HPC Day
Overview
Join us for a full-day event on Friday, September 26, 2025, that is dedicated to showcasing the power of High Performance Computing (HPC) in research and education. It’s a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues, learn new skills, and explore the cutting-edge work happening across campus and beyond.
Held in the Watt Family Innovation Center, this year’s event will feature:
- Insightful keynote sessions from leading experts.
- Hands-on workshops to build your computing skills.
- Opportunities to showcase your research in our Poster Session and Lightning Talks.
- Critical Discussions on the future of research computing and HPC in education.
- Valuable networking with researchers, industry partners, and HPC support staff.
This event is for all faculty, students (undergraduate and graduate), researchers, and staff interested in the field of high performance computing (HPC).
Registration details coming soon; contact Carl Ehrett for more information.
Sessions
Getting Started with Palmetto
Hands-on Workshop
A fast-paced onboarding session for new users of Clemson’s Palmetto 2 cluster. Attendees will practice SSH access, module management, Slurm job submission, and file transfer, leaving with a first batch job successfully run.
HPC in Education
Workshop and Roundtable
An open forum for faculty and instructional staff to exchange ideas on bringing HPC concepts into coursework, share teaching resources, and discuss common challenges such as scaling assignments and supporting diverse student backgrounds. Learn more from the ACM SIGHPC Education Chapter.
Careers in HPC
Panel Discussion
Leaders from academia, national labs, and industry will outline career paths in system architecture, scientific application development, data engineering, and research management, followed by an interactive Q&A to help attendees map their own trajectories.
Speakers
Timo Heister, Ph.D.
Professor, Clemson University Math Department
Dr. Heister is an applied mathematician in Clemson’s School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences. His research centers on massively parallel adaptive finite-element methods and open-source HPC software, notably the deal.II library. He has led NSF-funded projects on geodynamics and scalable solver technology and regularly mentors students on Clemson’s Palmetto cluster.
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Dan Stanzione, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
A triple-Tiger alumnus (B.S. ’91 EE; M.S. ’93 & Ph.D. ’01 Computer Engineering, Clemson University), Dr. Stanzione oversees flagship NSF systems such as Frontera and the forthcoming Horizon. His 30-year career has focused on advancing open-science cyberinfrastructure and building HPC workforce pipelines nationwide.
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Frank Cappello, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Cappello leads R&D on resilience, data compression, and extreme-scale I/O at Argonne. A former CNRS/INRIA senior researcher, he founded the Grid’5000 test-bed and now heads data management efforts within the DOE Exascale Computing Project.
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Nathan DeBardeleben, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. DeBardeleben co-leads LANL’s Ultrascale Systems Research Center, specializing in system reliability and ML-driven fault tolerance. He earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Clemson and has been at Los Alamos since 2004.
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