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Tuesday, May 12
 

12:00pm MDT

Lunch-- Lunch sponsored by Omnibond
Tuesday May 12, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT

Tuesday May 12, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom

1:00pm MDT

From Deception Detection to AI-Resilient Assessment: Scaling Human-Centered Analytics
Tuesday May 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT
This keynote traces a research and commercialization journey that began in large-scale deception detection and automated interviewing systems and culminated in RhetorixLab, an AI-resilient assessment platform designed to restore authenticity and trust in an era of generative AI. Drawing on years of work in video-based feature extraction and behavioral signal processing, the talk highlights how...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom

2:30pm MDT

AI Biomolecular structure prediction tools a year later
Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
The AI biomolecular prediction field keeps moving at a fast rate. In this talk, we'll outline what has happened at Utah in this area in the past year, including setting up a more performant server for Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) using mmseqs2, Boltz2 and Colabfold changes, and biomolecular design with Boltzgen.
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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2:30pm MDT

Beyond Files: Streaming Data Management with Globus
Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Beyond growing data volumes, researchers are now having to deal with increasing data velocity. For example, instruments are generating data faster than can be consumed by downstream processes and AI/ML-guided research is relying on near real-time feedback for optimizing experiments. Such data streaming applications require different tools for data management and computation than those used for...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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2:30pm MDT

Promoting Cloud Native Development and Deployment at NCAR
Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Modern research environments often face increasing demands for agility and reproducibility, hindered by traditional, monolithic software architectures. This talk explores the transition to cloud-native computing by leveraging containers and Kubernetes to create portable, consistent computational infrastructures that decouple applications from underlying hardware. By adopting these technologies,...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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2:30pm MDT

Warewulf Basics & Cluster Management
Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Warewulf is an open-source, stateless cluster management framework for provisioning and managing bare-metal HPC nodes. This presentation walks through the full deployment workflow: installing Warewulf, building node images with the native wwctl toolchain and Apptainer sandboxes, synchronizing user and group IDs, and managing per-node customization through overlays. Attendees will leave with a...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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3:15pm MDT

Student Career Panel
Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Join us for a student career panel where you will hear from HPC professionals about how they entered the HPC workforce and what they are looking for when hiring new employees. This will be a one-hour session with presentations and time for questions

"HPC is a hidden gem that many students don’t even know exists - until they do." -- Panelist Kelly Byrne, Idaho National Labs

Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
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3:15pm MDT

Accelerating Innovation with Google Cloud’s AI Infrastructure
Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
This presentation provides a technical overview of machine learning infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), focused on hardware and operational efficiency.We will discuss evaluating hardware accelerators based on specific workload requirements and take a deeper dive into Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), specifically examining their architecture for large-scale matrix operations and...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
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3:15pm MDT

Hands-On with DeepLynx Nexus: Building an AI-Ready Data Catalog
Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
In 2018, Idaho National Laboratory built DeepLynx, a data warehouse designed to organize large amounts of engineering and scientific data. As INL's projects grew more complex and AI became more central to their work, the original platform couldn't scale to meet new requirements.DeepLynx Nexus was built to address these limitations. Rather than replicating and storing large datasets, Nexus catalogs...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

3:15pm MDT

NSGA-II at scale
Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) remains one of the most widely adopted metaheuristics for solving multi-objective optimization problems; however, its conventional usage is often limited to default parameter settings and moderate-scale problem instances, which restricts its effectiveness in large-scale and high-dimensional scenarios. This tutorial presents a comprehensive and...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
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3:15pm MDT

RMACC User Facilitation Meet-Up
Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Calling all facilitators and other user support personnel! Let’s meet up in person at RMACC to discuss our successes and challenges. Topics will include experiences in user education and outreach; the use of AI for case management and other support services; meeting the needs of customers with sensitive data, and anything else that comes up!
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

CANCELLED- Redesigning the Hellgate HPC: Lessons in overcoming growing pains and purgatory on mid-sized clusters.
Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Over the past four years, the University of Montana Hellgate HPC has rapidly grown from a ragtag collection of individual lab systems to the largest computing resource at our institution, comprising roughly 3,000 compute cores, 130 GPUs, and over 200 users. However, this development has exceeded the scale of our original HPC design, with consequences to stability, performance, and user experience....
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

