Guest Of Honor
Professor Attila Brungs
Vice-Chancellor & President, UNSW
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Professor Attila BrungsVice-Chancellor & President, UNSW |
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| Professor Attila Brungs is the 10th and current Vice-Chancellor and President of UNSW Sydney. His commitment to education, research and engagement will ensure that UNSW continues to nurture its passion for excellence to improve lives in Australia and globally. | ||
Professor Ute Roessner
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research Initiatives and Infrastructure at the Australian National University
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Professor Ute RoessnerPro-Vice Chancellor, Research Initiatives and Infrastructure at the Australian National University |
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| Professor Ute Roessner AM FAA is the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research Initiatives and Infrastructure at the Australian National University. She obtained a PhD in Plant Biochemistry from the University of Potsdam and the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, in 2001. Her research interests are to develop and apply metabolomics methods to study plants. In 2003 she moved to Australia where she established a metabolomics platform as part of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics. In 2007, she has been involved in the setup of Metabolomics Australia and led the University of Melbourne node until 2019. Between 2018 and 2022, Professor Roessner was the Head of School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne. Professor Roessner is a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the International Metabolomics Society. She has been elected to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2020 and in 2021 has been appointed as Member of the Order of Australia. In 2022, Professor Roessner was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. | ||
Welcome Speech
Professor Chennupati Jagadish
Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, at The Australian National University
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Professor Chennupati JagadishHead of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, at The Australian National University |
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| Professor Chennupati Jagadish is a Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, at The Australian National University. He has published widely in semiconductor physics, materials science, optoelectronics and nanotechnology. Professor Jagadish is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Reviews, editor of 2 book series and serves on editorial boards of 19 other journals. He is a fellow of 11 science and engineering academies in Australia, the US, Europe and India, and 14 professional societies. He has received many Australian and international awards, including a UNESCO medal for his contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, and has been an Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellow and an ARC Laureate Fellow. He became President of the Academy in May 2022 | ||
Keynote Speakers
Professor/Director Dieter Kranzlmüller
Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (LMU), Chairman of the board at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ)
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Professor/Director Dieter KranzlmüllerProfessor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (LMU), Chairman of the board at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) |
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| More Compute with Less Energy: How HPC drives Energy Efficiency in Data Centers Information and communication technologies consume ever more of our global electricity production and correspondingly contributes substantially to the total carbon emissions. At the same time, advancements in science and research in general, and the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, increase the needs for computational power. This calls for innovative and holistic approaches to energy efficiency in computing, and HPC at the forefront is providing novel ideas for computing in general. With dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, hot-water cooling, and other advancements, the amount of energy per compute or Watt per Flop is going down, while other aspects such as waste heat usage complete the picture. The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is pioneering many of these approaches with its leadership class system SuperMUC-NG and its future ExaMUC supercomputer. This talk provides an insight into the latest developments at LRZ towards more energy efficiency for high performance computing, and highlights how some of these technologies can also be utilized in AI infrastructures. |
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Professor Rick L. Stevens
Argonne’s Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow
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Professor Rick L. StevensArgonne’s Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow |
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| The successful development of transformative applications of AI for science, medicine and energy research will have a profound impact on the world. The rate of development of AI capabilities continues to accelerate, and the scientific community is becoming increasingly agile in using AI, leading to us to anticipate significant changes in how science and engineering goals will be pursued in the future. Frontier AI (the leading edge of AI systems) enables small teams to conduct increasingly complex investigations, accelerating some tasks such as generating hypotheses, writing code, or automating entire scientific campaigns. However, certain challenges remain resistant to AI acceleration such as human-to-human communication, large-scale systems integration, and assessing creative contributions. Taken together these developments signify a shift toward more capital-intensive science, as productivity gains from AI will drive resource allocations to groups that can effectively leverage AI into scientific outputs, while other will lag. In addition, with AI becoming the major driver of innovation in high-performance computing, we also expect major shifts in the computing marketplace over the next decade, we see a growing performance gap between systems designed for traditional scientific computing vs those optimized for large-scale AI such as Large Language Models. In part, as a response to these trends, but also in recognition of the role of government supported research to shape the future research landscape the U. S. Department of Energy has created the FASST (Frontier AI for Science, Security and Technology) initiative. FASST is a decadal research and infrastructure development initiative aimed at accelerating the creation and deployment of frontier AI systems for science, energy research, national security. I will review the goals of FASST and how we imagine it transforming the research at the national laboratories. Along with FASST, I’ll discuss the goals of the recently established Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC), whose aim is to foster a community wide effort to accelerate the creation of large-scale generative AI for science. Additionally, I’ll introduce the AuroraGPT project an international collaboration to build a series of multilingual multimodal foundation models for science, that are pretrained on deep domain knowledge to enable them to play key roles in future scientific enterprises. | ||
Professor Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
ICREA Research Professor and director of the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Professor Francisco J. Doblas-ReyesICREA Research Professor and director of the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
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| A digital twin for climate adaptation Climate change is a global challenge that requires action to address equitable climate adaptation to the consequences and sustainable mitigation of the causes of human activities. This complex endeavour can only be tackled through the implementation of a true transdisciplinary approach where a number of domains not only work together, but innovate to solve a problem that affects others. This presentation will illustrate how supercomputing and big data work together with domains from the natural and social sciences to develop a digital twin of the climate system that provides interactive unprecedented information to decision makers who need to implement multi-sectoral strategies to adapt to a changing climate. |
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Professor Torsten Hoefler
Professor at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect of ML at CSCS
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Professor Torsten HoeflerProfessor at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect of ML at CSCS |
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| ML for High-Performance Climate and Earth Virtualization Engines Machine learning presents a great opportunity for Climate simulation and research. We will discuss some ideas from the Earth Virtualization Engines summit in Berlin and several research results ranging from ensemble prediction and bias correction of simulation output, extreme compression of high-resolution data, and a vision towards affordable km-scale ensemble simulations. We will also discuss programming framework research to improve simulation performance. Specifically, our ensemble spread prediction and bias correction network applied to global data, achieves a relative improvement in ensemble forecast skill (CRPS) of over 14%. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the improvement is larger for extreme weather events on select case studies. We also show that our post-processing can use fewer trajectories to achieve comparable results to the full ensemble. Our ML-based compression method achieves data reduction from 300x to more than 3,000x and outperforms the state-of-the-art compressor SZ3 in terms of weighted RMSE and MAE. It can faithfully preserve important large scale atmosphere structures and does not introduce artifacts. When using the resulting neural network as a 790x compressed data loader to train the WeatherBench forecasting model, its RMSE increases by less than 2%. The three orders of magnitude compression democratizes access to high-resolution climate data and enables numerous new research directions. We will close by discussing ongoing research directions and opportunities for using machine learning for ensemble simulations and combine several machine learning techniques. All those methods will contribute to enabling km-scale global climate simulations. |
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Dr Claudia Sandberg
Senior Teaching Fellow in Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne
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Dr Claudia SandbergSenior Teaching Fellow in Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne |
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Conversations with SCA2024 Plenary Speaker – ED&I Panel |
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Dr Ethel Villafranca
Academic Engagement Manager at the Science Gallery Melbourne – Museums and Collections Department as well as an academic at the university’s Faculty of Education
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Dr Ethel VillafrancaAcademic Engagement Manager at the Science Gallery Melbourne – Museums and Collections Department as well as an academic at the university’s Faculty of Education |
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Conversations with SCA2024 Plenary Speaker – ED&I Panel |
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Dr Mitch Goodwin
Artist / Academic, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne
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Dr Mitch GoodwinArtist / Academic, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne |
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Conversations with SCA2024 Plenary Speaker – ED&I Panel |
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Plenary Speakers
Alex Brown
Australian National University and Telethon Kids Institute
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Alex BrownAustralian National University and Telethon Kids Institute |
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| Professor Alex Brown (BMed, MPH, PhD, FRACP (hon.), FCSANZ, FAHMS) is a leading Aboriginal clinician/researcher who has worked his entire career in Aboriginal health in the provision of public health services, chronic disease care, health care policy and research. Much of his work has been at the difficult interface of geographical isolation, complex cultural context, severe socioeconomic disadvantage, and profound health disparities. His transdisciplinary program of research focuses on documenting the burden and contributors to health inequality in Indigenous Australians, with a primary focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and cancer. In 2022 he commenced as the inaugural Professor of Indigenous Genomics for ANU and Telethon Kids Institute and leads a national network to ensure the benefits of genomics and precision medicine are realised for Indigenous Australians. | ||
Martin W Hiegl
Executive Director | HPC, Lenovo
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Martin W HieglExecutive Director | HPC, Lenovo |
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| Currently Executive Director of High Performance Computing and Supercomputing, at Lenovo based out of Munich, Germany. Prior to Lenovo, 10+ years at IBM in a variety of Sales & Executive leadership positions and a focus around HPC & Technical Computing.
