Join us on March 26, 2025, for an overview of Aurora hardware and available programming models. With Aurora now in production, Argonne’s Timothy Williams will share insights into how the initial project teams approached programming and portability for Aurora.

The webinar will highlight the wide variety of applications that are ready to run on Aurora’s PVC GPU-accelerated architecture. In addition to representing many different scientific domains, the project workflows include numerical methods, AI models for training and inference loads, and a variety of programming approaches for the PVC GPUs.

Dr. Timothy Williams is the Deputy Director of Argonne’s Computational Science Division. During 2016-2018, Tim served as Deputy Director of Science for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), for which he still manages the Early Science Program. Since 2009, he has worked with a number of large-scale projects using ALCF’s supercomputers, especially those in the area of plasma physics.

From 2000-2006, Tim worked as a quantitative software developer in the financial industry, writing pricing and risk software for Morgan Stanley in New York and Citadel in Chicago. From 1995-2000, he was a staff scientist at LANL’s Scientific Computing Group and Advanced Computing Laboratory, working on a C++ framework for parallel scientific computing. Starting as a postdoc in the Magnetic Fusion Energy group and Massively Parallel Computing Initiative at LLNL, and later on the NERSC staff; Tim spent 1989-1995 doing research in tokamak plasma turbulence and other areas, and developing a long-term interest in large-scale parallel computing.