Name: Panel Discussion: Processor Trends and What They Mean for Software - Christian Trott, Sandia National Laboratories; Barton Fiske, NVIDIA; Brian Cornille, AMD; Michael James, Cerebras; Patrick Fasano, NextSilicon; Kristi Belcher, Lawrence Livermore Nationa
Start: 2025-05-06T11:00:00-0500
End: 2025-05-06T12:30:00-0500

May 5-8, 2025
Chicago, IL
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Tuesday May 6, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT

Chicago River Ballroom A-D

The rapid acceleration of processor innovation in recent years has introduced both opportunities and challenges for developers of high-performance software. This expert panel will delve into emerging hardware trends that are poised to shape the future of software development. Join us for an insightful discussion as we explore the implications of these advancements, the new challenges that lie ahead, and how our community can collaboratively address them. Gain valuable perspectives on what to expect in the evolving landscape of high-performance computing and how to adapt our strategies for success.

Moderators

Christian Trott

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Christian Trott is a High Performance Computing expert at Sandia National Laboratories, where he co-leads the Kokkos core team, developing performance portability solutions for engineering and science applications. He heads Sandia's delegation to the ISO C++ committee and is a principal... Read More →

Speakers

Andy Warner

Distinguished Technologist, HPE

Andy Warner is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. He is HPE's chief systems architect for HPC, and he has been active in a number of large HPC deployments, including Astra, the first large-scale ARM supercomputer, deployed at Sandia National Laboratories... Read More →

Kristi Belcher

Software Developer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kristi is a Software Developer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working primarily on Umpire, an open source library that supports parallel data and memory management on HPC platforms, and MARBL, a large multi-physics simulation code. Kristi also works on the RADIUSS project... Read More →

Brian Cornille

Member of Technical Staff Software Systems Design Engineer, AMD

Brian Cornille is a Member of Technical Staff in the Data Center GPU HPC Solutions and Performance Analysis group at AMD. He focuses on supporting Fortran and OpenMP applications targeting AMD GPUs. He is an alumni of the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and received... Read More →

Patrick Fasano

HPC Applications Engineer, NextSilicon

Patrick Fasano serves as an HPC Applications Engineer at NextSilicon, where he plays a key role in helping users maximize the performance of their innovative high-performance computing accelerator. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Notre Dame, focusing his doctoral... Read More →

Barton Fiske

Senior Alliances Manager for the HPC Developer Tool Chain, NVIDIA

As senior alliances manager for the HPC developer tool chain at NVIDIA, Barton focuses on partners who develop and deploy profilers, debuggers, and math libraries. Barton has a lifelong fascination with 3D graphics, visualization, digital twins and more recently the intersections... Read More →

Michael James

Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies and co-founder, Cerebras

Michael is Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Michael was Lead Software Architect responsible for distributed system software at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired, Michael was made an AMD Fellow and Lead Software Architect... Read More →

Tuesday May 6, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
Chicago River Ballroom A-D

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