**Call For Participation** 2nd North American Workshop on High Performance Computing for High Performance Computing (SPHPC19) http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/ May 29-30 2019 Stanley Hotel, Estes Park (Gateway to Rocky Mountains), Colorado **Registration** http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/registration/ (Please see below for Student Travel Grant Opportunity) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **About SPHPC** Silicon photonics technology has emerged as a promising solution to realize high performance computing (HPC) systems. Having various applications, including HPC, data centers, sensors and bio-sensing, aerospace, etc., it has attracted researchers and industries from various fields and backgrounds to explore potential benefits and overcome the challenges of this technology. As an emerging area, it demands multidisciplinary collaborations and contributions, from material engineering to realize low-loss CMOS compatible components to software design tools to explore the design space of the resulting complex devices and systems. The 2ndNorth American Workshop on Silicon Photonics for High Performance Computing (SPHPC) is bringing together experts in Silicon Photonics and in High Performance Computing (HPC architects, interconnect architects, HPC systems modeling) to discuss the needs for Silicon Photonics-based HPC interconnects, as well as the main challenges that must be addressed to accelerate their development. It is comprised of invited talks of the highest caliber from both academia and industry from different disciplines. This is the event for meeting professionals in the field while exchanging and exploring new ideas. **Keynotes** Tom Daspit, Mentor Graphics, USA Michael Haney, DoE/ARPA-E, USA Di Liang, HPE, USA **Confirmed Speakers (Complete list on the webpage: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/)** Benoit Charbonnier, CEA-LETI, France Tian Gu, MIT, USA Ian Karlin, LLNL, USA Seth Kruger, AIM Photonics, USA Takahiro Nakamura, PETRA, Japan James Pond, Lumerical, Canada Armin Tajalli, University of Utah, USA Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford, USA Mark Wade, Ayar Labs, USA Chi Xiong, IBM Watson Research, USA S. J. Ben Yoo, UC Davis, USA Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics, USA Alireza Samani, UBC, Canada **Student Travel Grant and Poster Presentation (Sub. Deadline: April 10, 2019)** SPHPC19 welcomes Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows working in the area of Silicon Photonics and High Performance Computing to attend the workshop. SPHPC19 will provide 10 student travel grants with free registrations. All the travel grant awardees will be invited to present a poster at SPHPC19. Please find more information on SPHPC19 webpage: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/student-travel-grant/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Organizing Committee** Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State U, USA (Contact: [email protected]) Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State U, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytech Montreal, CA Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA Meisam Bahadori, U of Illinois, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mahdi Nikdast Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering C103A - Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1373 Office: +1 (970) 491-6401 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~mnikdast/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------