RMACC HPC Symposium 2025

RMACC HPC Symposium 2025

Welcome to the 2025 RMACC HPC Symposium!

12:00pm MDT

Lunch- Sponsored by Omnibond Wolf Law Cafeteria

1:00pm MDT

Evolving education in an AI World Wolf Law CourtroomMike Klymkowsky

2:30pm MDT

Gaining file system intelligence and operational efficiency with the VAST data platform Room 206Roger Goff Regulatory Interpretation for STEM Majors Wolf Law CourtroomSilas Korb Security & Compliance in Scientific Data Management: Ensuring Integrity and Immutability Room 207Eric Polet Supporting quantum-inspired optimization on a university compute cluster Room 205J.S. Dole • Gil Speyer Using RMACC for optimization problems in quantum computing Room 204Zhexuan Gong

3:15pm MDT

Facilitator Challenges, Opportunities, Successes, Failures, and Workforce Development Room 204Chris Reidy • Layla Freeborn Exploring AI in Teaching and Research: Use Cases, Opportunities, and Cultural Shifts Wolf Law CourtroomShelley Knuth • Thea Lindquiest • Diane Sieber • Bobby Hodgekinson • Lee Frankel-Goldwater Dell Session Room 206 Rocky Linux: History, SIGs, Optimizations, and the future. Room 207Nathan Blackham Tmux Tools to enhance your terminal Room 205John Reiland • Andy Monaghan

4:30pm MDT

Software sustainability and green initiatives Room 205Kevin Fotso Supercharging HPC productivity with projectEureka-Omnibond Room 207Mary Brandenburg Supercharging HPC with IQM Quantum Computers Room 205Kristine Rezai SysAdmin Lightning talks Wolf Law CourtroomKyle Reinholt • Paige Despain Watching Electrons Move Room 206Kathryn Hamilton

8:00am MDT

Breakfast Wolf Law Cafeteria

8:50am MDT

Student Poster Presentations Wolf Law Courtroom

9:00am MDT

Lessons from Community-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Strategies to Broaden Institutional Participation Wolf Law CourtroomAna Hunsinger

10:30am MDT

Advancing Research Through AWS AI Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Overview with Live Demos Room 204Scott Friedman AI enabled protein interaction modeling Room 206Martin Cuma Chemistry beyond exact solutions on a Quantum-Centric Supercomputer Room 207Nick Bronn Curating and Publishing Big Datasets Using CU Boulder High Performance Computing Infrastructure Wolf Law CourtroomAndy Monaghan • Matthew Murray Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) Research and Education Network (REN) Connecting Colorado Cyber-Infrastructure (CI) Room 205Scot Colburn

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 Wolf Law CourtroomMohal Khandewal • Andy Monaghan • Michael Schneider Collaborative Cloud Science: Deploying The Littlest JupyterHub on Jetstream2 Room 206Julian Pistorius Quantum-Centric HPC: Today's Landscape, Future Expectations Room 205Torey Battelle • Josh Savory • Nick Bronn • David Allcock DDN Room 204Morris Skupinsky GenomEX 2.0 Room 207Damien Parrello • Santosh Bhatt

12:15pm MDT

Lunch- Sponsored by IBM Quantum Wolf Law Cafeteria

1:15pm MDT

Alpine New User Seminar Room 205John Reiland Automating Research with Globus: The Modern Research IT Platform Room 207Greg Nawrocki Deploy & Manage Kubernetes on Jetstream2 using OpenStack Magnum Room 206Julian Pistorius End-to-End HPC and AI with Intel: Platforms, Tools, and Optimization Room 204

3:00pm MDT

Accelerating Research Outcomes with GenAI and HPC Room 207Sachin Koshy Advancing Research with AWS: Compliance, Computing, and Connectivity Room 206Scott Friedman HPC Skills and Opportunities Development in RMACC Wolf Law CourtroomCraig Earley Introduction to Quantinuum Compute Products Room 205Josh Savory Managing RCD Professionals Room 204Chris Reidy

3:45pm MDT

A Practical Approach for Evaluating the Effectiveness of NSF NCAR's HPC Environment Room 204Bill Anderson Data Lifecycle Management in HPC – Automating Tiered Storage & Archival Strategies- Arcitecta Room 206Eric Polet Optimizing HPC and AI Infrastructure with Standard Linux and Advanced Storage Architectures Room 205Molly Presley The AI Power Crunch – Storage Solutions that Reduce Power Footprint Room 207Matt Starr The Practicalities of Quantum-Centric High-Performance Computing Wolf Law CourtroomTorey Battelle

4:30pm MDT

Fuzzball: a new paradigm for accessing HPC resources Room 207Jonathon Anderson Launching a Public Cloud Small State University: Lessons from the First Six Months Wolf Law CourtroomKira Wells NVIDIA CUDA-Q Overview Room 205Tom Lubowe Supporting FPGA applications on a university compute cluster Room 204Thomas Jennewein • Gil Speyer • J. Choudhury The Metadata Revolution: Accelerating HPC Workflows Through Intelligent Data Management Room 206David Cerf

5:00pm MDT

Evening Reception

8:00am MDT

Breakfast Wolf Law Cafeteria

8:15am MDT

Proposal Discussions- Pitches and Networking Room 204Shelley Knuth • Becky Yeager SysAdmin Meetup Room 206Ben Nickell Decoding Brain Tumors with High-Performance Computing Room 205Jesus Garcia Garcia Fuzzball: new developments in HPC container orchestration Room 207

9:00am MDT

GH200 Year-in-Review Wolf Law CourtroomBrandon Reyes How to build a positive work environment through building trust and fostering belonging Room 204Jamey Chapin • Kailei Stiffler Building and Launching Powerful AI Agents Quickly (Powered by NVIDIA NIMs and Blueprints) Room 206Andy Lin Debugging with VSCode in Alpine OnDemand Room 205Michael Schneider What's new in Warewulf v4.6 Room 207Jonathan Anderson

10:15am MDT

AI4WY: Advancing AI and Scientific Discovery through HPC Infrastructure and Collaborations in the Rocky Mountain Region Room 204Andrew Kirby Cross-Institutional Data Collaboration: Breaking Silos in HPC Research Room 206Steve Paulson Expanding Access to AI Research: An Overview of NAIRR Wolf Law CourtroomShelley Knuth Globus and Compliance Room 207Greg Nawrocki The Evolution of Colorado’s Quantum Ecosystem Room 205Scott Sternberg

11:00am MDT

Introduction to CCMNet Room 205Devin Bayly • Rebecca Belshe Making HPC safe for sensitive data: a discussion Wolf Law CourtroomLayla Freeborn • Andy Monaghan • Chris Reidy • Silas Korb AMD Roadmap and Technology Update Room 204Richard Grossen Generalized Slurm Training Room 207Mohal Khandewal • Michael Schneider NSF NCARs on-premise cloud project Room 206Nick Cote

12:00pm MDT

Lunch Wolf Law Cafeteria