Conference Program

Day1 (19 February)
Latest updates:January 21,2025

Lily Room Tung Blossom Room Plum Blossom Room Junior Ballroom West Wing
08:30-17:10
Registration
09:00-12:30 Workshop-1

International Workshop on Arm-based HPC: Practice and Experience (IWAHPCE-2025)

Workshop-2

Multi-scale, Multi-physics, Coupled Problems and AI enhanced simulations on HPC (MMCP)

Workshop-3

International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC at HPC Asia 2025

Workshop-4

IXPUG Workshop at HPC Asia 2025

BALLROOM#2 BALLROOM#3
14:00-14:30

Opening Ceremony

Welcome Remarks

General Chair: Dr. Chau-Lyan Chang (Director General, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan)

Steering Committee Chair: Dr. Taisuke Boku (Professor, Universityof Tsukuba)

Distinguished Professor: Dr. Tzi-Dar Chiueh (Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University)

Exhibition
14:30-15:20

Invited Talk – 1

Theme: Innovation Driven by Advances in High-Performance Computing

Chair: Dr. Chau-Lyan Chang (Director General, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan)

Speaker: Dr. Jack Dongarra (Emeritus Professor, University of Tennessee Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

15:20-15:35 Coffee Break
15:35-17:10

Best Paper Finalists - 1
Moderator: Osamu Tatebe, Professor, University of Tsukuba

1. Scaling molecular dynamics for large-scale simulation of biological systems on AMD CPU/GPU supercomputers: Lessons from LUMI

Diego Ugarte La Torre (RIKEN Center for Computational Science), Jaewoon Jung (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research), Yuji Sugita (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research)

2. Dimensionality Reduction-based Interactive Visual Analytics Approach for Investigating Ensemble Weather Simulations

Go Tamura (Photron Limited), Sena Kobayashi (Kobe University), Naohisa Sakamoto (Kobe University), Yasumitsu Maejima (Kobe University), Jorji Nonaka (RIKEN R-CCS)

3. PBHS: A Prediction-Based Scheduler for Hyperparameter Tuning

Hong-Feng Yu (National Tsing Hua University), Jerry Chou (National Tsing Hua University)

BALLROOM#1
18:00-20:00 Welcome Dinner (BALLROOM#1)

Day2 (20 February)

BALLROOM#2 BALLROOM#3
08:30-17:35
Registration
09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks - Day 2 Exhibition
09:15-10:05

Invited Talk – 2

Theme: Intelligent Memory in Future High-Performance Computing

Chair:Dr. Jerry Chou (Distinguished Professor, National Tsing Hua University)

Speaker: Dr. Alex Tuo-Hung Hou (Director General, Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute)

10:05-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:55

Best Paper Finalists - 2
Moderator: Chih-Wei Yi, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

1. Revisiting Memory Swapping for Big-Memory Applications

Shun Kida (Keio University), Satoshi Imamura (Fujitsu Limited), Kenji Kono (Keio University)

2. PCIe Bandwidth-Aware Scheduling for Multi-Instance GPUs

Yan-Mei Tang (National Tsing Hua University), Wei-Fang Sun (NVIDIA AI Technology Center), Hsu-Tzu Ting (National Tsing Hua University), Ming-Hung Chen (IBM Research), I-Hsin Chung (IBM Research), Jerry Chou (National Tsing Hua University)

3. Scalable Dual Coordinate Descent for Kernel Methods

Zishan Shao (Duke University), Aditya Devarakonda (Wake Forest University)

11:55-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:20

Invited Talk – 3

Theme: Dataflow under the Von Neumann machine: A Destructive New under Existing Systems

Chair: Dr. Taisuke Boku (Professor, University of Tsukuba)

Speaker: Dr. Xian-He Sun (University Distinguished Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology)

14:20-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-17:35 Poster Session (BALLROOM#3)
18:00-20:00 Banquet (BALLROOM#1)

Day3 (21 February)

Lily Room Tung Blossom Room Plum Blossom Room BALLROOM#3
08:30-11:55
Registration
09:00-10:45 Research Paper-1

HPC Applications & Parallel Computing
Moderator: Tzu-I Tseng, Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing

1. Large Scale Ensemble Coupling of Non-hydrostatic Atmospheric Model NICAM

Takashi Arakawa (The University of Tokyo), Hisashi Yashiro (National Institute for Environmental Studies), Shinji Sumimoto (The University of Tokyo), Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo)

2. Accelerating General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations with GPUs

Ryohei Kobayashi (Institute of Science Tokyo), Hiroyuki R. Takahashi (Komazawa University), Akira Nukada (University of Tsukuba), Yuta Asahina (University of Tsukuba), Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba), Ken Ohsuga (University of Tsukuba)

3. Lattice QCD code on GPUs: Implementation and performance comparison with OpenACC and CUDA

Wei-Lun Chen (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)), Issaku Kanamori (RIKEN Center for Computational Science), Hideo Matsufuru (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI))

4. ITTPD: In-place Tensor Transposition with Permutation Decomposition on GPUs

Kai-Jung Cheng (National Tsing Hua University), Che-Rung Lee (National Tsing Hua University)

