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Talks & Insights7 min

The Modern HPC+AI Researcher: From Specialist to Orchestrator

The capability of artificial intelligence to undertake complex tasks is growing at a pace that defies easy extrapolation. For those of us who have spent careers building the infrastructure that makes large-scale computation possible, this moment feels less like a disruption and more like a culmination, the point at which the systems we build must finally become as intelligent as the science they serve. The question facing every PhD student, every research engineer, and every principal investigator in High-Performance Computing today is not whether AI will reshape the research process, but whether they will be the ones directing that transformation.

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Anthony Kougkas
Talks & Insights1 min

PERMAVOST 2025 Keynote: Dataflow under the von Neumann Machine

Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 5th Workshop on Performance Engineering, Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization Strategy (PERMAVOST 2025), held in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2025 on July 20, 2025. The talk was titled "Dataflow under the von Neumann Machine: A New Paradigm for Computing Systems."

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SSDBM 2025 Keynote: The Data-Centric Imperative

Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025), held in Columbus, Ohio on June 24, 2025. The talk was titled "The Data-Centric Imperative: from Hermes to StoreHub." Dr. Anthony Kougkas, Executive Director of GRC, serves as General Chair of SSDBM 2026.

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Grants & Funding1 min

NSF Awards Framework Grant for IOWarp

On August 5, 2024, the National Science Foundation awarded the collaborative Frameworks grant "IOWarp: Bending the I/O Fabric for Advancing AI-Infused Scientific Workflows". GRC leads the project under award OAC-2411318, with Dr. Xian-He Sun as PI and Dr. Anthony Kougkas and Dr. Gerd Heber (The HDF Group) as co-PIs. The University of Utah is the partner institution under award OAC-2411319, led by Dr. Jacob Hochhalter with Dr. Vivek Srikumar. Both awards run from August 2024 through July 2029.

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Talks & Insights3 min

CCGRID'24 Keynote Review

From May 6 to May 9, 2024, the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID)

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Talks & Insights1 min

HPCC 2023 Keynote: Data Centric Computing via I/O Systems

Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC 2023), held in Melbourne, Australia on December 13, 2023. The talk was titled "Data Centric Computing: an I/O System Approach."

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Awards & Recognition1 min

CARE Cache Management Listed in BenchCouncil Chip100 (2022-2023)

The International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) lists "CARE Cache Management" by Xiaoyang Lu and Xian-He Sun of Illinois Institute of Technology among its Chip100 Top Chip Achievements for 2022-2023. The list was online by December 7, 2023, the date of its earliest archived copy. BenchCouncil describes the evaluation report as open for comments and subject to revision.

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Talks & Insights4 min

Introducing the Gnosis Research Center

After two decades of research in scalable computing and data-centric systems, the Scalable Computing Software (SCS) Laboratory became the Gnosis Research Center (GRC) at Illinois Institute of Technology on April 23, 2023. This post introduces the center.

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Awards & Recognition1 min

LABIOS Technology Receives U.S. Patent Protection

On April 18, 2023, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent 11,630,834 B2, "Label-Based Data Representation I/O Process and System", to Illinois Institute of Technology. The inventors are Anthony Kougkas, Hariharan Devarajan, and Xian-He Sun, and the patent covers the label-based I/O method behind LABIOS, which received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at HPDC'19.

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Software Releases1 min

Hermes v0.9.8-beta Released

On March 6, 2023, the Hermes team at the Scalable Computing Software (SCS) Lab and The HDF Group published Hermes v0.9.8-beta, a beta of the heterogeneous-aware, multi-tiered I/O buffering system first described at HPDC'18.

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