RMACC HPC Symposium 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025 RMACC HPC Symposium!

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8:00am MDT

Breakfast

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT

Wolf Law Cafeteria

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Wolf Law Cafeteria

Break

8:50am MDT

Student Poster Presentations

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:50am - 9:00am MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:50am - 9:00am MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

9:00am MDT

Lessons from Community-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Strategies to Broaden Institutional Participation

Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

Cyberinfrastructure provides a foundation that supports teaching and research on college campuses—but how do we ensure faculty and researchers can fully leverage its potential? This keynote focuses on the critical role of community engagement and development in delivering on cyberinfrastructure’s promises. From workforce development strategies to proof-of-concept examples, Ana Hunsinger will reflect on key lessons learned from intentional community engagement strategies with MS-CC campuses to drive impactful research outcomes. She will share insights into effective strategies for fostering engagement among institutions to participate in and contribute to cyberinfrastructure, supporting researchers and educators in leveraging cyberinfrastructure, and building sustainable engagement strategies that drive long-term success.

Speakers

Ana Hunsinger

Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

Keynote

10:30am MDT

Advancing Research Through AWS AI Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Overview with Live Demos

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Room 204

This presentation explores AWS latest developments in AI infrastructure and tools designed specifically for research communities. We'll examine the transformation of SageMaker Studio, the introduction of the Build on Trainium program, and the strategic positioning of Amazon Bedrock alongside SageMaker AI. This session will highlight how these integrated solutions address the evolving needs of researchers, from individual projects to large-scale collaborative efforts. Live demonstrations of SageMaker Studio and Bedrock API integration will showcase the practical application of these tools in research environments.

Speakers

Scott Friedman

AWS

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Room 204

Technical Talk, Sponsor

10:30am MDT

AI enabled protein interaction modeling

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Room 206

AI assisted protein interaction modeling, pioneered by AlphaFold and RosettaFold, has become more diverse both with respect to the programs that do it, and how users run these programs. In this talk, we will cover the programs that are supported at the University of Utah, namely Alphafold2, Alphafold3, Colabfold, Boltz1, RFDiffusion and other tools from the Baker lab, the choices we have made with their deployment, and our experiences with using them. With respect to the ways to run, we will go over the standard SLURM scripts to run Alphafold in two stages (CPU only MSA search, GPU accelerated inference), use Colabfold server for faster MSA search, and using Google Colab running on compute nodes for interactive modeling in a notebook interface. Attendees should leave this talk with ideas how to set up and support these tools and contacts to UofU staff for further questions.

Speakers

Martin Cuma

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Room 206

Technical Talk, AI

10:30am MDT

Chemistry beyond exact solutions on a Quantum-Centric Supercomputer

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Room 207

A universal quantum computer can be used as a simulator capable of predicting properties of diverse quantum systems. Electronic structure problems in chemistry offer practical use cases around the hundred-qubit mark. This appears promising since current quantum processors have reached these sizes. However, mapping these use cases onto quantum computers yields deep circuits, and for pre-fault-tolerant quantum processors, the large number of measurements to estimate molecular energies leads to prohibitive runtimes. As a result, realistic chemistry is out of reach of current quantum computers in isolation. A natural question is whether classical distributed computation can relieve quantum processors from parsing all but a core, intrinsically quantum component of a chemistry workflow. Here, we incorporate quantum computations of chemistry in a quantum-centric supercomputing architecture, using up to 6400 nodes of the supercomputer Fugaku to assist a quantum computer with a Heron superconducting processor. We simulate the N2 triple bond breaking in a correlation-consistent cc-pVDZ basis set, and the active-space electronic structure of [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] clusters, using 58, 45 and 77 qubits respectively, with quantum circuits of up to 10570 (3590 2-qubit) quantum gates. We obtain our results using a class of quantum circuits that approximates molecular eigenstates, and a hybrid estimator. The estimator processes quantum samples, produces upper bounds to the ground-state energy and wavefunctions supported on a polynomial number of states. This guarantees an unconditional quality metric for quantum advantage, certifiable by classical computers at polynomial cost. For current error rates, our results show that classical distributed computing coupled to quantum computers can produce good approximate solutions for practical problems beyond sizes amenable to exact diagonalization.