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Trish Damkroger
SVP & CPO, HPC, AI and Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Trish DamkrogerSVP & CPO, HPC, AI and Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
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| Trish Damkroger is the Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer for the HPC, AI and Labs business unit for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she leads the end-to-end HPC business from product concept through end of support life. Prior to joining HPE, Trish was Vice President and General Manager of the HPC group at Intel and was the Acting Associate Director of Computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Trish holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. |
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Simon Elisha
AWS Chief Technologist, ANZ Public Sector
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Simon ElishaAWS Chief Technologist, ANZ Public Sector |
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| An experience technology leader, Simon Elisha is renowned for transforming technological innovation into tangible business value. With over 30 years of experience spanning development and leadership, Simon is a trailblazer known for his nine cloud patents. An influential communicator, he challenges conventional thinking and empowers organizations to drive change through technology. Simon shares his real-world insights at prestigious events worldwide as an AWS spokesperson. His executive experience leading AWS WWPS growth positions him as a trusted source of practical knowledge. Passionate about enabling innovation, efficiency, and public service with the cloud, Simon hosts The Official AWS. His career includes senior roles at companies like Pivotal, Cisco, and Hitachi. | ||
Jonathan Martin
President of WEKA
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Jonathan MartinPresident of WEKA |
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| Jonathan is President of WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, responsible for the company’s global go-to-market (GTM) functions and operations, which include sales, marketing, partnerships, and customer success. He has over 25 years of executive leadership experience at industry-leading enterprise software and hardware companies. Jonathan previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at Hitachi Vantara, Pure Storage (through IPO), and EMC (acquired by Dell Technologies) and held various product management, marketing, and GTM leadership positions at HP, Salesforce, and VERITAS Software. | ||
Nidhi Chappell
GM, Azure Generative AI and HPC Platform, Microsoft
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Nidhi ChappellGM, Azure Generative AI and HPC Platform, Microsoft |
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| Nidhi Chappell is the General Manager for the AI HPC Infrastructure business for Azure. She leads a dedicated team of Product Managers who are pioneering the latest infrastructure offerings in the areas of deep learning, simulation and visualization etc. Prior to joining Microsoft, Nidhi led the development of the AI product strategy and high performance computing offerings at Intel. Nidhi has a Masters in Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin and an MBA from University of Michigan. She holds a US patent on branch prediction in the area of computer instruction. | ||
Angus Macoustra
Chief Technology Officer, CSIRO
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Angus MacoustraChief Technology Officer, CSIRO |
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| Angus Macoustra is CSIRO’s Chief Technology Officer and leads CSIRO’s Scientific Computing Program. As Chief Technology Officer Angus leads technology strategy for Australia’s National Science Agency, fostering innovative technology capabilities and services that underpin and enable the work of CSIRO’s scientific research and engineering teams. Angus and his team support and provide a broad range of scientific computing platforms and capabilities from high end supercomputer access through to optimised interactive and cloud compute service. CSIRO has been an early global adopter of accelerated computing to meet the needs of researchers and has been using it for machine learning and artificial intelligence as well as other accelerated software, algorithms and models. Sitting in this position at the intersection between science and data, and technology gives him key insights to some of the challenges, as well as opportunities that supercomputing present for Australia’s National Science Agency. | ||
Andrew Underwood
APJ Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies
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Andrew UnderwoodAPJ Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies |
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| Leading the Dell Technologies high performance computing and articifical intelligence strategy in the Asia Pacific and Japan region, Andrew Underwood works hand-in-hand with industrial, academic and government clients to build the computational foundations critical to their scientific advancement and global economic competitivness. | ||
Industry Speakers
Tan Tin Wee
Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
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Tan Tin WeeChief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore |
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| Associate Professor Tan Tin Wee is currently the CE of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, which designs and builds petascale supercomputing data centres and operates supercomputer facilities, including AI systems and quantum computing. A/Prof Tan founded and led many international and national organisations driving the Internet and bioinformatics, including APAN, APBioNet, APNG, ISCB, INFITT, AMBIS, SingCERT, SingAREN, etc. He was an early inventor of the multilingual internet domain name system, which is now a global Internet standard. He has also started a number of companies, including Bioinformatrix Pte Ltd, iDNS.net International, and sits on the board of Knorex Pte Ltd, an Adtech company founded by his ex-PhD student, as well as a few listed corporate entities. In his spare time, he volunteers with the Caregivers Alliance Ltd (CAL) to train and support caregivers of persons with dementia, plays the classical guitar, does speed Rubiks cubing, and he clears rubbish from Singapore’s canals with Waterways Watch Society (WWS). | ||
Wil Wellington
Global Director, HPC Professional Services, Lenovo
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Wil WellingtonGlobal Director, HPC Professional Services, Lenovo |
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| Currently WW HPC Director of Professional Services. Previous positions held with Verne Global, Adaptive Computing, HPE and Enpod in a variety of Infrastructure, Consulting and Solutions roles. | ||
Ananda Bhattacharjee
Head of HPC & AI Asia Pacific, Lenovo
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Ananda BhattacharjeeHead of HPC & AI Asia Pacific, Lenovo |
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| Currently Head of HPC & AI for Lenovo Asia/Pacific. Previous technical positions heald with NVIDIA, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems & SGI | ||
Sumir Bhatia
President Infrastructure Solutions Group Asia/Pacific, Lenovo
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Sumir BhatiaPresident Infrastructure Solutions Group Asia/Pacific, Lenovo |
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| Currently President of Lenovos Infrastucture Solutions Group Asia/Pacific. Previous leadership roles held at Dell, Nortel, HCL Technologies. | ||
Anthony Vandewerdt
Senior Systems Engineer Manager, WEKA
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Anthony VandewerdtSenior Systems Engineer Manager, WEKA |
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| Anthony Vandewerdt started in Enterprise Storage when 3 GB disks came in refrigerator size boxes. He is currently a Solution Engineering Manager for WEKA, having previously worked as a Field CTO for Actifio, Solution Engineer at Google Cloud and Storage Architect at IBM. He is a blogger, story teller, problem solver and keen dog walker. | ||
Srinivas Tadepalli
AWS Head of WW GTM Strategy for High Performance Computing, Accelerated Computing and Quantum Computing
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Srinivas TadepalliAWS Head of WW GTM Strategy for High Performance Computing, Accelerated Computing and Quantum Computing |
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| Srinivas Tadepalli is the Head of WW GTM Strategy for High Performance Computing (HPC), Accelerated Computing (AC) and Quantum Computing workloads at AWS. He is responsible for strategic business development and Go-To-Market Strategy for HPC, Accelerated Computing and Quantum Computing workloads across both public and commercial sector. Srinivas has been at AWS for over 4 years and previously at Dassault Systemes heading their Simulation on the cloud product and GTM Strategy. He has over 2 decades of Modeling and Simulation experience and holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering. | ||
Andrew Underwood
APJ Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies
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Andrew UnderwoodAPJ Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies |
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| Leading the Dell Technologies high performance computing and articifical intelligence strategy in the Asia Pacific and Japan region, Andrew Underwood works hand-in-hand with industrial, academic and government clients to build the computational foundations critical to their scientific advancement and global economic competitivness. | ||
James Coomer
Senior VP for Products, DDN Storage
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James CoomerSenior VP for Products, DDN Storage |
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| James is Senior Vice President for Product Management, File Systems and Benchmarking at DataDirect Networks, and responsible for the technology direction, roadmap and performance analysis of DDN solutions. One of his main tasks is engaging with, and understanding the issues of organizations that are exploring the extremes of IO performance across the range of industries from Life Sciences through to Finance with use cases from Cloud, Enterprise Big Data though to HPC. James’ career started with a PhD in Theoretical Physics followed by over 10 years at Sun Microsystems and Dell, in a wide range of roles from L3 support through consultancy, training, installation and pre-sales. James turned to focus on IO and storage in a move to DDN in 2011. | ||
Naoyuki Isogai
Azure Global Black Belt Director – HPC/AI, Microsoft
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Naoyuki IsogaiAzure Global Black Belt Director – HPC/AI, Microsoft |
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| Naoyuki leads the solution and team for Azure cloud across Australia & New Zealand, Greater China Region, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia, to enable HPC/AI solutions for key industries such as Automotive/Manufacturing, Energy, Finance Services, Life Science, and Public Sector, thru strategic partnerships with global and regional solution providers. Out of his 25 years’ career at Microsoft, Naoyuki has wide variety of business coverages from clouds such as Azure to clients such as Windows, engineering tools such as Visual Studio to end user tools such as Office, and even consumer products such as Xbox. Currently Naoyuki is based in Taiwan with his family after moving from Japan back in the year of 2016. | ||
Raghu Nambiar
Corporate Vice President, AMD
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Raghu NambiarCorporate Vice President, AMD |
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| Raghu Nambiar is a Corporate Vice President at AMD where he leads a global engineering team responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and execution for AMD’s datacenter business. Prior to joining AMD, as the CTO of the Cisco UCS business he played an instrumental role in accelerating the growth of Cisco UCS to a top datacenter-compute platform. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed papers, 20 books in Lecture Series in Computer Science (LNCS) and holds ten patents with several pending. He holds dual Master’s degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University, and an advanced management program from Stanford University. | ||
Injae Kwak
Google Cloud
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Injae KwakGoogle Cloud |
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| Injae leads Google Cloud’s mission in Asia Pacific to make AI and HPC universally accessible. Let’s have a chat on how you can leverage the latest in AI with HPC infrastructure to boost your next research! | ||
Koichi Fukuda
Technology Executive SSD Divison KIOXIA Japan
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Koichi FukudaTechnology Executive SSD Divison KIOXIA Japan |
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| Koichi Fukuda currently is the Technology Executive of KIOXIA Japan, SSD Division. He joined Toshiba Corporation in 1995, with deep knowledge and working experience in the Memory & Storage Technology. He had 28 years’ experience across a wide range of responsibilities, including DRAM application Engineering, Flash Memory Design, File Memory Device Engineering, Client SSD/DC SSD Engineering. In 2006, He was the Visiting Industrial Fellow at University of California Berkeley. | ||
Marshall Choy
Senior Vice President, Products, SambaNova Systems
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Marshall ChoySenior Vice President, Products, SambaNova Systems |
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| Marshall has overseen the go-to-market of dozens of industry leading enterprise hardware and software products. Previously, he was Vice President of Systems Product Management and Solutions Development at Oracle. | ||
Benedict Khoo
Sr Director, FAE, Supermicro Computer Inc
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Benedict KhooSr Director, FAE, Supermicro Computer Inc |
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| Benedict Khoo, currently, is Senior Director of Field Application Engineering at Supermicro Computer Inc. He has over 18+ of experiences in different roles from Hardware Validation Division, Server Platform Engineering , and now, under Application Optimization Division.
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Sven Breuner
Field CTO International, VAST Data
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Sven BreunerField CTO International, VAST Data |
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| Sven began his career building solutions for performance-critical distributed systems at the Fraunhofer Center for HPC, where he became the Chief Architect of the BeeGFS parallel file system and lead the development team for more than a decade. In 2020, he developed elbencho (a single unified storage benchmark tool for file, object, block with support for GPUs) and in 2022 was awarded by HPCwire as a ‘Person to Watch’. At VAST, Sven engages with VAST’s largest customers (100PB+) to architect data strategies at scale. | ||
Balamurugan Ramassamy
Director, Enterprise Computing, Altair Engineering
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Balamurugan RamassamyDirector, Enterprise Computing, Altair Engineering |
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| Bala is a passionate technologist with over 18 years of experience in High Performance Computing. He is experienced in architecting, building and operating some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. He was a key member of the team that built and operated the 4th fastest supercomputer EKA in 2007 and architect of India’s first HPC As A Service offering. He is responsible for Solutions architecture, Technology delivery and Customer success for HPCWorks at Altair. | ||
Yuji Iguchi
Deputy Director, Operations and Computer Technologies Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science
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Yuji IguchiDeputy Director, Operations and Computer Technologies Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science |
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| Yuji Iguchi joined Fujitsu Limited in 1981. After gaining experience developing mainframe OS software, he became an organizational leader and was responsible for developing supercomputer system software. He participated in the development projects of the supercomputers “K” and “Fugaku” as a system software development manager. He retired from FUJITSU in 2022. He is currently a dupty division director at the operations and computer technologies division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), responsible for operating and enhancing the Fugaku system. His current technical interests include operation improvements of large-scale supercomputers and building the Arm eco-system. | ||
Werner Scholz
CTO and Head of R&D, XENON Systems
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Werner ScholzCTO and Head of R&D, XENON Systems |
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Gary Cheng
Business Development Manager, Giga Computing
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Gary ChengBusiness Development Manager, Giga Computing |
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| Business development manager at GIGABYTE with years of experience in this industry. | ||
Matt Wood
Country Manager A/NZ, Quantum
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Matt WoodCountry Manager A/NZ, Quantum |
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| Matt brings 20 years’ experience in designing and implementing integrated broadcast and post-production environments for professional digital media organisations. More recently, the need to enrich data and deliver business outcomes has seen a focus on AI deep learning, data classification, asset management and workflow orchestration platforms across multiple market verticals. His practical experience in understanding real-world production requirements and overseeing the deployment of systems provides an invaluable perspective for customers looking to implement IT infrastructure that enables innovation. | ||
Raghunath Koduvayur
Head of Asia Pacific Business, IQM Quantum Computers
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Raghunath KoduvayurHead of Asia Pacific Business, IQM Quantum Computers |
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| Raghunath Koduvayur is a well recognised technology leader with experience in building businesses across different industries including quantum technologies, cloud services, telecommunication, preventive healthcare and FMCG. He has led award-winning global sales and marketing teams at Nokia, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Tieto, and in different startups. He’s a nominated board member of Finnish Business Council Singapore, Finland-India Business Association and in different startups. After living in Finland, India, Hong Kong, Raghunath is now heading the Asia Pacific Business for IQM Quantum Computers from Singapore. | ||
Sandeep Lodha
Director, Netweb Pte. Ltd.
