Aims and Scope
While scientific software is an important component in the pursuit of scientific discovery, software development in high-performance computing (HPC) continues to be challenging. The software development process today combines contributions from domain scientists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and involves complex programming models. As a result of these diverse contributions software environments have become significantly complicated and expensive.
With this increasing diversity, the complexity of software development increases and it requires a steep learning curve for new developers, resulting in a slower pace of software development. With the continuous integration of scientific applications in complex, deep software stacks (workflows, compilers, runtime libraries, heterogeneous systems) novel techniques and practical tools for assisting the software development in HPC are invaluable. Recent advances in generative AI and large language models, such as GitHub’s Copilot, OpenAI’s GPT, Meta’s Llama, among others, demonstrate already that they can perform important tasks in the HPC and scientific software development, such as verification & validation, generation of optimized code, code translation, porting of applications, etc.
The goal of the AI Assisted Software Development for High-performance Computing (HPC) workshop (AI4Dev) is to create a forum composed of researchers, scientists, application developers, computing centers, and industry staff to discuss ideas on how artificial intelligence can help in the whole process of HPC software development. The workshop will feature contributed papers and invited talks in the area.
Call for Papers
The workshop invites submissions of original research papers. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages (including references) and must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference style.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the ICPP Linklings submission system.
We expect papers in the following areas (but not limited to):
- AI and/or Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques to improve programming productivity
- Performance analysis driven by AI and ML
- Debugging and testing driven by AI/ML
- AI/ML-assisted compiler optimizations and code generation
- Auto-tuning and performance portability using AI/ML
- Code synthesis and generation using automated AI/ML techniques
- AI-assisted code recommendations for code maintainability, performance and correctness
- IDE extensions using ML for improved programming productivity
- AI-assisted software building and deployment
- Mining best programming practices using ML
- Addressing security, privacy, and licensing concerns using AI/ML for software development
Important Dates and Times
- Paper Submission Deadline:
June 17, 2025June 27, 2025 - Notification of Acceptance:
July 14, 2025 - Camera-Ready Deadline:
July 25, 2025 - Workshop Date: September 8, 2025
- Workshop Time/Location: 2pm to 5:30pm at Boardroom East and West
Agenda
| Time | Session | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 2pm-2:10pm | Welcome from the Organizers | William Godoy (ORNL) and Ignacio Laguna (LLNL) |
| 2:10pm-3:05pm | Keynote: “Lost in Translation: LLMs and Whole-Repository Porting of HPC Codes” | Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland College-Park |
| 3:05pm-3:30pm | Paper presentation: “Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs in HPC Code Performance Optimization” Cui, Ramesh, Hernandez, Zhou | Bowen Cui, George Mason University |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Afternoon Conference Break | |
| 4:00pm-4:25pm | Paper presentation: “AI Assistants to Enhance and Exploit the PETSc Knowledge Base” Smith, Zhang, Zhang, McInnes, Keceli, Vasan, Balay, Isaac, Chen, Vishwanath | Junchao Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 4:25pm-5:30pm | Panel session: “AI for Development in High-performance Computing” | Moderators: William Godoy and Ignacio Laguna |
| Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware | ||
| Ali Jannesari, Iowa State University | ||
| Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama | ||
| Daniel Nichols, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Committee
Chairs:
- William F Godoy Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Ignacio Laguna Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Technical Committee:
- Rabab Alomairy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Diego Andrade Canosa, University of A Coruna, Spain
- Olivier Aumage, INRIA, France
- Johannes Blaschke, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA
- Matthew T Dearing, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
- Simon Garcia De Gonzalo, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
- Giorgis Georgakoudis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Yuka Ikarashi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Gokcen Kestor, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Francesca Lucchetti, Northeastern University, USA
- Monil Mohammad Alaul Haque, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Daniel Nichols, University of Maryland, USA
- Konstantinos Parasyris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan
- Pedro Valero-Lara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Naifeng Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Keren Zhou, OpenAI/George Mason University, USA
- Yangtian Zi, Northeastern University, USA