Speakers

Nick Bronn

IBM

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Room 207

Technical Talk, Quantum Computing

10:30am MDT

Curating and Publishing Big Datasets Using CU Boulder High Performance Computing Infrastructure

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

Publication of research datasets is now a requirement of most funding agencies and journals. Data curation is the process of ensuring that these datasets are findable, accessible, and usable. In the era of Big Data, the generation of datasets with sizes on the order of 100s of gigabytes and larger is increasingly common. Such large datasets create challenges for both the curation and publishing of data as they often cannot be accessed on standard computer hardware or hosted in traditional online repositories. This presentation provides an overview of a collaborative process between the CU Boulder Libraries and CU Boulder Research Computing in which high-performance computing infrastructure is used to curate and publish gigabyte- and terabyte-scale datasets in a manner that makes them accessible to the research community.

Speakers

Andy Monaghan

Matthew Murray

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

Technical Talk, Facilitation/Other

10:30am MDT

Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) Research and Education Network (REN) Connecting Colorado Cyber-Infrastructure (CI)

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Room 205

The Front Range GigaPop (FRGP) is a longstanding network in Colorado that connects universities, government agencies, and schools to Internet2, peering exchanges, and the broader Internet through shared fiber-optic, routed and packet-switched infrastructure.

A recent NSF grant is funding the expansion of FRGP to the Western Slope, providing 10Gbps connections to Mesa State Metropolitan State University in Grand Junction (MSU), Western Colorado University in Gunnison (WSU), and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic (RMBL).

This presentation will highlight FRGP’s services and showcase its role in advancing cyberinfrastructure (CI) across the region.

Speakers

Scot Colburn

NCAR

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Room 205

Technical Talk, System Administration

11:15am MDT

Artificial Intelligence Powered Research: A survey of the current and planned usage of AI across research disciplines in a High Performance Computing community

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

The growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across diverse research disciplines necessitates a comprehensive understanding of researchers’ current and anticipated AI-related needs. The Research Computing group at the University of Colorado Boulder recently conducted a survey among campus researchers and the broader RMACC) community to evaluate AI usage trends, associated computational demands, and challenges faced by researchers. The survey examined discipline-specific differences in each area. Our findings highlight the importance of understanding the composition of a research community when investing in infrastructure and developing training materials.

Speakers

Mohal Khandewal

Andy Monaghan

Michael Schneider

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

Discussion, AI

11:15am MDT

Collaborative Cloud Science: Deploying The Littlest JupyterHub on Jetstream2

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT

Room 206

Many research teams and educators experience technical and resource challenges when setting up multi-user systems for data analysis and repeatable research. Instead of managing complex, on-premise systems, or paying for commercial cloud offerings, this presentation will show how to quickly start a simple JupyterHub (using TLJH) on a public research cloud like Jetstream2. This reduces setup effort for teams with limited IT support and improves teamwork and research repeatability in data-intensive projects.
This session is appropriate for researchers, educators, and research software engineers with intermediate skills who want to improve cloud access and teamwork, especially from institutions with limited research computing resources.
TLJH (The Littlest JupyterHub) is a simple, lightweight Jupyter Notebook server for small to medium-sized groups. It helps educators and researchers set up a shared Jupyter environment on a single server with minimal setup (no Kubernetes required!).
Jetstream2 is a flexible, user-friendly cloud computing environment built on OpenStack. It is available to US-based researchers and educators at no cost through support from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program.
Learning Objectives

Learn Cloud Deployment with Jetstream2: Understand how to use Jetstream2, create instances, and benefit from cloud computing for research teamwork.
Install TLJH Step-by-Step: Follow the setup process for TLJH and adjust a basic JupyterHub to fit research needs
Set Up User Management and Security: Configure login settings, control user access, and adjust network settings to create a secure and easy-to-use research system.
Solve Problems Together: Work in small groups to fix common setup issues, share ways to expand the system, and discuss real-world uses of TLJH in research and teaching.