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Sandeep LodhaDirector, Netweb Pte. Ltd. |
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| A data science enthusiast with over 28 years of experience, Sandeep Lodha serves as a Co-Founder and Director for Singapore-based IT Solutions company Netweb Pte Ltd. A Management Graduate, he has spearheaded high-value projects in Enterprise computing, Cloud, and HPC for Netweb across the world. Prior to this, Sandeep served as the head of Sales & Marketing for Netweb Technologies, India. During his tenure, he accomplished major milestones for the company. Sandeep Lodha also serves as a founder and board member for the Tyrone Foundation. An initiative to make quality education available to the weaker sections of society in India. | ||
Simon Phillips
CTO, OQC
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Simon PhillipsCTO, OQC |
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| Simon Phillips is the CTO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), Europe’s leading quantum computing company. Simon is an experienced technology executive and seasoned entrepreneur. From fundraising, to scaling internationally, Simon has a deep understanding of the fast-paced technology sector. | ||
Giuseppe Barca
Co-Founder, QDX Technologies
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Giuseppe BarcaCo-Founder, QDX Technologies |
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| Giuseppe M. J. Barca is an Assistant Professor of High-Performance Computing and Computational Chemistry at the Australian National University, where he leads one of the Pawsey Centre for Extreme-scale Computing (PaCER) projects, and the GPU development for the GAMESS Exascale Computing Project. From 2020 to 2022, his group designed novel high-performance computational quantum chemistry algorithms and software that scaled on all 27,600 GPUs of the Summit supercomputer, breaking the world record for the largest computational-driven quantum chemical modelling of material structure. In 2023, the translational nature of Giuseppe’s research led to spinning out QDX Technologies, a deep-tech drug-discovery company of which he is Co-Founder and Head of Research. | ||
Mahesh Krishnan
Chief Technology Officer • Technology and Innovation, APAC | Fujitsu
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Mahesh KrishnanChief Technology Officer • Technology and Innovation, APAC | Fujitsu |
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| Mahesh Krishnan is the CTO for Fujitsu in Oceania, where his main role is to influence, and drive sustainable digital transformation using the key technologies of AI, Computing, Network, Data & Security and Converging Technologies. He has previously been CTO at companies in the Energy and Health domain. He has written a couple of technical books and is the recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award for several years. | ||
Jamie Friel
Compiler Team Manager| Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)
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Jamie FrielCompiler Team Manager| Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) |
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| Jamie is responsible for building software solutions that will help build a quantum future. In particular, Jamie is the compiler team manager, building a bespoke quantum compiler that will allow groundbreaking problems to be solved on OQC’s hardware. Academically, Jamie’s research was centered around quantum estimation theory, with an emphasis on the optimisation of multidimensional magnetic field estimation. | ||
Jordi Blasco
Co-founder/Computational Physicist, Do IT Now
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Jordi BlascoCo-founder/Computational Physicist, Do IT Now |
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| Licentiate (BSc + MSc) in physics with specialization in computational physics from University of Barcelona (Spain), Jordi has +17 years of experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) in industry and academic environments, +12 years of experience in mission-critical environments, and +12 years experience in leadership & coordination of cutting-edge HPC projects. Jordi has a solid background in parallel programming, performance analysis, application tuning, and HPC system administration. Jordi is a very active contributor to several open-source projects dealing with High Performance Computing and he has worked as an independent advisor for several companies and research centres. Jordi is the founder of the popular HPC Knowledge Portal (hpckp.org) and Co-founder of HPCNow! (hpcnow.com), a global consulting company focused on HPC. | ||
Miguel Lopez
Schneider Electric
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Miguel LopezSchneider Electric |
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| Miguel is a 29 year veteran & highly skilled in the field of Air Conditioning applications, with a 23 year focus on advocacy/selling and technical support for Mission Critical Precision Cooling applications, such as computer rooms, data centres archive storage rooms, testing laboratories and any critical cooling application that requires precise room temperature and room humidity control, for year round 24/7 operation. | ||
Stuart Strickland
DUG Technology
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Stuart StricklandDUG Technology |
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| Stuart has a history of growing businesses and has previously held General Manager and Vice President roles is a range of highly successful Australian and International companies. Stuart is now focused on the fast growing and emerging business lines of DUG Technology. That includes their High Performance Computing cloud offering, DugCool immersion technology and Nomad mobile super computers. | ||
Nathan Schumann
Versity Software Inc
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Nathan SchumannVersity Software Inc |
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| Nathan Schumann is the Vice President of Operations at Versity Software, managing global support, deployments, and customer solutions and architectures. Before joining Versity, he worked for over ten years at Cray/HPE, focusing on HPC system management software, parallel filesystems, and data management. Before joining Cray, Nathan spent 12 years as a consultant, delivering custom data management and high-performance computing solutions for commercial and government customers. Nathan has over 20 years in the industry and a comprehensive HPC storage, computing, and data management background. | ||
Akshay Shanker
Research Fellow, UNSW
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Akshay ShankerResearch Fellow, UNSW |
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| I am a computational economist at the University of New South Wales School of Economics. My work is dedicated to leveraging advancements in mathematical optimisation and high-performance computing to enhance the realism of economic models. I am particularly focused on modelling the complex microeconomic interactions of individuals in uncertain environments and how these interactions influence macroeconomic outcomes. My interests spans both theoretical economics, including markov decision processes, dynamic general equilibrium and the theory of consumption and saving, and applied economics, with a focus on policy areas in education, energy, pensions, and climate change. | ||
Chris Maestas
Chief Executive Architect, Storage for Data and AI, IBM Storage
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Chris MaestasChief Executive Architect, Storage for Data and AI, IBM Storage |
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| Chris is the Chief Executive Architect for IBM Data and AI Storage Solutions with over 20 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in various spaces. He has experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies. He has developed benchmark frameworks to test out systems for reliability and validate research performance data. He also has led global enablement sessions discussing how best to position unstructured software-defined storage like Scale, Ceph, Cloud Object Storage, and Tape in Cloud, Hybrid, Edge, Container, or AI spaces. | ||
David Tran
Enterprise Sales Engineer, Seagate
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David TranEnterprise Sales Engineer, Seagate |
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| A dedicated, driven Sales Engineer and Partner Enablement IT Professional with extensive multi-faceted pre and post sales consulting experience, in data storage, security and infrastructure solutions architecture. Deep domain experience working with a broad number of tier-one multi-national clients, Small and Medium sized businesses, including Strategic partnerships, Global Alliances, Cloud Service Providers and Distribution Partners to deliver time bound, risk focused project requirements. | ||
Oleg Kokotović
Technical Lead, A/NZ, ASEAN, Korea, Scality
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Oleg KokotovićTechnical Lead, A/NZ, ASEAN, Korea, Scality |
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| Oleg is a technologist, specialising in unstructured data storage. Currently, he spearheads technical initiatives as Technical Lead for APAC at Scality, having previously worked at HPE, IBM, NetApp and Fujitsu. He’s an avid gamer and reader, and a very keen – albeit not very good – fisherman. | ||
Andy Hock
Senior Vice President, Product & Strategy, Cerebras Systems
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Andy HockSenior Vice President, Product & Strategy, Cerebras Systems |
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| Dr. Andy Hock is Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy at Cerebras Systems, makers of the world’s largest and most powerful chips and systems for AI+HPC work. Prior to Cerebras, Andy led data product and platform development for ML/AI-powered geospatial applications on Google’s Terra Bella project (previously Skybox Imaging). Before Google / Skybox, Andy was a Senior Scientist and Senior Technical Manager for Arete Associates. He is a scientist by training now building high performance computing platforms to help researchers scale and accelerate their innovation – he has a PhD in geophysics and space physics from UCLA, and BA in astronomy-physics from Colgate University. | ||
Workshop Speakers
Jamie Friel
Compiler Team Manager| Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)
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Jamie FrielCompiler Team Manager| Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) |
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| Jamie is responsible for building software solutions that will help build a quantum future. In particular, Jamie is the compiler team manager, building a bespoke quantum compiler that will allow groundbreaking problems to be solved on OQC’s hardware. Academically, Jamie’s research was centered around quantum estimation theory, with an emphasis on the optimisation of multidimensional magnetic field estimation. | ||
Jin-Sung Kim
NVIDIA
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Jin-Sung KimNVIDIA |
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| Jin-Sung Kim is a Developer Relations Manager for Quantum Computing at NVIDIA and is based out of San Francisco. In his current role, he leads strategic partnerships, technical collaborations and the rapidly growing NVIDIA Quantum ecosystem. Prior to NVIDIA, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Quantum. Jin-Sung holds a PhD from Princeton University. | ||
Michael Jones
University of Melbourne
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Michael JonesUniversity of Melbourne |
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| I am a PhD student at the University of Melbourne focusing on enhancing the capabilities of near-term quantum computers through algorithm design, especially in application to quantum chemistry. I also completed my Bachelor’s in chemical physics and Master’s in physics at the University of Melbourne. | ||
Iskandar Sitdikov
IBM
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Iskandar SitdikovIBM |
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| Lomonosov Moscow State University graduate, nerd, former editorialist, open-source software strategic committer, O’Reilly technical reviewer, and high-energy workaholic whose biggest passion is problem-solving. Iskandar holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s in computer science. As a senior software engineer, he provides technical leadership for the development of large-scale quantum-classical heterogeneous systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, including researchers, developers, and educators at IBM Quantum. | ||
Session Speakers
Sustainability on the Path to Exascale Infrastructure
Stuart Strickland
DUG Technology
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Stuart StricklandDUG Technology |
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| Stuart has a history of growing businesses and has previously held General Manager and Vice President roles is a range of highly successful Australian and International companies. Stuart is now focused on the fast growing and emerging business lines of DUG Technology. That includes their High Performance Computing cloud offering, DugCool immersion technology and Nomad mobile super computers. | ||
Professor/Director Dieter Kranzlmüller
Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (LMU), Chairman of the board at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ)
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Professor/Director Dieter KranzlmüllerProfessor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (LMU), Chairman of the board at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) |
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| More Compute with Less Energy: How HPC drives Energy Efficiency in Data Centers Information and communication technologies consume ever more of our global electricity production and correspondingly contributes substantially to the total carbon emissions. At the same time, advancements in science and research in general, and the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, increase the needs for computational power. This calls for innovative and holistic approaches to energy efficiency in computing, and HPC at the forefront is providing novel ideas for computing in general. With dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, hot-water cooling, and other advancements, the amount of energy per compute or Watt per Flop is going down, while other aspects such as waste heat usage complete the picture. The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is pioneering many of these approaches with its leadership class system SuperMUC-NG and its future ExaMUC supercomputer. This talk provides an insight into the latest developments at LRZ towards more energy efficiency for high performance computing, and highlights how some of these technologies can also be utilized in AI infrastructures. |
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Andrea Tabacchini
Quantum Brilliance
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Andrea TabacchiniQuantum Brilliance |
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| With a background in Astronomy and Quantum Physics (PhD, 2017), I consider myself a dreamer and a passionate hard worker. I like falling in love with real problems, and leading the journey it takes to solve them delivering actual value to customers and end users. I’m always amazed by high tech and innovation becoming a real product in creative, ever-thought ways. I constantly invest a good effort in keeping a good work-life balance: I play social soccer, tennis, I do mountainbiking, I read, and I value the people in my social circles. Always hungry of feedback, particularly from within my teams, I’ve been practicing and improving leadership by influence: How effective I am as an influential leader is one of my most important metrics for success. To hustle for me it means to work hard and celebrate harder the positive outcomes. | ||
David Kelly
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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David KellyHewlett Packard Enterprise |
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| David has over 45 years of experience in high performance and real-time computing systems and has expertise encompassing all aspects of the system life cycle. He has developed a wide range of system-level software, including device drivers and operating systems modules, high-throughput archiving utilities, control systems, and video-on-demand software. One of his more interesting projects was writing the real-time Linux-based data acquisition subsystems for the Australian Synchrotron. David works as a Senior Technical Architect with HPE, specialising in HPE’s Cray platforms. | ||
Sean Smith
Director, NCI
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Prof. Sean SmithDirector, NCI |
