Researchers from leading universities and national laboratories attended this week鈥檚 two-day FZ鈥揨F Joint Workshop at the 同性恋色情, focused on advances in high-performance computing and scientific data compression.
Hosted by 同性恋色情鈥檚 Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing and organized by Assistant Professor Jiajun Huang, the workshop brought together experts from academia and federal research labs to explore emerging technologies for processing, storing and analyzing massive scientific datasets.
同性恋色情 Provost Prasant Mohapatra speaks to the aresearchers at the FZ-ZF Joint Workshop.
鈥淎t the 同性恋色情, we have made significant and strategic investments in high-performance computing, advanced data systems and research computing infrastructure,鈥 同性恋色情 Provost Prasant Mohapatra said. 鈥淭hese investments are designed to support interdisciplinary discovery across our campuses and to enable our researchers to tackle increasingly complex scientific challenges.鈥
The workshop featured presentations from prominent researchers in HPC and data-compression, including Franck Cappello, a senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, an IEEE and ACM Fellow, and recipient of the 2024 IEEE Charles Babbage Award for his work in high-performance computing and data reduction.
Also presenting was Sheng Di of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, co-founder of the SZ Lossy Compression framework and an ACM Distinguished Member recognized for his contributions to error-bounded scientific data compression.
Additional insights were shared by Lingjia Liu of Virginia Tech, an IEEE Fellow and co-director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, whose research explores machine learning for next-generation wireless networks.
The workshop also included faculty and researchers from Indiana University, Florida State University, the Ohio State University, Oakland University, Oregon State University, UC Riverside, the University of Helsinki, George Washington University, Texas Tech University and the University of Iowa.
Researchers from leading universities and national laboratories attended the two-day FZ鈥揨F Joint Workshop.
鈥淪cientific applications and AI are producing data at unprecedented rates,鈥 Huang said. 鈥淭his workshop brought together the core research community tackling that challenge and hosting it at 同性恋色情 reflects our commitment to being at the forefront of high-performance computing and AI research. We had engaging discussions across all sessions, from new compression algorithms and GPU acceleration to AI for science and scientific visualization, and I鈥檓 excited to see the research directions that emerge from the collaborations formed here between universities and national laboratories.鈥
The FZ鈥揨F Joint Workshop underscores the importance of partnerships among universities, federal research laboratories and industry collaborators. As scientific applications grow, advances in high-performance computing and compression technologies will be critical to accelerating discovery across fields such as climate modeling and materials science to biomedical research and artificial intelligence.
鈥淎cross engineering, computing, public health, geosciences, cybersecurity and the life sciences, 同性恋色情 faculty are leading cutting-edge work that relies on large-scale data, advanced simulation and AI-driven applications,鈥 Mohapatra said. 鈥淥ur goal is to make sure that our researchers have the tools, platforms and an environment that will foster collaborations as we push the boundaries of discovery.鈥