Events

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

 

 

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

HPC Society Event Schedule

HPC Society meetings are hybrid, with both in-person and online option.
We alternate between Houston at HCC West Loop Campus and Austin at TACC per below.

MonthEventTopicHouston: HCC West Loop CampusAustin: Texas Advanced Computing CenterSpecial Occasion Venue
January 2024Lunch & LearnPerformant Data Analytics Through Purpose-Built Computer Architecture, Martin Deneroff, CEO Lucata25 Jan. 2024
February 2024Lunch & LearnMaking Digital Twins a Reality for Clinical Oncology - Ernesto Lima, UT Austin29 Feb. 2024
March 2024Partner eventEnergy HPC Conference (Rice University)Rice Univ. BRC
5-7 March 2024
April 2024Partner event2024 Gulf Coast Conference & Expo on Artificial Intelligence11-12 April 2024
April 2024Annual SHPCP EventAnnual Technology Meeting of the Society of HPC Professionals
25 April 2024
Shell Woodcreek Campus
25 April 2024
May 2024Lunch & LearnThunderbird Next Gen Compute Accelerator for HPC, AI, and Graph Analytics - Doug Norton, InspireSemi30 May 2024
June 2024Lunch & LearnNo meeting
Summer 2024Special eventTour of Shell and DUG Houston datcenters
2 August 2024
Skybox Datacenters, Houston
August 2024Lunch & LearnStorm surge and ADCIRC modeling - Clint Dawson, Department Chair Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics29 August 2024

HPC & AI Industry Event Calendar

 

Other Events of Interest

 

 

Image '24

The International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy

26–29 August 2024

George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas

85th HPC/AI User Forum

Real-world Uses of AI in Industry, Science and Energy: Challenges in Making AI Fully Useful

