We are a vendor-neutral, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization comprised of members from industry, government, and academia worldwide. Our mission is to educate and connect the HPC & AI user community with the latest technologies and best practices to optimize business processes and promote workforce advancement.
We focus on the high-performance systems used for AI, simulation, cloud computing, quantum computing, and visualization. Our members utilize these technologies in their work in oil & gas, renewable energy, climate modeling, life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, cybersecurity, government, and academia.
Upcoming HPC Society Events
Registration now open!
HPC Society Annual Event
24 April 2025
8:00am - 5:30pm CDT
Shell Woodcreek Campus
150 N. Dairy Ashford Road
Houston, TX 77079
Previous HPC Society Events
Lunch & Learn – March 2025
Scientific Machine Learning in Advanced Manufacturing
George Biros, Ph.D. – Professor and W. A. “Tex”‘ Moncrief Chair in Simulation-Based Engineering Sciences, University of Texas Austin
27 March 2025
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) + Online option
10505 Exploration Way
Austin, TX 78758
Lunch & Learn – January 2025
Optimizing Energy Usage
Laurent Clerc, CTO HPC and Cloud Solutions, Viridien (formerly CGG)
30 January 2025
HCC West Loop Campus (plus live stream)
5601 W Loop S., Room C142
Houston, TX 77081
Lunch & Learn – December 2024
How HPC and Art Create the Future of Scientific Visualization
Dr. Greg Abram, Research Scientist, Scalable Vis Technologies, TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin)
5 December 2024
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) + Online option
10505 Exploration Way
Austin, TX 78758
Lunch & Learn – October 2024
AI + Accelerated Computing Enable AI Physics Breakthroughs
Madhu Vellakal, Solutions Engineering Manager, Rescale
31 October 2024
HCC West Loop Campus (plus live stream)
5601 W Loop S., Room C108
Houston, TX 77081
Lunch & Learn – August 2024
How HPC Revolutionized Storm Surge Modeling
Dr. Clint Dawson, Department Chair Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
29 August 2024
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) + Online option
10505 Exploration Way
Austin, TX 78758
Special event – Friday August 2, 2024
Field trip – tour of Shell and DUG Houston datacenters
Tour and learn about both Shell and DUG’s immersion cooled datacenters
2 August 2024
10:00am – 11:30am Central time
Skybox Houston One Data Center
22000 Franz Rd.
Katy, TX 77449
Lunch & Learn – May 2024
InspireSemi Thunderbird Compute Accelerator for HPC, AI, and Graph Analytics
Alex Gray – Founder, President, and CTO
Doug Norton – CMO
30 May 2024
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) + Online option
10505 Exploration Way
Austin, TX 78758
Other Events of Interest
EAGE Annual 2025
Navigating Change: Geosciences Shaping a Sustainable Transition
2-5 June2025
Toulouse, France
ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE
ISC 2025 is the 40th anniversary of the world’s leading forum for advancing the application of high performance computing in academia, government, and the private sector.
10-13 June 2025
Hamburg, Germany
TPC25
The TPC25 conference and exhibition will convene AI leaders from industry, academia, and national laboratories along with the vendor community, funding agencies, and VCs, to develop best practices for utilizing AI for scientific discovery and engineering at scale
28-31 July 2025
San Jose Doubetree
NEWS
HPC Society News
The Society and our sponsors were visible in many ways this year at SC24 November 17-22.
Rescale panel at SC24
Great panel of HPC leaders at SC24 hosted by our sponsor Rescale that included our President Doug Norton discussing the future of engineering and scientific innovation. Topics covered included AI, Digital Twins, HPC best practices, Quantum Computing, and nuclear reactors.
HPCwire @ SC24 Atlanta: Full Recap
Great recap of the record-breaking SC24 conference in Atlanta. Includes a short interview of HPC Society President Doug Norton at 2:30.
Viridien panel at SC24
HPC Society President Doug Norton participated in several panels at the conference, including hosting one in sponsor Viridien’s booth titled The future of industrial AI/HPC workflows.
New super computer helps artists bring scientists’ work to life at Austin computer lab
The research scientists at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), located in north Austin, have the unique responsibility of bringing boring, unattractive data to life.
14 May 2024
Industry News
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
It leverages the world’s first topoconductor, a breakthrough type of material which can observe and control Majorana particles to produce more reliable and scalable qubits, which are the building blocks for quantum computers.
February 19, 2025 | Microsoft
Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator and scales up to 360,000 cores — InspireSemi’s RISC-V ‘supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip’ touts higher performance than Nvidia GPUs
The Holy Grail of supercomputing chip design is an architecture that combines the versatility and programmability of CPUs with the explicit parallelism of GPUs, and InspireSemi strives to achieve just that.
June 27, 2024 | Toms Hardware
TACC: Conquering Breast Cancer Using Supercomputers, Data, and Mathematical Modeling
Digital Twins in Oncology
For additional insights, visit the SHPCP February 2024 Lunch & Learn page for video and presentation.
21 May 2024 | HPCwire
ISC 2024 Keynote: High-precision Computing Will Be a Foundation for AI Models
“We need to ensure that we don’t lose that high-precision arithmetic as we focus on some commercial applications,” said Kathy Yelick, vice chancellor for research and distinguished professor of computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Missed ISC 2024? Catch It Now On Demand
15 May 2024 | HPCwire
RESOURCES
HPC, AI, & Big Data Industry Resources
HPCwire
Since 1987 – Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them
Enterprise AI News
New and Insights for the AI Journey
AI News
Artificial Intelligence News
Datanami
Dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data.
QCwire
A publication of HPCwire covering the Quantum Computing Explosion
Science Daily
Your source for the latest research news
World Oil – Geology & Geophysics
For more than 100 years, World Oil has provided readers with coverage of the latest information and technological advances relating to the exploration, drilling, completion and production of offshore and onshore oil and gas.
Oil and Gas Global Network™ (OGGN™)
The World’s Largest Network of Oil & Gas Podcasts
Partner HPC Resources
Strangeworks – Quantum Computing
The Strangeworks ecosystem provides access to over 100 quantum computing resources and features quantum computers from IBM, Rigetti, Aquila, IQM, D-Wave, and many others all in an easy to get started environment that allows you to deploy this technology of tomorrow, today.
Backstage Program – This is your opportunity to take part in shaping the quantum research tools you need by test-driving pre-release features, functionality, and quantum technologies. Break a leg!
Seminal 2021 whitepaper achieving quantum advantage
WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC)
To answer the most complex questions, we’ve developed an immersive learning platform, powered by our Advanced Technology Center, designed to be at the forefront of what’s possible. Accelerate your knowledge by joining our physical and virtual ecosystem of innovation, research, community, labs and thought leadership. Be in the know wherever you are in the world.
TACC: HPC Educational Opportunities
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Professionals — Training, Partnerships, & Outreach
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Undergraduates & Graduates — Academic & Social Opportunities
University of Texas | Austin, TX
University of Houston | Houston, TX
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