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In the latest post in our “Get to Know the Innovator” series, we’re celebrating Senior Research Scientist Rolando Pablo Hong Enriquez, PhD. Here are Rolando’s thoughts about innovation. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 A native of Cuba, Rolando earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in Havana. He later completed his PhD in Italy at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). During his career in Italy he worked in computational and theoretical sciences for the International Center for Theoretical Physics, SISSA, Udine University, and the Italian Institute of Technology. In 2016, Rolando moved to the U.K. and worked as a Senior Technical Consultant for Deloitte before joining HPE in 2018. At HPE he worked onsite as AI expert for the Petronas Mercedes F1 team, and in 2022 he joined Hewlett Packard Labs as Senior Research Scientist. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞? "My team at Hewlett Packard Labs, the System Architecture Lab, has a main umbrella project named Heterogeneous Serverless Computing (HSC). This is a multi-disciplinary effort to perform complex calculations on heterogeneous hardware architectures by leveraging serverless technologies. These calculations are usually wrapped as meta-applications called workflows (WFs). Nowadays, there is a rich ecosystem of solutions to manage the execution of WFs. This is a demanding task, and incidentally it is also my main research interest. Here we try to improve the interoperability of these systems, facilitating programming WF toolchains with compiler/transpiler solutions, partitioning WFs and scheduling them in optimal ways, boosting WF execution by taking advantage of existing fine granularity on hardware accelerators and measuring WF execution performance. Our team is tackling other topics such as the use of digital twins to improve the performance of cyber-physical systems and data centers. We’re also partnering with the quantum engagement team at Labs to support research in this area." 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭? "HPE is a top player in supercomputing and has delivered High Performance Computing systems globally. These systems are part of the infrastructure responsible for a variety of important calculations, from climate models to AI systems to drug discovery to astrophysics. By improving the use and performance of the computational workflows running in these data centers and supercomputers our research has a pervasive influence not only on our internal business units but also on our customers and partners. On the other hand, besides pursuing research with an immediate impact on business, it is just as important to work in new and exciting areas with prospective benefits. This realization fuels my enthusiasm for emerging areas like quantum computing and other theoretical aspects of computer science."

This video continues our “Get to Know the Innovator” series celebrating the brightest minds at Labs. Today’s innovator is Puneet Sharma, Director of the Networking & Distributed Systems Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. In the video Puneet answers more than two dozen questions in rapid-fire format, revealing insights ranging from the identity of his favorite famous inventor to his movie recommendation for budding innovators to his love for puns ("𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 -- 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦"). 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 Puneet developed his “jugaad” innovation skills growing up in India and honed them further at IIT in Delhi and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Joining Hewlett Packard Labs as a research scientist in 1998, Puneet positioned himself as an innovator driven by commercialization of the technology right away. On his second day of work, he pitched multicast network management to his business unit collaborators in Fort Collins, Colorado. Puneet has gone on to publish a series of papers advancing the Net’s worth (𝘱𝘶𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥). Over the past 25 years he has worked on innovative projects in fields ranging from telecommunications to applied AI to edge computing. Puneet currently serves as the leader of Hewlett Packard Labs’ Networking and Distributed Systems Lab. He dedicates himself to the development of “intentional, intelligent, invisible infrastructure” and to deploying his research at scale. Puneet believes in an innovation tenet he calls "KISS" (𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢!).

In the latest episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs podcast “From Research to Reality,” Dejan Milojicic speaks with Ken Burden, Network Architect, and Robert Haddad, Manager of the Research Engineering Operations at Hewlett Packard Labs. They discuss the history of bringing networking to Labs since its inception to this day. They also explain how engineering and operations are critical components to make any research happen. #HPC #AI #HPEcareers

For years researchers have been deploying state-of-the-art photonics to speed up the training and inference processes of AI models. Now Labs has published a paper outlining a breakthrough in the technology. Read here about how memristors can contribute to energy efficient, non-volatile, large-scale integrated photonics applications. #AI #ML #HPEcareers Stan Cheung Bassem Tossoun Yuan Yuan Yingtao Hu Wayne Sorin Geza Kurczveil Di Liang Ray Beausoleil

