HIGH PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING
State of the Art, Emerging Disruptive
Innovations and Future Scenarios
An International Advanced Workshop
Cetraro Italy, June 23 - 27, 2025
Main Aim
The tools and techniques of High Performance
Computing (HPC) have gained broad acceptance in wide areas of research and
industry due to sustained progress in computational hardware and software
technologies, ranging from hybrid CPU/GPU systems, multicore and distributed
architectures, and virtualization, to relatively new paradigms such as cloud
computing, explosive growth of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
techniques in myriad applications, and advances in quantum computer
realizations. At the same time, the extremely fast pace of the field introduces
new challenges in technological, intellectual, ethical and even political areas
that must be addressed to continue to enable wider acceptance, implementation,
and ultimately societal impact of high performance computing technologies,
applications, and paradigms.
The main aim of this workshop is to present and
debate advanced topics, open questions, current and future developments, and
challenging applications related to advanced high-performance distributed
computing and data systems, encompassing implementations ranging from
traditional clusters to warehouse-scale data centers, and with architectures
including hybrid, multicore, distributed, cloud models, and systems targeted
for AI applications. In addition, quantum computing has captured intense and
widespread interest in the last few years, in large part due to the deployment
of several systems with diverse architectures. This workshop will provide a
forum for exploration of both challenges and synergies that might arise from
exchange of ideas across the many aspects of HPC and its applications.
The rapid uptake of AI methods to tackle myriad
applications has led to rethinking of the relevant algorithms and of the
microarchitectures of computers that are optimized for such applications.
Although machine and deep learning are the AI technologies that are in the
headlines daily and flood submissions to conferences and journals, other
aspects of AI are also maturing and in some cases require HPC resources.
Similarly, the growing deployment of quantum
computers, some of which are accessible to the open research community, is
spurring experimentation with reformulation of problems, algorithms, and
programming techniques for such computers. Quantum sensing and quantum
communication are also beginning to have physical instantiations.
The importance of Cloud Computing in HPC
continues to grow. We are seeing more and more cloud testbeds and production
facilities that are used by government agencies, industry and academia.
However, careful application benchmarking of different cloud infrastructures
still have to be performed to find out which HPC cloud architecture is best
suited for a specific application.
From an application standpoint, many of the
most widely used application codes have undergone many generations of
adaptation as new architectures have emerged, from vector to MPP to cluster to
cloud, and more recently to multicore and hybrid. As exascale systems move
toward millions of processing units the interplay between system and user
software, compilers and middleware, even programmer and run-time environment
must be reconsidered. For example, how much resilience and fault-tolerance can,
or should, be embedded transparently in the system versus exposed to the
programmer? Perhaps even greater challenges arise from the complexity of
applications, which are increasingly multi-scale and multi-physics and are
built from hundreds of building blocks, and from the difficulty of achieving
portability across traditional architectures.
Finally, discussions and presentations related
to emerging and strategically challenging application areas will also be an
important part of the workshop. A special emphasis will be given to the
potential of computational modeling and advanced analytics related to complex
systems, including the associated diverse data sources and streams. Similarly,
the challenges of data integration and use for new types of data sources such
as the Internet of Things, will be examined. These and other new application areas
enabled by new sources of data, including IoT and sensor networks, represent an
interesting new set of HPC challenges.
Summarizing, the aim of this special workshop
is to shed some light on key topics in advanced high performance computing
systems and, in particular, to address the aforementioned contemporary
scheduling, scaling, fault tolerance, and emerging application topics. The four
and a half day program of this workshop will include roughly forty invited
talks and associated panels by experts in the field.
Workshop Topics
Workshop topics will be related to, but are not
limited to, any of the following ones:
- General
Issues in High Performance Computing, including:
- Quantum Computing
- Machine and Deep Learning
- Exascale Computing
- Neuromorphic Computing
- Brain-inspired Computing
- Biocomputing
- System software, workflows, programming
models
- Novel applications � advances and
challenges
- Traditional and Emerging Computer
Architectures for HPC, including:
- Quantum Computer architectures and Qbit
technologies
- Architectures tailored for Artificial
Intelligence
- Communication networks
- Heterogeneous systems, including CPU,
GPU, FPGA, etc.
