We are just two weeks away from the TPC European Kick-off workshop in Barcelona, where over 160 participants from 16 countries will gather. Also of interest to the TPC community is the ACM Summer School on HPC Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications (application deadline is 15-June) and our ongoing biweekly seminar series.

TPC European Kick-off Workshop (June 19-21)

We now have over 160 participants from 16 countries registered for the workshop in Barcelona. The workshop program includes an optional half-day tutorial, LLMs for Science and Engineering Applications, four plenary sessions with invited talks covering (1) Vision for Large-scale AI for Science, (2) Major National and International Funding Initiatives at the Nexus of AI and HPC, (3) Insights from Building Large-scale AI Models for Science, and (4) Trustworthy and Responsible AI. At the heart of the workshop are parallel breakout sessions, designed to explore and pursue collaborations, covering eight topics ranging from model architecture and performance to skills, safety, and trust evaluation to bioinformatics and treatment design.

Additional Upcoming Related Events

ACM Summer School on HPC Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications (September 2-6)

The 2024 edition of the ACM Summer School on HPC Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications, organized by The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), will take place in Barcelona from 2-6 September 2024. This year’s program focuses on the convergence between HPC and AI, and it will also explore emerging research areas such as Quantum Computing. The school targets PhD and recent postdocs in HPC and AI. Exceptionally, outstanding MSc students with proven interest and/or experience in projects related to HPC and/or AI are also accepted. Participation in the school is free of charge. Sixty accepted participants will spend one week in Barcelona, attending formal lectures, invited talks, and other activities. The school will cover accommodation expenses and catering during school hours.

More information: https://europe.acm.org/seasonal-schools/hpc/2024

TPC Bi-Weekly Symposium

The biweekly symposium is in full swing this summer. In June we have seminars from Bo Li (UChicago) on Risk Assessment, Safety Alignment, and Guardrails for Generative Models and then Valentin Reis (Groq) will discuss Groq’s approach to hardware/software systems for LLM inference.