Navigating the Flash Crisis: Why Architectural Flexibility Wins in 2026
Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Flash pricing volatility has reshaped the storage landscape and organizations are rethinking how to get all-flash performance without runaway costs. In this session we will discuss practical approaches to navigating flash economics, cost optimization, and performance at scale.NAND flash and DRAM prices are surging and supply is constrained, forcing requotes and delaying deals. VDURA’s mixed...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

NetCDF State of the Union, Roadmap Forwards
Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent, self-describing file formats used to store and share array-oriented scientific data. Widely used in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, it supports efficient access to multidimensional data (e.g., temperature, wind speed), and has been a fundamental archival and operational data format used since 1990. In this...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

Quantum computing HPC integration
Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Coltran Hophan-Nichols from Montana State University will discuss ongoing work to integrate multiple quantum computing modalities with classical high-performance computing. This work involves SLURM configurations, access controls, network configurations, and user interfaces. Hybrid quantum-classical and quantum simulation use cases will be covered.
Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Simplot C

4:30pm MDT

Securing Trust in AI-Driven Research and HPC Environments
Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Advanced computing environments are rapidly adopting AI to accelerate, automate analysis, and streamline decision-making. That speed is useful, but it introduces a problem IT teams and research leaders often underestimate: synthetic confidence. As AI-generated outputs begin to look authoritative, organizations risk accepting flawed results, weak explanations, or manipulated content with less...
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Tuesday May 12, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C
 
Wednesday, May 13
 

8:00am MDT

Breakfast- Sponsored by Arctiq
Wednesday May 13, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am MDT

Wednesday May 13, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Jordan Ballroom

8:45am MDT

Student Poster Presentations
Wednesday May 13, 2026 8:45am - 9:00am MDT
Join us to hear 1- minute lightning talks from our student poster presentations.
Wednesday May 13, 2026 8:45am - 9:00am MDT
Jordan Ballroom

9:00am MDT

Accelerating America’s Nuclear Future: Building Advanced Nuclear Infrastructure at Speed and Scale
Wednesday May 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am MDT
The United States has entered a transformative period in nuclear energy development, driven by unprecedented load growth from data centers and AI infrastructure, coupled with the most ambitious federal nuclear directives in decades. This presentation examines the convergence of technology demonstration, industrial partnership, and policy acceleration that is reshaping America’s nuclear...
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Brian Smith

Idaho National Lab
Wednesday May 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am MDT
Jordan Ballroom

10:15am MDT

DLI Workshop - Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs
Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:15am - 5:00pm MDT
With support of the Deep Learning Institute from NVIDIA, a training workshop is offered to all RMACC attendees. Attendees will also be provided information on how to become certified instructors, such as with community support from Cyberinfrastructure Community-wide Mentorship Network (CCMNet), in order to offer this course and other DLI materials for their own communities. Course content and...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:15am - 5:00pm MDT
Bishop Barnwell Room

10:30am MDT

Building boisestate.ai: Lessons Learned from Developing a Cost-Effective Internal AI Platform for Higher Education
Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
As universities race to provide generative AI access to students and faculty, the cost of commercial subscriptions at institutional scale quickly becomes unsustainable. At Boise State University, we built boisestate.ai—an open source AI platform powered by AWS Bedrock. This presentation shares the practical lessons learned from developing and operating the platform, including the...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
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10:30am MDT

English is the Hottest New Programming Language: The AI Catalyst Model for Advanced Computing Ambassadorship
Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
As "vibe coding" and natural language interfaces become standard in advanced computing, the technical "how" is increasingly decoupled from the conceptual "what" o “why.” This shift creates a critical need for academic leaders who can bridge the gap between high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities and ethical, literate application. In Idaho, we are approaching this challenge by cultivating...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
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10:30am MDT