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| Sean Smith is Director of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) located at the Australian National University, ACT. He is also Professor of Computational Nanoscience and Technology in the Research School of Physics. He is an internationally recognized expert in research infrastructure management, having now led NCI Australia for six years and previously directed the nanoscience user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA. Under his leadership, NCI Australia has grown substantially across multiple fronts, including revenue generation to support its not-for-profit operations, business planning, client community engagement, international engagement and breadth of services provided nationally. | ||
The Think & Drink Tank: Innovation Fueled By Refreshments Hosted By WEKA
HPC leadership forum
Chennupati Jagadish
Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, at The Australian National University
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Chennupati JagadishHead of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, at The Australian National University |
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| Professor Chennupati Jagadish is a Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, at The Australian National University. He has published widely in semiconductor physics, materials science, optoelectronics and nanotechnology. Professor Jagadish is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Reviews, editor of 2 book series and serves on editorial boards of 19 other journals. He is a fellow of 11 science and engineering academies in Australia, the US, Europe and India, and 14 professional societies. He has received many Australian and international awards, including a UNESCO medal for his contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, and has been an Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellow and an ARC Laureate Fellow. He became President of the Academy in May 2022 | ||
Tan Tin Wee
Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
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Tan Tin WeeChief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore |
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| Associate Professor Tan Tin Wee is currently the CE of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, which designs and builds petascale supercomputing data centres and operates supercomputer facilities, including AI systems and quantum computing. A/Prof Tan founded and led many international and national organisations driving the Internet and bioinformatics, including APAN, APBioNet, APNG, ISCB, INFITT, AMBIS, SingCERT, SingAREN, etc. He was an early inventor of the multilingual internet domain name system, which is now a global Internet standard. He has also started a number of companies, including Bioinformatrix Pte Ltd, iDNS.net International, and sits on the board of Knorex Pte Ltd, an Adtech company founded by his ex-PhD student, as well as a few listed corporate entities. In his spare time, he volunteers with the Caregivers Alliance Ltd (CAL) to train and support caregivers of persons with dementia, plays the classical guitar, does speed Rubiks cubing, and he clears rubbish from Singapore’s canals with Waterways Watch Society (WWS). | ||
Sean Smith
Director, NCI
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Prof. Sean SmithDirector, NCI |
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| Sean Smith is Director of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) located at the Australian National University, ACT. He is also Professor of Computational Nanoscience and Technology in the Research School of Physics. He is an internationally recognized expert in research infrastructure management, having now led NCI Australia for six years and previously directed the nanoscience user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA. Under his leadership, NCI Australia has grown substantially across multiple fronts, including revenue generation to support its not-for-profit operations, business planning, client community engagement, international engagement and breadth of services provided nationally. | ||
Mark Stickells
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
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Mark StickellsPawsey Supercomputing |
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| Mark Stickells AM FAICD FAIM is the CEO of Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. Pawsey hosts exascale-class HPC system, Setonix – the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful, energy efficient research supercomputer, and is a national HPC/quantum computing research laboratory and key partner in the global Square Kilometre Array Observatory project. Mark is a member of Australia’s National Quantum Advisory Committee, non-executive director of Science and Technology Australia Ltd, and member of CEO’s for Gender Equity. In 2024, Mark was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to science, particularly information technology, and to the community. | ||
Dr. Piyawut Srichaikul
ThaiSC
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Dr. Piyawut SrichaikulThaiSC |
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| Dr. Piyawut holds a BSc degree in Physics from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and a PhD (Solid State Physics) from Auburn University, USA. Since 1995, he has been a researcher at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) a member of National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand. Currently, he is Deputy Executive Director of NECTEC in charge of Research and Development AI and Advanced Electronic Sensing. In addition, he is acting Director of NSTDA Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC), one of NSTDA’s National S&T Infrastructure units. | ||
Dan Stanzione
TACC
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Dan StanzioneTACC |
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| Dr. Dan Stanzione, Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin since 2018 and Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) since 2014, is a nationally recognized leader in high performance computing. He is the principal investigator (PI) for several projects including a multimillion-dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to acquire and deploy Frontera, which will be the fastest supercomputer at a U.S. university. Stanzione is also the PI of TACC’s Stampede2 and Wrangler systems, supercomputers for high performance computing and for data-focused applications, respectively. He served for six years as the co-director of CyVerse, a large-scale NSF life sciences cyberinfrastructure in which TACC is a major partner. In addition, Stanzione was a co-principal investigator for TACC’s Ranger and Lonestar supercomputers, large-scale NSF systems previously deployed at UT Austin. Stanzione received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and his master’s degree and doctorate in computer engineering from Clemson University, where he later directed the supercomputing laboratory and served as an assistant research professor of electrical and computer engineering. | ||
Steven Shiau
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
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Steven ShiauNational Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan |
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| Steven Shiau was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1971. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in nuclear engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in engineering science from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2019. In 1997, he joined the National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan, where he is now a research fellow and deputy director general in charge of HPC facilities. | ||
Skills & Training 1 – Harnessing HPC skills
Lev Lafayette
University of Melbourne
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Lev LafayetteUniversity of Melbourne |
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| Lev Lafayette is the HPC Services Team Lead at the University of Melbourne where he has worked since 2015 as a systems engineer for the Spartan supercomputer and training researchers in various aspects of High Performance Computing. Before that, he was at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing for several years in a similar role. Lev advocates “multidisciplinary lifelong learning” and, as such, is an incorrigible student, having just completed his eighth degree; BA (Hons), GradCertPM, GradCertAdult&TertEd, GradDipAppPsych, MBA, MSc, MHEd, MCCSAP. | ||
Louise Ord
CSIRO
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Louise OrdCSIRO |
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| Dr Louise Ord brings scientific data to life through analysis, exploration and visualisation. Gaining her doctorate at the University of Oxford, she spent six years as part of an international collaboration of cosmologists. Louise then moved into the field of data analytics and predictive modelling where she developed a passion for data visualisation. Now in Scientific Computing at CSIRO, Louise collaborates with scientists in a diverse range of fields to design and implement novel analytics and visualisation solutions that enable data exploration and the communication of scientific insight. As Scientific Computing’s Data Visualisation Technical Lead, she engages with research groups across the organisation to develop the expertise needed to build sustainable, future-focused data visualisation solutions and maintain CSIRO’s cutting-edge in today’s data-driven world. | ||
Melissa Kozul
University of Melbourne
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Melissa KozulUniversity of Melbourne |
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| Melissa Kozul is a Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2018 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU in Norway for three years prior to her current appointment. Melissa’s research expertise is in the high-fidelity simulation of fundamental turbulent flows that feature critically in energy and transport technologies. Her most recent work focuses on high-fidelity numerical simulation of turbomachinery flows, for which she conducts numerical experiments on the world’s largest supercomputers, including Summit and Frontier at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. | ||
Skills and training 2 – Unlocking new possibilities through skills – integrating AI/ML & HPC
Gnana Bharathy
ARDC
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Gnana BharathyARDC |
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| Gnana Bharathy serves as the ARDC national expert in AI/ML and architecture for Australian research and educational institutions, and also works as a researcher, at UTS. In the first role, he works as ARDC Research Data Specialist (AI/ML) (an advisory role in the national expertise team situated at UTS), and provides AI/ML based advice to research institutions. In the second role, he carries out research and supervises/ mentor/ teach students. | ||
Anastasios Papaioannou
Intersect
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Anastasios PapaioannouIntersect |
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| Gnana Bharathy serves as the ARDC national expert in AI/ML and architecture for Australian research and educational institutions, and also works as a researcher, at UTS. In the first role, he works as ARDC Research Data Specialist (AI/ML) (an advisory role in the national expertise team situated at UTS), and provides AI/ML based advice to research institutions. In the second role, he carries out research and supervises/ mentor/ teach students. | ||
Patrick Tung
UNSW
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Patrick TungUNSW |
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| Patrick is currently an AI Imaging Scientist at Research Technolgies, UNSW Sydney. Here, he collaborates with researchers across the university to harness deep learning methods in all imaging domains. His imaging experience stems from research in materials using synchrotron and neutron radiation to under their underlying structure-property relationships. | ||
Doctoral showcase 3MT competition
Ahmad Hakiim Jamaluddin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Ahmad Hakiim Jamaluddin |
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| PhD candidate in Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW Sydney’s School of Mathematics and Statistics; the Statistical Computing laboratory and; the UNSW Data Science Hub. Experienced in academic, consultation, and professional roles at School of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Education, and StatsCentral at UNSW Sydney. Also a casual lecturer at Canterbury Institute of Management, Australia. Young academic specialising in Statistics and Data Science at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Former technical accountant (data modeling) at RHB Bank Berhad and CIM engineer (data engineering) at Osram Optosemiconductors (M). | ||
Erik Buchholz
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Erik Buchholz |
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| Erik is a Cybersecurity PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney, supported by the Australian Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre. His research targets facilitating the secure use of data without compromising privacy, focusing on location trajectories. Erik completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees with distinction at RWTH Aachen in Germany, winning multiple awards for his master’s thesis. Deeply committed to the importance of privacy, Erik conveys this to the public, as highlighted by his People’s Choice award received at the AGSE 3 Minute Thesis Competition. | ||
Junji Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Junji Zhang |
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| Focus on deepen understanding and predictive capabilities regarding the properties of electrolyte solutions by employing molecular simulation methods integrated with sophisticated mathematical models and machine learning methods. | ||
IoSC: International Workshop on Internet of SuperComputing 2024
Xinhua Lin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Xinhua LinShanghai Jiao Tong University |
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| Dr. James Lin co-founded the High-Performance Computing Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012 and has served as the vice director since then. The center is one of the leading university-level supercomputer centers in China, with the fastest supercomputer Siyuan-1 (6PFlops) and the largest HPC team (30+ members) of any university in China. His current research interests include performance analysis at the microarchitecture level for emerging many-core processors, and large-scale applications on supercomputers. He has published more than 30 papers on these topics. He has served as a TPC member and reviewer for many HPC conferences and journals, including SC, IPDPS, and Transaction on Computers (TC). He is a steering committee member of IEEE CLUTER and SCAsia. | ||
Chun Fan
Peking University
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Chun FanPeking University |
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| Fan Chun is the Chief Engineer of the High Performance Computing Platform of Peking University, and also serves as the Director of Peking University Changsha Institute for Computing and Digital Economy’s Computing Power Network Center. His job responsibilities include operating the virtualization platform of the university and managing five high-performance computing clusters, which are equipped with approximately 35,000 cores, 400 GPU cards, and 20PB storage space, mainly using GPFS and Lustre file systems. Fan Chun’s goal is to make it more convenient for everyone to use high-performance computing technology. To achieve this, he led the development of an open-source high-performance computing platform portal and a management information system called SCOW(Super Computing On Web, https://github.com/PKUHPC/SCOW), making it easier for users to access high-performance computing resources and for administrators to manage user resource access authorization. Additionally, he also led the development of an open-source high-performance computing and computational power network scheduling system called Crane(https://github.com/PKUHPC/Crane). | ||
Jiahua Zhao
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST)
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Jiahua ZhaoSouthern University of Science and Technology (SUST) |
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| JIAHUA ZHAO is a PhD student in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (ENGAGE programme), studying at the Delft University of Technology and the Cyprus Institute, focusing on HPC and AI applications in exploration geophysics. During his BSc and MSc studies, he worked on HPC and AI applications in scientific computing at Columbia University, Harvard University, Edinburgh Center for Parallel Computing, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is also the builder and advisor of the student supercomputing team of Southern University of Science and Technology, and has guided students in various international supercomputing competitions, achieving excellent results. | ||
