Join SDSC in booth 217 for the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. SDSC will highlight our leading machines, showcase high-impact national projects and the impact brought to America’s researchers over the last 40 years. The SDSC booth is a community gathering spot so we look forward to seeing you in St. Louis!
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:00am - NoonTranslating Research into Impacts
- Kate E. Trout, University of Missouri
- Chris Anthony, CAL FIRE
- Evan Bollig, AWS
- Ilkay Altintas, UC San Diego/SDSC (moderator)
AI for the Nation: Growing Community Adoption through the NAIRR Pilot Portal
- Dana Brunson, Internet2
- Sandra Gesing, UC San Diego/SDSC
- Dave Hart, NSF NCAR
- Manish Parashar, University of Utah
- Preston Smith, Purdue University
- Claire Stirm, UC San Diego/SDSC (moderator)
3:00 - 3:30 - Afternoon Reception - SPONSORED BY ARISTA & ORACLE
3:30pm - 4:15pm40 Years of Powering Discovery and Innovation through World-Class Computing and Data Infrastructure
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR: ARISTA
- Max Chung, Supermicro
- Tony Rea, Dell
- Darrin Thomason, Arista
- Mike Vildibill, HPE
- Amit Majumdar, UC San Diego/SDSC (moderator)
CloudBank 2: Accelerating Discovery in the Commercial Cloud (45 min)
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR: ORACLE
- Dino Ciccone, MS Azure
- Scott Friedman, AWS
- Tom Gibbs, NVIDIA
- Keith Rajecki, Oracle
- Barrett Rosenbaum, Google
- Seetharami Seelam, IBM
- Shava Smallen, UC San Diego/SDSC (moderator)
General Atomics, NVIDIA and SDSC: Accelerating the Path Toward the First Commercially Viable Fusion Reactor
- Tom Gibbs, NVIDIA
- Mark Kostuk, General Atomics
- David Schissel, General Atomics
- Frank Wuerthwein, UC San Diego/SDSC
5:15pm - 6:00pm - Social Hour
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19
11:00am - NoonHPC Meets Compliance - Addressing NIST 800-171 CUI Challenges
- Jill Gemmill, Clemson University
- Neena Imam, Southern Methodist University
- Nathaniel Mendoza, TACC/UTexas
- H. Birali Runesha, University of Chicago
- Kim Wong, University of Pittsburgh
- Subha Sivagnanam, UC San Diego/SDSC (moderator)
Advancing Science and Innovation on the National Research Platform: From Education and Precision Agriculture to AI-Driven HPC Management and Programmable Networking
- Education, Research, Outreach + Precision Agriculture, Frank Wuerthwein, UC San Diego/SDSC (15 min)
- Agentic AI with Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra Cards for HPC Cluster Management and Resource Provisioning, , Mohammad Sada, UC San Diego/SDSC (15 min)
- Networking Applications on NRP - Federated Testbeds, Programmable Infrastructure, and Measurement Platforms (30 min)
- Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa, MGHPCC
- James E. Deaton, Internet2
- Mohammad Firas Sada, UC San Diego/SDSC
- Marcos Schwarz, Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa
- Frank K. Würthwein, UC San Diego/SDSC (moderator)
3:00pm - 3:30pm - Afternoon Reception
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Serving Science, Serving the Nation: The Relevance of Academia to Society
A conversation with Frank Wuerthwein, UC San Diego/SDSC and Bill Miller, University of Utah
4:30pm - 6:00pm - Social Hour
TECHNICAL PROGRAM - Join the many SDSC staff participating!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
9:00am - 5:30pm: Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2025), Sandra Gesing
Location: 267
2:15pm - 2:30pm: SENSE in Practice: Quantifying the End-to-End Benefits of Intent-Based Bandwidth Reservation for Exascale Science Workflows, Aashay Arora, Diego Davila
Location: 266
4:45pm - 4:50pm: National Data Platform's Education Hub, Ilkay Altintas, Melissa Floca, Amarnath Gupta, Katie O’Laughlin, Pedro Ramonetti
Location: 261
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17
8:30am - 12:00pm: Tutorial - AI and Scientific Research Computing with Kubernetes,
Dmitri Mishin, Mahidhar Tatineni
Location: 123
9:00am - 5:30pm: WORKS 2025: 20th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, Tainã Coleman
Location: 264
10:30am - 10:55am: HPC-ED: Testing Automated Agents to Assess the Quality of Training Resource Metadata, Mary Thomas
Location: 232
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
8:00am - 5:00pm: Poster Session - Performance Engineering of Scientific Applications with MVAPICH and TAU using Emerging Communication Primitives, Yifeng Cui
Location: Second Floor Atrium
12:15pm - 1:15pm: IRI Interfaces at Work: Prototypes, Progress, and Community Feedback, Frank Wuerthwein
Location: 130
1:30pm - 3:00pm: Large-scale and High-density AI and HPC: Sustainability Challenges, Christine Kirkpatrick
Location: 240, 241, 242
5:15pm - 6:45pm: BoF -Utilizing Inference for Science Services Within the Academic Community, Frank Wuerthwein
Location: 131
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19
12:15pm - 1:15pm: Building AI Data Commons and AI Data Meshes: Collaborative Approaches for Scalable, Responsible, Distributed and Federated AI, Christine Kirkpatrick
Location: 123
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
12:15pm - 1:15pm: BOF - Integrated HPC: Lessons Learned From Multi-Facility Integration Projects Around the World, Frank Wuerthwein
Location: 125