[Crib-list] Register Now! HPEC (Sep 14-18) free virtual conference

Tue Sep 1 09:33:02 EDT 2026

Colleagues,
  Please share with your colleagues.  The MIT organized High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC<https://ieee-hpec.org/>) free virtual conference (Sep 14-18) features 200+ presentations (see agenda<https://ieee-hpec.org/ieee-hpec-2026-prelim-agenda/> ) with many presentations on the latest developments in AI.  Register now at IEEE-HPEC.org<http://ieee-hpec.org/>

Regards.  -Albert & Jeremy (IEEE HPEC Co-Chairs)
hpec at ieee-hpec.org

Keynote Speakers

  *   Prof. Danna Freedman<https://chemistry.mit.edu/profile/danna-freedman/> (Keyes Prof Chemistry, MIT; Quantum at MIT Director; MacArthur Fellow) – Expanding Quantum: MIT’s Quantum Initiative
  *   Gregory Kurtzer<https://ciq.com/company/leadership/gregory-kurtzer> (CEO CIQ & Founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS, Singularity/Apptainer)
  *   Dave Martinez<https://www.ll.mit.edu/biographies/david-r-martinez> (MIT Lincoln Lab Fellow; IEEE Fellow)
  *   Dr. CJ Newburn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-cj-newburn-17997712/> (Nvidia Distinguished Engineer; NVIDIA IO and HPC software strategy architect)
  *   Prof. Daniela Rus<https://danielarus.csail.mit.edu/> (Viterbi Prof EESC MIT, CSAIL Director; AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, MacArthur & NAE Member/Fellow)

Distinguished Speakers

  *   Prof. Saman Amarasinghe<https://people.csail.mit.edu/saman/> (Perkins Prof, MIT EECS; ACM Fellow)
  *   Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam<https://necsi.edu/yaneer-bar-yam> (President New England Complex Systems Institute)
  *   Jatin Ganhotra<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jatinganhotra/> (Senior Software Engineer, IBM)
  *   Dr. Sandra Gesing<https://sandra-gesing.com/> (Sr. Researcher SDSC, Exec. Dir. US-RSE)
  *   Prof. Sigal Gottlieb<https://www.umassd.edu/directory/sgottlieb/> (Chancellor Prof Math, UMass Dartmouth; SIAM & AWM Fellow) – Mixed Model, Mixed Method, and Mixed Precision Runge–Kutta Method
  *   Justin “Goju” Gottschlich<https://sites.google.com/view/gottschlich> (Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist, Merly, Inc)
  *   Dr. Hong Jiang<https://www.linkedin.com/in/hong-jiang-7906468/> (Intel Fellow) – Intel Crescent Island
  *   Prof. Tim Kraska<https://people.csail.mit.edu/kraska/> (MIT EECS; former Dir. of Applied Science, AWS)
  *   Pere Monclus<https://www.linkedin.com/in/pere-monclus-a73218/> (VP Engineering Cisco Networking)
  *   Dr. Romulo Pinho<https://www.linkedin.com/in/romulopinho/> (Sr. Distinguished Engineer Dell) – Management & Orchestration for Hybrid Quantum-Classical HPC Systems
  *   Prof. Katsuhisa Ozaki<https://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/en/research/laboratory/00163.html> (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
  *   Prof. Rohan Basu Roy<https://rohanbasuroy.github.io/> (University of Utah) – Developing Control Plane to Stabilize Hybrid Classical-Quantum Algorithms
  *   Laura Schulz<https://www.alcf.anl.gov/about/people/laura-schulz> (Argonne National Lab) – Quantum-HPC Supercomputing: From Fault-Tolerant Hardware to a Managed Scientific Ecosystem
  *   Dr. Roger Waleffe<http://www.rogerwaleffe.com/> (NVIDIA, Senior Research Scientist) – Language Model Architecture
  *   Dr. Chaojie Zhang<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/chaojiezhang/> (Microsoft, Senior Research SDE) – Rearchitecting the Datacenter Lifecycle for AI

