Session 2:

Industry, Research & User Symposium

31st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, & Analytics

🚀  IRUS Session 2

 Title : Roads Towards Sustainability and the Role of Energy Efficient Computing

 When : December 20, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM at Robusta

Theme: We are in the era of the AI revolution. High performance computing plays a significant role in scaling AI solutions which can process unimaginable amounts of data very efficiently. The range of applications are touching almost all parts of our civilization. While we are targeting to achieve more, the element of concern which is becoming extremely relevant is sustainability. It is an established fact that the amount of energy needed to run those high-end machines and the models have a significant amount of carbon footprint which is a worldwide concern. 

In this session policy makers, industry experts and users are connecting together to share their experiences. We hope that this session will be a rewarding experience to the attendees.

HiPC believes and supports the sustainability cause and we promote going green for computing too! 

Agenda:

  • Dr Manish Modani, Principal Solution Architect, NVidia, NVidia’s computing ecosystem (H/w, S/w) and their applications
  • Ashok Bhat, Senior Product Manager, ARM, Arm Kleidi technology and latest update on thor software stack
  • Dr Priyanka Sharma, Director, Software Engineering, Fujitsu, MONAKA’s Open-source AI SW stack

Dr Manish Modani

Principal Solution Architect, NVIDIA Graphics Pvt Ltd, India

Manish brings over 17 years of expertise in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI for HPC. He has extensive experience in porting, benchmarking, and optimizing HPC applications across diverse domains, including quantum computing, climate modeling, weather forecasting, insurance, agriculture, molecular dynamics, healthcare, and computational fluid dynamics. Manish has worked on a wide range of HPC architectures, such as Cray, IBM Power, IBM x86, IBM Blue Gene, CDAC’s PARAM, NVIDIA DGX, NVIDIA HGX and NVIDIA Grace CPU with ARM Architecture. 
His contributions have been recognized through patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. In his current role as Principal Solution Architect for AI in Science at NVIDIA, Manish leads initiatives in the National Supercomputing Mission, National Monsoon Mission, National Quantum Mission, and India AI Mission. 
Previously, he served as a Technical Lead at NVIDIA India and The Weather Company (an IBM Business) for India and South Asia. Manish’s tenure includes two years at Cray and a decade at IBM. During his Ph.D. at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), IIT Delhi, he developed models to simulate air pollutant dispersion under low wind conditions.

Ashok Bhat 

Software Product Manager, ARM

Arm, a British semiconductor company specializing in developing and licensing intellectual property (IP) for silicon chips used in a wide range of devices, from smartphones to servers. 

In his current role, Ashok is part of a global product team responsible for cloud and HPC software on Arm servers, with a special focus on ML software.

Priyanka Sharma, PhD

Director – Software Engineering & Head MONAKA Software R&D Unit, Fujitsu Research of India (FRIPL), Bangalore, India

With a professional experience of over 25 years, Dr Priyanka Sharma currently serves as the Director of Software Engineering at Fujitsu Research of India & BU Head of MONAKA SW R&D Unit. Priyanka also represents Fujitsu as one of the founding Steering Committee Members of Linux Foundation’s Unified Accelerator (UXL) Foundation. She is also Governing Board Member – IWA, Indian National Science Academy. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Priyanka was Vice President Projects – AI at Samyak and AI Advisor to various national and international startups in the domains of Deep Learning, Industrial automation, Medical Analytics and Drug Discovery. Dr Sharma also held the position as Vice Chairman (Technical) in several IEEE societies. Dr Sharma also served as an AI Advisor at a National Defense University in India and was NVIDIA Deep Learning Ambassador for over 5 years. She was also Full Professor with CSE Department at a premier University in India for over 7 years. With over 50 research papers published, she has mentored Solution Architects and AI startup communities, guiding them in strategic planning, tech stack development and branding.

Priyanka has a passion for travel and has collaborated across the globe in the field of R&D and Data analytics. She is an avid reader and enjoys writing about Science, Spirituality and AI! 

 

 

HiPC 2024 is the 31st edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. It will be an in-person event in Bengaluru, India, from December 18 to December 21, 2024

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