Program

(Tentative, subject to change)

Sunday, September 13

17:00-20:00   Check-in & Reception (Via Frangipane, 4)

19:00-21:00   Welcome Buffet (“Center Canteen” - Via Frangipane, 2)

Monday, September 14

07:30-08:45   Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

08:30-08:45   Registration (“Fresco Room” - La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)

08:45-09:00   Welcome

09:00-09:30   Accelerators for AI Factories, Jose Castanos (NVIDIA, USA)

09:30-10:00   Performance Optimization for Accelerators: Potential and Challenges, Saday Sadayappan (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)

10:00-10:30   A Graphical Model for Reinforcement Learning, Keshav Pingali (University of Texas, Austin, USA)

10:30-11:00   Coffee

11:00-11:30   How to build a Exascale system in more or less 12 months, Bernd Mohr (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

11:30-12:00   Flow Parallel Processing Unit® architecture and selected algorithms, Martti Forsell (Flow Computing Oy, Finland)

12:00-12:30   Reducing Waste in GPU Computing, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)

12:45-14:00   Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

14:30-15:00   Humans Think to Speak; Machines Speak to Think, Jose Moreira (IBM Research, USA)

15:00-15:30   Sparse Linear Algebra as a Scalable Computational Paradigm in Life Sciences and Data Analytics, Giulia Guidi (Cornell University, USA)

15:30-16:00   Composable Digital Twins for DevOps in Societal-Scale ICT Infrastructure, Alexandru Iosup (VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

16:00-16:30   Coffee

16:30-18:00   Discussion Session I: Accelerator Technologies, Coordinators: M. Forsell, J. Moreira, S. Sadayappan

19:30-21:30   Dinner, Bistrot Colonna, Via Mainardi 10, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 444333).

Tuesday, September 15

07:30-08:45   Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

09:00-09:30   Computing with Waves – An Introduction to Optical Computing and Accelerator Opportunities, Paul Kelly (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)

09:30-10:00   Algebra as Architecture: Majorana–Paraparticle Logic for Structured-Light Quantum Accelerators, Fabrizio Tamburini (Rotonium Quantum Computing, Padova, Italy)

10:00-10:30   Prompt Engineering for HPC Vibe Coding, David Keyes (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)

10:30-11:00   Coffee

11:00-12:30   Discussion Session II: Machine Learning and Emerging Computing Approaches, Coordinators: P. Kelly, E. Killian, B. Scholtz

12:45-14:00   Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

14:30-18:30   Excursion to Cesena

19:00-22:00   Social Dinner, Casa Artusi, Via A. Costa 27/31, 47034 Forlimpopoli (0543 748049).

Wednesday, September 16

07:30-08:45   Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

09:00-09:30   RISC-V for Inference: Beating GPU-Native Formats on Performance and Quality, Earl A. Killian (Rhoa Research / Aril)

09:30-10:00   HPC Tools for the RISC-V HPC Ecosystem: The DARE Project and TUM’s Contributions Revisited One Year Later, Carsten Trinitis (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

10:00-10:30   SkePU-Streaming: Distributed Pipelining of Portable Skeleton-Based Stream Computations, Christoph Kessler (Linköping University, Sweden)

10:30-11:00   Coffee

11:00-11:30   Can Algebra Be an API for Parallel Computing?, Martin Berger (University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom)

11:30-12:00   First Experiences When Using ONNX for Scientific Computing, Sven-Bodo Scholz (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

12:00-12:30   Automatic Load Balancing via Malleable Runtimes for HPC, Josef Weidendorfer (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

12:30-14:00   Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

15:00-15:30   Fast Matrix Multiplication - Theory and Practice, Oded Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

15:30-16:00   Parallel and Hierarchical Transformer Computations, Silvia Mondin (University of Padova, Italy)

16:00-16:30   Coffee

16:30-18:00   Discussion Session III: Algorithms, Applications, and System Software, Coordinators: J. Castanos, O. Schwartz, A.L. Varbanescu

19:30-21:30   Dinner, La Grotta di Bertinoro, Viale Roma 37, Bertinoro (0543 444201).

Thursday, September 17

07:30-08:45   Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

09:00-09:30   On the Significance of Modern Frequency Scaling Drivers for Energy Efficiency in Task Scheduling, Sebastian Litzinger (Linköping University, Sweden)

09:30-10:00   Hardware-Software Pendulum, Henry Tufo (IBM Research)

10:00-10:30   On Rings Where a Linear Transformation and Its Inverse and Transpose Have the Same Information Exchange, Gianfranco Bilardi (University of Padova, Italy)

10:30-11:00   Coffee

11:00-12:30   Discussion Session IV: General Issues, Coordinators: B. Mohr, H. Tufo, C. Trinitis

Adjourn

13:00-14:30   Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

19:30-21:30   Dinner (“Center Canteen”)