The upcoming HPC User Forum, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, will have a data center focus.

Event host and industry analyst firm Hyperion Research said, “”Data center growth has been massive over the last few years and NVIDIA is projecting a $1 trillion data center build out by 2028. The fall HPC User Forum will look at the trends and best practices for building all sizes of data centers, with presentations from a broad range of data center experts, providers and buyers.”

Event registration information can be found here.

“The User Forum will explore a number of critical AI and HPC topics,” said Hyperion CEO Earl Joseph, “including how AI & HPC workloads are driving government, industrial and academic data centers; user successes in applying HPC and AI to critical problems; new solutions and trends in using clouds for technical computing; new developments in quantum computing; and changes in USG HPC/AI directions.”

The updated agenda includes:

Wednesday, September 3rd
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome/Introductions
• Piyush Mehrotra, Rupak Biswas and Earl Joseph
• HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph, Hyperion Research (Session Leader: Piyush Mehrotra)

8:30 – 9:00 am Designing Centers to Address Cyber Security Requirements, John Garstka, Director, Cyber Warfare Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

9:00 – 10:00 am Present and Future HPC Trends, Forecast, and Implications Within Data Centers, Matt Vincent, Editor in Chief, Data Center Frontier

10:00 – 10:15 am Vendor Update: Hammerspace

10:15 – 10:45 am Break

10:45 – 11:45 am How AI & HPC Workloads are Driving Industrial Data Centers, Part I
• Journey From an On-Prem HPC Environment Into the Cloud, Alex Loddoch, High Performance Computing Strategist, Chevron Corporation
• Gaps and Trajectories of HPC and AI, Rick Arthur, Computational Methods Research at GE Aerospace Research

11:45 – 12:00 pm Vendor Update: Intel

12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch (Session Leader: David Martin, Argonne National Laboratory)

1:00 – 2:30 pm How AI & HPC Workloads are Driving Industrial Data Centers, Part II
• Addressing the Facilities Requirements for Industrial HPC, Keith Gray, VP Computational Science and Engineering, TotalEnergies
• Cybersecurity in HPC/AI Data Centers, Joe Swartz, CSCF Program/Chief Architect, Lockheed Martin
• How AI & HPC Workloads Are Driving BP, Muhong Zhou, Senior HPC Software Engineer, BP

2:30 – 2:45 pm Vendor Update: HPE

2:45 – 3:15 pm Portable Scalability and Performance at Exascale Using Asynchronous Tasking, Martin Berzins, Associate Director and Faculty Member, SCI at the University of Utah

3:15 – 3:45 pm Break

3:45 – 4:30 pm Trends and New Solutions in the Use of Clouds to Run HPC/AI Workloads
• Programmable Cloud Laboratories, Dr. Alex Vadati, Program Director, NSF
• Google Cloud for Science: Integrating AI and Quantum Computing into Supercomputing-Class Infrastructure for Scientific & Technical Computing, Jay Boisseau, Advanced Computing Strategist, Google

4:30 – 5:00 pm Hype on Hyperscalers? The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of Energy for HighPerformance Computing, Bryan Willson, Executive Director of the Energy Institute, Colorado State University

5:00 – 6:00 pm Break

6:00 – 8:30 pm Dinner Presentation: Buddy Rizer, Executive Director, Loudoun County, Virginia, Department of Economic Development

Thursday, September 4th
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

8:00 – 8:10 am Welcome/Introductions (Session Leader: Rupak Biswas, NASA)

8:10 – 8:30 am Latest Market Perspective on Running HPC-AI Workloads in the Cloud: Now for Some Quid Pro Quo, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director, Lead Analyst for Cloud & Storage, Hyperion Research

8:30 – 8:45 am Vendor Update: Weka

8:45 – 10:15 am Quantum Computing, Part I
• Quantum Internet: What Is It, Why Do We Need It, and How Do We Engineer It, Dr. Prem Kumar, AT&T Professor of Information Technology/Joint with Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University
• Quantum Computing and Applications at DOE’s SQMS Quantum Research Center, Silvia Zorzetti, Principal Engineer and Head of Quantum Computing CoDesign and Communication, Fermilab
• Algorithms for Quantum Computers, Andrew Childs, Professor and Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

10:15 – 10:40 am Break

10:40 – 12:00 pm Quantum Computing, Part II
• New Directions in Quantum Computing, Christopher Monroe, Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University (tentative)
• Quantum Computing at Google, Salvatore Mandrà, Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI, Google
• 5th Annual Global QC Market Survey: Continued Progress But Changes in the Air, Bob Sorensen, Senior VP of Research and Chief Analyst for Quantum Computing, Hyperion Research

12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch (Session Leader: TBD)

1:00 – 1:45 pm Technologies Showcase: Alice + Bob, CTG Federal, DDN, FedData, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, QuEra and Supermicro

1:45 – 2:15 pm An Update on NNSA HPC and AI Activities, Thuc Hoang, Deputy Assistant Deputy Administrator, NNSA

2:15 – 2:30 pm Vendor Update: Matthew Shaxted, Parallel Works

2:30 – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 – 3:30 pm AI at DOE, Ray Juneja, DOE Fellow, AI & Energy

3:30 – 4:00 pm From Code to Cosmos: High-End Computing Enables NASA Exploration, Science, and Engineering, Kevin Murphy, Chief Science Data Officer, NASA

4:00 – 4:30 pm Advanced Scientific Computing at DOE, Ceren Susut, DOE ASCR Associate Director

4:30 – 4:35 pm Closing Remarks

4:35 – 5:00 pm Break

5:00 – 7:00 pm Special Event: Networking Time & Cocktail Reception