Schedule

RMACC HPC Symposium 2025
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RMACC Interactive Schedule– Most up-to-date schedule

May 20 • Tuesday
12:00pm – 1:00pm	B	Lunch- Sponsored by OmnibondWolf Law Cafeteria
1:00pm – 2:15pm	K	Evolving education in an AI WorldWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Mike Klymkowsky
2:30pm – 3:00pm	T	Gaining file system intelligence and operational efficiency with the VAST data platformRoom 206 Speakers: Roger Goff
2:30pm – 3:00pm	T	Regulatory Interpretation for STEM MajorsWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Silas Korb
2:30pm – 3:00pm	T	Security & Compliance in Scientific Data Management: Ensuring Integrity and ImmutabilityRoom 207 Speakers: Eric Polet
2:30pm – 3:00pm	T	Supporting quantum-inspired optimization on a university compute clusterRoom 205 Speakers: J.S. Dole, Gil Speyer
2:30pm – 3:00pm	T	Using RMACC for optimization problems in quantum computingRoom 204 Speakers: Zhexuan Gong
3:15pm – 4:15pm	D	Facilitator Challenges, Opportunities, Successes, Failures, and Workforce DevelopmentRoom 204 Moderators: Chris Reidy, Layla Freeborn
3:15pm – 4:15pm	P	Exploring AI in Teaching and Research: Use Cases, Opportunities, and Cultural ShiftsWolf Law Courtroom Moderators: Shelley Knuth, Thea Lindquiest Speakers: Diane Sieber, Bobby Hodgekinson, Lee Frankel-Goldwater
3:15pm – 4:15pm	T	Compute technology advancements in AI and Dell Technologies rack scale solutionsRoom 206 Speakers: Chethan Neelakanta, Preethi Rao
3:15pm – 4:15pm	R	Rocky Linux: History, SIGs, Optimizations, and the future.Room 207 Speakers: Nathan Blackham
3:15pm – 4:15pm	R	Tmux Tools to enhance your terminalRoom 205 Speakers: John Reiland, Andy Monaghan
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Software sustainability and green initiatives in HPC related researchRoom 204 Speakers: Kevin Fotso
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Supercharging HPC productivity with projectEureka-OmnibondRoom 207 Speakers: Mary Brandenburg
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Supercharging HPC with IQM Quantum ComputersRoom 205 Speakers: Kristine Rezai
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	SysAdmin Lightning talksWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Kyle Reinholt, Paige Despain
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Watching Electrons MoveRoom 206 Speakers: Kathryn Hamilton

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May 21 • Wednesday
8:00am – 9:00am	B	BreakfastWolf Law Cafeteria
8:50am – 9:00am		Student Poster PresentationsWolf Law Courtroom
9:00am – 10:15am	K	Lessons from Community-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Strategies to Broaden Institutional ParticipationWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Ana Hunsinger
10:30am – 11:00am	T	Advancing Research Through AWS AI Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Overview with Live DemosRoom 204 Speakers: Scott Friedman
10:30am – 11:00am	T	AI enabled protein interaction modelingRoom 206 Speakers: Martin Cuma
10:30am – 11:00am	T	Chemistry beyond exact solutions on a Quantum-Centric SupercomputerRoom 207 Speakers: Nick Bronn
10:30am – 11:00am	T	Curating and Publishing Big Datasets Using CU Boulder High Performance Computing InfrastructureWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Andy Monaghan, Matthew Murray
10:30am – 11:00am	T	Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) Research and Education Network (REN) Connecting Colorado Cyber-Infrastructure (CI)Room 205 Speakers: Scot Colburn
11:15am – 12:15pm	D	Artificial Intelligence Powered Research: A survey of the current and planned usage of AI across research disciplines in a High Performance Computing communityWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Mohal Khandewal, Andy Monaghan, Michael Schneider
11:15am – 12:15pm	D	Collaborative Cloud Science: Deploying The Littlest JupyterHub on Jetstream2Room 206 Speakers: Julian Pistorius
11:15am – 12:15pm	P	Quantum-Centric HPC: Today’s Landscape, Future ExpectationsRoom 205 Moderators: Torey Battelle Speakers: Josh Savory, Nick Bronn, David Allcock
11:15am – 12:15pm	T	Data Reimagined: Architectures for High-Performance Computing and AIRoom 204 Speakers: Morris Skupinsky
11:15am – 12:15pm	T	GenomEX 2.0Room 207 Speakers: Damien Parrello, Santosh Bhatt
12:15pm – 1:15pm	B	Lunch- Sponsored by IBM QuantumWolf Law Cafeteria
1:15pm – 2:45pm	R	Alpine New User SeminarRoom 205 Speakers: John Reiland
1:15pm – 2:45pm	R	Automating Research with Globus: The Modern Research IT PlatformRoom 207 Speakers: Greg Nawrocki
1:15pm – 2:45pm	R	Deploy & Manage Kubernetes on Jetstream2 using OpenStack MagnumRoom 206 Speakers: Julian Pistorius
1:15pm – 2:45pm	R	End-to-End HPC and AI with Intel: Platforms, Tools, and OptimizationRoom 204
3:00pm – 3:30pm	T	Accelerating Research Outcomes with GenAI and HPCRoom 207 Speakers: Sachin Koshy
3:00pm – 3:30pm	T	Advancing Research with AWS: Compliance, Computing, and ConnectivityRoom 206 Speakers: Scott Friedman
3:00pm – 3:30pm	T	HPC Skills and Opportunities Development in RMACCWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Craig Earley
3:00pm – 3:30pm	T	Introduction to Quantinuum Compute ProductsRoom 205 Speakers: Josh Savory
3:00pm – 3:30pm	T	Managing RCD ProfessionalsRoom 204 Speakers: Chris Reidy
3:45pm – 4:15pm	T	A Practical Approach for Evaluating the Effectiveness of NSF NCAR’s HPC EnvironmentRoom 204 Speakers: Bill Anderson
3:45pm – 4:15pm	T	Data Lifecycle Management in HPC – Automating Tiered Storage & Archival Strategies- ArcitectaRoom 206 Speakers: Eric Polet
3:45pm – 4:15pm	T	Optimizing HPC and AI Infrastructure with Standard Linux and Advanced Storage ArchitecturesRoom 205 Speakers: Molly Presley
3:45pm – 4:15pm	T	The AI Power Crunch – Storage Solutions that Reduce Power FootprintRoom 207 Speakers: Matt Starr
3:45pm – 4:15pm	T	The Practicalities of Quantum-Centric High-Performance ComputingWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Torey Battelle
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Fuzzball: a new paradigm for accessing HPC resourcesRoom 207 Speakers: Jonathon Anderson
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Launching a Public Cloud Small State University: Lessons from the First Six MonthsWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Kira Wells
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	NVIDIA CUDA-Q OverviewRoom 205 Speakers: Tom Lubowe
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	Supporting FPGA applications on a university compute clusterRoom 204 Speakers: Thomas Jennewein, Gil Speyer, J. Choudhury
4:30pm – 5:00pm	T	The Metadata Revolution: Accelerating HPC Workflows Through Intelligent Data ManagementRoom 206 Speakers: David Cerf

