Salishan 2026 Program
Monday, April 27
4:30 pm : Registration opens
Session - "round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME,'"
Welcome/Keynote Address
5:00 pm : Random Access Submissions Open
6:00 pm : Welcome | Judy Hill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Keynote | Curiouser and Curiouser: Charting the HPC Future | Thomas Sterling, Texas Advanced Computing Center
7:00 pm : Reception and Informal Discussions
Session - "round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME,'"
Welcome/Keynote Address
5:00 pm : Random Access Submissions Open
6:00 pm : Welcome | Judy Hill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Keynote | Curiouser and Curiouser: Charting the HPC Future | Thomas Sterling, Texas Advanced Computing Center
7:00 pm : Reception and Informal Discussions
Tuesday, April 28
7:30 am : Breakfast
Session I - "We're all mad here!"
Applications of the Future
Session Chair: Christoph Junghans, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:30 am : A Balancing Act: Energy, Performance, and Resource Efficiency in HPC | Estela Suarez, Juelich Supercomputing Centre
9:00 am : Burning Through Exascale: Reactive Flow Simulation, AI Surrogates, and the Road to
Combustion Digital Twins | Kyle Niemeyer, Oregon State University
9:30 am : A Very Long, Very Mad Tea Party: Reflections on Two Decades of Developing Code for Advancing HPC Architectures | Brian Ryujin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:00 am : Break
10:30 am : From Permanent Holdings to GPU Node Local Drives: Orchestrating Data Across Multi-Site, Multi-UID Silo Environments
| David Flynn, Hammerspace
11:00 am : Panel Discussion
12:00 pm: Lunch
Session II - "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Software as a Thread
Session Chair: Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratories
1:30 pm : Architecting Collaboration: Evaluating Open Source Models in HPC | Tony James, RedHat
2:00 pm : Open Source or Bust: The Future of HPC Libraries is Collaborative! | Christian Trott, Sandia National Laboratories
2:30 pm : Beware the Jabberwock: Open Software for a Heterogeneous HPC Future | Nick Malaya, AMD
3:00 pm : Break
3:30 pm : Through the Computational Looking Glass: Fundamentals in Scientific Software Past, Present, and Future | Mike Heroux, ParaTools, Inc.
4:00 pm : Panel Discussion
5:00 pm : Random Access Submissions Close
6:00 pm : Dinner
Can We Predict Tsunamis in Real Time? | Omar Ghattas, University of Texas, Austin
Session I - "We're all mad here!"
Applications of the Future
Session Chair: Christoph Junghans, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:30 am : A Balancing Act: Energy, Performance, and Resource Efficiency in HPC | Estela Suarez, Juelich Supercomputing Centre
9:00 am : Burning Through Exascale: Reactive Flow Simulation, AI Surrogates, and the Road to
Combustion Digital Twins | Kyle Niemeyer, Oregon State University
9:30 am : A Very Long, Very Mad Tea Party: Reflections on Two Decades of Developing Code for Advancing HPC Architectures | Brian Ryujin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:00 am : Break
10:30 am : From Permanent Holdings to GPU Node Local Drives: Orchestrating Data Across Multi-Site, Multi-UID Silo Environments
| David Flynn, Hammerspace
11:00 am : Panel Discussion
12:00 pm: Lunch
Session II - "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Software as a Thread
Session Chair: Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratories
1:30 pm : Architecting Collaboration: Evaluating Open Source Models in HPC | Tony James, RedHat
2:00 pm : Open Source or Bust: The Future of HPC Libraries is Collaborative! | Christian Trott, Sandia National Laboratories
2:30 pm : Beware the Jabberwock: Open Software for a Heterogeneous HPC Future | Nick Malaya, AMD
3:00 pm : Break
3:30 pm : Through the Computational Looking Glass: Fundamentals in Scientific Software Past, Present, and Future | Mike Heroux, ParaTools, Inc.