Animal tracking continues to be a challenging task. For many years trackers have struggled with issues such as poor record keeping and substandard connectivity in the field. Now HPE and well known animal tracker Alex van den Heever are working to get trackers better access to real-time information and historical records. Watch this reel to learn how Hewlett Packard Labs, HPE Aruba Networking, HPE GreenLake and HPE Ezmeral are helping to preserve the ancient art of animal tracking. Puneet Sharma, Dobias Van Ingen ✔️, Lianjie Cao, Shivang Aggarwal, Srikanth Venkataseshu, Mohan Rajagopalan, Timo Aeckerle, Francis Lo, Feng Hao, Tan Li Xuan, Lee Jie Ming

In the next episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs podcast “From Research to Reality,” Dejan Milojicic will host Ken Burden, Network Architect, and Pete Haddad, Manager of the Research Engineering Operations at Hewlett Packard Labs. They’ll discuss the history of bringing networking to Labs since its inception to this day. They also will explain how engineering and operations are critical components to make any research happen. Check out the podcast preview here. #HPC, #AI, #HPECareers

All things AI. 🦾 Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow/VP and Chief Architect at Hewlett Packard Labs, tells us why he is excited for #HPEDiscover 2024. Register and join us in Las Vegas to learn how you can use AI for your business. 👉 HPE.com/discover

This post kicks off a series called “Get to Know the Innovator” which celebrates the brightest minds at Hewlett Packard Labs. Today’s innovator is Ray Beausoleil, Senior Fellow, SVP and Director, Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab. Here are Ray’s thoughts about innovation. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 Ray has lived in Seattle with his wife and family since 1986. He joined Hewlett Packard Labs more than 30 years ago. His first project was the navigation optics and algorithms for a free-hand document scanner that eventually was used for large-format printer product lines and Microsoft’s Optical Mouse. He said his proudest accomplishment is leading the Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab, which has received more than $120M in government support the past 17 years. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲? “How can the physical properties of light be harnessed to improve the way humanity computes and communicates? A copper wire can carry only one electrical signal at a time, while an optical fiber can carry hundreds of optical signals in parallel— as long as those signals are carried by different wavelengths of light. (Light waves at different wavelengths don’t interfere. This is why we have multicolor vision!) One problem we’re trying to solve is reducing the size, power consumption, and cost of these optical communication systems by a factor of 1,000 to enable heterogeneous computer networks for next-generation AI.” “We seek to dramatically accelerate the speed with which we can train neural networks and then use them for inference, and to solve brutally hard constrained combinatorial optimization problems like the ‘quadratic assignment problem.’ These new computational systems will require computer architectures that no longer rely on the von Neumann paradigm that have been driving our industry for more than 60 years.” 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁? “Today the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a misnomer: Although AI systems are certainly artificial, we have no evidence that they are intelligent. Even the phrase ‘Machine Learning’ is somewhat misleading, because the process we use to ‘teach’ a machine something is really just a mechanism for discovering a computer program that solves a particular problem. Instead, we want to enable novel non-von Neuman computer architectures and new algorithms—based on an understanding of both physics and the physical world—to allow a machine to reason well enough that it can help a human being discover (for example) a new energy technology. We intend to develop new hardware accelerators that can boost the ability of these ‘Augmented (Human) Intelligence’ systems to solve problems of great urgency for our fellow global citizens in a sustainable fashion. Our advances in communication and computation will allow HPE to take the leadership position in vital information technologies that will make our vision real.”

In today's episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs podcast “From Research to Reality,” Dejan Milojicic hosts Jason Zeiler, the senior product manager in HPC/AI Business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They discuss the origins of liquid cooling, its challenges and its future. They also motivate early career technologists with scientific problems and grand challenges supercomputing can solve. Check out the podcast here. #HPC #AI #HPEcareers