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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.

Keynote

• Dr. Jeff Nichols (Associate Director - Oak Ridge National Laboratory) - Delivering an Exascale Ecosystem for Science
• Prof. Charles Leiserson (ACM/AAAS/SIAM Fellow - MIT CSAIL) - The Emerging Field of Performance Engineering

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Jennifer Dy (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Northeastern) - Discovering Disease Subtypes from Data
• Prof. Peter Clote (Dept of Biology - Boston College) - High Performance Computing in RNA Bioinformatics
• Dr. Charles Patrick Collier (Air Force Research Laboratory) - SpaceVPX Embedded Computing to Meet the Demands of Space
• Prof. Tom Conte (Georgia Tech - President IEEE Computer Society) - The IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative
• Dr. Enoch Huang (Head of Computational Sciences Pfizer) - Pfizer's Computing
  Infrastructure for Molecular Design: use of HPC, the Cloud, and Service-Oriented Architecture
• Prof. Sertac Karaman (Dept of Aero/Astro - MIT) - TBD
• Dr. José Moreira (Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center ) - Graph Programming Interface
• Mr. Andreas Olofsson (CEO Adapteva) - Kickstarting Parallel Computing for the Masses
• Dr. Jag Shah (Senior Scientist - IDA) - Photonically-Optimized Graph Processors
• Prof. Tony Skjellum (Director - Auburn University Cyber Research Center) - Internet-of-Things Security and Forensics: A New Frontier of Risk and Reward
• Prof. Matei Zaharia (MIT CSAIL - Founder DataBricks) - Apache Spark: In Memory Big Data Analytics

Special Events

• Intel Science & Technology Center for Big Data; organizers: Prof. Mike Stonebraker (2015 Turing Award Winner - MIT CSAIL) & Dr. Tim Mattson (Principal Engineer - Intel)
  Guest speakers: Prof. Tim Kraska (Dept of Computer Science - Brown), Dr. Stavros Papadopoulos (Senior Research Scientist - Intel), Ms. Leilani Battle (MIT CSAIL), Mr. Brandon Myers (Dept of Computer Science - University of Washington),
• Bioinformatics & HPC; organizers: Prof. John Quackenbush (Harvard Dept of Biostatistics) & Prof. Wei Ding (Director - Knowledge Discovery Lab U.Mass Boston)
• System-on-Chip (SoC); organizer: Kurt Keville (MIT)
• High Performance Storage; organizer: Dr. Torben Petersen (Seagate)
• Accumulo user's group meeting; organizers: Mr. Adam Fuchs (Sqrrl) & Dr. Billie Rinaldi (Hortonworks) unconfirmed
• SciDB user's group meeting; organizer: Ms. Marilyn Matz (Paradigm4)
• Computing Challenges of Unmanned Platforms; organizer: Mr. Ken Gregson (MIT)
• GraphBLAS forum to define standard building blocks for graph algorithms; organizer: Dr. Aydin Buluc (Research Scientist - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• High Performance Secure Extreme Computing (HP SEC); organizers: Dr. Michael Vai (MIT) & Dr. George Kalb (Johns Hopkins)
• Massachusetts High Performance Computing; organizers: Dr. Chris Hill (Principal Research Engineer - MIT) & Prof. Hans Johnston (University of Massachusetts Department of Mathematics)
• Vector, Signal, and Image Processing Libary (VSIPL) standard working group; organizer: Prof. Tony Skjellum (Director - Auburn University Cyber Research Center)

Tutorials

• Mathematics of Big Data: Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs; instructors: Dr. Jeremy Kepner (MIT) & Mr. Hayden Jansen (MIT)
• Parallel Programming with OpenMP; instructor: Dr. Tim Mattson (Principal Engineer - Intel)
• Introduction to FPGA Programming; instructor: Dr. Cherif Chibane (MIT)

Demos

AHA Products Group
Annapolis
Curtis-Wright
Cyntony
Dynatem
FuturePlus
SpiralGen
X3-C