August 25, 2025

9:00: Opening
9:10: Keynote: Ivy Peng (KTH, Sweden) “Breaking Boundaries: Converging HPC and Cloud for the Next Era of Scalable Computing”
10:10: “Efficient FPGA-based GAN Accelerator Core for Edge-AI Platforms”, Cuong Pham-Quoc, Minh-Thu Le-Ngoc, Nhat Huynh-Trung and Thanh-Thien Do-Huu.
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
11:00: “Simplifying distributed workflows: A portable approach for Cloud and HPC”, Klaus Nölp and Lena Oden.
11:20: “HPC Software as a Service: A Flexible Approach to Data Logistics”, Laurent Morin, François Bodin and Germaine Nyastikor.
11:40: “A Holistic Approach to Complexity Management and Multidimensional Analysis in Computing Continuum”, Carlos Barrios Hernandez, Yves Denneulin and Frederic Le Mouel.
12:00: “Light Weight Scalable DevOps for Cloud Robotics”, Mohsen Seyedkazemi Ardebili and Andrea Bartolini.
12:20: Closing

Keynote Speaker: Ivy Peng (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Title: “Breaking Boundaries: Converging HPC and Cloud for the Next Era of
Scalable Computing”

Abstract: High-Performance Computing (HPC) has entered the Exascale era, a milestone marking the pinnacle of computational capability. As we look beyond, new challenges emerge: improving resource utilization, integrating disruptive technologies such as quantum computing, and meeting the diverse demands of complex workflows and machine learning applications. These trends expose the limitations of traditional static models in HPC and highlight the need for more adaptive and flexible computing paradigms. This talk will present an updated perspective on the convergence of HPC and Cloud computing, drawing on state-of-the-art solutions and real-world case studies. We will assess its feasibility as a path forward in the next Era, where breaking the boundaries between HPC and Cloud can deliver the best of both worlds: greater resource efficiency, dynamic adaptivity, and timely access to emerging computing hardware. Realizing this vision, however, requires addressing barriers, including virtualization overheads, performance variability, scheduling complexity, resilience, and application adaptation. As the last part of the talk, we will highlight ongoing efforts from system, middleware, and application levels to tackle these challenges.

Speaker: Ivy Peng is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, where she leads the Scalable Computing Group. Her research explores the cutting edge of large-scale parallel systems, with a particular focus on heterogeneous computing systems and the convergence of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud technologies. She is the Coordinator of the EU Horizon Project OpenCUBE, an initiative aimed at building open-source cloud services on European Processor Initiative (EPI) systems. Before joining KTH, she was a Computer Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in USA, and contributed to the Exascale Computing Project.