Google Cloud's impact on HPC
Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Discover how Google Cloud works with High Performance Computing by integrating specialized infrastructure and managed storage with powerful, cloud-native orchestration tools. This session highlights how these advancements accelerate scientific discovery and engineering design, providing the fastest time-to-insight for mission-critical research.
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Simplot C

10:30am MDT

NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure: Resources, Programs, and Funding Opportunities for Research Computing
Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
The NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) supports over 25,000 researchers and students through an integrated ecosystem of computing, data, networking, and software infrastructure. This presentation provides an overview of OAC's major initiatives and resources relevant to the research computing community, including the NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) — a distributed,...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

10:30am MDT

Unifying Access to Distributed Data for AI and High-Performance Computing
Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Modern HPC and AI workloads increasingly depend on data that is distributed across multiple storage systems, tiers, and locations, including on-premises clusters, institutional storage, and cloud resources. While compute performance continues to scale rapidly, data access and data movement have become primary bottlenecks, limiting utilization and complicating workflow design.This talk examines an...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
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11:15am MDT

Build AI, Dont Just Use It: The Vision for Creating AI Models and Autonomous Agents in Teaching and Research
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
Most faculty are still early in their AI journey. Yet the future is already arriving: small, self-learning AI models that power autonomous agents capable of continuous improvement, collaboration, and generating entirely new capabilities for teaching and research.This talk paints the compelling vision of where we are headed: a shift from consuming AI to building with it, from fragile trillion-line...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

11:15am MDT

Campus generative AI services running on HPC
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
Follow Montana State University’s journey to implement a flexible and open-source generative AI suite, backed by our Tempest HPC system. Learn how we were able to leverage existing infrastructure and open-source platforms to provide powerful tools to all our faculty, staff, and students with no direct cost or token restrictions. Takeaways and how the local service coheres with a broader AI...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
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11:15am MDT

HPC Technology in a Turbulent Market
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
Purchasing equipment has become very challenging, from prices changing almost daily, to rapidly growing power consumption. We take a quick walk through the current state of the market with input from our peers and vendors. And we get a look at market survey results from two leading companies in this field.
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
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11:15am MDT

Intel and GCC Compilers: Unleash the Power of Xeon 6
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
In this presentation, we provide insights for Intel and GCC compiler optimizations and tunings for Xeon 6 with workload code examples. A case study on performance tuning of Torch.Inductor OpenMP code on Xeon 6 will be presented to show Intel new processor benefits.
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
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11:15am MDT

UV Package Manager--Get Your Sunscreen!
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
Python dependency management getting you burned? Tired of slow pip installs and juggling virtual environments on HPC systems? This session introduces UV, a lightning-fast Python package manager designed for speed, simplicity, and reproducibility. We’ll explore UV’s core features including uv pip, uv venv, uv tool and demonstrate how they streamline package installation, environment...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
Simplot C

11:45am MDT

Lunch- Sponsored by AMD
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm MDT
Please join us for lunch in the Jordan Ballroom including a short presentation by our Diamond Sponsor AMD.

HPC Meets AI at Scale: AMD’s Open Ecosystem for Converged Workloads
Presenter- Kenneth Chiu
Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom

1:00pm MDT

Visit the Stein Luminary
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
The Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary is an all-digital museum space, producing a
range of immersive, interactive and sensory experiences. Combining touch-activated
screens and immersive projection, we deliver cutting-edge content focused on visual
and performing arts and cultural exhibitions for the Boise State community.
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
Atrium of the Visual Arts Building

1:00pm MDT

Accelerating Research and Learning with AWS Cloud in Higher Education
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
Cloud computing has become a foundational enabler for academic institutions seeking to scale research workloads, modernize curricula, and reduce infrastructure overhead. This session explores how colleges and universities are leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address key challenges in higher education — from burst-capable HPC clusters for computational research, to cost-effective storage...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

1:00pm MDT

Agentic AI for Advanced Research; Data Storage; Data Management
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
Most research environments treat storage as a procurement decision. Agentic AI flips that. Workflow and storage decide whether object, file, and parallel file systems succeed or fail, and “one big, shared filesystem” often collapses under metadata-heavy orchestration.This session presents a workflow-first approach to infrastructure design for agentic AI and workflow-based pipelines. We...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
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1:00pm MDT

