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ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE HISTORY

ISC High Performance, formerly known as ISC (the International Supercomputing Conference), is the world’s oldest and Europe’s foremost HPC conference. Its history dates back over 40 years, when in 1986 the late Hans Werner Meuer, in his capacity as the director of the Mannheim Computing Center and professor for computer science, organized the world’s first “Supercomputer Seminar” at Mannheim University. In its inaugural year, it drew 81 attendees, mostly German-speaking. Today it is valued by over 3,500 international attendees as a “must attend” HPC event.

2025

In 2025, ISC celebrated its 40th anniversary, attracting a record 3,585 international attendees who came together to exchange ideas and knowledge. The ISC 2025 post-event summary report provides an overview of attendees and exhibitors.

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KEYNOTES

ISC 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Opening Keynote

MARK PAPERMASTER
AMD Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President, USA

Midweek Keynote

BJORN STEVENS
Director of Climate Physics Department, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg, Germany

Closing Keynote

YUTONG LU
Director, National Supercomputing Center, Guangzhou & Shenzhen, China

2025

  • Tuesday – Mark Papermaster, AMD, USA
    HPC and AI: A Path Towards Sustainable Innovation
  • Wednesday – Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
    The New Landscape of Climate Computing
  • Thursday – Yutong Lu, National Supercomputing Center, Guangzhou & Shenzhen, China
    Tackling Fragmentation in Exascale Supercomputing and Beyond

2024

  • Monday – Kathy Yelick, University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Beyond Exascale Computing
  • Tuesday – Isabell Gradert, Airbus, Germany
    Future of Compute: How Cutting-Edge Computing Will Change the Way We Design Aircraft
  • Wednesday – Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain & John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    Reinventing HPC with Specialized Architectures and New Applications Workflows

2023

  • Monday – Dan Reed, University of Utah, USA
    Reinventing High Performance Computing
  • Tuesday – Valentina Salapura, Google, USA
    A Hyperscaler’s Perspective on the Future of HPC from a Former BlueGene Architect
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA & Estela Suarez, FZ Jülich, Germany
    HPC Achievement and Impact – Past and Future

2022

  • Monday – Rev Lebaredian, NVIDIA, USA & Michele Melchiorre, BMW, Germany
    Supercomputing: The Key to Unlocking – The Next Level of Digital Twins
  • Tuesday – Lorena Barba, George Washington University, USA
    10 Years from the Reproducibility PI Manifesto – It’s Time to Transform to Open Science
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2022

2021

  • Monday – Xiaoxiang Zhu, TU Munich, Germany
    Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Earth Observation
  • Tuesday – Matthias Troyer, Microsoft
    Quantum Computing: From Academic Research to Real-World Applications
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2021

2020

  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2020

2019

  • Monday – Ivo Sbalzarini, TU Dresden, Germany
    The Algorithms of Life – Scientific Computing for Systems Biology
  • Tuesday – John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    HPC Beyond Moore’s Law
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2019

2018

  • Monday – Maria Girone, CERN, Switzerland
    Tackling Tomorrow’s Computing Challenges Today at CERN
  • Tuesday – Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
    Empowering Flexible and Scalable High Performance Architectures with Embedded Photonics
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2018

2017

  • Monday – Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft, USA
    Network Science: From the Massive Online Networks to Cancer Genomics
  • Tuesday – Peter Bauer, ECMWF, UK
    Forecasting the Future Role of HPC in Weather & Climate Prediction
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2017

2016

  • Monday – Andrew Ng, Baidu, USA
    How HPC is Supercharging Machine Learning
  • Tuesday – Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia National Lab, USA
    Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
    HPC Achievement and Impact – 2016