- Clouds for HPC
- Energy efficient technologies
- Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on
HPC and vice versa
- HPC-enabled AI applications
- Impact of AI on architectures,
algorithms, system software
- Workflows that include simulation, AI,
and large-scale data analytics
Programme
Only invited papers will be presented at the
workshop. Keynote overview talks will be given together with research and
industry presentations. Nine sessions will be planned together with two panel
discussions. The program will include several sessions on Artificial
Intelligence, Big Data, Quantum Computing, Machine Learning and Exascale
Computing, all of which will play an important role in the workshop programme.
Invited speakers from different sectors, public and private, will debate the
most critical issues related to their development strategies for Research and
Enterprise.
International Programme Committee (provisional)
LUCIO GRANDINETTI
Department
of Computer Engineering, Electronics, and Systems Science
University
of Calabria UNICAL
and
Center of
Excellence for High Performance Computing
ITALY
GIOVANNI ALOISIO
Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation)
CMCC
Strategic Advisor
Former
Director, CMCC Supercomputing Center
and
University
of Salento
ITALY
FRANK BAETKE
EOFS
European Open File System Organization
formerly
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Munich
GERMANY
RUPAK BISWAS
NASA
Exploration Technology Directorate
High End Computing Capability Project
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffet Field, CA
USA
GEOFFREY FOX
University of Virginia
USA
WOLFGANG GENTZSCH
Co-founder & President of Simr
SimOps
Simulation Operations Org.
Regensburg
GERMANY
and
Sunnyvale,
CA
USA
VLADIMIR GETOV
Distributed and Intelligent Systems Research
Group
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Westminster
London
UNITED KINGDOM
VLAD GHEORGHIU
University of Waterloo
Institute for Quantum Computing
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA
KIMMO KOSKI
CSC The Finnish IT Center for Science
Helsinki
FINLAND
SALVATORE MANDRÁ
Research Scientist
Google Quantum AI
Mountain View, CA
USA
STEFANO MARKIDIS
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Computer Science Department
Stockholm
SWEDEN
SATOSHI MATSUOKA
RIKEN
Director Center for Computational Science
Kobe
and
Department of Mathematical and Computing
Sciences
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo
JAPAN
JOSH MUTUS
Rigetti Computing
Berkeley, CA
USA
KEVIN OBENLAND
Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lincoln Laboratory
Boston, MA
USA
VALERIO PASCUCCI
Center for Extreme Data Management, Analysis
and Visualization
and
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
School of Computing, University of Utah
and
Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
USA
RAFFAELE SANTAGATI
Quantum Group
Boheringen Ingelheim
GERMANY
THOMAS STERLING
Senior Research Scientist
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Austin, TX
USA
WILLIAM TANG
Princeton
University Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory
and
Center for
Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)
and
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Austin, TX
USA
WILLIAM TANG
Princeton
University Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory
and
Center for
Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)
and
Princeton
Institute for Computational Science & Engineering (PICSciE)
Princeton
University
USA
MICHELA TAUFER
The
University of Tennessee
Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Dept.
Knoxville,
TN
USA
ROBERT WISNIEWSKI
Chief Architect in
HPC and AI
Solutions
Organization
HPE
USA
Organizing Committee
L. GRANDINETTI (Chair) (ITALY)
� M. ALBAALI (OMAN)
� F. BAETKE (GERMANY)
� W.
GENTZSCH (GERMANY)
� L.
MIRTAHERI (ITALY)
Workshop Agenda
The Agenda of the workshop
will be detailed and fixed in the Final Programme that will be posted in the
workshop website.
The workshop will begin on
Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. (with the first session State of the art and future
scenarios).
