Computer Vision News - February 2021

234 ICPR Workshop gave a successful and exciting talk on the convergence of AI and HPC, and its exploitation to solve grand challenges, like molecular simulation. The second invited talk was instead given by Mirko Cestari , who leads the HPC and Cloud Technology team at CINECA, the Italian Supercomputing Centre . Mirko revealed an exciting preview of Leonardo, the Next EuroHPC SuperComputer , which will be employed to fuel the Italian andEuropean research on HPC, and which will be available in the next year. Leonardo will have a peak performance of 200+ PFlop/s, 3 PB of RAM, and 150 PB of storage . It will host more than 14.000 GPU accelerators . The organizing committee of CADL has also decided to award one of the ten orally presented papers with an NVIDIA Titan RTX GPU, to encourage further research in the field of optimized Deep Learning and HPC. The winner was Francesco Versaci from CRS4, who presented a fast library to perform the 2D wavelet transform on standard Deep Learning libraries. The first edition of CADL ended with a discussion on the directions and aspirations for the community of AI and HPC, and with ideas for the next edition of the workshop. The success of CADL has demonstrated that the community at the intersection of AI and HPC is growing and that the interest in highly scalable systems to solve grand challenges and tackle research problems is quickly becoming important.