Speakers

Julian Pistorius

Jetstream

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 206

Discussion, AI

11:15am MDT

Quantum-Centric HPC: Today's Landscape, Future Expectations

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT

Room 205

In concert with the quantum computing-related workshop at this year's RMACC Symposium, this panel explores the current state of quantum-centric HPC from the perspective of prominent industry members of the ecosystem. We'll discuss the limitations inherent to classical approaches that might be overcome using quantum systems, domains and algorithms that are benefiting from today's quantum technology, where quantum advantage might be likely to emerge in the near future, and how HPC facilitators might support researchers integrating quantum computing into their workflows. Sustainability impacts inherent to quantum computing will also be considered.

Moderators

Torey Battelle

Speakers

Josh Savory

Quantinuum

Nick Bronn

IBM

David Allcock

Oxford Ionics

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Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 205

Panel, Quantum Computing

11:15am MDT

DDN

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT

Room 204

Speakers

Morris Skupinsky

DDN

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 204

Technical Talk, Sponsor

11:15am MDT

GenomEX 2.0

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT

Room 207

The University of North Dakota (UND) Genomics Core has launched GenomEX 2.0, the first comprehensive and user-friendly bioinformatics platform powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This innovative platform enables biologists to seamlessly install over 13,000 bioinformatics tools, generate and execute custom code or command lines, and receive real-time guidance from an AI-based bioinformatics assistant—all through intuitive, one-click processes.
To support the computing requirements for any bioinformatics tools, the platform is powered by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that provides fully secured (built-in security features and compliance certifications), personalized (adjustable CPU/GPU numbers & memory/storage capacity), dedicated (resources available 24/7 without any queue) and customizable (users have administrator rights) cloud-based high-performance computing environments at unbeatable pricing.
Through the combined expertise of the UND Genomics Core and Oracle, GenomEX 2.0 emerges as a powerful and unique bioinformatics platform, providing every biologist with the freedom to explore biological data independently, regardless of their coding proficiency.

Speakers

Damien Parrello

Santosh Bhatt

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 207

Technical Talk, Facilitation/Other

12:15pm MDT

Lunch- Sponsored by IBM Quantum

Wednesday May 21, 2025 12:15pm - 1:15pm MDT

Wolf Law Cafeteria

Wednesday May 21, 2025 12:15pm - 1:15pm MDT
Wolf Law Cafeteria

Break

1:15pm MDT

Alpine New User Seminar

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT

Room 205

New to CU Research Computing, but don't know where to start? This RC Primer training is designed to give you an overview of Research Computing resources, procedures and best practices. You will learn how to log in, request allocations, store and transfer data, load software, run a job, and ask for help. In order to follow along with the hands-on component of this session, you’ll want to register for a Research Computing account beforehand.

Speakers

John Reiland

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 205

Tutorial

1:15pm MDT

Automating Research with Globus: The Modern Research IT Platform

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT

Room 207

As research data volumes grow and mandates for data publication become more pervasive, automated means for managing these complex workflows to ensure data integrity have a growing role in modern science. In this session we will introduce Globus Flows, a foundational service for orchestrating secure and reliable data management tasks at scale, and Globus Compute, a service which enables you to execute functions on diverse remote systems. We will describe how Globus Flows and Compute fit into the Globus ecosystem of data and compute management services, and how flows can feed into downstream data portals, science gateways, and data commons, enabling search and discovery of data by the broader community. We will demonstrate how to run various Globus provided flows and discuss initiating flows with triggers and inserting compute tasks into your flows. We will conclude with an interactive tutorial detailing how to build custom flows using Jupyter notebooks and the Globus web app.

Speakers

Greg Nawrocki

Globus

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 207

Tutorial, Sponsor

1:15pm MDT

Deploy & Manage Kubernetes on Jetstream2 using OpenStack Magnum

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT

Room 206

Many modern research software systems run on Kubernetes for scale and resilience (e.g. JupyterHub, Dask, RStudio, etc.). Deploying Kubernetes in a reliable and robust way has historically been difficult. This tutorial offers a simple way to deploy Kubernetes clusters on Jetstream2 using OpenStack Magnum. By making cluster setup and management easier, this session helps teams with limited IT support to run powerful and scalable computing tools.

Participants will learn how to use OpenStack Magnum to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on the Jetstream2 research cloud. Designed for research software engineers and IT support staff with intermediate Linux skills and a basic understanding of containers and container orchestration, this session provides a repeatable process to build a scalable, container-based research system for their institutions.