Provisional sketch
1st
day
State
of the Art, Key Developments and Future Scenarios
Emerging
Computer Systems and Solutions
2nd
day
Advances
in Supercomputing Systems and Projects
Advances
in Data Processing and Big Data Analytics
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE on HPC Platforms: Current and Potential Synergies
3rd
and 4th day; 5th day (only morning)
QUANTUM
COMPUTING PROMISES and REALISTIC DEPLOYMENTS: state of the art and future
developments
(Including
PANEL Session)
Sample AI Session (provisional)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Session
Provisional Agenda
Organizer and Chairman: Pete Beckman, US DOE Argonne
National Laboratory, USA
The concept for the session is to expose advances in a
broad spectrum of AI � not only in Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning
(DL); explore current and potential synergies among the areas; describe
selected uses of AI; and identify challenges to making major progress (e.g.,
algorithms, programming languages, data analytics, standards, and computer
architectures).
Preliminary session title:
The AI
Spectrum: trends, challenges, synergies with other technologies/methods
Topics to be covered
(tentatively)
1.
ML and
DL trends and synergies
2.
ML and
DL in HPC applications
- AI for the
Instrument to HPC Continuum
4.
AI for
Materials Science
- Embodied AI
for Robotics
6.
Numerical
methods in AI
- T.B.D.
8.
T.B.D.
Sample QC Session (provisional)
Quantum Computing (QC) Session
Quantum Computing Promises and
Realistic Deployments
The
entire architecture of a quantum computing system, capable to integrate
algorithms and basic q-units, is one of the crucial challenges, requiring
contributions by different expertises, skills, experiences on quantum
properties and technology implementations. The main aim of this workshop is to
shed light on the properties and technologies basic for a realistic development
of quantum systems. Therefore very good speakers experienced in different
quantum fields will contribute to assess the fundamental and practical limits
of building quantum computing devices and to overview the potential
applications of quantum systems to information and computer science and
engineering.
Subset of Speakers (Complete list and talks schedule in
preparation)
Iskandar Sitdikov, IBM Quantum
Salvatore Mandrá, GOOGLE
Quantum AI
Vlad
Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Irwan
Owen, D-Wave Systems
Kevin
Obenland , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elica
Kyoseva, NVIDIA
Josh
Mutus, Rigetti Computing
Kristen
Pudenz, Atom Computing (t.b.c.)
Nash Palaniswamy,
Quantinuum
Florian Preis, Quantum
Brilliance
Pete Shadboldt, PSIQuantum
Corp.
Robert Parrish, QCware
Marco Pistoia, JP Morgan Chase
Andre Saraiva, Diraq
Raffaele Santagati, Boehringer
Ingelheim
Niccoló Somaschi, Quandela
Anna Stockklauser, Quantum
Motion
Sergii
Strelchuk, Oxford University, UK
Ferdinand
Kuemmeth, Nils Bohr Institute, University of Copenaghen
Daniele Dragoni, Leonardo SpA
Lorenzo Leandro, Quantum
Machines
Zachary
Vernon, Xanadu
Speakers
(provisional, list extension in progress)
EOFS
European Open File System
Organization
GERMANY
GIL BLOCH
NVIDIA Mellanox
Tel Aviv
ISRAEL
SVEN
BREUNER
VAST
DATA
GERMANY
TIM CLARKE
Sambanova Systems Inc.
Palo Alto, CA
USA
MADISON COTTERET
University of Groningen
Groningen
THE NETHERLANDS
DANIELE DRAGONI
Leonardo S.p.A.
High Performance Computing Lab.
Genova
ITALY
WOLFGANG GENTZSCH
Co-founder & President of Simr
SimOps Simulation Operations Org.