2015

  • Monday – Jürgen Kohler, Daimler, Germany

2014

  • Monday – Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois, USA

2013

  • Monday – Bill Dally, Stanford University, USA

2012

  • Monday – Guus Dekkers, EADS and Airbus, France

2011

  • Monday – Henry Markram, EPFL, Switzerland

2010

  • Monday – Kirk Skaugen, Intel, USA

2009

  • Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Sun, USA

2008

  • Satoshi Matsuoka, University of Tokyo, Japan

2007

  • Burton Smith, Microsoft, USA

2006

  • Peter Zencke, SAP, Germany

2005

  • Wednesday – Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years
  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Caltech, USA
    HPC Retrospect: Looking Back over the Last Year in HPC
  • Thursday – Alan Gara, IBM, USA
    Peta-scale Computing during Disruptive Times
  • Friday – Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA
    Grid Computing in Research and Business around the World

2004

  • Wednesday – Thomas Sterling, Caltech, USA
    HPC Retrospect: Looking Back over the Last Year in HPC
  • Wednesday – Steve Wallach, Chiaro Networks, USA
    The Search for the Softron – Will we be able to develop software for Petaflop/s Computing?
  • Thursday – William Camp, Sandia National Lab, USA & Fred Weber, AMD, USA
    The Red Storm Project – History and Anatomy of a Supercomputer
  • Friday – Reagan W. Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
    Integrating Data and Information Management

2003

  • Wednesday – Jim Gray, Microsoft, USA
    Online Science – The World Wide Telescope as a Prototype for how Computation is Revolutionizing Science
  • Thursday – Horst Simon, NERSC, USA
    The Divergence Problem in High Performance Computing
  • Friday – Justin Rattner, Intel, USA
    Building Efficient HPC Systems from Catalog Components

2002

  • Thursday – Monika Henzinger, Google, USA
    Indexing the Web: A Challenge for Supercomputing
  • Friday – Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
    High Performance Computing, Computational Grid, and Numerical Libraries
  • Saturday – Dona Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
    50 Years of Computing at LLNL as a Lens to the Future

2001

  • Thursday – Leonard Kleinrock, University of California, USA
    Nomadic Computing and Smart Spaces
  • Friday – Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    The Future of Supercomputers
  • Saturday – Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    The Post Moore’s Law Era: Quantum Computing

2000

  • Thursday – Gene Amdahl, Sunnyvale, USA
    Quo vadis Technology?
  • Friday – Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California, USA
    GRIDS – a NEW Computing Paradigm
  • Saturday – Eric S. Raymond, Chester County Inter Link, USA
    Open Source and Profit in HPC

1999

  • Thursday – Gordon Bell, Microsoft, USA
    The Next Ten Years of Supercomputing

1998

  • Thursday – Larry Smarr, NCSA, USA
    Supercomputers: Directions in Technology, Architecture and Applications

1997

  • Thursday – David Burridge, ECMWF, UK
    Computing the Weather Forecast for Europe

1996

  • Thursday – Horst Körner, DLR, Germany
    Anforderungen an Höchstleistungsrechner und ihre Nutzung beim Flugzeugentwurf (Requirements for High Performance Computers and Their Use in Aircraft Design)

1995

  • Thursday – Christopher Johnson, University of Utah, USA
    Large Scale Problems in Medicine: Modelling, Computation and Visualization

1994

  • Thursday – Wolfgang K. Giloi, TU Berlin, Germany
    Bekenntnisse eines Computer-Architekten: Suprenum, MANNA und was kommt danach? (Confessions of a Computer Architect: Suprenum, MANNA, and What Comes Next?)

1993

  • Thursday – Steve Nelson, Cray Research, USA
    Designing MPP Systems to Optimize Time-To-Solution Performance

1992

  • Thursday – Ulf Bohla, IBM, USA
    Trends auf dem Gebiet des Supercomputing (Trends in the Field of Supercomputing)

1991

  • Thursday – Georg Färber, TU München, Germany
    Mikroprozessoren als Basistechnologie künftiger Computergenerationen (Microprocessors as the Core Technology of Future Computer Generations)

1990

  • Ulrich Seiffert, Volkswagen, Germany

1989

  • Enrico Clementi, IBM, USA

1988

  • Friday – Adolf Schreiner, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany
    Konzept des Supercomputer-Zentrums Karlsruhe (Concept of the Supercomputer Center Karlsruhe)

