The HPC Users Forum, founded in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users, has opened registration for its next conference, to be held Sept. 4-5, 2024, at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.
The HPC User Forum is internationally known for its diverse user participation and fostering valuable networking between users, vendors, government agencies and private companies. The event will focus on the real-world uses of AI in industry, science and energy, highlighting the challenges (hardware, software, data, models, etc.) to make AI fully useful.
“We are excited to have such an ideal venue, such as Argonne National Laboratory, and bring together so many distinguished speakers to shine a spotlight on AI,” said Earl Joseph, CEO of Hyperion Research.
Here's an overview of the featured topics, sessions and panels:
- Real-world large-scale AI use cases and examples in industry and science
- Challenges to get the most out of AI (hardware, software, data, models, etc.)
- AI and HPC at ANL
- AI Technology Panel
- Site Update: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, ORNL
- Integrated Resource Infrastructure (LBL, ANL)
- Recent Hyperion Research AI Market Trends and Survey Results
Small group tours of Argonne's ALCF Machine Room and ALCF Visualization Laboratory will also be available during the event. Advanced photon source.
Some of the featured speakers at the event include:
- Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director, ANL CELS
- Debbie Bird, Head of Data, LBL
- Joerg Gablonsky, Technical Fellow, Numerical Optimization Leader, and Chair of the Enterprise HPC Council, Boeing
- Nicholas Lee-Ping Chia, ANL Computational Biologist
- David Holmes, Core Director and Biomedical Engineer, Mayo Clinic
- Marshall Choi, Sr. VP of Product, SambaNova
- Ian Foster, Director of Data Science and Learning, ANL
- Nick Hagerty, HPC Engineer, ORNL
- Heidi Hanson, ORNL Biostatistics and Multiscale Systems Modeling Group Leader
- Yue Hu, BP Asset Manager Specialist
- Rao Kothamalthy, Scientific Director, ANL Centre for Climate Resilience and Decision Sciences (CCRDS)
- Gianluca (Luca) Longoni, Executive Technical Director, Artificial Intelligence & HPC, FedData Technical Solutions
- Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Science Leader, ANL
- Mike Ringenburg, Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure HPC & AI
- Chris Ritter, Director of the Digital Innovation Center of Excellence and Manager of the Digital Engineering Division, Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
- Andrey Shinkarev, Systems Architect at AbbVie
- Andrew Siegel, Director of Applications Development, ANL ECP
- Bob Sorensen, Senior Vice President, Research and AI Leader, Hyperion Research
- Brian Spears, Director of the LLNL AI Innovation Incubator
- Tom Uram, Data Science and Workflow Lead, ANL
- Richard Vilim, Manager of Plant Analytics, Control and Sensors, ANL
The program will also include timely updates from event sponsors DDN, Intel, IBM, HPE, QuEra and Lenovo. The full agenda, venue logistics and registration information can be found here.
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