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| PASC Conference | |
|---|---|
| Name | PASC Conference |
| Type | Conference |
| Established | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Zurich |
| Region | International |
PASC Conference
PASC Conference is an international forum that convenes researchers, engineers, policymakers, and industry representatives to discuss advances in high-performance computing, computational science, and data-driven modeling. The meeting draws participants from institutions such as ETH Zurich, ETH Board, European Commission, National Science Foundation, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and from projects connected to HPC Wales, PRACE, XSEDE, and CERN. It emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration among communities represented by IEEE, ACM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and European Space Agency.
PASC Conference acts as a nexus connecting practitioners from Max Planck Society, Fraunhofer Society, Swiss National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt with stakeholders from Siemens, IBM, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, and Google. Typical activities include plenary talks, poster sessions, tutorials, and workshops involving speakers affiliated with University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and University of California, Berkeley. The program often features themes linked to initiatives such as Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, Graph500, and Top500.
The conference was founded in the mid-2000s amid efforts by Swiss and European organizations, including ETH Zurich, EPFL, European Commission, and the CSCS. Early editions included collaborations with European Grid Infrastructure, PRACE, and DEISA and hosted keynote speakers from Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Over time the meeting expanded to include partnerships with industry leaders such as Cray Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft Research, and research groups from Princeton University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Columbia University.
Governance typically involves an international advisory board composed of representatives from ETH Board, Swiss National Science Foundation, European Research Council, PRACE, CSCS, and partner universities including University of Zurich and University College London. Program committees have included members from Imperial College London, EPFL, Technical University of Munich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Politecnico di Milano. Sponsorship agreements and organizational logistics are handled in coordination with bodies such as European Commission, Swiss Confederation, CERN, European Space Agency, and corporate partners including Intel Corporation and NVIDIA.
Annual meetings have taken place at venues like ETH Zurich, EPFL, University of Geneva, Palais des Congrès de Genève, and occasionally alongside larger events such as Supercomputing Conference and SC. Sessions have featured sessions chaired by researchers from University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, RWTH Aachen University, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Special workshops and satellite events have included collaborations with Graphene Flagship, Human Brain Project, International Space Station, and European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Research presented spans numerical algorithms, scalable software, and applications in fields represented by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, and European Southern Observatory. Topics include performance optimization informed by work at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, machine learning methods related to DeepMind and OpenAI, data management influenced by CERN experiments, and distributed computing architectures paralleling research at Google DeepMind and Microsoft Research. Contributions often cite benchmarks and standards such as Top500 and Graph500 and align with roadmaps from PRACE and ESFRI.
PASC Conference secures partnerships with national and international agencies including Swiss National Science Foundation, European Commission, Horizon Europe, European Research Council, and research infrastructures like PRACE and CSCS. Corporate sponsorship has come from Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Siemens, along with collaborations with academic consortia such as LUMI Consortium, Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, and National Computational Infrastructure (Australia). Memoranda of understanding have sometimes referenced collaborations with European Space Agency and OECD science initiatives.
The conference is cited by researchers at ETH Zurich, EPFL, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, and Princeton University as influential in shaping agendas for computational research funding and infrastructure planning, including initiatives by European Commission and national funding bodies like National Science Foundation. Coverage of plenary talks and awardees has appeared in outlets referencing Nature, Science, and Communications of the ACM, and has influenced roadmap reports from PRACE, ESFRI, and HPC Wales. Community feedback from participants affiliated with University of Zurich, Technical University of Munich, EPFL, and industry partners such as Intel Corporation and NVIDIA highlights its role in fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and translational projects.