Program Schedule
10 - 15 March 2025
MONDAY 10 MARCH
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Opening of school, by Dr Terence Hung (NSCC Chief Executive)
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to the school, by HE Mrs Iwona Daria Piórko Bermig, EU Ambassador to Singapore
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Welcome to the school, by ACM President, Yannis Ioannidis (ACM) and Fabrizio Gagliardi (ACM & BSC)
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Turing lecture, “A Not So Simple Matter of Software”, by Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
11:15 AM - 12:00 AM
HPC & AI, by Satoshi Matsuoka (RIKEN R-CCS)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Introduction to Fugaku, by Jorji Nonaka (RIKEN R-CCS)
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Virtual Fugaku: Your own Fugaku on cloud service, by Yuji Iguchi (RIKEN R-CCS)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
AI Factories in European HPC Ecosystem, by Kimmo Koski (CSC)
4:30 PM
Free time
6:00 PM
Welcome reception
8:00 PM
End of Day 1
TUESDAY 11 MARCH
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Supercomputing Asia opening session
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 12:00 AM
Introduction to HPC Applications and Systems, by Bernd Mohr (Juelich FZ)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Introduction to HPC Programming, by Bernd Mohr (Juelich FZ)
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Supercomputing Asia (exhibition & talks)
6:00 PM
SCA25 Conference Opening Reception
8:30 PM
End of Day 2
WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
The Use of LLMs and Other AI Models in Science, by Mohamed Wahib (RIKEN R-CCS)
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
AI for Materials Discovery, by Kedar Hippalgaonkar (NTU Singapore)
11:15 AM - 12:00 AM
Scientific Benchmarking, by Jens Domke (RIKEN R-CCS)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Track 1 – Life Science
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Solving 3D puzzles of biomolecular interactions by integrative modelling, by Alexandre Bonvin (Utrecht University)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Towards an AI-based solution of protein structure prediction problem, by Zhang Yang (National University of Singapore)
Track 2 – AI & HPC
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP Hands-on, by Bernd Mohr (Juelich FZ) and Jens Domke (RIKEN R-CCS)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP Hands-on, Bernd Mohr (Juelich FZ) and Jens Domke (Cont.)
Track 3 – Earth Science
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Earth Observation Data Analysis Using Machine Learning, by Naoto Yokoya (U.Tokyo/RIKEN AIP)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Integration of 3D Earthquake Simulation & Real-time Data Assimilation, by Kengo Nakajima (U.Tokyo/ RIKEN R-CCS)
4:45 PM
End of Day 3
THURSDAY 13 MARCH
Track 1 – Life Science
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecular systems, by Chigusa Kobayashi (RIKEN R-CCS)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Atomistic Simulations and Applications for Drug Design, by Chandra Verma (A-STAR)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
From Sequence to Function: Applications of Protein Language Models in Protein Design, by Camila Pontes (BSC)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
From viruses to food and new drugs, next-generation AI applications and high-performance computing, by Raphael Lee Tze Chuen (A-STAR)
Track 2 – AI & HPC
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
AI hands-on (Mohamed Wahib)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Hands-on for Scientific Benchmarking (Jens Domke)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Getting Started with ROCm/HIP and its Academic Resources, by Kerwin Tsai (AMD)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Getting Started with ROCm/HIP and its Academic Resources, by Kerwin Tsai (AMD)
Track 3 – Earth Science
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Agent-Based Simulation for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, by Maddegedara Lalith (U.Tokyo/ RIKEN R-CCS)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Climate simulations, by Hirofumi Tomita (RIKEN R-CCS)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Diagnostic Studies of High-Resolution Global Climate Model, by Yoshiyuki Kajikawa (RIKEN R-CCS)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
The digital revolution of Earth system modelling, by Peter Dueben (ECMWF) [ONLINE]
4:45 PM
Social activity
End of Day 4
FRIDAY 14 MARCH
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Quick Start to Quantum Computing: Programming Variational Algorithms with CUDA-Q, by Yang Juntao and Jin-Sung Kim (NVIDIA)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Quick Start to Quantum Computing: Programming Variational Algorithms with CUDA-Q (Cont.), by Yang Juntao and Jin-Sung Kim (NVIDIA)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Diploma ceremony and closing of the school
3:00 PM
Farewell party