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Welcome to the 2025 RMACC HPC Symposium!
Tuesday, May 20
 

12:00pm MDT

Lunch
Tuesday May 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Tuesday May 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Wolf Law Cafeteria

1:00pm MDT

Evolving education in an AI World
Tuesday May 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT
      Klymkowsky will speak about the innovative ways he and his collaborators utilize AI Bots in their classes.  His Bots, which he named Dewey and Rita, act like “tutors” for his students.  They also can analyze students’ work and instructors’ questions, providing feedback and suggestions to instructors and course designers that can help students overcome conceptual obstacles and help enhance their learning skills and outcomes.
Recent surveys show that a large majority of both undergraduate and graduate students are using Artificial Intelligence tools, encouraging the development of new ideas on how to incorporate generative AI strategically into college and university coursework.
Speakers
MK

Mike Klymkowsky

University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday May 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

2:30pm MDT

Gaining file system intelligence and operational efficiency with the VAST data platform
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
As the shape and demands of large scale computing environments have evolved, so have the needs of those who are responsible for keeping them in tip top shape. HPC administrators are challenged with knowing what the data on their system looks like, who’s doing what to the data and tracking jobs on the system. In this talk we’ll cover how the VAST data platform’s powerful structured data component and analytics makes these tasks easy.
Speakers
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Room 206

2:30pm MDT

Security & Compliance in Scientific Data Management: Ensuring Integrity and Immutability
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
In today's research landscape, protecting scientific data from tampering and unauthorized access and adhering to compliance driven security measures is critical. Effective data management solutions must ensure integrity and immutability while enabling secure collaboration across institutions and research labs. By implementing policy-driven access controls, encryption, and compliance-driven security measures, organizations can safeguard sensitive research data against breaches and unauthorized modifications. This approach not only enhances data security but also ensures adherence to regulatory frameworks, fostering trust in the integrity and reproducibility of scientific discoveries while enabling secure, compliant data sharing.
Speakers
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Room 207

2:30pm MDT

Supporting quantum-inspired optimization on a university compute cluster
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Room 205

2:30pm MDT

Zhexuan Gong- School of Mines- Research Presentation
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Speakers
Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Room 204

3:15pm MDT

3:15pm MDT

AI Panel
Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Moderators
Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

3:15pm MDT

Rocky Linux
Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 207

3:15pm MDT

Tmux Tools to enhance your terminal
Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Speakers
Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 205

4:30pm MDT

From Zero to Cloud
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Speakers
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 206

4:30pm MDT

Omnibond
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 207

4:30pm MDT

Software sustainability and green initiatives
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Speakers
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 205

4:30pm MDT

SysAdmin Lightning talks
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

 Microsoft Windows through Open OnDemand by Paige Despain
7lbd is an innovative open-source project that simplifies Windows deployment in HPC environments by treating Windows as an application within Open OnDemand. The solution eliminates traditional infrastructure complexities by using technologies like Apache Guacamole, network namespaces, and a simplified Windows VM configuration to provide secure, isolated Windows desktops across computing clusters. This solution simplifies Windows to a level that even Linux systems administrators will find easy to maintain while maintaining robust security and accessibility, no AD required.

An approach to SLURM configuration Verification by Kyle Reinholt

Speakers
KR

Kyle Reinholt

University of Colorado Boulder
Tuesday May 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 204
 
Wednesday, May 21
 

8:00am MDT

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

8:50am MDT

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

9:00am MDT

How intentional community engagement and development can help deliver on the promises of cyberinfrastructure.
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am MDT
  Attendees will gain insights into practical strategies for fostering engagement among institutions in the MS-CC community to participate in and contribute to cyberinfrastructure, supporting their researchers and educators in leveraging cyberinfrastructure, and building sustainable engagement strategies that drive long-term success.
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

10:30am MDT

AI enabled protein interaction modeling
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
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
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Room 206

10:30am MDT

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

10:30am MDT

Chemistry beyond exact solutions on a Quantum-Centric Supercomputer
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
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
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Room 207

10:30am MDT

Curating and Publishing Big Datasets Using CU Boulder High Performance Computing Infrastructure
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
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.
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

10:30am MDT

11:15am MDT

AI/ML Survey Results
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

11:15am MDT

Collaborative Cloud Science/Jupyterhub
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 206

11:15am MDT

Introduction to CCMNet
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
CCMNet unites cyberinfrastructure professionals to enhance community support for research and academic institutions, maximizing cyberinfrastructure utilization for research advancement through peer mentoring engagements. This presentation will introduce the program, and feature a real time walkthrough of the web portal to help interested individuals dive straight in.
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 204

11:15am MDT

Quantum Computing Futures Panel
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Moderators
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 205

