I hope everyone has recharged during the holiday break and is ready for an energizing 2024. During ISC 2023, we accepted the challenge posed by Dan Reed and committed to reconvening at ISC 2024 to create a clear roadmap for reinventing HPC. This past year, we witnessed numerous innovations, including generative AI, groundbreaking chip designs, the emergence of electric vehicles, striking images from the James Webb Space Telescope, multi-cloud advancements, and progress in quantum computing

We are thrilled to announce that Rosa M. Badia from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and John Shalf from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will jointly deliver the ISC 2024 Wednesday Keynote. A valuable addition to the keynote talk is the interactive moderation by Professor Daniel A. Reed, a long-standing member of the HPC community.

I had the opportunity to talk with Prof. Michela Taufer, the ISC 2024 Program Chair, to get an update on the event's progress. Prof. Taufer has been in this position for three months and has significantly contributed to the ISC technical program. I was impressed to learn that she has ensured all accepted ISC research papers are made fully open access in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.