Regensburg
GERMANY
and
Sunnyvale, CA
USA
VLADIMIR GETOV
Distributed and Intelligent Systems
Research Group
School of Computer Science and
Engineering
University of Westminster
London
UNITED KINGDOM
VLAD GHEORGHIU
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo
and
SoftwareQ Inc, Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA
BETTINA HEIM
NVIDIA
USA
FRANK HEROLD
ThinkParQ GmbH
GERMANY
MICHAEL JAMES
Cerebras Systems
Sunnyvale, California
USA
HIROAKI
KOBAYASHI
Architecture
Laboratory
Department
of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Graduate
School of information Sciences
Tohoku
University
JAPAN
DHIREESHA KUDITHIPUDI
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
USA
LORENZO LEANDRO
Quantum Machines
Tel Aviv
ISRAEL
PEKKA MANNINEN
CSC
Director of Science and Technology
Finnish IT Center for Science
Espoo
FINLAND
STEFANO MARKIDIS
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Computer Science Department /
Computational Science and Technology Division
Stockholm
SWEDEN
SATOSHI MATSUOKA (t.b.c.)
Director RIKEN Center for
Computational Science, Kobe
and
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
JAPAN
CHRISTIAN MAYR
Technical University Dresden
Dresden
GERMANY
LUCAS MENGER
University of Frankfurt
GERMANY
ERIC MUELLER
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg
GERMANY
JOSH MUTUS
Rigetti Computing
Director Quantum Devices
USA/CANADA
KEVIN OBENLAND
Quantum Information and Integrated
Nanosystems
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology MIT
Boston, MA
USA
IRWAN OWEN
D-Wave Systems Inc
CANADA - USA
Nash PALANISWAMY
Quantinuum
UK - USA
TROY PATTERSON
ThinkParQ
GERMANY
DAVID RIVAS
Rigetti Computing
Berkeley, CA
USA
RAFFAELE SANTAGATI
Quantum Group
Boheringen Ingelheim
GERMANY
JOHANNES SCHEMMEL
European Institute for Neuromorphic
Computing
and
Kirchoff Institute for Physics
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg
GERMANY
THOMAS SCHULTHESS
CSCS Swiss Center of Supercomputing
Lugano
SWITZERLAND
PETE SHADBOLT
Co-founder
PsiQuantum Corp.
Palo Alto, California
USA
SARAH SHELDON
IBM
Yorktown Heights, NY
USA
NICCOLO SOMASCHI
CEO of Quandela
FRANCE
THOMAS STERLING
Senior Research Scientist
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Austin, TX
USA
ANNA STOCKKLAUSER
Quantum Motion
UK
SERGII STRELCHUCK
Oxford University
Oxford
UK
ANDREA
TABACCHINI
Quantum
Brilliance
AUSTRALIA
and GERMANY
WILLIAM TANG
Princeton University
Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory
and
Center for Statistics
and Machine Learning (CSML)
and
Princeton Institute for
Computational Science & Engineering (PICSciE)
Princeton University
USA
ZACHARY VERNON
XANADU
CANADA
ALEKSANDER WENNERSTEEN
Pasqal
FRANCE
Sponsors (provisional)
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Proceedings
All contributions to the Workshop are invited
original research papers not previously published.
It is planned to publish a selection of
papers presented at the Workshop in a Proceedings Volume or in a
well-established international journal.
Workshop venue, address and logistics
The workshop will be held at the Grand Hotel
San Michele, a charming Hotel on the Tyrrhenian coast of Southern Italy
with surrounding green park, golf facilities and private beach.
The Hotel is very close to a seaside fisherman village named Cetraro,
near Cosenza, a city of Southern Italy (for more, see the next title How to
Reach Cetraro).
Hotel phone number: +39 0982 91012
Information as well as accommodation and
other local arrangements will be handled by the workshop Secretariat supervised
by:
Dr. Maria Teresa
Guaglianone
Universitá
della Calabria
87036,
Rende (Cosenza), Italy
lugran @
unical.it and
cetrarohpc2025
@ gmail.com
Participation, deadlines and
guidelines
NO REGISTRATION FEES ARE REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE WORKSHOP.
This policy encourages wide Workshop participation in order to increase
awareness of the scientific aspects and practical benefits of HPC Technologies,
to facilitate professional relations and to create technology transfer
opportunities.
