milo (Dell) | ||
| 16:20 | Reasoning Language Models: Overview and Blueprint View Slides |
Maciej Besta (ETH Zurich) | ||
| 17:20 | Close Day 2 + Day 3 Preview | Brian Sparks (HPCAIC), Hussein Harake (CSCS) | ||
| 18:30 | Evening Event |
Day Three | Wednesday, 9 April
| Time | Session | Speaker | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Day 3 Opening | Brian Sparks (HPCAIC), Hussein Harake (CSCS) | ||
| 09:35 | Next Generation AI and HPC Networking with Ultra Ethernet View Slides |
Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich) | ||
| 10:30 | Performance Portability in Weather and Climate HPC Applications View Slides |
Edoardo Paone (CSCS) | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:40 | DDN's Multitenancy Solutions View Slides |
Gael Delbary (DDN) | ||
| 12:00 | A Complete Automation of the Alps HPC Multi-tenant Platform at CSCS View Slides |
Ivano Bonesana (CSCS) | ||
| 12:30 | Asynchronous MPI using tasks and C++26 std::execution on Alps View Slides |
John Biddiscombe (CSCS) | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | OpenCHAMI: Community-driven Innovation to Improve HPC Flexibility | Alex Lovell-Troy (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | ||
| 14:40 | Converging HPC and AI Storage: The DAOS Storage Architecture View Slides |
Michael Hennecke (HPE) | ||
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 | Balancing Speed and Safety: Cybersecurity in High-Performance Computing View Slides |
Fabio Zambrino (CSCS) | ||
| 16:15 | Bioinformatics in the AI Era: From the Data Center to the Edge View Slides |
Gabriele Sales (University of Padua) | ||
| 17:00 | Close and Thank You | Brian Sparks (HPCAIC), Hussein Harake (CSCS) |