Skills & Training 3 – A resilient research workforce: Scalable and sustainable skills development programs
Pascal Jahan Elahi
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
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Pascal Jahan ElahiSouthern University of Science and Technology (SUST) |
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| I am the Quantum Supercomputing Research Lead at Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s newly established Quantum Hub. My background is that of a computational astrophysicist. I obtained a PhD in Physics & Astronomy in 2009 at Queen’s University, studying the properties of different dark matter models using virtual universes running on HPC systems. I now use my background in physics and my expertise in computation to help grow the Quantum Computing expertise at Pawsey. Not all problems can be solved on a quantum computer and many problems require an unfeasible amount of time on classical computers, necessitating a hybrid approach. I lead a team working towards the goal of quantum computing systems fully integrated with HPC systems to solve challenging real-world problems | ||
Gilad Shainer
Senior Vice President Marketing at NVIDIA
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Gilad ShainerSenior Vice President Marketing at NVIDIA |
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Liz Stokes
Community building and digital skills praxis, ARDC
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Liz StokesCommunity building and digital skills praxis, ARDC |
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Qingchun Song
Sr. Director of Market Development at NVIDIA, APAC at NVIDIA
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Qingchun SongSr. Director of Market Development at NVIDIA, APAC at NVIDIA |
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Skills and training 4 – Supporting Computational Trainer Communities
Kathryn Unsworth
ARDC
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Kathryn UnsworthARDC |
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| I’m currently at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) leading the Skills & Workforce Development team. My role is to drive a nationally coordinated approach to skills and training programs targeting key areas of the workforce that conduct, underpin, and enable data-intensive research. My role is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing a range of initiatives that facilitate and support best practices in the provision of digital research skills (data, platforms, software & infrastructure) supporting Australian research communities and institutions. My role’s current focus is the implementation of skills-related initiatives such as, create and develop a national training portal in partnership with other stakeholders, design and develop shareable national skills materials, build national skills communities and work with digital research training communities to map the skills landscape. | ||
Aidan Wilson
Intersect
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Aidan WilsonIntersect |
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| Experienced research-sector technologist and analyst with a demonstrated history in Information Technology and Computing, Technical Business Analysis and Communications. Strong research-oriented support professional and skilled researcher with a Master of Arts (Research) in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. | ||
Giorgia Mori
University of Sydney
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Giorgia MoriUniversity of Sydney |
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| Dr Giorgia Mori holds a PhD in Microbiology and she has a special interest in promoting the importance of computational skills for conducting efficient and reproducible research. She is currently a Data Science Trainer at the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH), a core research facility at the University of Sydney. For over 8 years, she has been supervising and teaching students. Her dedication to enhancing digital skills, particularly in her home country where opportunities are limited, inspired her to become a Carpentries instructor, enabling her to teach globally. Beyond her formal role, Dr. Mori is a dedicated advocate for diversity in the programming community. Volunteering for the RLadies diversity initiative, she actively supports the representation of gender minorities, contributing to a more inclusive and supportive environment. | ||
Melissa Burke
Australian Biocomms
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Melissa BurkeAustralian Biocomms |
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| Melissa is the Australian BioCommons Training and Communications Officer. She works with the bioinformatics training community and subject matter experts to design, develop and deliver bioinformatics training events. Melissa has many years of international experience in this role and specialises in online, self-paced training and virtual events. Melissa also has extensive experience in infectious diseases and holds a PhD in Molecular Parasitology. | ||
Mark Crowe
QCIF
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Mark CroweQCIF |
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| Dr Mark Crowe is the Skills Development Manager at QCIF, where he leads a team of eResearch Analysts and trainers providing digital skills support to researchers across Queensland. Mark has been developing and delivering research training workshops for over ten years. He is a director of The Carpentries and chair of The Carpentries Trainers Leadership Committee. orcid.org/0000-0002-9514-2487. | ||
Gnana Bharathy
ARDC
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Gnana BharathyARDC |
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| Gnana Bharathy serves as the ARDC national expert in AI/ML and architecture for Australian research and educational institutions, and also works as a researcher, at UTS. In the first role, he works as ARDC Research Data Specialist (AI/ML) (an advisory role in the national expertise team situated at UTS), and provides AI/ML based advice to research institutions. In the second role, he carries out research and supervises/ mentor/ teach students. | ||
HPC-AI competition
Jingbo Wang
NCI Australia
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Jingbo WangNCI Australia |
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| Jingbo got her PhD in geophysics at the University of Cambridge UK, followed by a Post Doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in US. She has been serving research community since joining National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Australia with expertise in research data management, software and data engineering, and building data intensive applications over a decade. As the Deputy Director of Business Development and User Engagement at NCI, she has been leveraging her domain knowledge as well as her leadership role in the data and computationally intensive areas to support the HPC community in APAC region. | ||
Qingchun Song
Sr. Director of Market Development at NVIDIA, APAC at NVIDIA
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Qingchun SongSr. Director of Market Development at NVIDIA, APAC at NVIDIA |
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Jens Domke
RIKEN
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Jens DomkeRIKEN |
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| Jens Domke is the Team Leader of the Supercomputing Performance Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan. He received his doctoral degree from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, in 2017 for his work on HPC routing algorithms and interconnects. Jens started his career in HPC in 2008, after he and a team of five students of the TU Dresden and Indiana University, won the Student Cluster Competition at SC08. Since then, he published dozens of peer-reviewed journal and conference articles. Jens contributed the DFSSSP and Nue routing algorithms to the subnet manager of InfiniBand, and built the first large-scale HyperX prototype at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include system co-design, performance evaluation, extrapolation, and modelling, interconnect networks, and optimization of parallel applications and architectures. | ||
Gabriel Noaje
NVIDIA
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Gabriel NoajeNVIDIA |
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| Gabriel Noaje has more than 15 years of experience in accelerated computing solutions for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence. He has performed a variety of roles both in the enterprise and public sector that allowed him to manage, design and work on state of the art HPC solutions across a broad range of industries and domains. In his current role at NVIDIA, Gabriel is spearheading the development of HPC business in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he was a Senior Solutions Architect with SGI and HPE where he has worked closely with major supercomputing centers in APAC. Previously, he was a Senior Computational Scientist at A*STAR Computational Resource Centre in Singapore (A*CRC) supporting users with deploying their applications on GPUs and large HPC systems. Gabriel holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France and a BSc and MSc in Computer Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. | ||
Jiahua Zhao
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST)
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Jiahua ZhaoSouthern University of Science and Technology (SUST) |
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| JIAHUA ZHAO is a PhD student in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (ENGAGE programme), studying at the Delft University of Technology and the Cyprus Institute, focusing on HPC and AI applications in exploration geophysics. During his BSc and MSc studies, he worked on HPC and AI applications in scientific computing at Columbia University, Harvard University, Edinburgh Center for Parallel Computing, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is also the builder and advisor of the student supercomputing team of Southern University of Science and Technology, and has guided students in various international supercomputing competitions, achieving excellent results. | ||
Yusuke Miyashita
Monash University
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Yusuke MiyashitaMonash University |
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| I am a mechatronics and economics student at Monash University, and a vacation student at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. I have a passion for technology and engineering, and a strong interest in solving complex and impactful problems using machine learning and high performance computing (HPC). At Monash University’s e-Research center, I have worked HPC clusters and configured a web portal for researchers to access HPC applications. At Monash DeepNeuron, I built machine learning pipelines and led projects on image search and human-robot interaction. I have received multiple honors and awards for my academic excellence and innovation, such as the Engineering International Undergraduate Scholarship, and the Dean’s Student Excellence Award. I am proficient in Python, C, and other programming languages, and I have contributed to multiple publications and open source projects. | ||
BoF – Sustainability of AI-scale digital research infrastructure
Steve Quenette
Innate Innovation
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Steve QuenetteInnate Innovation |
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| Steve Quenette, the founder of Innate Innovation, recently left his role at Monash University after 12 years of distinction as a thought leader. During his time there, he assisted thousands of digital innovators in fulfilling their research and social obligations through technology. He also began consulting with technology providers and innovative organisations. With expertise in technology and data governance and the ability to guide organisations through innovation cycles, Steve has become a respected voice in many industries. Through Innate Innovation, he continues to share his pioneering insights with leaders across multiple sectors. His portfolio of clients include sustainable computing, cloud/HPC building, AI, research infrastructures and hosting national forums – all pertinent to this BoF. | ||
BoF – HPC, AI and Quantum Career
Kristina Johnson
Defence Science Technology Group
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Kristina JohnsonDefence Science Technology Group |
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| Kristina is Director of Supercomputing Strategic Engagement for Defence Science Technology Group. In this role she leads projects from initial engagement through to onboarding, and builds partnerships for local and international capability development specific to Defence. The Defence Supercomputer is a secure, resilient, multi-tenanted system that supports reproducible computational simulation science, data analytics, and machine learning at scale. Kristina holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Monash University. She has been working as a computer scientist since before the pipeline problem was invented, and is a qualified animator and musician. | ||
Ananda Bhattacharjee
Head of HPC & AI Asia Pacific, Lenovo
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Ananda BhattacharjeeHead of HPC & AI Asia Pacific, Lenovo |
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| Currently Head of HPC & AI for Lenovo Asia/Pacific. Previous technical positions heald with NVIDIA, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems & SGI | ||
Sach Jayasinghe
QCIF | CEO
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Sach JayasingheQCIF | CEO |
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| Sach Jayasinghe is the Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). QCIF provides digital research infrastructure to all Queensland universities and several national clients.
Prior to his role at QCIF, Sach was the Director of Research Infrastructure, providing strategic input and overseeing the operations of QUT’s research infrastructure. Sach has a long history of involvement in cytometry, and significant commercial exposure (hardware, consumables, and software) within the field, which continues today via active partnerships with a number of key industry players. |
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Astrid Groves
Schneider Electric | General Manager of Sales, IT/Edge
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Astrid GrovesSchneider Electric | General Manager of Sales, IT/Edge |
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| Astrid Groves is a distinguished leader with a rich career history spanning the United Kingdom and Australia, encompassing multi-country management roles. As the General Manager of Sales, IT/Edge at Schneider Electric, Astrid is a recognised subject matter expert in the commercialisation of technology, driving impactful strategies and initiatives within the IT industry. With over two decades of experience, Astrid’s journey began as a receptionist at Acer – starting at the very entry level of a business has laid the foundation for her remarkable career. Notably, she held pivotal management positions during her five-year tenure with Schneider Electric in London, demonstrating her adeptness at leading teams and driving business growth. Astrid’s professional journey also led her to Vocus, where she further honed her expertise before returning to Schneider Electric, showcasing her unwavering commitment to the organisation and the industry at large. Astrid is widely acknowledged as a thought leader and technology business strategist, shaping the discourse and direction of the IT industry. Her remarkable career trajectory, combined with her strategic acumen, solidifies her position as a key influencer and driver of success within the dynamic landscape of technology commercialisation.
Prior to his role at QCIF, Sach was the Director of Research Infrastructure, providing strategic input and overseeing the operations of QUT’s research infrastructure. Sach has a long history of involvement in cytometry, and significant commercial exposure (hardware, consumables, and software) within the field, which continues today via active partnerships with a number of key industry players. |
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Ron Bosworth
XENON Systems | Solutions Architect
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Ron BosworthXENON Systems | Solutions Architect |
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| Ron works at XENON Systems as a Solutions Architect, with more than 18 years’ experience building and maintaining IT systems in industries including scientific research and film post-production. Ron draws upon a broad background in most areas of IT including systems, storage, network engineering, HPC, scientific computing and software development. Prior to XENON Systems, Ron worked as a Scientific Computing Specialist and a Senior Systems Engineer at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) based out of the Australian Synchrotron campus in Melbourne.
