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Grads@NERSC: An Honest Conversation About HPC Programming Languages

April 23, 2025
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. PDT

Remote

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Panel Overview

This session is designed to foster open dialogue about the real-world challenges, trade-offs, and successes experienced when working with different programming languages in high-performance computing environments.

In “An Honest Conversation About HPC Programming Languages,” we're bringing together a diverse panel of HPC practitioners, performance engineers, computational scientists, and quantum enthusiasts to explore the trade-offs, challenges, and wins when using languages like C, Fortran, Python, Julia, and even emerging DSLs for HPC and quantum-classical hybrid workloads.

This session is for students, early-career researchers, experienced developers, and curious minds who want a behind-the-scenes look at language decisions made on some of the world’s most powerful computers.

NUG Community Call Slides

Please find the Presentation Slides from this NUG Community Call Below:

Host

Charles Lively

Computer Systems Engineer 3

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Science Engagement & Workflows Dept.

User Engagement Group

Meet Charles

Panelists

Brandon Cook

Programming Environment & Models Group Lead

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

HPC Technology Dept.

Programming Environments & Models Group

Meet Brandon

Rahulkumar Gayatri

Computer Systems Engineer 4

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

HPC Technology Dept.

Programming Environments & Models Group

Meet Rahulkumar

Nestor Demeure

Computing System Engineer

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

HPC Technology Dept.

Programming Environments & Models Group

Meet Nestor