19th ADAC Symposium and Workshop
Host: FZJ – Forschungszentrum Jülich
Location: Cologne, Germany
ADAC19 Symposium Date: September 1 & 2, 2026
Venue: Mondial Am Dom Hotel Cologne
Attendance to the ADAC19 Symposium is open. Registration link here: https://evis.events/event/662/registrations/
The theme of the Symposium will be “Open Paths to High Performance”.
ADAC19 Workshop Dates: September 3 & 4, 2026
Venue: Mondial Am Dom Hotel Cologne
Hotel: The event will take place at the Mondial Hotel in Cologne, Germany. The “keyword” for booking the hotel is “ADAC”; but one should do it through the attached form.
Attendance to the ADAC19 Workshop is strictly by invitation only. Registration details will be provided in the invitation email.
ADAC19 SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Monday, August 31, 2026- Haydn Room
TIME | Governance Board (GB) Meeting | MODERATOR |
12:00-17:00 | Location: Mondial – Closed to only the GB members- Haydn Room | |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
13:00-14:30 | GB Meeting | Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
14:30-15:00 | Break | |
15:00-17:00 | GB Meeting | Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
| 17:00 | Adjourn | |
Tuesday, September 1, 2026- Beethoven Room
TIME | DESCRIPTION | PRESENTER/MODERATOR |
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08:00 | Registration | Front Desk |
08:25 | Welcome & Opening | Andreas Herten, FZJ Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL |
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08:30-09:30 | Keynote: Supercomputing in Jülich: Quo Vadis? | Thomas Lippert, FZJ |
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09:30-10:00 | HPC in Latin America | Philippe Navaux, UFRGS |
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10:00 | Break | |
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10:30-11:00 | Understanding and modeling crowds at scale | Fabian Plum, FZJ |
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11:00-11:30 | HPC in Transition: The CINECA Experience in the AI Era | Gabriella Scipione, CINECA |
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11:30-12:00 | The Open Data & AI Stack: Freedom of Choice in the Age of AI | Vendor Presentation: Bull byAlper Teke |
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12:00-13:00 | Working Lunch | |
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13:00-13:30 | Future Prospects of Quantum and HPC Integration: Evolving Capabilities and Requirements | Olli Mukkula, CSC |
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13:30-14:00 | Accelerated Building Blocks for Next Generation HPC+AI Workloads | Vendor Presentation: NVIDIA by Heidi Poxon |
14:00-17:00 | Presentation of the tour plan & quick introduction to the topics –> Departure at 14:15 & trip by bus to the FZJ facility –> Arrival by 15:00 –> Tour of Jülich | Andreas Herten |
17:00 | Break | |
17:15-18:30 | Trip by bus back to Köln | Andreas Herten |
19:00-20:30 | Dinner & Social Networking Event @ the Ludwig im Museum : https://www.ludwig-im-museum.de/feste-veranstaltungen.html | Andreas Herten |
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20:30 | Adjourn Day 1 | |
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026- Beethoven Room
TIME | DESCRIPTION | PRESENTER/MODERATOR |
08:00 | Registration | Front Desk |
08:25 | Welcome & Opening | Andreas Herten, FZJ Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL |
08:30-09:30 | Keynote: Heterogeneous Partitions on a Shared Infrastructure, Operating Alps with the vCluster Technology | Maxime Martinasso, ETH Zurich/ CSCS |
09:30-10:00 | New Frontiers of Sciences by Integration of (HPC/AI/QC) | Kengo Nakajima, U Tokyo |
10:00 | Break | |
10:30-11:00 | Compilers and Tools: Risks, Challenges, and Collaboration Opportunities | Wael Elwasif, ORNL |
11:00-11:30 | Past, present and future of HPC at ECMWF | Ioan Hadade, ECMWF |
11:30-12:00 | Doing More Science with Fewer Watts | Arthur Lorenzon, UFRGS |
12:00 | Working Lunch | |
13:00-14:00 | Keynote: How Convergence of AI, HPC, and Geospatial Science Changed the Map | Budhu Bhaduri, ORNL |
14:00-14:30 | Emulating flexible precision with Ozaki-II in iterative methods: the case of the ChASE library | Clement Richefort |
14:30-15:00 | Building an Open HPC Ecosystem: C-DAC’s Vision from Silicon to Software | Deepika H V, C-DAC |
15:00 | Break | |
