Manikya Swathi Vallabhajosyula

Manikya Swathi Vallabhajosyula

A 5th year Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University

ISC HPC 2025 — ICICLE at the Intersection of AI, Supercomputing, and Societal Impact

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The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC HPC) 2025, held June 10–13 at the Congress Center Hamburg, marked the 40th anniversary of one of the world’s premier events in high-performance computing, AI, data analytics, and quantum computing. With over 3,500 attendees and a theme of “Connecting the Dots,” the conference brought together global researchers, engineers, and policymakers united around the future of intelligent, sustainable computing.

ICICLE @ ISC: Posters, Talks, and Smart Infrastructure

Set against the backdrop of Hamburg — Germany’s maritime gateway, home to the iconic Elbphilharmonie concert hall and the UNESCO-listed Speicherstadt warehouse district — the conference offered not just technical depth but cultural inspiration.

I had the pleasure of presenting ICICLE research across three tracks — Women in HPC, Research Posters, and Project Showcases — in collaboration with Dr. Karen Tomko:

  • WHPC Poster: Motivated by Challenges: Harnessing AI to Revolutionize Resource Management and Workflow Management in High-Performance Computing
  • Research Poster: Intelligence Plane: A Framework for Machine Learning Application Life-cycle Management
  • Project Poster: Hybrid Black-Box and White-Box Approaches for Efficient Resource Prediction for AI Workloads in High-Performance Computing

Each poster was accompanied by a lightning talk sharing ICICLE’s contributions to AI-driven resource scheduling and runtime optimization across edge-to-HPC environments.

Spotlight: Responsible AI and Agriculture

Having attended the ICICLE Seminar featuring Dr. Manish Parashar, I was deeply inspired by his talk on “Harnessing Responsible AI for Science Discovery, Innovation, and Impact.” His emphasis on democratizing AI and building inclusive, transdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure resonated with ICICLE’s mission — and it was exciting to hear his perspective again at ISC HPC 2025 during the BoF session “Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing.”

The discussion focused on how HPC, AI, and distributed systems can enhance resilience through yield prediction, supply chain optimization, and precision breeding — while bridging the gap between edge devices and national supercomputing infrastructure.

A Panel That Hit Close to Home

One session that stood out was “Is HPC Energy Efficiency All About Hardware?” — a theme that directly complements our ICICLE research. The panel posed critical questions: Is energy optimization solely a hardware challenge, or must we adopt software-driven strategies for smarter, more sustainable computing?

These are precisely the questions we confront developing AI-driven edge model planners and energy-aware schedulers. It was validating to see global researchers — hardware architects, software developers, and AI engineers — united around the same goal.

Workshops & Tutorials: Personal Favorites

The final day of ISC is always my favorite — dedicated to hands-on workshops with smaller, focused groups. Highlights:

  • “First International Workshop on Foundational Large Language Model Advances for HPC” — exploring how LLMs can support code generation, compiler optimization, and parallel performance tuning.
  • “Leveraging and Evaluating LLMs for HPC Research” — practical insights into tailoring LLMs for scientific workflows, bridging usability, performance, and scalability.
  • “Flux: Next-Generation Workload Management for HPC and Cloud” — Flux’s graph-based architecture and database-driven scheduling resonated strongly with our Smart Scheduler work under ICICLE’s Ai4CI effort.

Final Thoughts

ISC HPC 2025 was more than a conference — it was a dynamic convergence of vision, innovation, and purpose. From agricultural resilience to energy-efficient AI, and from LLMs in science to the evolution of workload scheduling, every session helped bridge disciplines, technologies, and communities. I left Hamburg more confident than ever that collaborative, responsible design — across software, hardware, and societal systems — is what drives impactful innovation.

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