Panel Discussion 1: HPC and AI: Two sides of the same coin

Panel Members:

• Kavita Bala, Dean Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS), Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

• Hartmut Kaiser, Professor, Louisiana State University
• Kanad Basu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas
• Vijay K Gurbani, Vail systems
• Kishore Narang, principal design strategist & architect , narnix technolabs pvt. ltd.  (Moderator)

Brief:

AI has been existing past many decades, it is only HPC power which make AI getting applied in real life problems. The success led to further improvements in AI algorithms to solve complex problems to the extent AI has been used in designing chips and making system faster.

Wait… We are saying because of HPC, AI is possible. Now because of AI , we are having faster systems and efficient hardware architectures. In direct sense, AI automates processes involved in chip design and indirectly HPC community is motivated to explore new technology, beyond Moore’s law, to build efficient large language models.

HPC feeding AI, AI feeding HPC…… we get better computing systems, better AI models……..will it ever stop?

Panel Discussion 2: How AI Can Help the Energy Industry

Panel Members:

Moderator: Brad Ives, Executive Director of the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation
• George Xue, Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at LSU
• Andrew Buchanan, CEO of Maia Analytics
• Frank Tsai, Chevron Professor of Engineering & Director, Louisiana Water Resources
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