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| HPC User Forum | |
|---|---|
| Name | HPC User Forum |
| Type | Non-profit consortium |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Region | International |
| Focus | High performance computing advocacy and coordination |
| Headquarters | United States |
HPC User Forum The HPC User Forum is an international consortium that brings together stakeholders from industry, national laboratories, academia, and government to coordinate procurement, deployment, and best practices for high performance computing systems. It facilitates collaboration among vendors, facility operators, research institutions, and standards bodies to align strategies related to supercomputing, exascale development, and advanced simulation platforms.
The Forum convenes representatives from major entities such as Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, CERN, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, NERSC, RIKEN, CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), DEISA, PRACE, EuroHPC, DOE, NSF, DARPA, NASA, NOAA, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Cray Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Huawei, ARM Holdings, Microsoft Research, Google Research, Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud, Atos, Siemens, Bosch, Toyota Research Institute, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Sixty North, Schrödinger, Inc., Ansys, Adobe Systems, Schlumberger, ExxonMobil, Chevron Corporation, BP, General Electric, Siemens Healthineers, Pfizer, Moderna, GSK plc, Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, BASF, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Mellanox Technologies, OpenAI, DeepMind, Institute for Advanced Study participate in cross-sector dialogues about procurement cycles, lifecycle support, and operational interoperability.
The Forum was established in the late 1990s during a period marked by collaborations among institutions such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and vendors like Cray Inc. to address joint procurement and support challenges during the transition from terascale to petascale computing. Early milestones involved coordination with DOE initiatives, engagement with European efforts such as PRACE and DEISA, and alignment with industrial users like ExxonMobil and Boeing. Over successive decades it has interacted with major programs including Project at NERSC, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility upgrades, and exascale projects tied to Fujitsu and HPE. Key participants have included laboratory directors from Argonne National Laboratory and chief technologists from IBM and Intel.
Membership spans national laboratories, commercial vendors, academic centers, and governmental research agencies. Governance involves steering committees composed of representatives from DOE, NSF, NASA, DARPA, leading laboratories like Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and vendors including NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Advisory boards have featured representatives from PRACE, EuroHPC, CERN, RIKEN, CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), and major universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London. Financial support and in-kind contributions come from corporations like IBM, Microsoft Research, Amazon Web Services, Google, Fujitsu, and Lenovo.
The Forum organizes semi-annual meetings that rotate among sites including national laboratories and vendor campuses. Meetings have been hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CERN, RIKEN, Fujitsu facilities, and vendor sites for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel. Agendas typically cover topics aligned with programs from DOE and NSF, procurement strategies used by EuroHPC and PRACE, and technology roadmaps from NVIDIA, AMD, IBM, and Fujitsu. Sessions have included panels with leaders from DARPA, NASA, NOAA, Ansys, Schlumberger, ExxonMobil, and university computing centers such as Texas Advanced Computing Center and National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Working groups address procurement best practices, system integration, software ecosystems, benchmarking, resilience, and workforce development. Initiatives have interfaced with standards and communities including OpenMP, MPI Forum, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Linux Foundation, and projects led by US Ignite, Lightweight Technologies Consortium, Interoperable Open Standards Alliance. Collaborative efforts have involved vendors like NVIDIA and Intel, laboratories such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, and academic partners like MIT and Stanford University to tackle exascale software stacks, performance portability, and energy-aware computing.
The Forum has influenced procurement strategies used by national agencies and consortia including DOE procurement cycles, PRACE allocations, EuroHPC procurements, and laboratory acquisition policies at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It has contributed to best-practice documents adopted by centers like NERSC, TACC, NCSA, and Fujitsu customer engagements, and informed vendor roadmaps at HPE, IBM, Cray Inc., NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD. Outreach efforts have supported workforce programs in partnership with universities such as University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ETH Zurich, and industrial training initiatives with Siemens and Boeing. The Forum’s convening power has linked major projects like exascale deployments, national lab collaborations, and multinational initiatives such as PRACE and EuroHPC.
Argonne National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories CERN PRACE EuroHPC DOE NSF DARPA NASA NERSC Texas Advanced Computing Center National Center for Supercomputing Applications Fujitsu Hewlett Packard Enterprise IBM Intel NVIDIA AMD Cray Inc. RIKEN CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ETH Zurich Imperial College London Microsoft Research Google Research Amazon Web Services Schlumberger ExxonMobil Boeing Siemens Ansys Schrödinger, Inc. Pfizer Moderna Roche Novartis GlaxoSmithKline BASF Dow Chemical Company DuPont Mellanox Technologies
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