Monday 17 February 2025 – Day 1 – Limes Room

(Confirmed titles are in bold)

9:30 – 10:15	Registration desk open – Arrival Coffee/Tea.
10:15 – 10:20	Doors open – Delegates invited to take a seat – Housekeeping.
10:20 – 10:35	Welcome to Ōtautahi Christchurch – Mihi whakatau – Elle Archer
10:40 – 11:00	Conference opening – Nicolás Erdödy
11:05 – 11:30	P1 – Dan Stanzione (TACC) – “AI and HPC, or AI ends HPC?“
11:35 – 12:15	K1 – Rupak Biswas (NASA) – “HPC to enable NASA missions”
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:05	P2 – Kevin A. Brown (ANL) – “Pathways to Actionable ModSim for Computing Infrastructure“
2:05 – 2:40	P3 – Andrew Jones (Microsoft) – “The tyranny of integers, binary, and grayscale when building large supercomputing infrastructures“
2:40 – 3:15	P4 – Kate Keahey (ANL) – “Infrastructure for Edge to Cloud AI Research“
3:15 – 3:45	Afternoon Tea
3:45 – 4:30	K2 – DK Panda (Ohio State University) – “Enabling AI-Driven Digital Agriculture:  Solutions from the NSF-AI ICICLE Institute“
4:30 – 5:15	Panel 1 – “Computing Applications to Agriculture & Life Sciences. Consequences for Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Knowledge“ Elle Archer – Don Christie – Arthur Barney Maccabe – DK Panda – Rio Yokota
5:15 – 6:30	Drinks & Nibbles – Networking
7:00 – 9:30	Speaker’s Dinner (by invitation). Sponsored by Open Parallel Ltd.

Tuesday 18 February 2025 – Day 2 – Limes Room.

7:45 – 8:20	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee
8:20 – 8:30	Opening
8:30 – 9:10	P5 – Ruud van der Pas (Oracle) – “Staying Close to Home with NUMA“
9:10 – 9:45	P6 – Olga Pearce (LLNL) – “Collaborative continuous benchmarking for HPC“
9:45 – 10:00	P7 – Robert Trout (Sadram, Inc.) – “Sadram – A new memory addressing protocol“
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 11:30	P8 – David Brebner (Umajin) – “Sparsification“
11:30 – 12:15	K3 – Karen Willcox (U of Texas at Austin) – “Digital Twin: Graph Formulations for Managing Complexity and Uncertainty.”
12:20 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:05	P9 – Stuart Inglis (Exaba) – “Exaba: Secure, Fast and Lean Storage built in Rust for the Exascale Era“
2:10 – 2:40	P10 – Amal Gueroudji (ANL) – “Convergence of High-Performance & Machine Learning Workflows“
2:45 – 3:15	P11 – Simon McIntosh-Smith (U of Bristol) – “Computer architectures in the era of artificial intelligence“
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee
3:45 – 4:30	K4 – Larry Kaplan (HPE) – “Enabling Efficient and Effective Complex HPC and AI Workflows“
4:30 – 5:15	Panel 2 – “Are we going towards an AI – HPC – Quantum infrastructure? What for? And for whom?” Ciorba – Keahey – Stanzione – Simon McIntosh-Smith – Ruud van der Pas
5:30 – 7:00	Drinks & Nibbles Networking – Light Dinner

Wednesday 19 February 2025 – Day 3 – Limes Room.