11:15am MDT

GenomEX 2.0
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
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.
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm MDT
Room 207

12:15pm MDT

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

1:15pm MDT

RMACC Student Career Panel
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Join us for a student career panel where you will hear from HPC professionals about how they entered the HPC workforce and what they are looking for when hiring new employees. This will be a one hour session broke into presentations and time for questions
Moderators
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Wolf Law Courtroom

1:15pm MDT

Alpine New User Seminar
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 204

1:15pm MDT

Automating Research with Globus: The Modern Research IT Platform
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
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
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 207

1:15pm MDT

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

1:15pm MDT

Open OnDemand HPC Tutorial
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 205

3:00pm MDT

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

3:00pm MDT

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

3:00pm MDT

So you might want to be a manager?
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Room 204

3:00pm MDT

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

3:00pm MDT

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

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

3:45pm MDT

ASU/Quantum Collaborative
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 205

3:45pm MDT

Data Lifecycle Management in HPC – Automating Tiered Storage & Archival Strategies- Arcitecta
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
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
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 206

3:45pm MDT

The AI Power Crunch – Storage Solutions that Reduce Power Footprint
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 207

4:30pm MDT

Kathryn Hamilton- Researcher Talk
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 205

4:30pm MDT

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

4:30pm MDT

Supporting FPGA applications on a university compute cluster
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 204

4:30pm MDT

The Metadata Revolution: Accelerating HPC Workflows Through Intelligent Data Management
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 207

4:30pm MDT

 Ethics, Bias and AI
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 206
 
Thursday, May 22
 

8:00am MDT

Breakfast
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Wolf Law Cafeteria

9:00am MDT

Building a positive work environment
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Room 204

9:00am MDT

GH200 Year-in-Review
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Speakers
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Room 206

9:00am MDT

Debugging with VSCode in Alpine OnDemand
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Room 205

9:00am MDT

What’s new in Warewulf
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Room 207

10:15am MDT

Cross-Institutional Data Collaboration: Breaking Silos in HPC Research
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
High-performance computing (HPC) research thrives on collaboration, yet institutional data silos often hinder progress. This extends beyond the storage hardware itself to where data is being siloed in departments and institutions alike. Accelerating scientific progress and innovation requires enabling secure data discovery and sharing across not only institutions, but scientific disciplines as well. Federated access models, controlled permissions, and distributed compute environments enable seamless yet secure collaboration. By facilitating data discovery across disciplines and optimizing shared infrastructure, organizations can break down barriers, enhance research efficiency, and drive cross-disciplinary insights that push the boundaries of scientific advancement.
Speakers
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Room 206

10:15am MDT

Globus and Compliance
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
With the recent changes to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy, more focus is being placed on compliance today. Organizations are looking for solutions to meet these new requirements. In this session we will discuss how Globus data management services allow users to confidently work with  controlled-access data. We will cover all the product features that address managing controlled-access data to enable compliance with NIST SP 800-171. We will demonstrate how with High Assurance collections the service meets these new requirements.
Speakers
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Room 207

10:15am MDT

Quantum EcoSystem Architecture on the Front Range
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Speakers
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Room 205

10:15am MDT

Wyoming- MRI Grant
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Speakers
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Room 204

11:00am MDT

Proposal Discussions- Pitches and Networking
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Join RMACC leadership to discuss upcoming grant possibilities. Hear about what others are working on, pitch your ideas to other members of RMACC and network to form connections/collaborations.

Come ready to share and collaborate!
Moderators
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 204

11:00am MDT

Secure HPC
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Moderators
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 207

11:00am MDT

Generalized Slurm Training
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 205

11:00am MDT

NSF NCARs on-premise cloud project
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Modern scientific computing demands flexible and scalable solutions that bring computing power closer to data while maintaining security and ease of use. We propose to present our solution which leverages Kubernetes to provide a platform to our employees, university members, and partner organizations that meets those demands and complements our existing HPC system. This presentation will cover how we utilize Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), coupled with GitOps and DevOps practices, to provide a robust and secure platform for hosting container-based workloads. These workloads include interactive web visualizations, JupyterHub instances, science gateways, data assimilation tools, data analysis tools, and those that require access to GPUs, including, but not limited to, AI/ML. The presentation will also cover how Cilium network and Kyverno access policies are implemented to secure the platform. It will also discuss how GitHub Actions are utilized to test and build codebases into containers that can run on the platform. Attendees will learn why we chose Kubernetes as our platform as well as practical strategies to implement similar solutions and common pitfalls to avoid.
Speakers
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 206

12:00pm MDT

Lunch
Thursday May 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Thursday May 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Wolf Law Cafeteria
 
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