Past Talks

Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2026 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Jul 26 - 30, 2026)

Time Location Event Speaker(s)

Monday, July 27

All times are in CDT
9:00AM - 12:30PM 101A & 101B

Principles and Practice of Scalable and Distributed Deep Neural Networks Training and Inference

[Tutorial]

N. Alnaasan
DK Panda
1:30PM - 5:00PM 200E

High-Performance and Smart Networking Technologies for HPC and AI

[Tutorial]

B. Michalowicz
DK Panda

Wednesday, July 29

All times are in CDT
1:30PM - 2:30PM Room 101I

ICICLE Software as Services for AI, CI, and Domain-Specific Needs

[BoF]

N. Savardekar
DK Panda

The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing - Cleveland, Ohio
(Jul 13 - 16, 2026)

Time Location Event Speaker(s)

Monday, July 13

9:00AM - 12:30PM Senior Classroom A

High-Performance and Smart Networking Technologies for HPC and AI

[Tutorial]

DK Panda
B. Michalowicz
1:30PM - 5:00PM Second Floor Conference Room

HAT-MPI: Hierarchical Auto Tuning of MPI Inter-Node Communication on InfiniBand Clusters

[Workshop]

B. Michalowicz
S. Lee
S. Tilford
DK Panda
1:30PM - 5:00PM Senior Classroom A

Principles and Practice of High Performance Deep Learning Training and Inference

[Tutorial]

DK Panda
N. Alnaasan

ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE 2026 - Hamburg Germany
(Jun 22 - 26, 2026)

Time Location Event Speaker(s)

Tuesday, June 23

5:45PM - 6:15PM Hall Z - 3rd Floor

Research Poster Award Session

[Talk]

DK Panda

Wednesday, June 24

3:00PM - 3:45PM Hall F - 2nd Floor

Research Poster Pitch

[Talk]

G. Kuncham
DK Panda
3:45PM - 5:15PM Foyer D-G - 2nd Floor

Understanding Buffer Allocation and Data Transfer Mechanisms on AMD MI300A APUs

[Poster Presentation]

G. Kuncham
S. Xu
3:45PM - 5:15PM Foyer D-G - 2nd Floor

NIMBLE: Node-Interconnect Multi-Path Balancing with On-the-fly Orchestration for High Bandwidth GPU Clusters

[Poster Presentation] [Best Research Poster Award]

DK Panda
J. Yao

Thursday, June 25

1:20PM - 1:40PM Hall E - 2nd Floor

Multi-Channel DMA-Accelerated MPI Intra-Node Communication: A Hybrid Adaptive Framework with Memory Copy Offloading

[Paper Presentation]

S. Xu
G. Kuncham
DK Panda
1:40PM - 2:00PM Hall E - 2nd Floor

Design and Implementation of Multi-Rail-Aware Hierarchical MPI Reduce-Scatter and Allgather Operations

[Paper Presentation]

C. Chen
J. Yao
DK Panda

40th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '26) - New Orleans, USA
(May 25 - 29, 2026)

Time Location Event Speaker(s)

Monday, May 25

8:30AM - 12:00PM Room K

High-Performance and Smart Networking Technologies for HPC and AI

[Tutorial]

DK Panda
B. Michalowicz

Tuesday, May 26

8:30AM - 12:00PM Room K

Principles and Practice of High Performance Deep Learning Training and Inference

[Tutorial]

DK Panda
N. Alnaasan
1:30PM - 2:30PM Salon D

Impact of AI on PDC Education Panel at the EduPar-26 Workshop

[Panel]

DK Panda

Thursday, May 28

1:30PM - 3:00PM Room F-G-H

From Skew to Symmetry: Node-Interconnect Multi-Path Balancing with Execution-time Planning for Modern GPU Clusters

[Talk]

J. Yao
K. Suresh
B. Ramesh
H. Subramoni
DK Panda
3:30PM - 5:00PM Room D

Design and Implementation of Casting Compression for GPU-Aware MPI Collectives

[Talk]

C. Chen
N. Contini
L. Xu
J. Queiser
H. Subramoni
DK Panda
5:00PM - 6:00PM Room D

One Memory-Many Paths: Early Experiences with Allocation and Data Copy Strategies on MI300A

[Talk] [Best Paper Award Finalist]

G. Kuncham
S. Zhang
DK Panda

NVIDIA GTC AI Conference 2026 - San Jose, California
(Mar 16 - 19, 2026)

Time Location Event Speaker(s)

Sunday, March 15

5:00PM - 7:00PM None

Design and Optimization of GPU-Aware MPI Allreduce Using Direct Sendrecv Communication

[Poster Presentation]

C. Chen
J. Yao
H. Subramoni
DK Panda
5:00PM - 7:00PM None

HyperSack: Resource-Aware Distributed Hyperparameter Optimization for Lightweight Vision and Language Models on NVIDIA GPU Systems

[Poster Presentation]

N. Alnaasan
DK Panda
5:00PM - 7:00PM None

Characterizing Communication Patterns in Distributed Large Language Model Inference

[Poster Presentation]

L. Xu
K. Suresh
Q. Anthony
N. Alnaasan
DK Panda