Building Sovereign AI Factories: A Blueprint for State-Level Economic Growth
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
AI is creating clear winners and losers across economies and regions. Sovereign AI Factories offer a powerful economic fulcrum for states seeking to attract talent, investment, and sustainable growth. By pooling resources at a state level, Sovereign AI Factories unite universities, K–12 systems, corporations, research institutes, and economic development agencies around a shared AI...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
Simplot C

1:00pm MDT

Compute Anywhere with Function-as-a-Service with Globus Compute
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
Growing data volumes, new computing paradigms, and increasing hardware heterogeneity are driving the need to execute code on diverse distributed computing resources, many of which are outside the bounds of the researcher's institution. This need may be driven by (a) the desire to compute closer to data acquisition sources, (b) exploit specialized computing resources such as hardware accelerators,...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
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1:00pm MDT

Workshop on using Generative AI in an HPC environment
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
In this session you will participate in an immersive, experiential learning environment designed to expand how you use generative AI in HPC systems. Large language models and coding agents are changing how people write, debug, and maintain code. In high-performance computing environments, however, that efficiency comes with added complexity: shared clusters, schedulers, quotas, modules, file...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm MDT
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2:40pm MDT

Harnessing AI: Transforming High-Performance Computing for Next-Generation Innovation
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
This panel will explore the role of artificial intelligence in high-performance computing (HPC) environments, highlighting innovative applications that enhance computational efficiency and data analysis. Attendees will gain insights into future trends and collaborative strategies for leveraging AI.
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
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2:40pm MDT

Building the Next Generation of HPC Talent: Forming an RMACC Student Cluster Competition Team
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
The HPC community thrives on collaboration, curiosity, and fostering a forward-thinking talent pool. Student cluster competitions give the next generation of HPC professionals hands‑on supercomputing experience, real‑world problem‑solving skills, and direct exposure to the global HPC community. They blend technical skills, teamwork, and professional development in a way that few academic...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
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2:40pm MDT

LoRA, RAG, RL, Agentic AI - Making sense of the different acronyms to improve LLMs and fix hallucinations
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
New models from leading AI organizations come out seemingly every week, but despite the constant evolution there are always hallucinations and knowledge gaps. LoRA, RAG, RL, and Agentic AI are all popular methods to improve LLM performance and this presentation will give an overview of each method as well as discuss how "performance" can be measured in an LLM context. These methods will be...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
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2:40pm MDT

Student Poster Open House
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT

Do you have questions for our student poster presenters? Come to this open session to view the posters and ask your questions of the students.
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom

2:40pm MDT

System Administrator Meetup
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT

Meetup with members of the RMACC SysAdmin group for an informal discussion.
Speakers
Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:40pm - 3:40pm MDT
Simplot C

3:50pm MDT

Accelerating Scale-Out HPC and Data-Intensive Research with a Modern Parallel File System
Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
This session examines the role of modern parallel file systems in supporting scalable, data-intensive HPC environments commonly found in academic and regional research computing centers. It discusses how BeeGFS enables high-throughput, low-latency storage architectures that effectively support a wide range of workloads, including traditional simulation, modeling, data analytics, and emerging...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
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3:50pm MDT

Deploying and Operationalizing Intel Gaudi Systems with Kubernetes for AI Workloads
Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
This session will cover ASU’s experience with the recent Intel Gaudi system donation, including the planning and buildout of new data center space to support the hardware. I will discuss the technical and operational challenges involved in bringing the systems online, lessons learned during deployment, the current status of the environment, and how we plan to integrate Gaudi into our broader...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
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3:50pm MDT

Fuzzball: New Features and What’s Next for Portable Hybrid HPC Orchestration
Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
Running HPC workloads across on-premises clusters, cloud, and hybrid environments requires more than a scheduler.  It requires a platform that treats infrastructure as flexible and workloads as portable. Fuzzball, developed by CIQ, is that platform. Built for multi-job workflow management in high-performance computing environments, Fuzzball gives researchers and engineers a single control...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
Simplot B