Special Sessions

  *   Age of Mixed-Precision: Algorithms, Libraries, and Applications<https://icl.utk.edu/users/luszczek/conf/2025/hpec/>; organizer: Dr. Piotr Luszczek (MIT LLSC & UTK ICL)
  *   Bridging Quantum and High Performance Computing<https://sites.google.com/view/hpec-quantum-hpc/>; organizer: Prof. Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern Univ.)
  *   GenAI Opportunities and AI Challenges<https://sites.mit.edu/hpec-genai/>; organizer: Dr. Vijay Gadepally<https://www.ll.mit.edu/biographies/vijay-n-gadepally> (MIT LLSC), Dr. Daniel Burrill<https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-b-90b61983/> (MIT LLSC), Dr. Christian Prothmann<https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianprothmann/> (MIT CSAIL)
  *   Fastcode @ HPEC<https://fastcode.org/events/ieee-hpec/>; organizer: Dr. Bruce Hoppe (MIT)<https://www.linkedin.com/in/behoppe/#main-content>
  *   SPIRAL Tutorial: Accelerating AI and other workloads on GPUs, CPUs, and QPUs<http://www.spiral.net/tutorial-spiral.html>; organizers: Prof. Franz Franchetti and Naifeng Zhang (http://www.spiral.net/tutorial-spiral.html)
  *   MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge<https://graphchallenge.mit.edu/>
  *   GraphBLAS Forum<https://graphblas.org/hpec_bof.html> to define standard building blocks for graph algorithms; organizers: Dr. Timothy Mattson<https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-mattson-70b1774/> (HLG), Dr. Ben Brock<https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-brock-617289232/> (Intel), and Dr. Scott McMillan<https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/author.cfm?authorID=301616>(CMU SEI)
  *   BRAINS: Building Resilience through Artificial Intelligence for Networked Systems<https://sites.mit.edu/brains/>; organizers: Dr. Sandeep Pisharody<http://sites.mit.edu/pisharody/> (MIT LL) and Dr. Thomas Hardjono<https://hardjono.mit.edu/> (MIT)
  *   Scaling Research Computing Education<https://supercloud.mit.edu/scaling-hpc-education>; organizers: Dr. Julie Mullen<https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliamullen/> (MIT LLSC) and Dr. Hayden Jananthan (MIT LLSC)

Outstanding Papers

Performance and Portability of a Production Fluid–Structure Interaction Solver Across NVIDIA GPU Generations
Ella Fortenbery, Jorik Stoop, Ayman Yousef, Amanda Randles (Duke Univ.)

Scalable Cross-Aircraft Flight Phase Classification Using Transfer Learning and ADS-B Data
Jacob Kiefer (US Air Force), Sheila Alemany (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

LatencyLab: A DPDK-Based P4 Pipeline Latency Measurement Framework for FPGA SmartNICs
Pavani Kuppili (Univ. of Utah), Yicheng Qian, Suranga Handagala (Northeastern Univ.), Michael Zink (UMass Amherst), Miriam Leeser (Northeastern Univ.), Robert Ricci (Univ. of Utah)

CREDIT: Cost-guided Reduction-reuse with Efficient DSMEM Inter-CTA Tiling [Outstanding Paper Award]
Zhengxiong Li, Tsung-Wei Huang, Umit Ogras (Univ. of Wisconsin)

SNAP-FM: Sparse Nonlinear Accelerated Projection for Physics-Constrained Generative Modeling [Outstanding Paper Award]
Alaina Kolli, Theodoros Xenakis, Utkarsh Utkarsh, Pengfei Cai, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Alan Edelman, Christopher V. Rackauckas (MIT)

Outstanding Student Papers

OpenDwarfs 2.0: Evolving the Berkeley Dwarfs in OpenCL and OpenMP
Nabayan Chaudhury, Wu-chun Feng (Virginia Tech)

Performance Evaluation of GPU-Based Random Number Generators in MARLEY
Yohannes Abateneh (Florida A&M Univ.), Steven Gardiner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Kimieka D. Dunkley, Hongmei Chi(Florida A&M Univ.)

Accelerating Spiking Neural Network Inference with RISC-V Vector Extension
Myles Fernau, Alan D. George (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Topology Survives Shuffling: Robust Long-Context Memory Access Prediction for Graph Analytics [Outstanding Student Paper Award]
Dongyan Sun, Neelesh Gupta (USC), Rajgopal Kannan (DEVCOM Army Research Lab), Viktor Prasanna (USC)

ML-Guided Parameter Configuration Selection for Top-Down Stochastic Block Partitioning [Outstanding Student Paper Award]
Saikat Dey, Wu-chun Feng (Virginia Tech)

Numerically Stable Cholesky-QR on GPU via Mixed-Precision Randomized Preconditioning [Outstanding Student Paper Award]
James Garrison, Chao Chen, Ilse Ipsen (North Carolina State Univ.)

Graph Challenge Awards

Champions

  *   DUET: Efficient Subgraph Matching on a Practical Heterogeneous GPU-PIM Platform – Yiheng Yang, Yi Zhang, Yu Huang, Deting Chen, Qihang Qiu, Long Zheng, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin (Huazhong Univ. of Science and Tech.)
  *   FOAMS: Efficient Anonymized Network Sensing using Compact Matrix Format and Multi-Stage Pipeline Parallelism – Jun Mai, Qinggang Wang (Huazhong Univ. of Science and Tech.), Haonan Wu (Boston Univ.), Pengcheng Yao, Yu Huang, Long Zheng, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin (Huazhong Univ. of Science and Tech.)

Student Innovation Awards

  *   MPI-Leiden: Fully Distributed Community Detection for Very Large Graphs – Pavel Serhiayenka, Alan George (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
  *   Processing Network Sensing Data with the Gmap Graph System – Daniel Osei, Chanaka Hettige, Martin Swany (Indiana Univ.)

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