Prior to his role at QCIF, Sach was the Director of Research Infrastructure, providing strategic input and overseeing the operations of QUT’s research infrastructure. Sach has a long history of involvement in cytometry, and significant commercial exposure (hardware, consumables, and software) within the field, which continues today via active partnerships with a number of key industry players. |
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Kiowa Scott-Hurley
Machine Learning Computational Methods Specialist | Defence Science and Technology Group
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Kiowa Scott-HurleyMachine Learning Computational Methods Specialist | Defence Science and Technology Group |
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| Kiowa is a Dja Dja Wurrung woman leading a team of Machine Learning engineers at the Defence Science and Technology Group. Her career has meandered through the increasingly overlapping fields of HPC, ML at scale, and cybersecurity – areas she never envisioned working in as a student. She spends her week yelling at command lines, drawing and cramming cat comics into slide decks, and committing diversity-tax evasion. | ||
BoF – HPC Data, Filesystems and Object storage – Exploring the requirements and trends of complex scientific data pipelines and the storage services that underpin them
Chris Schlipalius
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
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Chris SchlipaliusThe Pawsey Supercomputing Centre |
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| Chris is an experienced presenter who has over 25 years working with block storage, SANs, Tape and POSIX filesystems for large data holdings both at Curtin University of Technology and The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, where he is currently Technical Lead, responsible for specifying and deploying the Banksia system (holding 47PB of research data accessed via S3 Object gateway). He was also a technical reviewer of the Pawsey Acacia Object storage project. He has presented at, and organised a number of workshops on Storage and Filesystems in the USA and Australia (alongside eResearch) and in Singapore at SCA usergroups. Previously he operated the Spectrum Scale Usergroup at previous SCA conferences, and cities across Australia, and was on the Spectrum Scale Usergroup worldwide organising committee and IBM Champion for 5 years. | ||
Network and Data Movement (miniGRP)
Andrew Howard
NCI Australia
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Andrew HowardNCI Australia |
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| Andrew has many decades of hands-on technical, diplomatic and logistics experience covering a wide range of standard and bespoke technologies, languages and applications within Industry, Government and Academia nationally and internationally. He currently chairs the judging panel of the SuperComputing Asia Data Mover Challenge, APAN Program Committee and Co-Chairs the Cloud Security Alliance: HPC Cloud Security, APAN E-Culture and Asia Pacific Research Platform working groups. Since joining the Australian National University in 2006 he has managed the evaluation, development and implementation of high speed communications systems, fibre networks and collaboration facilities. He represents the University at International Research Cloud and Network groups including APAN, Internet2 and TNC and has held the positions as Co-Chair of a number of APAN Working Groups. As Co-Chair of the APAN E-Culture working group for many years he lead the production of the Dancing Q and Dancing Across Oceans Performance events. His current role at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) involves working on High Performance Networks, Computing and Cloud systems. He manages NCI Cloud Services supporting both the NCI Cloud Nirin and National Data collections. | ||
Michael Hope
Geoscience Australia
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Michael HopeGeoscience Australia |
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| Michael is part of a small team that manages the day-to-day operations of the Copernicus Australasia Regional Data Hub. This includes managing the relationships that underpin this multi-faceted partnership of consortium partners, suppliers and supporters, who all work together to enable access and delivery of Sentinel imagery to our region. Michael obtained a degree in Marine Biology at James Cook University, but quickly realised a more productive career in Information Technology. He now has over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry, with almost 10 years working as a project manager with online data repositories. | ||
Julia Philips
Defence Science and Technology Group
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Julia PhilipsDefence Science and Technology Group |
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| Julia is Acting Discipline Lead Supercomputing Security at Defence Science and Technology Group. She leads day-to-day security operations and strategic development of performant secure data management framework for the secure sovereign multi-tenanted Supercomputing Capability. In a previous role at DSTG she lead the development of the High End Compute Activity and Resource Plan used to onboard users to Capability, covering encompassing security, data, and computational management for new projects. Julia holds an MBA (UTas), MA (UTS), research-based MSc (USyd), and BSc (Hons)(UNSW), supporting a career spanning immunology research, management and leadership education, librarianship, data management, and security. | ||
Inder Monga
Esnet
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Inder MongaEsnet |
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| Inder Monga is the Director of Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Networking Division and Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s high-performance network user facility. Optimized for large-scale science, ESnet connects and provides services to more than 50 DOE research sites, including national laboratories, supercomputing facilities, and scientific instruments, as well as peers with 270+ research and commercial networks worldwide. In addition to managing ESnet, he is the principal investigator for the Quantum Application Network Testbed for Novel Entanglement Technology (QUANT-NET) project and co-PI of the National Science Foundation’s FABRIC testbed. Inder holds 25 patents. | ||
AeRO forum
David Abramson
University of Queensland
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David AbramsonUniversity of Queensland |
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| David has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979. He has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, RMIT and Monash University. Prior to joining UQ, he was the Director of the Monash e-Education Centre, Science Director of the Monash e-Research Centre, and a Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash. From 2007 to 2011 he was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow. David has expertise in High Performance Computing, distributed and parallel computing, computer architecture and software engineering. He has produced in excess of 200 research publications, and some of his work has also been integrated in commercial products. One of these, Nimrod, has been used widely in research and academia globally, and is also available as a commercial product, called EnFuzion, from Axceleon. His world-leading work in parallel debugging is sold and marketed by Cray Inc, one of the world’s leading supercomputing vendors, as a product called ccdb. David is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS). | ||
HPC Algorithm, Computational model and Application
Paulus Lahur
CSIRO
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Paulus LahurCSIRO |
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| Currently member of Scientific Computing Services in Information Management & Technology in CSIRO. Responsibility includes development and deployment of scientific software on HPC. Previous work includes research & development in Computational Fluid Dynamics and automated mesh generation. | ||
Jiri Jaros
Brno University of Technology
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Jiri JarosBrno University of Technology |
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| For more than 15 years, I have been working in the area of high performance computing, scientific code development, parallel and distributed algorithms, and numerical simulations. I am a co-founder of the k-Wave project (www.k-wave.org). Since the first beta release in 2009, k-Wave has rapidly become the de facto standard software in the field, with almost 25,000 registered users in 60 countries. The toolbox now underpins a wide range of international research in ultrasound and photoacoustics, ranging from the reconstruction of clinical photoacoustic images, model based treatment planning to fundamental studies into the design of ultrasound transducers. | ||
Xin Lu
The Australian National University
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Xin LuThe Australian National University |
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| Xin Lu, currently in her honors year pursuing a Bachelor of Advanced Computing (R&D) at The Australian National University, is a dedicated enthusiast of high-performance computing and formal methods. Her ongoing vacation studentship at Pawsey involves optimizing searches for Fast Radio Bursts using Setonix GPUs. Prior to her Pawsey internship, Xin Lu excelled in a course project optimizing dense linear algebra heterogeneous computing models, achieving remarkable results under the supervision of Dr. Giuseppe Barca. Recognized for academic excellence, she was awarded the Terrell International Undergraduate Scholarship from ANU in 2021. | ||
Infrastructure challenges in the Exascale era
David Abramson
University of Queensland
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David AbramsonUniversity of Queensland |
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| David has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979. He has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, RMIT and Monash University. Prior to joining UQ, he was the Director of the Monash e-Education Centre, Science Director of the Monash e-Research Centre, and a Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash. From 2007 to 2011 he was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow. David has expertise in High Performance Computing, distributed and parallel computing, computer architecture and software engineering. He has produced in excess of 200 research publications, and some of his work has also been integrated in commercial products. One of these, Nimrod, has been used widely in research and academia globally, and is also available as a commercial product, called EnFuzion, from Axceleon. His world-leading work in parallel debugging is sold and marketed by Cray Inc, one of the world’s leading supercomputing vendors, as a product called ccdb. David is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS). | ||
Sandeep Patil
IBM
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Sandeep PatilIBM |
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| Sandeep Patil works with IBM Storage Labs & is the Chief Architect for IBM Storage Insights. He has over 20+ years of extensive product architecture and design experience. Sandeep is an IBM STSM and IBM Master Inventor with over 390+ World Wide patents issue in the field of storage cloud, security, filesystem, etc. He has presented his work in various international conferences. You can connect with him on www.linkedin.com/in/sandeeprpatil | ||
Jiri Jaros
Brno University of Technology
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Jiri JarosBrno University of Technology |
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| For more than 15 years, I have been working in the area of high performance computing, scientific code development, parallel and distributed algorithms, and numerical simulations. I am a co-founder of the k-Wave project (www.k-wave.org). Since the first beta release in 2009, k-Wave has rapidly become the de facto standard software in the field, with almost 25,000 registered users in 60 countries. The toolbox now underpins a wide range of international research in ultrasound and photoacoustics, ranging from the reconstruction of clinical photoacoustic images, model based treatment planning to fundamental studies into the design of ultrasound transducers. | ||
Sven Breuner
Field CTO International, VAST Data
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Sven BreunerField CTO International, VAST Data |
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| Sven began his career building solutions for performance-critical distributed systems at the Fraunhofer Center for HPC, where he became the Chief Architect of the BeeGFS parallel file system and lead the development team for more than a decade. In 2020, he developed elbencho (a single unified storage benchmark tool for file, object, block with support for GPUs) and in 2022 was awarded by HPCwire as a ‘Person to Watch’. At VAST, Sven engages with VAST’s largest customers (100PB+) to architect data strategies at scale. | ||
HPC and Data in Materials Design and Discovery
Sichao Li
The Australian National University
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Sichao LiThe Australian National University |
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| My name is Sichao, a third-year Ph.D. Student at Australian National University(ANU). I have a broad interest in both Explainable AI(XAI) and applied machine learning in the scientific domain, e.g. material science, physics, and chemistry, aka Ai4Science. | ||
Kunpeng Chen
The Australian National University
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Kunpeng ChenThe Australian National University |
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| I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the Australian National University. My research interests lie in computer science, particularly focusing on deep learning, material science, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), and physics. Additionally, I have extensive working experience in embedded systems, Android OS, and Linux. Motivated by a desire to innovate, I am dedicated to making impactful contributions to the fields of Computer Science, TEM, and Material Science. | ||
Jonathan Ting
The Australian National University
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Jonathan TingThe Australian National University |
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| Jonathan is a fourth year PhD candidate at the Australian National University, working on the automated feature extraction and labelling of simulated nanomaterials data for machine learning and inference. | ||
Revolutionizing Earth Sciences at scale
Sheng Wang
The Australian National University
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Sheng WangThe Australian National University |
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| I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University. I am fascinated, with designing and using innovative “inverted telescopes”, boosted by HPC, to explore Earth and planetary interiors. | ||
Tanvir Saurav
University of New South Wales, Canberra
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Tanvir SauravUniversity of New South Wales, Canberra |
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| Tanvir Saurav is a PhD student in the Bushfire Research Group, School of Science, UNSW Canberra. He completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University, USA in 2018. In the same year, he joined the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) program at The University of Melbourne where he worked on direct numerical simulation of rough-wall turbulent flows. Tanvir started his PhD at UNSW Canberra in 2022. His current project utilises computational fluid dynamics and supercomputers to model and simulate ember transport in bushfires. He is one of the ten inaugural recipients of the NCI Australian HPC-AI Talent Program Scholarship. | ||
Christian Stassen
Bureau of Meteorology
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Christian StassenBureau of Meteorology |
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| Christian completed his PhD in atmospheric science at Monash University in Melbourne. He now works for the Bureau of Meteorology producing high-resolution climate change projections for the Australian region. | ||
Dale Roberts
CLEX, University of Melbourne
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Dale RobertsCLEX, University of Melbourne |
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| Dale Roberts graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2014 with a PhD in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. He also worked for the National Computational Infrastructure between 2012 and 2022. Where he first worked on the user support team, then moved to the HPC software optimisation team, finally ending up in the HPC systems team. During his time at NCI, he developed a keen interest in climate and weather modelling, and joined CLEX CMS in October 2022 to apply his knowledge of HPC systems and software development to support CLEX researchers. | ||
Jeff Adie
Newcastle University, UK
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Jeff AdieNewcastle University, UK |
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| Jeff Adie is a second-year doctoral student at Newcastle University (UK), where he is pursuing a PhD in the field of Atmospheric Chemistry for global climate models. Jeff’s research is focused on the application of artificial intelligence to reduce the extreme computational demands of these models. Jeff also holds a position as a research program director at the NVIDIA AI Technology Centre (NVAITC) since 2016, where he manages collaborative research programs in the field of Earth Systems Science. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Jeff was a Principal Systems Engineer for Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) for 16 years, working on the design and deployment of High-Performance Computing systems throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including numerous operational weather centres. He was also a WRF and OpenFOAM instructor for SGI. | ||
Jayashri Pawar
CDAC
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Jayashri PawarCDAC |