3:50pm MDT

Google Cloud's impact on HPC
Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
Discover how Google Cloud works with High Performance Computing by integrating specialized infrastructure and managed storage with powerful, cloud-native orchestration tools. This session highlights how these advancements accelerate scientific discovery and engineering design, providing the fastest time-to-insight for mission-critical research.
Speakers
Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
Simplot A

3:50pm MDT

Practical Guide to Performance-Conscious Python
Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
Python is one of the most widely used languages in scientific computing, and its adoption on HPC systems continues to grow, particularly among users with limited training in HPC and performance-oriented software development. At the same time, the ecosystem of tools for high-performance Python has expanded rapidly, making it increasingly difficult for users—and the research computing support...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

4:30pm MDT

Building and Launching Powerful AI Agents Quickly (Powered by NVIDIA NIMs and Blueprints)
Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Please join Mark III and NVIDIA at RMACC for an overview, walk-through, and live demo of building an AI agent app quickly and easily using NVIDIA NIMs and Blueprints.  The first segment of this session will focus on a build of a simple AI agent bot built with a Llama 3 NIM.  The second segment will focus on a live build and demo of a more advanced AI agent build with an NVIDIA Blueprint...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

4:30pm MDT

INL’s software stack buildout
Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Idaho National Laboratory’s High Performance Computing (HPC) resources, provided through the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF), deliver over 630,000 CPU cores to a user base of over 1,700 researchers spanning national laboratories, industry, and academia. These systems support multiscale, multiphysics simulations for nuclear energy research alongside a range of other mission areas. The HPC...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

Linpack and other benchmarks on heterogeneous HPC clusters
Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Benchmarking is a core part of HPC operations — whether you're validating a new cluster, justifying a procurement, or hunting down a performance regression. But running benchmarks well on heterogeneous hardware introduces challenges that the documentation doesn't always prepare you for. This presentation shares our experience running the NVIDIA HPC benchmark container on A100 GPUs and submitting...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

Scalable Patent Search and Analysis Using Large Language Models with Function Calling
Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
This work describes a scalable system for automated patent search and analysis that integrates large language models with function calling to support data retrieval and classification. The approach combines conventional data extraction from the US Patent and Trademark Office with semantic similarity search and structured function execution to enable accurate and reproducible patent management...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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4:30pm MDT

The Next Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming research, teaching, and operations. With AI-native platforms like Oracle Database 23ai—and innovations shaping Oracle Database 26ai—data infrastructure is evolving from passive storage to active participation in intelligent workflows. These platforms embed AI directly in the database, enabling more efficient, secure, and scalable development...
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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5:30pm MDT

Reception Sponsored by Intel
Wednesday May 13, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm MDT

5:30 pm- Take a picture on the iconic blue field of Albertson's Stadium, explore the Boise State Football Stadium
6:00-7:30 pm- Join us the Stueckle Sky Center for Appetizers and Drinks, sponsored by Intel
Wednesday May 13, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm MDT
The Stueckle Sky Center 1200 W University Dr, Boise, ID
 
Thursday, May 14
 

8:00am MDT

Breakfast
Thursday May 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am MDT

Thursday May 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Jordan Ballroom

9:00am MDT

Building the AI Workforce: Practical Models for Training the Next Generation of Research Computing Professionals
Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
 As demand for AI-enabled research continues to grow, institutions across higher education are facing a common challenge: how to develop the skilled workforce needed to operate advanced computing infrastructure and support researchers using AI tools. This session will highlight two complementary workforce development models designed to address this need. The RMACC Student System Administrator...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
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9:00am MDT

AI for Anvil & Anvil for AI: Case Studies in Research, Education, and Ethical Adoption
Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
This presentation explores the mutually reinforcing relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) through applied research, education, and workforce development initiatives centered on Anvil, an NSF-funded national advanced computing resource. We highlight a 2025 NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) case study in which undergraduate researchers...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
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9:00am MDT