Those interested to attend are requested to send an application to the
addresses below.
All contributions to the Workshop are invited original research papers
not previously published.
Participants are kindly requested to notify their registration.
Please
use the Registration form here attached
Enquiries about the technical programme
and applications for participation in the workshop should be sent to:
HPC
Workshop 2025
Prof. Lucio Grandinetti
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Modellistica,
Elettronica e Sistemistica � Universit� della Calabria
87036 Rende - Cosenza - Italy
Phone: +39-3351244747
Fax: +39-984-494847
e-mail: lugran @ unical.it and cetrarohpc2025
@ gmail.com
Local arrangements
Information
as well as accommodation, local transportation and other local arrangements
will be handled by the workshop Secretariat supervised by:
Dr. Maria Teresa Guaglianone
Universitá della Calabria
87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy
e-mail: lugran@unical.it and cetrarohpc2025@gmail.com
Accommodation
Two
accommodation types are available at the workshop�s hotel:
1. Rooms in the main hotel building
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Type of Accommodation |
Price in Euros |
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Single
room |
170 |
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Double
room (double occupancy) |
140 |
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Double
room (used as single) |
210 |
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Junior
Suite* (double occupancy) |
170 |
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Suite**
(double occupancy) |
190 |
All
prices are intended PER PERSON, PER DAY.
* One bedroom for 2 persons and one sitting
room. Sea view
** One bedroom for 2 persons and a sitting
room. Terrace overlooking the sea
For accommodation of families, special
arrangements and assistance please contact the Secretariat cetrarohpc2025 @
gmail.com.
They include accommodation and full board
(breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The Hotels number of rooms available is
limited. The single rooms are very very few.
An early booking is recommended.
2. Rooms
in the Hotel annex buildings maisonnettes
The Maisonnettes are Hotel annex buildings, located within a green park,
at a walking distance from the main building and the congress center.
The Maisonnettes can accommodate one/two/three/four persons.
This type of accommodation is particularly suitable for small groups or
families.
The price for rooms with air conditioning is 120 euro.
The price for rooms without air conditioning is 100 euro.
The price is per person, per day,
covering both accommodation and full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The case of special arrangements (e.g. children accommodation, etc.) is
handled by the Workshop Secretariat.
The number of rooms available is very
limited.
An early booking is recommended.
Hotel reservations will be
managed by the Workshop Secretariat (e-mail:lugran @ unical.it and
cetrarohpc2025 @ gmail.com)
Please use the
to specify the accommodation required.
Local transportation
A pick-up service will be provided, free of charge, to
those who will fill in the
Website Updating
The
information given in this website and the relevant links will be updated day by
day.
Therefore,
the interested people are invited to visit the site frequently.
The
final Programme of the Workshop edition HPC2024 is still available on the
website http://www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2024
for inspection by those who wish to have a flavour of the HPC Workshop series
structure and style.
The
following books are mostly related to presentations given at very recent
editions of the HPC workshop series:
Fox,
G., Getov, V., Grandinetti, L., Joubert, G., Sterling, T. (Eds) New Frontiers
in High Performance Computing and Big Data, IOS Press, Amsterdam 2017, volume
30, ISBN 978-1-61499- 815-0 (print ) ISBN 978 -1- 61499- 816-7 (online) ISSN
0927 5452 (print) ISSN 1879 -808X (online).
Lucio
Grandinetti, Gerhard R. Joubert, Kristel Michielsen, Seyedeh Leili Mirtaheri,
Michela Taufer, Rio Yokota (Eds.), Future Trends of HPC in a Disruptive
Scenario, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Book Series �Advances in Parallel
Computing�, Vol. 34, 2019, ISBN 978-1-61499-998-0 (print), ISBN
978-1-61499-999-7 (online), ISSN 0927-5452 (print), ISSN 1879-808X (online).
Programme flavour based on HPC 2024
In order to have a flavour of the structure of the
workshop agenda, please visit the web site of the 2024 edition of the HPC
workshop series: www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2024