Research Paper-2

System Software
Moderator: Jerry Chou, Professor, National Tsing Hua University

1. When HPC Scheduling Meets Active Learning: Maximizing The Performance with Minimal Data

Jiheon Choi (Ajou University), Jaehyun Lee (Ajou University), Minsol Choo (Ajou University), Taeyoung Yoon (Ajou University), Oh-Kyoung Kwon (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Sangyoon Oh (Ajou University)

2. A Full-Path Priority Based Workflow Scheduling Approach

Wei-Cheng Tseng (National Taichung University of Education), Kai-Yang Rong (National Taichung University of Education), Kuo-Chan Huang (National Taichung University of Education

3. Qsync: Extending Simplified SMR Protocol with Partial Network Partition Tolerance

Aoi Kida (Keio University), Hideyuki Kawashima (Keio University)

Lightning Talk

(3F, Plum Blossom Room)
Moderator: Meng-Hsun Tsai, Deputy Director General, National Center for High-performance Computing

■ AMD

Topic: Performance with Sustainability for Converged Architecture HPC-AI IT Data Centers

Speaker: Siddhartha Karkare, Director of Server Software & System Development, AMD

■ SambaNova Systems

Topic: RDU: The GPU Alternative

Speaker: Kenichi Hayashi, Field Marketing Director, APJ

■ VAST Data

Topic: Introduction of VAST Data Platform: The Data Platform for HPC and AI

Speaker: James Chen, Senior Solutions Engineer, VAST Data

■ Intel

Topic: Porting and Scaling HPC/AI Applications with oneAPI

Speaker: Bo-Yuan Yao, Sr. AI Engineer

■ Seagate Technology

Topic: HPC x S3 Private Cloud: Building High-Performance Data Infrastructure with OSNexus, Seagate Exos AP, and Corvault

Speaker: Brian Chen, Seagate Senior Sales Manager

■ WEKA

Topic: Unleashing Computational Power: Driving the Future of AI and HPC

Speaker: Ray Wu, Senior Technical Consultant

Exhibition
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:55 Research Paper-3

Machine Learning, AI & Emerging Technologies
Moderator: Che-Rung Lee, Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University

1. Using a Large Language Model as a Building Block to Generate Usable Validation and Verification Suite for OpenMP

Swaroop Pophale (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Wael Elwasif (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David E. Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)>

2. Libra: A Python-Level Tensor Re-Materialization Strategy for Reducing Deep Learning GPU Memory Usage

Ling-Sung Wang (National Tsing Hua University), Sao-Hsuan Lin (National Tsing Hua University), Jerry Chou (National Tsing Hua University)

Research Paper-4

Processor, Accelerator & Network Architecture
Moderator: Kuo-Chan Huang, Professor, National Taichung University of Education

1. Fast Malicious Packets Inspection Framework Using Converged Accelerator

Chuan-Ming Ou (National Tsing Hua University), Yong-Xuan Huang (National Tsing Hua University), Ming-Hung Chen (IBM Research), I-Hsin Chung (IBM Research), Jerry Chou (National Tsing Hua University)

2. Lossy Compressed Collective Inter-FPGA Communications

Michihiro Koibuchi (National Institute of Informatics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Yoshinobu Ishida (NSW Inc), Shoichi Hirasawa (National Institute of Informatics), Yao Hu (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo), Takumi Honda (Fujitsu), Yusuke Nagasaka (Fujitsu), Naoto Fukumoto (Fujitsu)

Lightning Talk

(3F, Plum Blossom Room)
Moderator: Meng-Hsun Tsai, Deputy Director General, National Center for High-performance Computing

■ Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT)

Topic: Catalyzing the Convergence of HPC and AI Workloads with a Heterogeneous Acceleration Platform

Speaker: Stephen Chang, Associate Vice President

■ NVIDIA

Topic: Driving Scientific Breakthroughs with AI

Speaker: Gabriel Noaje, HPC Business Development Lead, NVIDIA Asia Pacific

■ Taiwan AI Service Corporation

Topic: AI@Taiwan: Demystifying AI Cluster - Design, Service and Workload

Speaker: Peter Wu, General Manager

11:55-14:15
Lunch
14:15-15:45

Closing Ceremony & Awards(BALLROOM#2)

Closing Remarks

General Chair: Dr. Chau-Lyan Chang (Director General, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan)

Program Chair: Dr. Jerry Chou (Distinguished Professor, National Tsing Hua University)

Steering Committee Chair: Dr. Taisuke Boku (Professor, University of Tsukuba)

Best Paper Award

Outstanding Paper Award

Best Student Poster Award

HPC Asia 2026 Announcement

General Chair HPC Asia 2026: Professor Hiroyuki Takizawa (Cyberscience Center, Tohoku Univeristy)

About Us

On behalf of HPC Asia 2025 committee and the NCHC-National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), it is our pleasure to welcome you to HPC Asia 2025, hosted in the vibrant city of Hsinchu, Taiwan. This year’s theme,“Chip-based Exploration and Innovation for HPC,” resonates deeply with Hsinchu's dual legacy of rich cultural heritage and cutting-edge technological advancements.

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