Evolutionary HPC
Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Evolutionary Computation (EC) techniques, including Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Strategies, and Genetic Programming, have long demonstrated strong performance in solving complex, non-convex optimization problems; however, despite their inherent parallelism, their deployment at exascale supercomputing levels remains relatively underexplored. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of EC...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
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9:00am MDT

Quantum-Centric HPC: Motivation, Application, Facilitation
Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Quantum computing holds immense promise for achieving computational gains once thought unattainable, given the physical limits to conventional (dubbed classical) compute resources. Certain classes of problems could benefit greatly from speedups obtainable from the exploitation of quantum mechanical properties, including superposition, entanglement and interference, by quantum computing systems....
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Thursday May 14, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
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10:15am MDT

Beyond R1. Community support for smaller institutions
Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
National institutions that support research computing like CASC and CaRCC tend to be focused on the needs of large Universities. We talk about a project from CaRCC that is oriented to smaller institutions.
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Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Simplot D

10:15am MDT

Real-time HPC Workload Efficiency Monitoring and Alerting
Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Achieving efficient utilization of shared compute resources is a primary objective of HPC providers, to maximize value for both researchers and institutions. While providers leverage workload managers to efficiently allocate many resources across many users over time, scheduling alone cannot prevent allocated resources from sitting idle or underutilized in terms of raw compute and memory...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Simplot C

10:15am MDT

Research computing models of service in current changing times
Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
The changing funding environment necessitates changes in how we provide and charge for research computing services. In this talk, we'll go over what we are discussing in Utah, including some level of operation re-charge, subscription plans, compute as a service with several priority levels, and persistent services on VMs. We hope to initiate discussion on these topics among the attendees to share...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Simplot B

10:15am MDT

Tuning Workflow Management Systems for shared HPC resources
Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Workflow management systems like Nextflow are increasingly popular among researchers building computational pipelines, but their default configurations rarely account for the realities of shared HPC clusters. Left untuned, these tools can flood schedulers with thousands of short-lived jobs, request resources they never use, or create bursty submission patterns that degrade cluster performance for...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Simplot A

10:15am MDT

Updating and optimizing mutation detection pipeline
Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
The release of Snakemake 8 and 9 introduced breaking changes that forced HPC-dependent bioinformatics workflowsto fundamentally rethink their cluster integration strategy — most notably, the removal of the long-standing`--cluster` flag in favor of a modern executor plugin interface. This talk walks through the real-world migrationof DETECT, a simulation-based de novo mutation detection pipeline,...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am MDT
Jordan Ballroom Room C

11:00am MDT

ACCESS Software Documentation Service (SDS) at CU Boulder
Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Are you struggling to provide comprehensive software documentation to users of your HPC system, or want to make your documentation easier to maintain? Join CU Boulder Research Computing (CURC)’s User Support Team for a demonstration of the ACCESS Software Documentation Service (SDS), a package designed to automate the creation and maintenance of software documentation for HPC clusters! We’ll...
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Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Simplot D

11:00am MDT

Intro to Large Language Models
Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
In this session we'll overview the landscape around LLMs and Generative AI and look at the Hugging Face Transformers library for working with LLMs. This session will also include a Jupyter Notebook lab that will take attendees through the process of using Falcon-7B for inference, memory efficient finetuning, and RAG.
Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Simplot A

11:00am MDT

Pre-training and fine-tuning a semantically-enriched small language model
Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Language models use word-level embeddings that are trained using text using a pre-train, fine-tune training and evaluation regime. In this presentation, we will see how the embeddings can be enriched with visual knowledge as they are pre-trained and fine-tuned on multiple linguistic tasks. Knowledge of python is needed; experience with torch and huggingface helps, but is not required.
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Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Simplot B

11:00am MDT

The ASU Slurm HPC Dashboard
Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
This presentation will provide an overview of the Slurm HPC dashboard developed and used at ASU to monitor cluster utilization, GPU resources, and overall system health. I will explain how the dashboard supports day to day operations, demonstrate recently added features, and discuss the roadmap for future development as we continue expanding its capabilities to meet growing demands.
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Thursday May 14, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Simplot C

12:00pm MDT

Lunch
Thursday May 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT

Thursday May 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Jordan Ballroom
 
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