Jetstream2 is a flexible, user-friendly cloud computing environment built on OpenStack. It is available to US-based researchers and educators at no cost through support from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program.

OpenStack is a free cloud computing platform that provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It helps organizations set up and manage public and private clouds. OpenStack includes tools for computing, networking, storage, and identity management, making it easy to build flexible and scalable cloud systems on different hardware.

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes helps developers run complex applications reliably and efficiently.

Magnum is an OpenStack service that helps users set up and manage Kubernetes. Magnum offers native integration with OpenStack services, simplified cluster lifecycle management, and enhanced security and resource allocation for containers.
Learning Objectives

Understand how OpenStack Magnum automates Kubernetes cluster setup.
Understand the advantages of Magnum compared to alternatives.
Follow a step-by-step process to create and configure a Kubernetes cluster using Magnum.
Deploy test containerized applications and adjust cluster scaling.

Speakers

Julian Pistorius

Jetstream

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 206

Tutorial, Facilitation/Other

1:15pm MDT

End-to-End HPC and AI with Intel: Platforms, Tools, and Optimization

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT

Room 204

Discover how Intel’s seamlessly integrated hardware and software stack enables cutting-edge performance for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 204

Tutorial, Sponsor

3:00pm MDT

Accelerating Research Outcomes with GenAI and HPC

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

Room 207

How can your research teams leverage and apply high performance computing to supercharge your own efforts for research momentum to get to outcomes faster?

When generative AI (GenAI) was first introduced, our AI team identified the proposal process as a top use case for GenAI augmentation. Our AI experts set out to build a GenAI-powered application to help the Proposal team streamline the complex RFP process. The goal was to build an intelligent assistant that accelerated RFP qualification, helped proposal managers quickly grasp the key aspects of lengthy RFP document sets, and searched multiple databases for relevant information to automatically generate a quality response draft.

The now successful internally developed GenAI solution significantly shortens the Proposal team's response time, allowing them to answer to more proposals and spend more time on response quality and win strategies. This use case will be expanded to support the whole process of winning customer engagement, from drafting Statements of Work (SOWs) to proposal PowerPoint presentations.

In the spirit of exploring the art of the possible, we will share a live demo of capability in use for creating proposals and responses for project funding.

Speakers

Sachin Koshy

WWT

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Room 207

Technical Talk, Sponsor

3:00pm MDT

Advancing Research with AWS: Compliance, Computing, and Connectivity

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

Room 206

This presentation explores AWS comprehensive solutions for the research community, addressing three critical challenges: meeting evolving compliance requirements like the new NIH NIST 800-171 standards, delivering scalable high-performance computing, and simplifying data management. We'll examine how the AWS Secure Research Environment (SRE) addresses complex security needs, compare managed AWS ParallelCluster Service with self-managed options, and showcase tools like the Globus S3 Connector for streamlined data handling. Join us to discover how AWS empowers researchers to focus on innovation while maintaining security, performance, and efficiency at scale.

Speakers

Scott Friedman

AWS

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Room 206

Technical Talk, Sponsor

3:00pm MDT

HPC Skills and Opportunities Development in RMACC

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

This talk shares the story of an NSF-funded experiential learning opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students at RMACC institutions. Students developed practical skills in HPC system administration by learning from and shadowing CU Boulder Research Computing staff. A total of 17 students participated across two in-person experiences and took part in various aspects of system design, deployment, and teardown.

Speakers

Craig Earley

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

Technical Talk, Facilitation/Other

3:00pm MDT

Introduction to Quantinuum Compute Products

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

Room 205

Come and learn more about Quantinuum and their compute offerings

Speakers

Josh Savory

Quantinuum

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Room 205

Technical Talk, Sponsor

3:00pm MDT

Managing RCD Professionals

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

Room 204

Perhaps management is in your future. Or you have recently been cast in that role and you would appreciate some suggestions. Attend this session to collect some useful references, and discuss the importance of our role and maximizing the impact of our teams

Speakers

Chris Reidy

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Room 204

Technical Talk, Facilitation/Other

3:45pm MDT

A Practical Approach for Evaluating the Effectiveness of NSF NCAR's HPC Environment

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT

Room 204

In the presentation, we would share info on topics such as metrics, our user survey, and some other approaches. As part of the talk, we would like to engender a discussion and exchange of info about what other sites do to measure the effectiveness of their HPC environments.

