HPC-AI Advisory Council and Stanford High Performance Computing Center Bring Together Big Science, Innovation and Insights
05 Marzo 2021 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
March 2021 Stanford Conference Collaboration Brings Shared
Expertise and All to Explore Knowns and Unknowns Inspiring Human
Awe, Scientific Feats, and Futures
The for community benefit
HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), in collaboration with Stanford
University’s High Performance Computing Center (HPCC), today
announced the 2021 Stanford Conference will take place 17-18 March from 10:00 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m. (PDT). Now in its 12th year, the HPCAIAC’s conference
and collaboration will be hosted over two days from the US’ Pacific
time zone and present a condensed agenda. Each daily (3hr) session
will combine thought leadership and immersive contributed
talks across HPC and AI domains and disciplines and feature the
innovative research, techniques, tools and technologies that fuel
economies, productivity and progress globally.
Maintaining its focus on
topics of great societal impact and responsibility, the co-hosts
confronted 2020’s growing COVID pandemic reformatting the annual
conference for all remote participation. Attracting broad
participation from across the highly diverse, distributed,
multi-disciplined community throughout its history, one of last
year’s first conferences during the early stages of global
quarantining and one of only few held the entire year, returns to
pioneer another calendar and second virtual session building upon
last year’s introduction to early COVID research and a range of
related interests.
“We’re experiencing an incredible inflection point on the
historical timeline. Our biggest challenge is spurring many of our
greatest strides in the shortest time ever in research history,”
said Gilad Shainer, HPC-AI Advisory Council chairman. “The Stanford
Conference provides a platform to share current knowledge,
contribute to solving complex challenges, promote new findings and
provoke new ideas. As the COVID pandemic has illustrated these
aren’t just exclusive interests for the research community but for
us all. This year will obviously include pandemic related topics
but will also begin to consider implications ahead. Regardless,
whether presenting works or just present to glean something new,
we’re privileged to welcome the world to a virtual front row seat
to our most critical research endeavor ever.”
“The Stanford Conference fuels the inquisitive. One of the
year’s first glimpses and one of the only open forums anyone can
attend, it’s essentially an all access pass to many of the world’s
foremost experts, fascinating science and cutting edge innovation,”
said Steve Jones, Stanford High Performance Computing Center
director. “There was much to learn before [pandemic] and infinitely
more now but we’re also excited to explore some of 2020’s ‘shadow
and shelved science’ usurped by necessity or the daily deluge of
redundant contagion coverage. We want this annual conference and
every experience to be as much a celebration as exploration of the
research community’s incredible expertise and accomplishment, to
inspire and rekindle a sense of ‘awe’.”
The 2021 Stanford Conference requires registration, is free to
attend and open to all interested.
About HPC-AI Advisory Council
Founded in 2008, The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) is a for
community benefit organization with over 400 members committed to
promoting HPC and AI through education and outreach. Find out more,
become a member @ hpcadvisorycouncil.com
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