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International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8, honoring women for their achievements across social, economic, cultural, and political spheres. At Hewlett Packard Labs we’re taking this opportunity to salute two of our women research stars who are advancing in their careers and making indispensable contributions both to the company and to their fields of work. In this blog Annmary Justine and Sri Priya Sundararajan share some positive advice they’ve received along the way and offer encouragement to other women in technology. https://lnkd.in/eiza9p2m

HPE TechCon, #HPE’s annual innovation conference, is kicking off today in Houston, and Hewlett Packard Labs is playing an active role. The conference brings together hundreds of innovators from across the company to celebrate their best work, share ideas and spark new connections. TechCon provides three intense days of activity, connecting technologists from multiple disciplines, business units and geographies under one roof. This year 71 people from Labs are attending the conference, with more than 30 delivering presentations on subjects ranging from “Model-Aided Simulation of LLM Inference and Training” to “Improving IT Event Forecasting Using a Digital Twin.” Labs Director Andrew Wheeler is on hand along with others from Labs’ leadership team.

In the latest episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs podcast “From Research to Reality,” Dejan Milojicic and Marco Fiorentino discuss integrated photonics – how technology is developed, transferred and brought to market in integrated photonics. Marco offers glimpses of his lab, including the lab’s clean room where researchers get their hands dirty. Marco also discusses his journey from Italy to the U.S. East and West Coasts and his cooking skills in Italian, Chinese, Mexican and other cuisines.

What technology trends will play out in 2025? Hewlett Packard Labs leaders offer their thoughts about how AI, sustainability, photonics, networking, quantum and security will evolve over the next year. Paolo Faraboschi Cullen Bash Marco Fiorentino Puneet Sharma Masoud Mohseni Nigel Edwards https://lnkd.in/ecXyyrCT

In the next episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs podcast “From Research to Reality,” Dejan Milojicic and Marco Fiorentino will discuss integrated photonics – how technology is developed, transferred and brought to market. Marco will offer glimpses of his lab, including the lab’s clean room where researchers get their hands dirty. Marco also will discuss his journey from Italy to U.S. East and West Coasts and his cooking skills in Italian, Chinese, Mexican and other cuisines. Check out the podcast trailer here.

When DARPA asked research teams to submit plans for an optical detector that could ferret out quantum noise, Hewlett Packard Labs came up with a solution. The three-year project aims to improve the process of converting light into measurable signals. Read about Labs’ work in the project's first phase. Marco Fiorentino https://lnkd.in/ePC2AusU

Today, we're celebrating National Inventors' Day with a new post in our “Get to Know the Innovator” series. The latest innovator is K. Grace Johnson, a principal research scientist in Labs' Emergent Machine Intelligence group. Here is a look at Grace’s career and her thoughts on innovation. ?????????? ?????? ?????????????????? Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, Grace ventured west for her education. She earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry at Loyola Marymount University and a PhD in quantum chemistry at Stanford University before joining Hewlett Packard Labs in 2023. Grace currently works on ways to integrate quantum accelerators into HPC for utility-scale quantum computing. She recently relocated with her partner from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe, where they both feel more at home. They joke that they’re “inching our way back to the Mountain West.” ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????? ???????????? ???? ??????????? “How do we build quantum computers that can solve useful problems? Our team believes the first step is clearly laying out the challenges to scaling from one hundred to one million physical qubits. A clear message from this exercise is that quantum processing units (QPUs) cannot stand alone. They will need to tightly integrate with HPC and run in parallel to work at scale. In other words, we will need to build a quantum supercomputer.” “My work focuses on a particular aspect of this problem—how to partition and distribute quantum workloads to multiple QPUs. We are developing a set of methods called adaptive circuit knitting that could allow us to efficiently distribute certain quantum simulations using only classical interconnects between QPUs. This may prove necessary for near-term utility, as quantum interconnects are in the very early stages of development. Methods like these could also be used to discover the structure of problems, essentially using a quantum computer to learn how to efficiently simulate quantum systems on classical computers. Even as QPUs become more powerful, there will always be a role for classical supercomputing. This is why I find HPE a particularly interesting place to be.” ?????? ???? ???????? ???????? ??????????????????? “Why can’t we design new drugs or materials on a computer the same way we design jet engines or airplanes? The wonderful problem of quantum mechanics means that accurately simulating quantum systems like a drug molecule using our traditional computers—HPC or no—is often very costly. Many problems are, in fact, exponentially difficult on classical computers. If we had quantum computers of sufficient scale and quality, they could break this exponential wall. This potential to enable simulations we have never before been able to carry out is what makes our work important. Computer-aided design at the quantum scale could open the door to quickly discovering new drugs, sustainable materials, and more efficient industrial catalysts, to name just a few examples.”

The “Get to Know the Innovator” series celebrates the brightest minds at Hewlett Packard Labs. Today’s featured innovator is Dejan Milojicic, an HPE Fellow and a vice president in the Systems Architecture Lab in Milpitas, Calif. Here is a look at Dejan’s career and his thoughts on innovation. ?????????? ?????? ?????????????????? Dejan Milojicic has worked 26 years at Labs on topics ranging from digital twins to sustainability to large language models. A native of Serbia, Dejan started his career at the Mihajlo Pupin Institute in Belgrade. After earning his PhD in Germany, he moved to the U.S. and worked for the OSF Research Institute in Cambridge, Mass. He particularly enjoys solving difficult technology problems and mentoring budding researchers. He currently hosts the Labs podcast “From Research to Reality.” ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????? ???????????? ???? ??????????? “I lead the Heterogeneous Serverless Computing (HSC) program, which addresses the intersection of high-performance computing and AI. We came to the realization that modern computing is becoming increasingly heterogeneous and fine grained. Therefore, we try to match the fine granularity of heterogeneous accelerators (with tens of thousands of cores) with the Functions-as-a-Service paradigm, which has a short-term lifetime, a small size and a high level of abstraction. To deliver on the promise of HSC, we are developing a full stack: from workflows as native HPC & AI applications through compilers for heterogeneous architectures to serverless frameworks to managing accelerators to design space exploration, performance evaluation and prediction, and finally to applied AI and federated digital twins.” ?????? ???? ???????? ???????? ??????????????????? “With heterogeneity and serverless, we enable seamless scalability and fluidity of new applications, improve programmer productivity, and increase performance efficiency. In the past HPC applications were tightly coupled and would scale only on supercomputers, but with AI integration, and with GPUs, it is possible to scale parts of them to the cloud. Historically, only super-programmers were able to develop and deploy extreme-scale HPC algorithms. With HSC we are democratizing programming productivity. Traditionally, owners of computer infrastructure cared less about the cost and sustainability of running applications. With HSC we are addressing not only performance but also performance efficiency and sustainability.” “These HSC benefits could be applied to many HPE products, such as equipment right-configuring and rightsizing, server consolidation, designing and implementing energy-efficient and cost-effective products, and optimizing the use of data centers. Finally, we enable a number of use case scenarios, such as what-if analyses to predict failures and security breaches. Now, researchers can achieve these benefits at higher scales and at greater levels of optimization than ever before.”

Today’s energy and IT sectors depend on each other to succeed. IT needs more energy to run power-hungry applications, and energy needs IT advances to help it deliver power more efficiently. In a paper published in the January issue of IEEE’s Computer magazine, Labs VPs Cullen Bash and Dejan Milojicic along with four co-authors explain how the sectors can work together more closely to meet power demands, not only for data centers but for society as a whole. https://lnkd.in/eyZ8dcc3