HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the field. Confirmed Distinguished Speakers Marc Hamilton (Nvidia VP of Solutions Architecture and Engineering) - GPU Accelerated Machine Learning Dr. Michael Rosenfield (IBM VP Data Centric Solutions) - Future Computing Systems Stan Reiss (Matrix Partners) - Brilliant Technologists Building Cool Stuff Prof. Julian Shun (MIT CSAIL) - Large-Scale Graph Processing Mark Hamilton (Microsoft) - Microsoft MLSpark: Unifying Machine Learning Ecosystems at Massive Scales Jaya Shankar (Mathworks) - Deploying High-Performance Deep Learning Applications Prof. Yunsi Fei (Northeastern University) - Evaluating Fault Resilience of Compressed Deep Neural Networks Dr. Robert Freeman (Director, Research Technology Operations, Harvard Business School) Julie Ma (Project Leader, Northeast Cyberteam Initiative, MGHPCC) Special Events MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge GraphBLAS forum to define standard building blocks for graph algorithms; organizers: Dr. Timothy Mattson  (Intel); Dr. Scott McMillan (CMU SEI); Dr. Marcin Zalewski (PNNL) Julia Programming Language IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award Remote Sensing for Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief; organizers: Dr. John Aldridge, Dan Dumanis, Andrew Weinert (MIT LL) HPSEC: High Performance Secure Extreme Computing; organizer: Dr. Michael Vai (MIT LL) BRAIDS: Boosting Resilience through Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support; organizers: Dr. Alexia Schultz (MIT LL), Dr. Pierre Trepagnier (MIT LL), Dr. Igor Linkov (Corps of Engineers), Matthew Bates (Corps of Engineers) Bridging Quantum and High Performance Computing; organizer: Prof. Patrick Dreher (NC State Univ) Scaling HPC Education; organizers: Dr. Julie Mullen (MIT LLSC) and Lauren Milechen (MIT EAPS) Tutorials Introduction to SPIRAL; organizers: Franz Franchetti (CMU), Tze Meng Low (CMU), Mike Franusich (SpiralGen, Inc) Security Design of Mission-Critical Embedded Systems; organizers: Dr. Michael Vai (MIT LL) Computational Machine Learning 101; organizer: Prof. Raj Rao (University of Michigan) Building graph algorithms with the GraphBLAS; organizers: Dr. Timothy Mattson (Intel); Dr. Scott McMillan (CMU SEI); Dr. Aydin Buluc (LBNL); Dr. José Moreira (IBM); Carl Yang (UC Davis) Mathematics of Big Data & Machine Learning; organizer: Dr. Jeremy Kepner (MIT LLSC) A Quantum Computing Primer with Sample Programming Exercises; organizer: Prof. Patrick Dreher (NC State Univ) The technical committee seeks new presentations that clearly describe advances in high performance extreme computing technologies, emphasizing one or more of the following topics:

• Machine Learning • Graph Analytics & Network Science • Advanced Multicore Software Technologies • Advanced Processor Architectures • Automated Design Tools • Big Data & Distributed Computing • Big Data Meets Big Compute • Case Studies & Benchmarkingf of Applications • Cloud HPEC • Computing Technologies for Challenging Form Factors • ASIC & FPGA Advances

• Machine Learning • Graph Analytics & Network Science • Advanced Multicore Software Technologies • Advanced Processor Architectures • Automated Design Tools • Big Data & Distributed Computing • Big Data Meets Big Compute • Case Studies & Benchmarkingf of Applications • Cloud HPEC • Computing Technologies for Challenging Form Factors • ASIC & FPGA Advances