4:00 pm : Panel Discussion
5:00 pm : Random Access Submissions Close
6:00 pm : Dinner
Can We Predict Tsunamis in Real Time? | Omar Ghattas, University of Texas, Austin
Wednesday, April 29
7:30am : Breakfast
Session III - "It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
AI Agentic Workflows
Session Chair: Mike Mason, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:00 am : Random Access Voting Opens
8:30 am : URSA — Universal Research and Scientific Agent | Nathan Debardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:00 am : From AI Tools to Research Partners: How Agentic AI is Accelerating Discovery | Bill Magro, Google
9:30 am : Beyond the Deployment: What We Learned Bringing Frontier AI to HPC | Amanda Bullock, OpenAI
10:00 am : Break
10:30 am : Agentic AI for Multiphysics Code Development and Simulation | Rob Rieben, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:00 am : Random Access Voting Closes
11:00 am : Panel Discussion
5:00 pm : Random Access
Poster Session Participants:
Session III - "It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
AI Agentic Workflows
Session Chair: Mike Mason, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:00 am : Random Access Voting Opens
8:30 am : URSA — Universal Research and Scientific Agent | Nathan Debardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:00 am : From AI Tools to Research Partners: How Agentic AI is Accelerating Discovery | Bill Magro, Google
9:30 am : Beyond the Deployment: What We Learned Bringing Frontier AI to HPC | Amanda Bullock, OpenAI
10:00 am : Break
10:30 am : Agentic AI for Multiphysics Code Development and Simulation | Rob Rieben, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:00 am : Random Access Voting Closes
11:00 am : Panel Discussion
5:00 pm : Random Access
- Michela Taufer - Down the Rabbit Hole of Reproducible AI
- Matthias Troyer - Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Shor’s Threat Gets Real
- Tom Stitt - Just In Time for El Capitan
- Torsten Hoefler - Co‑Design in Action: Achieving 99.96% Efficiency with Microsoft’s Software‑Defined Dataflow AI Accelerator
- David Keyes - Prompt Engineering for HPC Vibe Coding
- Andrew Baczewski - One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small...
- Break
- Kwasi Ankomah - Building Reliable Scientific Agents with Open Models and Trace-Based Learning
- Nicholas A Jones: Can we treat a supercomputer as code?
- Wonsuk Lee - Unexplained success of LLMs - softmax attention at the core
- Glenn K. Lockwood - AI doesn't need giant supercomputers after all
- Andrew Jones - What is the biggest supercomputer that can be built?
- Ian Karlin - HPL: A Good Thing Gone Astray
Poster Session Participants:
- Jay Ashworth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Flux Fiction: Hopping Toward Storage Graph Scheduling with El Capitan's Rabbits - Portia Cooper, University of Arizona
Versatile Extraction of Relations for Building Ontologies Using Scientific Domains - Cameron Durbin, University of Oregon
An MLIR Compilation Framework for Analog Compute-in-Memory Accelerators - Moon Hazarika, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Numerical Investigation of Radiation Hydrodynamic Instabilities at Scale with FleCSI-HARD - Kendric Hood, Kent State University
SNN-Based Gunshot Recognition in Low-PowerIoT Sensor Networks - Shawn Shankar, Tennessee Technological University
HPC-HUYGENS: SVM-based Node Synchronization in MPI - Christine Tseng, Brown University
Second-Order Explicit-Implicit-Null (EIN) Time Stepping for Anisotropic Diffusion
Thursday, April 30
7:30 am : Breakfast
Session IV - "What a curious plan!"
Navigating the Quantum Frontier
Session Chair: Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories
8:30 am : The State of Classical Software for Quantum Computers | Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:00 am : Infrastructure and Ecosystem Considerations for Quantum-Included Supercomputing Readiness| Laura Schulz, Argonne National Laboratory
9:30 am : Benchmarking Quantum Computers' Capabilities into the Future with QUOPS | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories
10:00 am : Break
10:30 am : Defining the Quantum-GPU Supercomputer | Elica Kyoseva, NVIDIA
11:00 am : Panel Session
12:00 pm : Lunch
Session V - "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
Panel: Navigating Uncertainty
Moderator: David Richards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Panelists: Katie Antypas, NSF; Thuc Hoang, NNSA; Andrew Jones, Microsoft; David Keyes, KAUST; Michael Krajecki, GENCI
1:30 pm : Panelist Introduction and Opening Statements
2:30 pm : Panelist Q&A
3:30 pm : Break
4:00 pm : Panelist Q&A
5:00pm : Closing Reception and Informal Discussions
Session IV - "What a curious plan!"
Navigating the Quantum Frontier
Session Chair: Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories
8:30 am : The State of Classical Software for Quantum Computers | Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:00 am : Infrastructure and Ecosystem Considerations for Quantum-Included Supercomputing Readiness| Laura Schulz, Argonne National Laboratory
9:30 am : Benchmarking Quantum Computers' Capabilities into the Future with QUOPS | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories
10:00 am : Break
10:30 am : Defining the Quantum-GPU Supercomputer | Elica Kyoseva, NVIDIA
11:00 am : Panel Session
12:00 pm : Lunch
Session V - "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
Panel: Navigating Uncertainty
Moderator: David Richards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Panelists: Katie Antypas, NSF; Thuc Hoang, NNSA; Andrew Jones, Microsoft; David Keyes, KAUST; Michael Krajecki, GENCI
1:30 pm : Panelist Introduction and Opening Statements
2:30 pm : Panelist Q&A
3:30 pm : Break
4:00 pm : Panelist Q&A
5:00pm : Closing Reception and Informal Discussions