Speakers

Bill Anderson

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 204

Technical Talk, Facilitation/Other

3:45pm MDT

Data Lifecycle Management in HPC – Automating Tiered Storage & Archival Strategies- Arcitecta

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT

Room 206

Managing data at scale in high-performance computing (HPC) environments requires efficient storage and retrieval strategies. Automated tiered storage solutions enable seamless migration of aged data to lower-cost archival tiers while maintaining accessibility. Enriched metadata—spanning tagging, search, discovery, and data provenance—enhances data usability and long-term value. This approach not only optimizes storage costs but also empowers researchers with better data discovery and reuse. Real-world HPC use cases demonstrate how metadata-driven workflows streamline research, ensuring that critical datasets remain accessible and actionable over time.

Speakers

Eric Polet

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 206

Technical Talk, Sponsor

3:45pm MDT

Optimizing HPC and AI Infrastructure with Standard Linux and Advanced Storage Architectures

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT

Room 205

AI workloads present new challenges for traditional HPC architectures, particularly as compute demands outpace I/O performance, power constraints tighten, and budgets remain stretched. The need for high-throughput, low-latency data access at extreme scale is forcing a re-evaluation of storage architectures to maximize efficiency without incurring unsustainable costs.

This session will explore how standard Linux and open storage technologies enable AI and HPC workloads to achieve parallel file system performance on commodity hardware—without requiring specialized infrastructure. Topics include:
• Scaling AI Storage with Standard Linux: Leveraging NFSv4.2 advancements, including pNFS and FlexFiles, to enable parallel I/O at extreme scales.
• Next-Generation SSD Integration: How embedding parallel file system capabilities into SSDs reduces data movement overhead while maximizing power efficiency.
• Accelerating AI with Localized Storage on GPU/CPU Servers: Techniques to optimize checkpointing and ephemeral data storage, reducing I/O bottlenecks and overall infrastructure costs.

The session will feature real-world examples of how these innovations are being deployed today to drive high-performance AI workloads while addressing power and cost constraints.

Speakers

Molly Presley

Head of Global Marketing - Hammerspace & Host of Data Unchained Podcast., Hammerspace

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 205

Technical Talk, Sponsor

3:45pm MDT

The AI Power Crunch – Storage Solutions that Reduce Power Footprint

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT

Room 207

This presentation highlights the rapid growth in Field Effect Transistor (FET) technology, with modern GPUs containing over 200 billion transistors each. As transistor counts soar, so does power consumption—Nvidia’s shipped GPUs alone consumed over 14 TWh in 2023. With global data center energy demands projected to triple, the presentation advocates for transitioning data from power-hungry disk storage to more energy-efficient systems. This shift offers significant power savings, lower carbon emissions, and cost reductions—providing a scalable path to support future computing growth without overloading existing power infrastructure.

Speakers

Matt Starr

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 207

Technical Talk, Sponsor

3:45pm MDT

The Practicalities of Quantum-Centric High-Performance Computing

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

This workshop will act as a continuation of last year's presentation and discussion on quantum-centric high-performance computing (QCHPC). We will again look at realistic instances in the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) -era, how these (and other use cases) might scale with quantum hardware, and strategies for integration of quantum resources with HPC. We will consider approaches to putting these hybrid paradigms into practice; Symposium members are encouraged to contribute efforts made by their HPC departments, both from emulation/simulation and hardware integration perspectives. The workshop is intended as a space to explore ideas, share experiences and gather knowledge to advance quantum-centric HPC in our region.

Speakers

Torey Battelle

Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

Technical Talk, Quantum Computing

4:30pm MDT

Fuzzball: a new paradigm for accessing HPC resources

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

Room 207

Fuzzball, from CIQ, is a new way to access and manage HPC resources, whether they're on-prem, in the cloud, or both. Fuzzball is API-driven, container-forward, and offers co-equal web and command-line interfaces. With its well-defined workflow definitions, including first-class support for container management and data ingress and egress, Fuzzball workflows are portable to both local clusters and cloud resources.

