ESP-HPC 2024

First Symposium on Ethical, Social and Policy issues in HPC (ESP-HPC24)

ESP-HPC24 will be a half-day symposium

Friday November 22, 8:30am -- Noon

Held in conjunction with SC24: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, November 17-22, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Find out how you can contribute in our Call for Abstracts (Due to popular demand, we've extended the submission deadline ... see the CFA)

Advances in HPC raise enduring and difficult social, economic, epistemological, and ethical issues. This fact is perhaps most dramatically illustrated by the high-profile ethical and legal issues raised by the successes of artificial intelligence. But there exist many other social issues engendered by HPC, involving (for example) questions of access to HPC resources, the conditions under which HPC simulations can be trusted, whether the energy costs of HPC justify their benefits, and whether HPC offers novel ways to impart an understanding of complex systems. Issues such as these are genuinely interdisciplinary: They cannot be adequately addressed without input from experts inside and outside a traditional STEM sphere of influence. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers from diverse fields to present and discuss issues of mutual interest.