1987

  • Friday – Sidney Fernbach, USA
    Status and Trends of Supercomputing in the USA
  • Saturday – Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
    Supercomputer Performance Considerations – The LINPACK Benchmark: An Explanation

1986

  • Friday – Lutz Richter, Uni Zürich, Switzerland
    Die Supercomputerlandschaft (The Supercomputer Landscape)
  • Saturday – Wolfgang Schmidt, Dornier, Germany
    Numerische Simulation in der Aerodynamik (Numerical Simulation in Aerodynamics)

PROGRAM & PAPER CHAIRS

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PROGRAM CHAIRS

2025: Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2024: Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA
2023: John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
2022: Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
2021: Martin Schulz, TU München, Germany
2020: David Keyes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2019: Yutong Lu, NSCC Guangzhou, China
2018: Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
2017: Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee/ORNL, USA
2016: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technologies, Japan
2015: Arndt Bode, LRZ, Germany

RESEARCH PAPER CHAIRS

2025: Amanda Randles, Duke University, USA
2024: Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA, Finland
2023: Abhinav Bathele, University of Maryland, USA
2022: Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021: Brad Chamberlain, HPE, USA
2020: Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA
2019: Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2018: David Keyes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2017: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
2016: Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
2015: Thomas Ludwig, DKRZ, Germany

HANS MEUER AWARD WINNERS

Recognizing the most outstanding research paper presented at ISC, this award commemorates Dr. Hans Meuer, former ISC Chair and co-founder of the TOP500 project. Each year, the award highlights innovative contributions that advance the field of high performance computing.

The following papers have been selected as Hans Meuer Award winners over the years:

Authored by: Durganshu Mishra, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Co Authors: Stepan Vanecek and Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Jorge Echavarria, Xiaolong Deng, Burak Mete and Laura Schulz, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany

Authored by: Daan Camps, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Co Authors: Ermal Rrapaj, Katherine Klymko, Brian Austin and Nicholas J. Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Authored by: Dolores Miao, University of California, USA

Co Authors: Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA; Cindy Rubio-González, University of California, USA

Authored by: Johannes Doerfert, Argonne National Lab, USA

Co Authors: Atmn Patel, Argonne National Lab, USA/University of Waterloo, Canada

Authored by: Andrei Poenaru, University of Bristol, UK

Co Authors: Wei-Chen Lin and Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK

Authored by: Sidharth Kumar, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Co Authors: Thomas Gilray, University of Alabama, USA

Authored by: Amir Raoofy, Technical University of Munich, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany

Co Authors: Roman Karlstetter, Dai Yang, Carsten Trinitis and Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany

Authored by: Ignacio Laguna, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Co Authors: Paul C. Wood, Ranvijay Singh and Saurabh Bagchi, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Authored by: Jeremiah J. Wilke, Sandia National Labs, USA

Co Authors: Joseph P. Kenny, Samuel Knight and Sebastien Rumley, Sandia National Labs, USA

Authored by: Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University, USA

Co Authors: Sourav Chakraborty and Prof. Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University, USA

Authored by: Mario Flajslik, Intel Corporation, USA

Co Authors: James Dinan and Keith Underwood, Intel Corporation, USA

Authored by: Thorsten Hater, Jülich Supercomputer Center, Germany

Co Authors: Paul F. Baumeister, FZ Jülich; Hans Boettiger, IBM Deutschland Research & Development; Jose R. Brunheroto, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Thilo Maurer, IBM Deutschland Research & Development; Andrea Nobile, FZ Jülich; Dirk Pleiter, FZ Jülich, Germany

JACK DONGARRA AWARD WINNERS

Recognizing exceptional early-career researchers at ISC, this annual award and lecture series honors Professor Jack Dongarra’s remarkable contributions to the field of high performance computing and the global HPC community. Introduced to the ISC conference series in 2023, the award highlights up-and-coming researchers whose innovative work drives scientific progress and advances the state of the art in HPC.

The following recipients have been honored with the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award over the years:

2025

Lin Gan, Tsinghua University, China

2024

Amanda Randles, Duke University, USA
Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA

2023

Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland