The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Christine Harvey (NVIDIA Corporation), Rio Yokota (Institute of Science Tokyo), Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee, Global Computing Laboratory), Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo), Ümit Çatalyürek (Georgia Institute of Technology), Judith Hill (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)), Hartwig Anzt (Technical University of Munich)
Abstract: Come and learn from the leaders of the professional societies focused on HPC from ACM, IEEE, and SIAM! Your SIGHPC, TCPP, TCHPC, SIAG-SC, and SIAG-CSE representatives invite SC25 participants to join this cross-society BoF to learn about the opportunities these societies provide. Each organization recognizes outstanding achievements in HPC with society awards, offers travel grants to students and early-career professionals, supports initiatives focused on education and outreach, and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. These representatives are also seeking feedback from the community to help improve their initiatives and to learn from each other.
Long Description: This cross-society BOF is organized by chairs and vice-chairs of ACM SIGHPC, IEEE TCPP and TCHPC, SIAG-SC and CSE. At SC25, these representatives would like to provide a round table for discussion for the members and non-members of these interest groups. The BoF will discuss joint efforts for collaborations across societies, discussions on the status of HPC as a community, and engagement opportunities for the audience to address common needs.
The BoF aims to serve as a platform to define a joint HPC roadmap for SIGHPC, TCPP, TCHPC, SIAG-SC, and SIAG-CSE. At the waist of an hourglass that bridges hardware and scientific applications, HPC is at the confluence of many other technological trends. The HPC community is called to address many urgent challenges. Key questions include: How should HPC further support the trend of AI workloads becoming ubiquitous? How can professional societies help prepare the needed workforce to aspire to new heights in scientific discovery powered by AI? Can the HPC community guide AI in continuing to expand with ethics, diversity, and inclusivity brought to the forefront? Should professional societies together chart HPC evolution and strive to influence governmental and private sectors for education, training, and funding opportunities?
SIGHPC, TCPP, TCHPC, SIAG-SC, and SIAG-CSE are uniquely positioned to promote synergetic solutions to these urgent challenges. We will invite the attendees to present ideas and propose action items. Topics for discussion may include but are not limited to fostering the next generation of HPC experts, supporting diversity and inclusivity in our community, handling reproducibility across societies, maintaining an online repository listing all conferences/journals around HPC, co-hosting webinars and training activities, creating a unique template for research papers, and more.
This BoF was successfully presented for the first time at ISC23 and also at SC23 and SC24 with a peak participation of 40 attendees. At SC24 we included new societies TCHPC and SIAG-CSE. At SC25 we expect larger participation with a larger membership pool and increased advertising of the event.