7:45 – 8:15	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee
8:20 – 8:30	Opening
8:30 – 9:05	P12 – Alok Choudhary (Northwestern U) – “Small Data – Big Problems: Some Learnings from AI’s Potential Role in Diagnosis and Clinical Decisions“
9:10 – 9:45	P13 – Sunita Chandrasekaran (U of Delaware) – “The Artificial Scientist – Leveraging In-transit Machine Learning for Plasma Simulations“
9:45 – 10:00	Conference Photo 1
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 11:05	P14 – Rafael Ferreira da Silva (ORNL) – “Building Next-Generation Scientific Workflows for Autonomous Research Facilities“
11:10 – 12:00	K5 – Omar Ghattas (U of Texas at Austin) – “A Real Time Bayesian Digital Twin for Tsunami Data Assimilation and Prediction“
12:00 – 12:15	Interviews / Lightning Talks
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:05	P15 – Jeffrey Vetter (ORNL) – “Navigating the Post-Exascale Computing Era: GPUs, Analog Computing, and AI“
2:05 – 2:30	P16 – Tevfik Kosar (University at Buffalo) – “Embracing AI for Energy-Efficient Data Movement across the Computing Continuum”
2:30 – 3:05	P17 – Rio Yokota (Tokyo Tech) – “Status update of LLM training in Japan“
3:10 – 3:40	Coffee
3:40 – 4:40	Panel 3 – Security – “Systems are more and more complex. Are we prepared to manage their failure and its consequences?” Ang – Chandrasekaran – Moore – Pearce – Willcox.
4:45 – 5:30	K6 – Barney Maccabe (U of Arizona) – “Building an Agriculture Data Infrastructure in Arizona“
5:30 – 7:00	Drinks & Nibbles Networking – Light Dinner

Thursday 20 February 2025 – Day 4 – Limes Room.

7:45 – 8:15	Registration – Arrival Tea & Coffee
8:20 – 8:30	Opening – Check updates for today
8:30 – 9:05	P17 –Laura Monroe (LANL) – “Math vs. CS (Good buds that should really hang out more.)”
9:10 – 9:45	P18 – Balazs Gerofi (Intel) – “Fine-grained Automated Failure Management on Extreme-Scale GPU Accelerated Systems“
9:45 – 10:00	Conference Photo 2
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 11:15	K7 – Simon Moore (U of Cambridge) – “Making computers fundamentally more secure – the CHERI approach“
11:15 – 12:30	Panel 4 – “The Future of Computing -who’s going to lead it?” Biswas – Kaplan – L. Monroe – Russell Stutz – Jeffrey Vetter
12:30 – 1:35	Lunch
1:35 – 1:45	P19 – Jeff Zais (NIWA) – “NIWA’s recent procurement of the largest supercomputer in New Zealand”
1:45 – 2:15	P20 – Florina Ciorba (U of Basel) – “Performance Optimization & Portability: Pathways for the Era of Heterogeneous HPC Systems“
2:20 – 3:05	K8 – James Ang and Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) – “The Democratization of Co-design“
3:10 – 3:35	Coffee
3:35 – 4:05	P21 – Christopher Monroe – “Quantum Computing – What, How, When?”
4:05 – 4:55	K9 – Russell Stutz (Quantinuum) – “Quantum Computing: Progress Towards Real-World Impact”
4:55 – 5:00	Closing Remarks – Nicolás Erdödy – Topics for Multicore World 2026
5:30 – 8:30	Multicore World Happy Hour – Carlton Bar & Steakhouse – Sponsored by Open Parallel Ltd

Friday 21 February 2025 – Day 5 – Unconference – Avon Room

9:00 – 10:00	Sessions	Delegates organise their own sessions. Screen & Projector available / White board available / Round tables for informal discussions. No recording.
10:00 – 10:30	Sessions
10:30 – 11:00
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch time	Variable – Delegates chose their own time and place for lunch. No catering provided
1:30 – 3:00	Sessions
3:00 – 4:30	Sessions
4:30 – 5:00	Closure	See you at Multicore World 2026!

v5.2 – Updated 19 February 2025

Day 5 – Friday 21st February 2025 – We meet in Unconference mode: delegates set up their own sessions.

Important: Friday 21st unconference sessions are non catered – delegates organise their own meals according to their sessions. There will be screen, projector and whiteboards available.

Check Abstracts here.

Buy Multicore World 2025 Tickets here.

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