The 89th HPC/AI User Forum will be held on September 3rd and 4th in Reston, Virginia.

The user Forum is a popular event that provides opportunities for interaction between speakers and attendees. The meeting will feature presentations on the rapidly evolving AI, HPC, and QC sectors, as well as a comprehensive examination of how data centers are developing and expanding.

Talks will include topics such as AI and HPC workloads and how they are driving data centers and innovative solutions, new HPC & AI directions in industry, government, and academia, trends in the use of clouds to run HPC/AI workloads, HPC site updates, and market updates for AI, HPC, clouds, and quantum computing.

Below is an updated agenda with the conference speakers, topics, and panels:

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

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  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
HPC/AI Trajectories at GE Aerospace, Richard Arthur, Sr. Principal, GE Aerospace Research

10:00 – 10:15  am  From Petabytes to Insight: How AI-Powered Digital Twins Are Transforming Grid Resilience, Chris Beaufait, Sharper Shape

10:15 – 10:30  am  Break

10:30 – 11:00  am  Portable Scalability and Performance at Exascale Using Asynchronous Tasking, Martin Berzins, Associate Director and Faculty Member, SCI at the University of Utah

11:00 – 11:15  am  Vendor Update: Hammerspace

11:15 – 11:45  am  Hype on Hyperscalers? The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of Energy for High-Performance Computing, Bryan Willson, Executive Director of the Energy Institute, Colorado State University

11:45 – 12:00 pm  Vendor Update: Intel

12:00 – 1:00 pm  Lunch

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: Bill Mannel, HPE

2:45 – 3:45 pm  Present and Future HPC Trends, Forecast, and Implications Within Data Centers, Matt Vincent, Editor in Chief, Data Center Frontier

3:45 – 4:15 pm  Break

4:15 – 5:00 pm  Trends and New Solutions in the Use of Clouds to Run HPC/AI Workloads

Programmable Cloud Laboratories, Dr. Alex Vadati, Progr am  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

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

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 Co-Design 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

Full-stack Quantum Computers and Their Co-design, Christopher Monroe, Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University
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

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 – 4:45 pm  Closing Remarks and Invitations to Our Future HPC User Forum Events

4:45 – 5:00 pm  Break

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

Registration is open at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-fall-2025/

 

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