Ready, Steady, Go...GTC 2025

After a long “virtual” winter, the much-anticipated return of an in-person GTC in spring 2024 sparked a definite buzz in Silicon Valley and 2025 continued the momentum. 

Running from March 17 through March 21, 2025, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) boasted over 1,000 talks and panels, 300 exhibitors, research posters, themed pavilions, demonstrations of NVIDIA technologies, hands-on training, and more! 
 

Back in Black: Jensen Huang sets the stage
 

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage on March 18th to deliver the 2025 GTC keynote before an audience of thousands, exploring the transformative advances in AI and accelerated computing shaping the future across every industry and domain. 

Must-see Sessions

The conference had an all-star line-up of pioneering researchers, innovative industry leaders, and forward-facing government leadership exploring a wide range of topics across AI, accelerated computing, robotics, autonomous driving, and more. Take a look at some of the relevant research and curated content that is available on-demand:

OpenACC-specific sessions

Accelerate Science With NVIDIA HPC Compilers: Explore popular HPC programming models supported by NVIDIA HPC SDK — OpenACC, OpenMP, CUDA, or even standard parallelism in Fortran and C++--and learn how to accelerate applications on multicore CPUs or GPUs.

A Deep Dive Into the Latest HPC Software: Take a deep dive into the latest developments in NVIDIA software for high performance computing applications, including a comprehensive look at what’s new in programming models, compilers, libraries,  and tools.

Implement Accelerated PDE-Based Time-History Simulation by Data-Driven Methods on Strongly Coupled CPU-GPU systems: Kohei Fujita, a recent speaker at our 2024 OAC Summit, discusses recent research and implementation examples on using data-driven methods to accelerate PDE-based implicit time-history simulations without reducing simulation accuracy.

Generative AI for High-Throughput Metal-Organic Framework Discovery: Explore how MOFA, a GPU-accelerated generative AI framework, enables the high-throughput discovery of novel metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using large-scale HPC systems with Elia Huerta from Argonne National Laboratory.

Research Round-Up

Jack Wells, OpenACC’s president, participated in a panel with leaders from prestigious universities at GTC2025, discussing the transformative power of AI to enhance accessibility, innovate teaching methods, and future-proof their curricula in the higher education space.

Expanding on her keynote talk from our 2024 OAC Summit, Katie Antypas, director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation, presented “Accelerate AI Innovation and Broaden Access to Resources Through the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot,” providing a program overview and recent updates since the launch in January 2023.

Frontiers of AI and Computing: A Conversation With Yann LeCun and Bill Dally explores the future of AI models, hardware accelerators, and the evolving computational landscape that impacts AI research and development.

Finally, Shashank Subramanian and Wahid Bhimji from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discuss NERSC’s strategy for supporting the maturing AI workload, share updates on some cutting-edge generative AI projects, and present recent studies in scaling and performance modeling of foundation models for science in “Production-Scale Generative AI for Science at NERSC.”

Building Hands-on Skills

Another hallmark of GTC was the hands-on training and tutorial sessions offered to up-level developer skills across various topics and tools, from the fundamentals of agentic AI to cost-efficient LLM inference. Take a look at some of the available on-demand training sessions. 

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