ST PAUL, Minn., May 5, 2022—Hyperion Research, the leading industry analyst and market intelligence firm for high performance computing (HPC), AI, cloud, quantum, and associated emerging markets, today announced a special HPC User Forum to be held June 21-22, 2022 hosted onsite by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
“HPC is essential for advancing scientific research, industrial competitiveness, as well as national and economic security,” said Earl Joseph, CEO of Hyperion Research. “For decades, the U.S. and many other countries have benefited from sustained, strategic investments from national governments to drive research and development of new computer systems, architectures, and underlying technologies. This multi-decade, successful collaboration between governments and industry is a cornerstone of the HPC User Forum mission.”
Since the beginning of the supercomputer era in the 1960s, the DOE has assumed a national (and global) leadership role in the development and advancement of this critical technology. Through pioneering programs and projects such as ASCI/ASCR/ASC, INCITE AND ECP*, DOE has had primary responsibility for partnering with private-sector vendors to develop successive generations of leadership-class supercomputers and has made these resources available for breakthrough research across a broad spectrum of domains. This research has contributed substantially toward maintaining America’s scientific, industrial and economic competitiveness and has helped to bring about practical advances in weather forecasting, automotive safety and fuel-efficiency, energy exploration, pharmaceutical discovery and many other areas.
Today, the nation’s fastest and most powerful supercomputers are located at DOE national laboratories, and the era of exascale computing is just around the corner. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL is the home of Frontier, the newly installed 2 EF HPE Cray EX system that will be officially designated as the nation’s first exascale computer later this year. This is an opportune time to bring more visibility to the DOE national laboratory computing infrastructure and its continued impact on the advancement of HPC.
According to Joseph, “The special June 2022 HPC User Forum will give attendees an inside look at the state of exascale computing—where we are, how we got here, and what does it really take to bring exascale to life. And on a global scale, how will exascale computing be used to the benefit of nations and advanced computing around the world.”
The upcoming special June meeting will be a live event hosted onsite at ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In accordance with ORNL’s visitor guidelines, attendees at the June special event will be required to apply for ORNL registration following completion of the HPC User Forum registration. Anyone wishing to attend the special HPC User Forum, June 21-22, 2022 at ORNL, should register at: https://attendesource.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x86679b5df
The meeting will focus on the massive and complex ecosystem necessary to ensure the first exascale systems are ready to address science and engineering from day one. The general topics will include:
- What it takes to stand up an exascale system and make it productive from day one
- Updates from the leadership computing facilities and various end-user sites
- How exascale and leadership-class systems can be used to support industry
- Post-exascale directions
- Quantum computing updates
The most recent agenda can be found here: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/
About the HPC User Forum
The HPC User Forum is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of leading users from government, industry, and academia and is operated and managed by Hyperion Research for the benefit of the global HPC community.
The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 as a forum to enable fact-driven discussions of the health of the global HPC community while addressing issues of common concern to users. The HPC User Forum in internationally recognized for its diverse user participation and facilitation of invaluable networking among users, vendors, government agencies and private industry. Each year, two full-membership meetings are held in the United States and two in international locations.
Additional future events include:
- An in-person event to be held in Tucson, Arizona (September 6-8, 2022)
- In-person in Paris, France (October 3-4)
- In-person at HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany (October 5-6)
About the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The home of Frontier, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL, is a DOE Office of Science user facility. The OLCF was established at ORNL to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering progress by providing world-leading computational performance and advanced data infrastructure. UT-Battelle manages ORNL for DOE’s Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. DOE’s Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit https://energy.gov/science.
About Hyperion Research
Hyperion Research is the premier industry analyst and market intelligence firm for high performance computing (HPC) and associated emerging markets. Hyperion Research analysts provide timely, in-depth mission-critical insight across a broad portfolio of advanced computing market segments, including High Performance Computing (HPC), Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), High-Performance Data Analysis (HPDA), Quantum Computing, Cloud and Edge Computing.
Hyperion Research provides data-driven research, analysis and recommendations for technologies, applications, and markets to help organizations worldwide make effective decisions and seize growth opportunities. Research includes market sizing and forecasting, share tracking, segmentation, technology, and related trend analysis, and both user and vendor analysis for multi-user technical server technology used for HPC and HPDA (high performance data analysis). The company provides thought leadership and practical guidance for users, vendors, and other members of the global HPC community by focusing on key market and technology trends across government, industry, commerce, and academia.
For more than 25 years, the industry analysts at Hyperion Research have been at the forefront of helping private and public organizations and government agencies make intelligent, fact-based decisions related to business impact and technology direction in the complex and competitive landscape of advanced computing and emerging technologies.
ASCI Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
ASCR Advanced Scientific Computing Research
ASC Advanced Simulation and Computing Program
INCITE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment
ECP Exascale Computing Project
Source: Hyperion Research