[hpc-announce] LLM4HPC: The 1st International Workshop on Foundational Large Language Models Advances for HPC to be held in conjunction with ISC-HPC 2025 June 13th, 2025 Hamburg, Germany

[Valero Lara, Pedro]

LLM4HPC 2025: The 1st International Workshop on Foundational large Language Models Advances for HPC
to be held in conjunction with ISC-HPC 2025
13 June, 2025
Hamburg, Germany

-- Introduction
Since their development and release, modern Large Language Models (LLMs), such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model and the Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA), have come to signify a revolution in human-computer interaction spurred on by their high-quality results. LLMs have repaved this landscape thanks to unprecedented investments and enormous training models (hundreds of billions of parameters). The availability of LLMs has led to increasing interest in how they could be applied to a large variety of applications. The HPC community made recent research efforts to evaluate current LLM capabilities for some HPC tasks, including code generation, auto parallelization, performance portability, correctness, among others. All these studies concluded that state-of-the-art LLM capabilities have proven so far insufficient for these targets. Hence, it is necessary to explore novel techniques to further empower LLMs to enrich the HPC mission and its impact.

-- Call For Papers
-- Objectives, scope and topics of the workshop
This workshop objectives are focused on LLMs advances for any HPC major priority and challenge with the aims to define and discuss the fundamentals of LLMs for HPC-specific tasks, including but not limited to hardware design, compilation, parallel programming models and runtimes, application development, enabling LLM technologies to have more autonomous decision-making about the efficient use of HPC. This workshop aims to provide a forum to discuss new and emerging solutions to address these important challenges towards an AI-assisted HPC era. Papers are being sought on many aspects of LLM for HPC targets including (but not limited to):

- LLMs for Programming Environments and Runtime Systems
- LLMs for HPC and Scientific Applications
- LLMs for Hardware design (including non-von Neumann Architectures)
- Reliability/Benchmarking/Measurements for LLMs

-- Program
TBA

-- Important Dates
Paper submission deadline : March 7, 2025
Notification of acceptance : March 28, 2025
Camera-ready papers due : May 16, 2025
Workshop day: June 13, 2025

-- Steering Committee
Jeffrey S. Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Enrique Quintana Orti, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, USA

-- Organizers (Contact us)
Pedro Valero-Lara (chair)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
valerolarap at ornl.gov

Harshitha Menon (co-chair)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
harshitha at llnl.gov

Konstantinos Parasyris (co-chair)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
parasyris1 at llnl.gov

Daniel Lee Nichols (co-chair)
University of Maryland, USA
dnicho at umd.edu

-- Programme Committee
Samuel Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Gokcen Kestor, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Prasanna Balaprakash, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Rabab Alomairy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Johannes Blaschke, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Ramakrishnan (Ramki) Kannan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Olivier Aumage, INRIA, France
Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Johannes Doerfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Monil Mohammad Alaul Haque, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Simon Garcia De Gonzalo, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Diego Andrade Canosa, University of A Coruna, Spain
Tze-Meng Low, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dario Garcia Casulla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Michel Schanen, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Keita Teranishi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
William F. Godoy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Damian Rouson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jens Domke, RIKEN Center for Computational Science(R-CSS), Japan
Narasinga Rao Minskar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
Arjun Guha, Northeastern University, USA

-- Manuscript submission
We invite submissions of original, unpublished research and experiential papers. Papers should be between 6 to 12 pages in length (including a bibliography and appendices, with two possible extra pages after the review to address the reviewer’s comments), formatted according to Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All paper submissions will be managed electronically via ISC-HPC'25 website.

-- Proceedings
All accepted papers will be published in the ISC-HPC Workshops 2025 proceedings by SpringerLink.

-- Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award will be selected on the basis of explicit recommendations of the reviewers and their scoring towards the paper’s originality and quality.

- Invited Speaker (Prasanna Balaprakash, Oak Ridge National Laboratory):

Prasanna Balaprakash is the Director of AI Programs and a Distinguished R&D Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Balaprakash’s research interests span AI, machine learning, optimization, and high-performance computing. He received the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Award in 2018. He co-leads the research and development of DeepHyper, a scalable automated machine learning package for developing trustworthy and energy-efficient AI models on DOE leadership-class systems. He was an R&D Group Leader at Argonne. Balaprakash received his PhD in 2010 from CoDE-IRIDIA (AI Lab), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, where he was honored with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and F.R.S-FNRS Aspirant fellowships from the European Commission and the Belgian-French Community's National Fund for Scientific Research, respectively.

-- Registration
Information about registration at ISC-HPC 2025 website.