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| Jayashri Sanjay Pawar joined C-DAC, Pune since 2019. Presently, she is working as Senior Project Engineer at HPC Technologies Group, C-DAC Pune, an autonomous R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India. Her core areas of research includes but not limited to optimization & parallelization of sequential software codes, development of HPC software tools, performance tuning and benchmarking of codes on different platforms, exploration of latest processing technologies, application porting, providing user support, delivering technology trainings etc. Currently she is a part of National Supercomputing Mission, a project of National importance, specifically working on optimizing ANUGA model for disaster management. | ||
Pushing the boundaries of CFD with HPC
Kristina Johnson
Defence Science Technology Group
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Kristina JohnsonDefence Science Technology Group |
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| Kristina is Director of Supercomputing Strategic Engagement for Defence Science Technology Group. In this role she leads projects from initial engagement through to onboarding, and builds partnerships for local and international capability development specific to Defence. The Defence Supercomputer is a secure, resilient, multi-tenanted system that supports reproducible computational simulation science, data analytics, and machine learning at scale. Kristina holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Monash University. She has been working as a computer scientist since before the pipeline problem was invented, and is a qualified animator and musician. | ||
Julio Soria
Monash University
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Julio SoriaMonash University |
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| Julio Soria is an accomplished scholar with a distinguished academic background. In 1983, he earned a First-Class Honours B.E. degree, followed by a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Mechanics) in 1989, both from the University of Western Australia, Perth. His journey in academia and research has been marked by exceptional achievements and continuous dedication to advancing the field of Fluid Mechanics. After completing Post-doctoral Fellowships at renowned institutions such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Stanford University, and NASA Ames Research Centre, Dr. Soria assumed the role of Research Scientist at CSIRO in Melbourne in 1991. His commitment to excellence led him to Monash University, Melbourne, where he began his tenure as a Senior Lecturer in 1993, later earning promotions to Reader in 1998 and Professor with a Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering in 2000. Dr. Soria is the founder and current Director of the Laboratory for Turbulence Research in Aerospace & Combustion (LTRAC) at Monash University, established in 1994. His significant contributions have earned him recognition as a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and memberships in the American Physical Society and EUROMECH. Beyond his academic roles, Dr. Soria is actively involved in shaping the landscape of scientific publications. He serves as an Associate Editor of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and holds positions on the editorial advisory boards of esteemed journals, including Experiments in Fluids and Experimental, Thermal Fluid Science, and Aerospace. Dr. Soria’s research passion lies in Fluid Mechanics, with a specific focus on the physics and control of turbulent shear flows. Employing a combination of physical experiments and direct numerical simulation, he investigates fluid physics, particularly in turbulent boundary layer flows, sub-sonic and super-sonic transitional and turbulent jet flows. Dr. Soria is at the forefront of utilizing non-intrusive optical experimental measurement methods, direct numerical simulations, and the application of AI and Scientific Machine Learning to advance bushfire prediction. With an impressive publication record comprising over 600 papers, Dr. Soria continues to inspire and lead in the field of Fluid Mechanics, contributing significantly to both academia and scientific research. | ||
Zachary Liam Cooper-Baldock
Flinders University
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Zachary Liam Cooper-BaldockFlinders University |
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| Zachary Cooper-Baldock is a deep learning researcher at Flinders University’s Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training (CDERT), studying machine learning approaches to fluid modelling for autonomous underwater vehicles. His work is conducted using the Australian GADI Supercomputer. He received a B.Eng degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide and is currently undertaking a PhD at Flinders University. He is both an Australian HPC-AI Talent Program Scholar and a John Crampton Scholar, receiving support for his work on autonomous underwater vehicles. His research focus is the use of generational artificial intelligence for flow-field prediction from sparse data. | ||
Andrew OoI
University of Melbourne
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Andrew OoIUniversity of Melbourne |
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| Professor Andrew Ooi is an academic staff member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Student Engagement) in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Prof Ooi graduated with a BEng in 1993 and PhD in 1997 from the University of Melbourne. Prior to his current appointment, Prof. Ooi worked at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at NASA Ames, Stanford University and as a research scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). | ||
Melissa Kozul
University of Melbourne
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Melissa KozulUniversity of Melbourne |
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| Melissa Kozul is a Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2018 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU in Norway for three years prior to her current appointment. Melissa’s research expertise is in the high-fidelity simulation of fundamental turbulent flows that feature critically in energy and transport technologies. Her most recent work focuses on high-fidelity numerical simulation of turbomachinery flows, for which she conducts numerical experiments on the world’s largest supercomputers, including Summit and Frontier at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. | ||
Marco Rosenzweig
University of Melbourne
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Marco RosenzweigUniversity of Melbourne |
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| Marco Rosenzweig is a Ph.D student at the University of Melbourne. In 2022, he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Aerospace at the Technical University of Munich and has two years of industrial work experience at MTU Aero Engines AG. Marco’s current research expertise is in turbomachinery flows with a focus on low-pressure turbines. To date his research interests have included modeling of multi-stage components, the evaluation of standard industrial design methods and scale resolving, numerical methods. His most recent work focuses on performing high-fidelity simulations of low-pressure turbine cascades on the latest high-performance-computing architectures. | ||
Vassili Kitsios
CSIRO
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Vassili KitsiosCSIRO |
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| Dr Kitsios completed a PhD with the University of Melbourne and the Université de Poitiers on fluid dynamical stability and model reduction of aerospace flows (2006-2010). He then undertook post-doctoral research with the CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere division (2010-2013) and the Monash University Laboratory for Turbulence Research in Aerospace and Combustion (2013-2016), on the massively parallel numerical simulation (32,000 cores) and stochastic parameterisation of atmospheric, oceanic and boundary layer turbulence. He then held an industrial research position at a hedge fund (2016-2017) developing trading algorithms on the basis of macroeconomic themes and market conditions. Since re-joining CSIRO in 2017, he has been undertaking research on the data assimilation and stochastic modelling methods for improved climate state / parameter estimation and forecasting. His most recent research involves the use of machine learning to quantify the influence of climate variability and change on financial markets and health indicators. | ||
Yuhang Wang
Deakin University
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Yuhang WangDeakin University |
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| I am currently a second-year PhD student in mechanical engineering at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia), specialising in computational combustion and machine learning. My bachelor’s studies were centred on computational fluid dynamics, with a specific focus on turbulent hydrogen flames. After graduation, I worked as a research assistant and subsequently pursue my PhD to further delve into the field of computational combustion. Now, during my PhD study, I have expanded my research interests to incorporate machine learning. By leveraging its potentials, I strive to develop physics-guided data-driven models, with the goal of accelerating combustion simulations without compromising the solution accuracy. | ||
Unveiling the Cosmos: HPC and AI Innovations in Astrophysics
Kate Harborne
University of Western Ausralia
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Kate HarborneUniversity of Western Ausralia |
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| I am an astrophysicist specialising in galaxy evolution and dynamics. I’m particularly interested in developing sustainable, open-source software. I lead the development of SimSpin, a mock-observation code that allows faithful comparison of results from cosmological computer models to observations of our Universe. I am also one of the Principal Investigators of the MAGPI survey, using MUSE to explore the evolution of stellar kinematics over the last 4 Gyr. Using comparisons between these observations and simulation data, I hope to uncover the primary drivers of evolution that explain the diversity of different galaxy shapes and dynamics that we see around us. | ||
Chris Power
University of Western Australia
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Chris PowerUniversity of Western Australia |
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| I’m a computational and theoretical astrophysicist working on a variety of problems in cosmology and galaxy formation. | ||
Geoff Duniam
Monash University
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Geoff DuniamMonash University |
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| Geoff Duniam, MPhil, PhD, has been working in the IT industry for over 45 years. Starting as an IBM computer operator for the SEC in Victoria, he began working in the database administration and design areas specializing in Oracle RDBMS systems in the eighties. Returning to Perth, WA in 2012 after twelve years in London as a Database Technical Design Authority for PwC and an Enterprise Data Architect for Yell Inc, and finding a lack of interesting work in systems design, he demonstrated a remarkable amount of (possibly misplaced) confidence and enrolled for a Masters and then a PhD back to back in large scale data processing and data design with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy research at the University of Western Australia. Now working with the Monash University eResearch team, he specializes in large scale data design, data management and data orchestration solutions for research groups. | ||
Ella Wang
The Australian National University
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Ella WangThe Australian National University |
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| PhD Student studying the origin and evolution of elements in the Milky Way. NCI HPC-AI Talent Program Scholar. | ||
Matthew Whiting
CSIRO
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Matthew WhitingCSIRO |
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| Matthew is a Team Leader at CSIRO Space & Astronomy, and head of Data Operations for ASKAP, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. ASKAP is one of CSIRO’s National Facility instruments, and Matthew oversees the processing of its observations to ensure the data products are provided to the astronomical community through the ASKAP archive. Matthew has a research background in astronomy, with extensive experience at world-leading observatories. He has been part of the software and operations teams for ASKAP for 15 years and has led the development of the ASKAP processing pipeline. Matthew works at the intersection of HPC and astronomical data processing – leading large allocations at Pawsey and serving on time allocation committees. | ||
AI-driven Infrastructure
Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda
Professor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University
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Dhabaleswar K (DK) PandaProfessor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University |
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| DK Panda is a Professor and University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is serving as the Director of the ICICLE NSF-AI Institute (https://icicle.ai). He has published over 500 papers. The MVAPICH2 MPI libraries, designed and developed by his research group (http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu), are currently being used by more than 3,300 organizations worldwide (in 90 countries) with more than 1.75 million downloads. High-performance and scalable solutions for Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Data Science frameworks from his group are available from https://hidl.cse.ohio-state.edu and https://hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu. Prof. Panda is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the 2022 IEEE Charles Babbage Award. More details about Prof. Panda are available at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~panda. | ||
Mark Azadpour
Lenovo
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Mark AzadpourLenovo |
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| Mark Azadpour is a Sr. Strategic TruScale Product Manager at Lenovo, where his focus is on HPC, AI, virtualization (cloud) and software defined infrastructure. He has decades of enterprise software and hardware experience, and holds a PhD. In Computer Engineering and an MBA in strategic Marketing. | ||
Ravi Madduri
Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago
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Ravi MadduriArgonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago |
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| Ravi is a Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who works in the intersection of HPC/AI and biomedicine. | ||
Madhu Thorat
IBM
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Madhu ThoratIBM |
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| Madhu Thorat is a Software Architect at IBM and has 19+ years of industry experience. Her current focus is on High Performance Object Storage to enable object (S3) access for IBM Storage Scale. She has presented in conferences such as SC Asia 2023, High Performance Computing Conference 2022, WomenTech Global Conference 2023-2022, SWE Conference 2022. Madhu is an active blogger on relevant technical topics and her blogs can be found on Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/madhu-thorat-punjabi) and wordpress.com/home/madhumthorat.wordpress.com She also has few US patents which are listed on Linkedin. Madhu strongly supports women careers in STEM and is a SWE Ambassador. | ||
Luhan Cheng
Swinburne University of Technology
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Luhan ChengSwinburne University of Technology |
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| I am a PhD student in Center of Information Resilience based at Swinburne University of Technology. My PhD project “Automated Horizon Scanning for Scientific Papers and Patents” aims to create a pathway for automated knowledge mining for scientific articles and invention patents. | ||
Chloe Lin
The Australian National University
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Chloe LinThe Australian National University |
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| Chloe Lin recently graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) with a Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Honours). Currently, she tutors multiple courses at ANU and works as a research assistant under Dr. Amanda J. Parker. They are exploring sampling methods that contribute to developing more sustainable high-performance computing practices. Chloe’s research focuses on Active Learning (AL), an area she explored extensively during her Honours project. Her focus was on developing innovative AL utility criteria to supplement existing approaches. Chloe’s future aspirations include broadening her research scope within AL to enhance optimal experimental design strategies as part of her PhD program. | ||
Juan Arenas Marquez
ELIXIR
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Laura Portell SilvaBarcelona Supercomputing Center |
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| Laura Portell Silva (F) is a research engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) within the National Institute of Bioinformatics group. Her primary focus centers on various European projects dedicated to data management within the life sciences domain. Notably, she contributes to the GDI project, which aims to implement a genomics data infrastructure across Europe. Furthermore, Laura is actively engaged in projects like ELIXIR STEERS and EVERSE, which aim to facilitate cross-border data analysis in the life sciences by users across Europe and create a framework for research software excellence. Additionally, she participates in the BY-COVID project, which is geared towards creating a platform for managing COVID-19 data and preparing for potential future pandemics. | ||
Laura Portell Silva
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Juan Arenas MarquezELIXIR |
