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February 13, 2025

Panels 2025

Panels 2025

Updated 19 February 2025

Panels at Multicore World are fully interactive: each panel has a main topic, with 3-4 core questions.

The Moderator invites each panelist to give short responses to the topic and questions. After that we focus on just discussion and interaction with the moderator, panelists, and audience. Real debate. And lots of fun.

PANEL 1 – AGRICULTURE – Monday 17 February 2025 – 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

PANEL 2- INFRASTRUCTURE – Tuesday 18 February 2025 – 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

PANEL 3- SECURITY – Wednesday 19 February 2025 – 2:40 pm – 3:30 pm

PANEL 4 – FUTURE – Thursday 20 February 2025 – 11:15 am – 12:20 pm

PANEL 1 – Computing Applications to Agriculture & Life Sciences. Consequences for Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Knowledge.

Elle Archer – Don Christie – Arthur Maccabe – Dhabaleswar K Panda – Rio Yokota.

Monday 17 February 2025 – 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

The development of agriculture about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived. Computing as we understand it today is less than 100 years old. The intersection of both has the potential to generate immense benefits -with several risks.

Questions:

  1. Which are the applications with higher impact? And which are the risks involved?
  2. Farmers are very reluctant to part with their data -they know the value of the information that they “store as institutional knowledge”. How do you see the evolution of farming practices? Will AI – HPC help? Do we need “exascale at the edge” to integrate all the complex systems?
  3. How do you envisage the future economics of farming? Should be a concern about a potential for-profit, closed ecosystem for growing related data?
  4. Indigenous Knowledge (In Aotearoa New Zealand known as Mātauranga Māori) has been alongside agriculture for most of its existence. Do you see a convergence with “modern” practices (aka “western science”)?

PANEL 2 – “Are we going towards an AI – HPC – Quantum Infrastructure? What for? And for whom?” 

Florina Ciorba – Kate Keahey – Dan Stanzione – Simon McIntosh-Smith – Ruud van der Pas

Tuesday 18 February 2025 – 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

Hardware is going too fast to properly debug it. AI engines are not being tested for too long. The pace of change of AI applications is really exploding. Heterogeneous systems for exascale computing are now common, presenting challenges in sustainability, programmability and portability. In this context:

  1. How do we make new hardware actually work? And integrate with legacy systems?
  2. Projects are obsolete before delivering -are we dealing with enterprise indigestion?
  3. In this era of changing architectures, will GPUs become the new CPU?
  4. What role is playing / will play quantum computing? Is there a convergence any time soon?

PANEL 3 – Security – “Systems are more and more complex. Are we prepared to manage their failure and its consequences?”

James Ang – Sunita Chandrasekaran – Simon Moore – Olga Pearce – Karen Willcox.

Wednesday 19 February 2025 – 2:40 pm – 3:30 pm

How can we prepare for, predict, and manage systems failures, energy efficiency issues, hardware and software reliability concerns, black swan events, and cybersecurity threats?

  1. Can we model a system at scale and predict its behaviour with reasonable accuracy?
  2. Systems are more and more heterogeneous, different chips can make software not very stable: what should we expect in this scenario? Or just expect that “our vendor” will sort things out?
  3. Which assumptions are no longer valid?

PANEL 4 – “The Future of Computing -who’s going to lead it?”

Rupak Biswas – Larry Kaplan – Laura Monroe – Russell Stutz – Jeffrey Vetter

Thursday 20 February 2025 – 11:15 am – 12:20 pm

Chip wars, quantum supremacy, trade tariffs, raw materials, dominant platforms, technology and geopolitics, massive investments: where are we going?

  1. Everyone has an opinion about AI. What’s yours?
  2. Are we going through the beginning of a true revolution or just another technological cycle -like when the PC appeared and Microsoft won?
  3. Will Open Source (HW/SW) come to the rescue? Or will be quantum computing?
  4. What do you expect in 2-5-10 years? Is there a “Man in the Moon” milestone in the making?

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