4-5 September 2024

Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Lemont, Illinois  60439

HPC + AI Wall Street

Showcasing the fastest systems on the planet for Financial Services

September 17-18, 2024

601 Lexington at 53rd Street
14th floor
New York, NY

2024 OCP Global Summit

October 15-17, 2024

San Jose, CA

SC24

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

17-22 November 2024

Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, GA

Educational Opportunities

Previous HPC Society Events

30 May 2024Lunch & Learn - InspireSemi Thunderbird Next Generation Compute Accelerator for HPC, AI, and Graph Analytics
25 April 2024Annual Technology Meeting of the Society of HPC Professionals
29 Feb 2024Lunch & Learn - Optimal Therapeutic Strategies for HER2+ Breast Cancer Treatment: A Mathematical Modeling Approach
25 Jan 2024Lunch & Learn - Performant Data Analytics Through Purpose-Built Computer Architecture
26 Oct 2023Lunch & Learn - Tackling Healthcare's Paradoxes: Using a ML-Enabled EMR Provider Workflow to Improve Patient Care & Streamline Non-Clinical Tasks
28 Sept 2023Lunch & Learn - Sustainable EH&S Compliance through AI and IT/OT Innovation in Energy
31 Aug 2023Lunch & Learn - Single Phase Liquid Immersion Cooling: The Path to Cooling 1,000 Watt Chips and Beyond & TACC tour
27 July 2023Lunch & Learn - Leveraging HPC for Real-Time Machinery Monitoring and Control in Oil & Gas
29 June 2023Lunch & Learn - Petrobras HPC infrastructure
1 Jun 2023Lunch & Learn - AI Applications and Possibilities in Filmmaking
27 Apr 2023Lunch & Learn - Building Inclusive and Diverse AI Ecosystems: A Stakeholder Approach
31 Mar 2023Special Event - Gulf Coast Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
23 Feb 2023Quantum Computing, how it works, where the industry is at, and how you can get started
8 Dec 2022Annual Technology Meeting of the Society of HPC Professionals
27 Oct 2022Lunch & Learn - Cerebras Systems in HPC
22 Sept 2022Lunch & Learn - Data Intensive Computing in the age of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
25 Aug 2022Lunch & Learn - Optimizing Scientific Computations Using the Power of HPC in the Cloud
30 June 2022Lunch & Learn - MemComputing, the technology you have never heard of that will change computing
26 May 2022Lunch & Learn - Accelerating Scientific Discovery at Extreme Scale with ParaView
28 Apr 2022Lunch & Learn - Texas Women in HPC: Leveling the Playing Field
24 Mar 2022Lunch & Learn - Datacenter: Hotter and faster, what’s next?
24 Feb 2022Lunch & Learn - Serving and Managing Reproducible HPC Environments via Conda-Store
27 Jan 2022Lunch & Learn - AI-Driven Adaptive Multiresolution Molecular Simulations on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms
2 Dec 2021Annual Meeting of the Society of HPC Professionals
28 Oct 2021Lunch & Learn - Emerging Technologies: 3D quantum computing devices at the SQMS research center and QIS ecosystem
23 Sept 2021Lunch & Learn - Using High Performance Computing to allow clinical compatible performance for biomechanical Finite Element simulations
26 Aug 2021Lunch & Learn - Using Bayesian Optimization techniques to dramatically speed up total solution time for HPC disciplines
22 July 2021Lunch & Learn - An HPC Journey - Porting a Solar Physics Code to Large Scale Systems
24 June 2021Lunch & Learn - The Benefits of Industrialized Data Science and Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
27 May 2021Lunch & Learn - Ethical AI: Complex society reduced to simplistic binary stereotypes?
22 Apr 2021Lunch & Learn - Constructing a Computationally Efficient Distributed GPU appliance in a PCI Express Based Network
25 Mar 2021Lunch & Learn - Unexpected Changes to the HPC Storage Landscape in 2021
25 Feb 2021Lunch & Learn - Upstream Energy Data Analytics Badges
28 Jan 2021Lunch & Learn - QEarth on Alveo cards: Accelerating machine learning inference to achieve real time earth-modeling
10-11 Dec 2020Annual Meeting of the Society of HPC Professionals
22 Oct 2020Lunch & Learn - Accelerating Medicine with Modern Genomics
24 Sep 2020Lunch & Learn - Podman and new technologies for HPC: improving results from AI/ML workloads vs traditional HPC
27 Aug 2020Lunch & Learn - Accelerate Innovation without Infrastructure Constraints using HPC on AWS
23 Jul 2020Lunch & Learn - Next Generation Infrastructure Software for Hybrid Cloud HPC Clusters
25 Jun 2020Lunch & Learn - Optimizing Seismic in the Cloud for Performance and Cost
28 May 2020Lunch & Learn - Programming parallel codes with PyCOMPSs at Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC)
23 Apr 2020Lunch & Learn - Real Time Well Data Analysis in the Cloud with Subsurface Data Engineering