15:30-16:00 | AI for Science to the Next Level: Compute, Open Software, and Impact | Vendor Presentation: AMD by Samuel Antao |
16:00-16:30 | Exascale simulations and AI applied to plasma fusion research | Dorian Midou, CEA |
16:30-17:00 | IBM Research perspective on Quantum, HPC and Storage | Vendor Presentation: IBM by Robert Haas |
17:00-17:30 | Supporting Science at OLCF in the Post-Exascale Era | Verónica Melesse Vergara, ORNL |
17:30-18:00 | Recent HPC Technologies for AI Training and Inference | Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
| | Symposium Adjourn | |
ADAC19 AMD VENDOR ENGAGEMENT SESSION
Thursday, September 3, 2026
TIME | Vendor Engagement | LOCATION |
09:00 | AMD: Task Force Software Stack-Agenda | Beethoven |
10:30 | Break | |
11:00 | AMD: Task Force Software Stack | Beethoven |
12:00 | Adjourn Vendor Engagement Sessions | |
12:00-13:00 | Working Lunch | |
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ADAC19 NVIDIA VENDOR MEETING- By invitation only
Thursday, September 3, 2026
TIME | Vendor Meeting- Closed To Invited Guests | LOCATION |
15:00-17:00 | ADAC-NVIDIA Kick-off Meeting at ADAC19 | TBD |
| Adjourn NVIDIA Engagement Meeting | |
ADAC19 WORKSHOP AGENDA
Thursday, September 3, 2026- Beethoven Room
TIME | DESCRIPTION | PRESENTER |
12:00-13:00 | Working Lunch | |
13:00 | Welcome & Opening | Andreas Herten, FZJ |
13:10 | Remarks from the Governance Board | Thomas Schulthess, ETH/CSCS |
| | ADAC Working Group Reports | PRESENTER |
13:20 | Applications & Benchmarks | Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
13:25 | Federated Learning & AI | Jason Haga, AIST |
13:30 | Portability, Sustainability & Integration | Keita Teranishi, ORNL |
13:35 | System Management | Akihiro Nomura, ISc Tokyo |
13:40 | Quantum Computing | Mikael Johansson, CSC |
13:45 | Training, Outreach & Workforce Development | Kengo Nakajima, U Tokyo |
13:50 | Task Force Software Stack | Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL |
14:00 | Design and development of asynchronous algorithms for solving the neutron transport equation on massively parallel and heterogeneous architectures | Antoine Kempf, CEA |
14:30 | Contributing to Kokkos | Cedric Chevalier, CEA |
15:00 | Break | |
| | ADAC Working Group Breakout Sessions | LOCATION |
15:30-17:00 | Applications & Benchmarks | Beethoven |
| | Federated Learning & AI | Brahms |
| | Portability, Sustainability & Integration | Haydn |
| | System Management | WS Room 1 |
| | Quantum Computing | WS Room 2 |
| | Training, Outreach & Workforce Development | Foyer Haydn
WS Area |
17:00 | Adjourn Day 1 | |
| | ADAC19 Workshop Dinner | LOCATION |
19:00 | Workshop Dinner, Workshop Participants & Guests | Gilden im Zims https://www.zims.de/en/about-us/ |
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Friday, September 4, 2026- Beethoven Room
TIME | DESCRIPTION | PRESENTER |
09:00 | Welcome & Opening | Andreas Herten, FZJ |
| | ADAC Working Group Breakout Sessions | LOCATION |
09:10-10:30 | Applications & Benchmarks | Beethoven |
| | Federated Learning & AI | Brahms |
| | Portability, Sustainability & Integration | Haydn |
| | System Management | WS Room 1 |
| | Quantum Computing | WS Room 2 |
| | Training, Outreach & Workforce Development | Foyer Haydn
WS Area |
10:30-11:00 | Break | |
11:00 | Applications & Benchmarks | Beethoven |
| | Federated Learning & AI | Brahms |
| | Portability, Sustainability & Integration | Haydn |
| | System Management | WS Room 1 |
| | Quantum Computing | WS Room 2 |
| | Training, Outreach & Workforce Development | Foyer Haydn
WS Area |
12:00 | Group Photograph | |
12:10 | Working Lunch | |
| | ADAC Working Group Reports | PRESENTER |
13:00 | Applications & Benchmarks | Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
13:15 | Federated Learning & AI | Jason Haga, AIST |
13:30 | Portability, Sustainability & Integration | Keita Teranishi, ORNL |
13:45 | System Management | Akihiro Nomura, ISc Tokyo |
14:00 | Quantum Computing | Mikael Johansson, CSC |
14:15 | Training, Outreach & Workforce Development | Kengo Nakajima, U Tokyo |
14:30-15:00 | Break | |
15:00 | Plenary Discussion | Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
15:30 | Remarks and Charge from Governance Board | Rio Yokota, ISc Tokyo |
15:40 | Announcing ADAC20 | Antigoni Georgiadou, ORNL |
15:50 | Closing Remarks | Andreas Herten, FZJ |
16:00 | Workshop Adjourn | |
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