High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference, Sept 15-19

The Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society is joining with SIAM (the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) as cooperating society co-sponsors of this year's High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference September 15-19.  The primary organizer is MIT Lincoln Lab and its Supercomputing Center.

The conference has over 150 speaker presentations (many involving CSAIL presenters or co-authors) and complementary (FREE) registration is available.  (There is also a regular registration available that includes conference proceedings for about $200, but for most people FREE is almost always a good deal.  See the registration page linked to below for details about differences in registration type.  Signing up for free registration is particularly worthwhile if you only expect to attend one or  a few presentations.) The conference will be held virtually on the Engagez platform, allowing for networking with other attendees across the globe.

You can see an overview of the conference at <https://ieee-hpec.org/>.

The registration page is at
<https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/conference-registration/>.

The keynotes speakers include

Day 1 Keynote:  Dr. Nick Rotker (MITRE Chief BlueTech Strategist) --- Enabling Advances in OceanAI
Day 2 Keynote:  Prof. Julie Shah (MIT AeroAstro Dept Head)
Day 3 Keynote:  Dr. Ashley Conard (Microsoft) --- Building AI That Users Trust
Day 4 Keynote:  Joshua Patterson (NVIDIA VP of Solutions Engineering) --- SPACE MICE: The Next  Generation Data Systems
Day 5 Keynote:  Prof. Bill Gropp (NCSA Director; AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAE & SIAM Fellow) --- Performance Engineering with MPI

Other CSAIL/MIT presenters include Chuchu Fan, Cathy Wu, Srini Devadas and Sara Beery.  Mike Stonebraker is a paper co-author and is on the conference advisory committee.

Special sessions include

Age of Mixed-Precision: Algorithms, Libraries, and Applications; organizer: Dr. Piotr Luszczek (MIT LLSC & UTK ICL)
Bridging Quantum and High Performance Computing; organizer: Prof. Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern Univ.)
GenAI Opportunities and AI Challenges; organizer: Dr. Vijay Gadepally (MIT LLSC), Dr. Daniel Burrill (MIT LLSC), Dr. Christian Prothmann (MIT CSAIL)
Fastcode @ HPEC; organizer: Dr. Bruce Hoppe (MIT)
MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge
GraphBLAS Forum to define standard building blocks for graph algorithms; organizers: Dr. Timothy Mattson (HLG), Dr. Ben Brock (Intel), and Dr. Scott McMillan (CMU SEI)
BRAINS: Building Resilience through Artificial Intelligence for Networked Systems; organizers: Dr. Sandeep Pisharody (MIT LL) and Dr. Thomas Hardjono (MIT)
Scaling Research Computing Education; organizers: Dr. Julie Mullen (MIT LLSC),  Lauren Milechin (MIT ORCD), and Dr. Hayden Jananthan (MIT LLSC)

The full program is online at <https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2025-prelim-agenda>.