26 Mar 2020Lunch & Learn - Computing for the Endless Frontier – How TACC Supports Breakthrough Science
27 Feb 2020Lunch & Learn - Preparing for Exascale Storage….Is Your Underlying Filesystem Ready?
23 Jan 2020Lunch & Learn - Seisflix: Cloud-based Seismic Express Interpretation on demand
5 Dec 2019Annual Meeting of the Society of HPC Professionals
24 Oct 2019Lunch & Learn - Cloud Native HPC
26 Sep 2019Lunch & Learn - Maximizing HPC Computation and Visual Analysis Workflow
22 Aug 2019Lunch & Learn - Physics of Memory and Learning – from the Perspective of Interacting Biomolecules
25 Jul 2019Lunch & Learn - Machine Learning and Geophysical Inversion – A Numerical Study
28 Jun 2019Lunch & Learn - Tour to The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin
16 May 2019Lunch & Learn - HPC/AI Convergence, Workload Matters – Presented by NVIDIA
25 Apr 2019Lunch & Learn - Hands-on demo on high performance 3D Data Visualization using ParaView
28 Mar 2019Lunch & Learn - Deep Learning Applications in Manned Spaceflight
28 Feb 2019Lunch & Learn - Applications of HPC for prediction of liver cancer treatment response
27 Sep 2018Lunch & Learn - Introduction to Pumps & Pipes
24 May 2018Lunch & Learn - Hyperledger: open source blockchain for business
26 Apr 2018Lunch & Learn - Using FPGAs for Computation
22 Mar 2018Lunch & Learn - Tour to BP’s Center for High-Performance Computing
22 Feb 2018Lunch & Learn - Datacenter Infrastructure for HPC: Site selection & special operational considerations; Also a post mortem on Hurricane Harvey
25 Jan 2018Lunch & Learn - Infinite Memory Engine® (IME®): Accelerating Application and File Systems to make Clusters More Predictable
26 Oct 2017Lunch & Learn - Machine Learning 101: “What do I need to learn before I can make my machine learn?”
24 Aug 2017Lunch & Learn - Customer issues and challenges of greater technology choices for High Performance Computing clusters sponsored by Lenovo
11 May 2017Lunch & Learn - Dave Montana - Red Hat: The 10 Layers to Container Security
11 Apr 2017Lunch & Learn - IBM Weather Company and OpenPower
09 Mar 2017Lunch & Learn - Right Sizing HPC Resources for Local and Cloud Resources
09 Feb 2017Lunch & Learn - UAS Sensors and Applications
12 Jan 2017Lunch & Learn - HPC Systems - Not a good fit for most IT departments?
7 Dec 2016SHPCP Annual Meeting – Edging my way to Exascale
08 Nov 2016Lunch & Learn - Deep Learning Platform for Seismic Data Analytics
06 Oct 2016Lunch & Learn - Visualization Infrastructure at the Campus Scale
08 Sep 2016Lunch & Learn - The Future of High Performance and Supercomputing and the Geoscience Computing SIG
23 Jun 2016Lunch & Learn - SequenceL Overview and Customer Use Cases
26 May 2016Lunch & Learn - Using Storage Class Memory
28 Apr 2016Lunch & Learn - The Real World of Emerging Memories
24 Mar 2016Lunch & Learn - You Need to Do What Now? Working with Multi-Terabyte Data Sets
25 Feb 2016Lunch & Learn - IME: Breaking free from I/O bottlenecks with Burst Buffer technology
2 Dec 2015SHPCP Annual Technical Meeting – HPC in Cybersecurity
24 Sep 2015Lunch & Learn - Cybersecurity – It’s Not Just for System Administrators
25 Jun 2015Lunch & Learn - Developing innovative FLASH platforms for the in-memory computing era
28 May 2015Lunch & Learn - Getting the Most Out of Flash Storage
23 Apr 2015Lunch & Learn - Accelerating Applications: The Enduring Goal of Exploiting Parallelism in HPC Technical Software
26 Mar 2015Lunch & Learn - Cluster Manager – Ease of cluster deployment and management for High Performance Computing, Data Center and Technical Computing environments
26 Feb 2015Lunch & Learn - Visualization Infrastructure at the Campus Scale
22 Jan 2015Lunch & Learn - Automata Processing: A Massively Parallel Computing Solution
3 Dec 2014SHPCP Annual Technical Meeting - HPC: Up Front & Personal
25 Sep 2014Lunch & Learn - Spark-Based Seismic Data Analytics Cloud
26 Jun 2014Lunch & Learn - Is your Company Configured for IT Success
22 May 2014Lunch & Learn - Build, Compute, Visualize: Cloud Computing and the path to HPC on Demand
24 Apr 2014Lunch & Learn - PCI Express
13 Mar 2014Lunch & Learn - HPC Topics hosted by University of Houston
27 Feb 2014Lunch & Learn - Using SequenceL™ to Quickly and Easily Develop Parallelized Applications that Utilize Both CPU and GPU Cores
23 Jan 2014Lunch & Learn - Optimizing RTM for Xeon Phi: Lessons Learned
22 Aug 2013Lunch & Learn - Visualization Prep for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 2013
25 Jul 2013Lunch & Learn - Application Development Tools
27 Jun 2013Lunch & Learn - Analytics
23 May 2013Lunch & Learn - The BIG Dog in the room: What part of HPC Cloud is Myth? What part is Reality?