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May 22 • Thursday
8:00am – 9:00am	B	BreakfastWolf Law Cafeteria
8:15am – 8:45am	D	Proposal Discussions- Pitches and NetworkingRoom 204 Moderators: Shelley Knuth Speakers: Becky Yeager
8:15am – 8:45am	D	SysAdmin MeetupRoom 206 Moderators: Ben Nickell
8:15am – 8:45am	T	Decoding Brain Tumors with High-Performance ComputingRoom 205 Speakers: Jesus Garcia Garcia
8:15am – 8:45am	T	Fuzzball: new developments in HPC container orchestrationRoom 207
9:00am – 10:00am	D	Deploying and Utilizing the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip: The CU Boulder Research Computing ExperienceWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Brandon Reyes
9:00am – 10:00am	D	How to build a positive work environment through building trust and fostering belongingRoom 204 Speakers: Jamey Chapin, Kailei Stiffler
9:00am – 10:00am	R	Building and Launching Powerful AI Agents Quickly (Powered by NVIDIA NIMs and Blueprints)Room 206 Speakers: Andy Lin
9:00am – 10:00am	R	Debugging with VSCodeRoom 205 Speakers: Michael Schneider
9:00am – 10:00am	R	What’s new in Warewulf v4.6Room 207 Speakers: Jonathan Anderson
10:15am – 10:45am	T	AI4WY: Advancing AI and Scientific Discovery through HPC Infrastructure and Collaborations in the Rocky Mountain RegionRoom 204 Speakers: Andrew Kirby
10:15am – 10:45am	T	Cross-Institutional Data Collaboration: Breaking Silos in HPC ResearchRoom 206 Speakers: Steve Paulson
10:15am – 10:45am	T	Expanding Access to AI Research: An Overview of NAIRRWolf Law Courtroom Speakers: Shelley Knuth
10:15am – 10:45am	T	Globus and ComplianceRoom 207 Speakers: Greg Nawrocki
10:15am – 10:45am	T	The Evolution of Colorado’s Quantum EcosystemRoom 205 Speakers: Scott Sternberg
11:00am – 12:00pm	D	Introduction to CCMNetRoom 205 Speakers: Devin Bayly, Rebecca Belshe
11:00am – 12:00pm	P	Making HPC safe for sensitive data: a discussionWolf Law Courtroom Moderators: Layla Freeborn, Andy Monaghan Speakers: Ben Nickell, Chris Reidy, Silas Korb
11:00am – 12:00pm	T	AMD Roadmap and Technology UpdateRoom 204 Speakers: Richard Grossen
11:00am – 12:00pm	R	NSF NCARs on-premise cloud projectRoom 206 Speakers: Nick Cote
11:00am – 12:00pm	R	Taming the Cluster: A Researcher’s Guide to SlurmRoom 207 Speakers: Mohal Khandewal, Michael Schneider
12:00pm – 1:00pm	B	LunchWolf Law Cafeteria