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SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Welcome reception and introduction to the school with refreshments.

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MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to the school by Eduard Ayguadé, Fabrizio Gagliardi, Maria Ribera Sancho, and Teresa Cervero, ACM Summer School.

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Mateo Valero, Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Talk: Latest trends in HPC architecture.

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee.
Lecture: The convergence of HPC & AI.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break.

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Rosa Badia & Jorge Ejarque, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: Workflows for HPC & AI.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Finn Wilkinson University of Bristol.
Presentation of the contest “Investigating the Use Cases and Applicability of Arm's Scalable Matrix Extension Through Simulation”.

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mario Kovač, Zagreb University.
Talk: European Processor Initiative: Cornerstone of EU digital agenda and EU digital sovereignty.

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Welcome reception by EPI.

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TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Andrea Bartolini, University of Bologna
Lecture: A deep dive into sustainable RISC-V HPC systems.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break.

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mauro Olivieri, Sapienza University & Francesco Minervini, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: RISC-V design for the continuum from embedded to edge to HPC.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Luca Benini, University of Bologna.
Talk: The future of Low-power RISC-V processor design.

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Posters session.
Cheese & Beer

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WEDNESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Jesús Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: The art of designing Highly Parallel HPC Applications.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Josep Lluís Berral, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: Distributed Data Analytics for AI in Supercomputing Systems.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Visit to BSC & Mare Nostrum 5.
Red Española de Supercomputación (RES) Presentation.

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THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Javier Aula-Blasco, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: Understanding Large Language Models (LLMs) & Lecture: Life after instruction tuning: RLHF, LFPF, DPO, PPO.

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Break.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Rajiv K. Kalia and Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California (USC).
Talk: Machine Learning in Materials Research

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Tutorial: Building practical applications with LLMs: Prompt engineering, RAG, Advanced techniques with LLMs: Building AI agents, collaborative problem-solving.

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Break.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Miguel Vázquez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: LLMs applied to Life Sciences.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Camila Pontes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Lecture: LLMs applied to Life Sciences.

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Posters session.
Cheese & Beer

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FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Marta P. Estarellas, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech.
Lecture: Introduction to Quantum Computing and Qilimanjaro.

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mireia Tena, Adrià Blanco, Víctor Sánchez, Javier Sabariego, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech.
Workshop: Introduction to Quantum Computing with BSC Quantum Systems.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Industry track with the school's sponsors.

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Break + Group picture.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A conversation with Leslie Lamport, Turing laureate.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mateo Valero's closing speech.
Student Diploma Ceremony and school closing by Maria Ribera Sancho, Eduard Ayguadé, Teresa Cervero and Fabrizio Gagliardi.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Farewell party.

 

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