SEPTEMBER 21, 2026
16:00
Spack is the open-source package manager that has become a de facto standard for HPC software deployment, used in production on 5 of the current TOP500 top-10 systems.
Instructor: Caetano Melone, Todd Gamblin (LLNL) · Fernando Posada (ORNL)16:00
An advanced tutorial on the task-based parallel programming paradigm and the StarPU runtime, designed for heterogeneous HPC systems with multicore CPUs and GPU accelerators.
Instructors: Lucas M. Schnorr (UFRGS) · Vinicius Garcia Pinto (FURG) · Raymond Namyst, Samuel Thibault (INRIA / University of Bordeaux)13:00
A hands-on exploration of the evolution from generative AI to autonomous AI agents — models, orchestration, memory, and tool integration.
Instructor: Mario Ruiz-Noguera (AMD)13:00
A comprehensive overview of the interconnect landscape powering modern HPC and AI systems: InfiniBand, RoCE, Omni-Path, Slingshot, Ultra-Ethernet, NVLink, and more.
Instructors: Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Benjamin Michalowicz (The Ohio State University)13:00
A practical introduction to quantum computing and algorithm simulation using the Q-Team platform — qubits, quantum gates, and quantum circuits.
Instructor: José David Bañuelos Aquino (Q-Team, México)18:00
A technical and hands-on introduction to AMD’s open-source ROCm™ software stack and the HIP programming model. No prior GPU programming experience is needed.
Instructor: Mario Ruiz-Noguera (AMD)18:00
An introduction to quantum machine learning (QML) that bridges quantum computing fundamentals and machine learning concepts, with hands-on cloud-based experiments.
Instructor: Gleydson Fernandes de Jesus (SENAI CIMATEC)18:00
An end-to-end treatment of the AI model lifecycle — training, fine-tuning, and inference — on modern HPC clusters, covering GPT, LLaMA, DeepSeek, and ViT-scale models.
Instructors: Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Nawras Alnaasan (The Ohio State University)