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| Head of ELIXIR Project Management Office & European Genomic Data Infrastructure Deployment Lead Juan joined ELIXIR Hub in Cambridge in 2017; since then, he has contributed to growing the ELIXIR portfolio of grants from six projects and a total budget of €40M to twenty-three projects for a total budget of almost €400M. With a background in computer sciences, he led IT projects for global industry leaders in different markets and sectors for over twelve years while working at Accenture. He started to get involved in research projects while running his own IT service provisioning company, joining the University of Sheffield and the Insigneo instituted of biomedical images as CTO and Portfolio Manager in 2012, developing cloud infrastructures to accelerate research on the area of VPH/Digital Twins. Since 2019, he has been contributing to the 1+MG initiative, managing the B1MG project and acting as Deployment Lead for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure project, being responsible for the establishment of the EU-level infrastructure across 24 countries to provide access to high-quality genomics and health data. | ||
Building the Foundation: Genomic Data Infrastructure for Precision Medicine and Beyond
Ziad Al Bkhetan
Australian BioCommons
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Ziad Al BkhetanAustralian BioCommons |
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| Ziad joined the Australian BioCommons in 2022 as a Bioinformatics Application Specialist. He manages the ABLeS program and the pilot project of the Australian Nextflow Seqera Service. Ziad has extensive experience in software engineering, machine learning and bioinformatics, including a PhD from the University of Melbourne and consultancy roles across Australia, the US and Canada. | ||
Ke Ding
National Computational Infrastructure
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Ke DingNational Computational Infrastructure |
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| Ke Ding, a PhD student at the Wen Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, focuses on developing deep learning (DL) models to analyse RNA-binding proteins and transcription factor binding sites. By integrating computational biology with deep learning, Ke aims to unravel complex genetic interactions and regulatory networks. Special emphasis is placed on model interpretability and visualization, striving to make DL models more transparent and accessible to biologists. This interdisciplinary approach not only advances computational biology but also opens new avenues for understanding gene regulation and potential therapeutic interventions. | ||
Katharine Michie
UNSW
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Katharine MichieUNSW |
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| Kate Michie is a structural biologist, earning her PhD from the University of Sydney 2004 and gaining her experience in structural biology over two fellowships (UNESCO L’Oreal and Marie Curie) at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK (2005-2010). Her expertise spans a variety of techniques in structural biology, including X-ray crystallography, NMR, cryo-electron microscopy, and protein modelling. Leading a dedicated research team, she focuses on unraveling the mysteries of bacterial and archaeal membrane-modelling proteins, while also overseeing operations at the Structural Biology Facility at UNSW. Kate’s commitment to advancing research extends to her efforts in establishing valuable computational resources, such as the Alphafold2 server, to support innovative protein structure prediction studies among UNSW researchers. | ||
Ananda Bhattacharjee
Head of HPC & AI Asia Pacific, Lenovo
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Ananda BhattacharjeeHead of HPC & AI Asia Pacific, Lenovo |
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| Currently Head of HPC & AI for Lenovo Asia/Pacific. Previous technical positions heald with NVIDIA, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems & SGI | ||
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Dr Claudia Sandberg
Senior Teaching Fellow in Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne
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Dr Claudia SandbergSenior Teaching Fellow in Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne |
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Conversations with SCA2024 Plenary Speaker – ED&I Panel |
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Dr Ethel Villafranca
Academic Engagement Manager at the Science Gallery Melbourne – Museums and Collections Department as well as an academic at the university’s Faculty of Education
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Dr Ethel VillafrancaAcademic Engagement Manager at the Science Gallery Melbourne – Museums and Collections Department as well as an academic at the university’s Faculty of Education |
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Conversations with SCA2024 Plenary Speaker – ED&I Panel |
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Dr Mitch Goodwin
Artist / Academic, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne
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Dr Mitch GoodwinArtist / Academic, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne |
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Conversations with SCA2024 Plenary Speaker – ED&I Panel |
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Mark Stickells
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
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Mark StickellsPawsey Supercomputing |
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| Mark Stickells AM FAICD FAIM is the CEO of Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. Pawsey hosts exascale-class HPC system, Setonix – the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful, energy efficient research supercomputer, and is a national HPC/quantum computing research laboratory and key partner in the global Square Kilometre Array Observatory project. Mark is a member of Australia’s National Quantum Advisory Committee, non-executive director of Science and Technology Australia Ltd, and member of CEO’s for Gender Equity. In 2024, Mark was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to science, particularly information technology, and to the community. | ||
ADAC14 Open Symposium Speakers
Torsten Hoefler
Professor at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect of ML at CSCS
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Torsten HoeflerProfessor at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect of ML at CSCS |
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| ML for High-Performance Climate and Earth Virtualization Engines Machine learning presents a great opportunity for Climate simulation and research. We will discuss some ideas from the Earth Virtualization Engines summit in Berlin and several research results ranging from ensemble prediction and bias correction of simulation output, extreme compression of high-resolution data, and a vision towards affordable km-scale ensemble simulations. We will also discuss programming framework research to improve simulation performance. Specifically, our ensemble spread prediction and bias correction network applied to global data, achieves a relative improvement in ensemble forecast skill (CRPS) of over 14%. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the improvement is larger for extreme weather events on select case studies. We also show that our post-processing can use fewer trajectories to achieve comparable results to the full ensemble. Our ML-based compression method achieves data reduction from 300x to more than 3,000x and outperforms the state-of-the-art compressor SZ3 in terms of weighted RMSE and MAE. It can faithfully preserve important large scale atmosphere structures and does not introduce artifacts. When using the resulting neural network as a 790x compressed data loader to train the WeatherBench forecasting model, its RMSE increases by less than 2%. The three orders of magnitude compression democratizes access to high-resolution climate data and enables numerous new research directions. We will close by discussing ongoing research directions and opportunities for using machine learning for ensemble simulations and combine several machine learning techniques. All those methods will contribute to enabling km-scale global climate simulations. |
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Shweta Das
C-DAC
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Shweta DasC-DAC |
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| Joined and associated with C-DAC, Pune since August 2007. Presently, working as Joint Director at HPC Technologies Group, C-DAC Pune, an autonomous R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India Core areas of research includes but not limited to optimization & parallelization of sequential software codes, development of HPC software tools, performance tuning and benchmarking of codes on different platforms, exploration of latest processing technologies, application porting, providing user support, delivering technology trainings etc Contributed significantly in performing application benchmarks, analysing the behaviour of applications on different hardware architectures (RISC and X86), development of HPC software framework, acceptance tests and user support for systems installed under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Actively involved in capability building in HPC technologies across the country | ||
Verónica G. Melesse Vergara
ORNL
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Verónica G. Melesse VergaraORNL |
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| Verónica G. Melesse Vergara (Vergara Larrea) is originally from Quito, Ecuador. Verónica earned a B.A. in Mathematics/Physics at Reed College and a M.S. in Computational Science at Florida State University. Verónica has over a decade of experience in the high performance computing field and is currently Section Head for Operations at the National Center for Computational Sciences. In addition, Verónica led acceptance for Summit and for Frontier, ORNL’s exascale supercomputer. Her research interests include high performance computing, large-scale system testing, and performance evaluation and optimization of scientific applications. Verónica is a member of both IEEE and ACM and serves in the ACM SIGHPC Executive Committee and the SC Steering Committee. | ||
Imed MAGROUNE
CEA (The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission)
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Imed MAGROUNECEA (The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission) |
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| As a research engineer with over 25 years in computer science, I specialize in HPC/HTC computing, focusing on AI models development in Computer Vision and Large Language Models and AI agents. My career includes diverse roles, my current position is leading scientific computing Laboratory at CEA-IRFU. I have significant experience in IT service management, operations, and contributing to open-source Grid Computing, as well as in creating innovations in IoT, robotics, and AI. My role involves managing IT support teams, IT architectures, and infrastructures. Additionally, I am adept at building AI systems, blending technical expertise with managerial skills in advanced scientific and IT domains. My work is driven by a passion for research and development. I build some AI, that’s my greatest work. | ||
Poster Presenters
Brenda Vara Almirall
Rmit University
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Brenda Vara AlmirallRmit University |
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| In the dynamic landscape of High-Performance Computing (HPC), Brenda Vara Almirall is a motivated third-year Ph.D. student specializing in the seamless integration of HPC with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for targeted drug delivery to the airway. Leveraging the immense computational power of Gadi as well as the Barcelona Supercomputing Center MareNostrum, Brenda models steady and unsteady CFD simulations, aiming to optimize targeted drug delivery within the complexities of the human airway. Brenda is dedicated to advancing precision medicine by pushing the boundaries of computational efficiency, ultimately contributing to transformative breakthroughs in the realm of respiratory health and drug delivery. | ||
Heming Zhu
The Australian National University
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Heming ZhuThe Australian National University |
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| Heming Zhu is in his final semester of the Advanced Computing (Honors) program at ANU. He minors in physics and specializes in system and architecture. With professional training received from ANU in low-level programming, he is passionate about analyzing and improving the efficiency of scientific problem implementations, trained related methodologies includes MPI, omp, SIMD and cuda. He demonstrates an ability to tackle unfamiliar topics during his honors project, which analyzes the computer utilization efficiency of a mathematical optimization method for FEM/SEM (related poster is presented at the conference). He practices C++ skills in his spare time and has accumulated many interesting projects at https://github.com/Roventta. | ||
Catherine Stampfl
The University Of Sydney
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Catherine StampflThe University Of Sydney |
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| Catherine Stampfl is a theoretical and computational condensed matter physicist with an international reputation for her investigations into the atomic and electronic structure of solids, their surfaces, interfaces, and nanostructures. She uses accurate first-principles calculations to gain fundamental understanding of the behaviour of matter and to predict new and improved materials for technological applications. She has been at the University of Sydney since 2003, and previously spent 12 years working overseas in the Theory Department at the Fritz-Haber-Institute Berlin Germany, Xerox Palo Alto Research Electronic Materials Laboratory, USA and the School of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, USA. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and currently holds an ARC Laureate Fellowship. | ||
Lev Lafayette
University of Melbourne
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Lev LafayetteUniversity of Melbourne |
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| Lev Lafayette is the HPC Services Team Lead at the University of Melbourne where he has worked since 2015 as a systems engineer for the Spartan supercomputer and training researchers in various aspects of High Performance Computing. Before that, he was at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing for several years in a similar role. Lev advocates “multidisciplinary lifelong learning” and, as such, is an incorrigible student, having just completed his eighth degree; BA (Hons), GradCertPM, GradCertAdult&TertEd, GradDipAppPsych, MBA, MSc, MHEd, MCCSAP. | ||
Jason Lohrey
Arcitecta
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Jason LohreyArcitecta |
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| Jason Lohrey is the CTO of Arcitecta, a software company renowned for its pioneering work in complex data management solutions. Jason is the conceiver and architect of the distributed data management platform Mediaflux® and Arcitecta’s high performance XML encoded object database engine XODB™. Though his 30-year-mission he has created a complete end-to-end data management platform that operates at exabyte scale and beyond, no matter how simple, or complex, the data is. By leveraging first-principles and a truly creative approach, he has continually out-competed international vendors and tech giants and is a leading voice on data management principles. Arcitecta’s software suite stands as a testament to Jason’s expertise, catering to a diverse clientele of world-renowned universities, prestigious research institutes, government entities, and commercial enterprises scattered across the globe. Through his visionary leadership, Arcitecta continues to empower organizations worldwide with robust, future-ready data management solutions. | ||
Chung-Han Tsai
The Australian National University
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Chung-Han TsaiThe Australian National University |
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| Chung-Han Tsai is the Data Analytics Engineer at the Centre for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) at the Australian National University (ANU). His current role at CAM, the ANU’s centralised microscopy facility, helps researchers to carry out their data-intensive research. He also develops research software tools to ensure that microscopy scientific instruments and processing pipelines operate smoothly and coordinate well in both hardware and software aspects. He specifically manages large image datasets from cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) at the sub-petabyte level, and catalyses advanced microscopy with NCI’s hyper-converged supercomputing capabilities in empowering various research areas and disciplines, including structural biology and material science. | ||
Victor Olet
Curtin University
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Victor OletCurtin University |
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| Mr. Victor Olet is a PhD Candidate in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering, under the Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering at Curtin University in Western Australia. His research focuses on biomass valorisation for transport fuels and as precursors for green plastics and other essential molecules that drive the global economy. In this context, Victor’s current research is in bio-oil upgrading through catalytic esterification with crude glycerol. Passionate about fostering interest in chemical sciences, Victor serves as the Treasurer for the American Chemical Society’s Australia Chapter. In this role, he works to promote chemical sciences and strengthen the connections between industry, academia, and prospective students. Victor is an advocate for the incorporation of the synergy between the sciences and technology. To this end, he was awarded Gold Microsoft Student Ambassador Status and was also recognized as 2023 Windows Insider Most Valuable Professional Award by Microsoft. | ||
Junji Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Junji Zhang |
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| Focus on deepen understanding and predictive capabilities regarding the properties of electrolyte solutions by employing molecular simulation methods integrated with sophisticated mathematical models and machine learning methods. | ||