In this session we will give an overview of Fuzzball, describe some of its potential use cases, and highlight some of its unique features, including a visual workflow builder, portable workflows, and its templated workflow catalog.

Speakers

Jonathon Anderson

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 207

Technical Talk, Sponsor

4:30pm MDT

Launching a Public Cloud Small State University: Lessons from the First Six Months

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

Wolf Law Courtroom

As research demands grow and infrastructure ages, some institutions are turning to the public cloud to supplement or replace traditional on-prem systems. This talk shares the journey of launching a public cloud pilot for research computing at a small state university. We’ll explore the drivers behind the shift—including scalability, agility, and cost transparency—and walk through key decisions, from selecting a cloud provider to identifying test users. Drawing from real-world experience six months post-launch, we’ll cover what’s worked, what’s surprised us, and what we’re planning next. Attendees will leave with a practical roadmap and lessons learned to guide their own cloud adoption efforts—whether starting small or scaling up.

Speakers

Kira Wells

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

Technical Talk, Cloud

4:30pm MDT

NVIDIA CUDA-Q Overview

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

Room 205

Speakers

Tom Lubowe

NVIDIA

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 205

Technical Talk, Sponsor

4:30pm MDT

Supporting FPGA applications on a university compute cluster

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

Room 204

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are gaining traction in research for their ability to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient computing across a range of domains—from machine learning and data analytics to signal processing and scientific simulations. However, integrating FPGA workflows into a shared university compute cluster presents unique challenges in terms of hardware management, toolchain support and user access. This session will explore the practical aspects of supporting FPGA applications in a multi-user academic environment. We will cover available FPGA platforms, commonly used development workflows (such as Xilinx Vivado and Vitis, Intel Quartus and OpenCL, and HLS), and the architectural and administrative considerations for cluster integration. Real-world use cases will illustrate how researchers and academics are leveraging FPGAs, and we’ll share lessons learned in enabling productive FPGA development. Attendees will gain insight into both the technical setup and the support models that foster a thriving FPGA user community on campus.

Speakers

Thomas Jennewein

Arizona State University

Gil Speyer

J. Choudhury

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 204

Technical Talk, Facilitation/Other

4:30pm MDT

The Metadata Revolution: Accelerating HPC Workflows Through Intelligent Data Management

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

Room 206

The next frontier in AI advancement isn’t just about algorithms—it’s about unlocking the wealth of hidden insights trapped within millions of files in HPC environments. While organizations focus on model architectures, the true bottleneck often lies in discovering and preparing relevant data buried in vast storage systems.
This presentation, featuring MetadataHub and a live demonstration, will reveal how intelligent metadata extraction and management transforms unstructured data into AI-ready assets by:

Uncovering Hidden Context: Live metadata extraction demonstrating how MetadataHubcaptures content and contextual value, revealing unexpected connections between research datasets and enabling new AI training opportunities that would otherwise remain hidden.
Automating Data Discovery: Demonstrating how MetadataHub automates metadata tagging to identify valuable training data across petabyte-scale storage, reducing data preparation time by up to 90%.
Enhancing Model Quality: Exploring how rich metadata captured by MetadataHub improves AI model performance by providing better context and enabling more relevant training data selection.
Scaling Efficiently: Showcasing metadata-driven automation with MetadataHub that optimizes data pipeline efficiency and resource utilization, including GPU/CPU performance, across HPC environments.

The session will highlight a real-world success story from the Zuse Institute Berlin, where MetadataHub unlocked 200 PB of previously underutilized research data for cutting-edge Generative AI applications. A 15-minute live demonstration will guide attendees through their journey—from data discovery to AI-ready datasets—highlighting practical challenges and solutions.
Attendees will leave with actionable strategies for implementing metadata-driven approaches in their own HPC workflows. By showcasing MetadataHub’s ability to extract content and contextual value, this session will demonstrate how metadata transforms unstructured data into a strategic advantage, accelerating AI initiatives and driving HPC innovation.

Speakers

David Cerf

Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 206

Technical Talk, Sponsor

5:00pm MDT

Evening Reception

Wednesday May 21, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm MDT

Reception