In the interest of everyone’s safety, IEEE HPEC 2020 will presented as a virtual conference.

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. 2020 Distinguished Speakers • Dr. Yudong Cao (Zapata Computing) - Advances in Algorithms for Near-Term Quantum Computers • Dr. Jeffrey Chou and Dr. Suraj Bramhavar (Sync Computing) - The Need for Hardware-Accelerated Combinatorial Optimization • Dr. John Feo (PNNL) - The Need for Integrated Analytic Platforms and Multithreaded Runtime Systems • Prof. Sigal Gottlieb (UMass Dartmouth Mathematics) - High Order Efficient Methods for Black Hole Simulations 2020 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) • 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 Schulz (MIT LL), Dr. Pierre Trepagnier (MIT LL), Dr. Igor Linkov (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) • AI Challenges; organizer: Dr. Vijay Gadepally (MIT LLSC) • Open SuperComputing forum; organizer: Kurt Keville (MIT LLSC) 2020 Tutorials • A Quantum Computing Primer with Sample Programming Exercises; organizer: Prof. Patrick Dreher (NC State Univ)