From Supercomputing to Superintelligence:

Building the Infrastructure Foundation

For decades, the HPC community has advanced humanity’s greatest scientific challenges through sheer computational power. Today, that legacy continues at the intersection of exascale computing and artificial intelligence, where the next wave of breakthroughs will be driven by systems that can reason about the world, as well as simulate it. 

This SC25 breakfast session brings together leaders from Microsoft Azure, NERSC, and VAST Data to explore how the infrastructure foundation for tomorrow’s intelligent research systems is being built today.

Andrew Jones, Future Supercomputing & AI Capabilities Lead at Microsoft will join Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder at VAST Data in conversation to share how Azure AI and modern data strategies are transforming the AI cloud, helping organizations scale from pilot projects to generative AI breakthroughs.

Shane Canon, Group Leader for Technology Integration and Charles Schwartz, Data Center Department Head with NERSC will highlight how exascale computing and AI are converging to accelerate scientific discovery. 

Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC, Cloud and AI at NVIDIA will join John Mao, Vice President of Technology Alliances where they will discuss the convergence of accelerated computing and data strategies that enable the next generation of large-scale AI.

Together, these perspectives will define what comes next in high-performance computing: an intelligent, unified infrastructure where data, compute, and cognition converge to build the foundation for superintelligent discovery.