Trillion Parameter Consortium Partners with Tabor Communications to Launch Global AI for Science Conference, TPC25
SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2025 -- Tabor Communications, the publisher of leading technology websites HPCwire, AIwire, and BigDATAwire, today announced a partnership with the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) to produce and promote TPC’s first large-scale all-hands meeting, TPC25, which will take place July 28-31 in San Jose, California.
TPC25 will convene AI leaders globally from industry, academia, and national laboratories, along with the vendor community, funding agencies, and VCs, to develop best practices for utilizing AI for scientific discovery and engineering at scale. The four-day conference and exhibition will offer hackathons, tutorials, plenary sessions, parallel breakout groups, and a job fair, along with a tabletop exhibition.
The theme for TPC25 is to explore and pursue international collaborations between industry and public sector AI research — national laboratories, universities, and institutes — including those building and utilizing AI capabilities, infrastructure, and applications. Representing a global community of more than 80 member organizations, the Trillion Parameter Consortium is focused on accelerating advances in AI to responsibly and safely address today’s scientific and engineering grand challenges.
“Traditional gatherings like platform-specific user groups or communities involved in advancing various open source stacks are important, but TPC is unique because AI for science involves every scientist, as its integration is imperative for all fields,” said Charlie Catlett, Executive Director of TPC and a Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago.
“In this era, large-scale foundation models, driven by economic scales, have become essential, much like the shift from custom supercomputers to commodity CPUs/GPUs. Moreover, with such dramatic improvements suggesting that artificial super intelligence is on the horizon, the need to collectively address its transformative potential and risks is more urgent than ever. This is the context for TPC25,” continued Catlett.
“In all of our conversations with community stakeholders, there’s a level of excitement that makes this event feel like SC1,” added Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications. “TPC25’s all-hands meeting and conference, along with the Trillion Parameter Consortium itself, represent the point of the spear of developing AI technology for science and engineering. TPC has been successful at bringing academia and national laboratories together, and this event will build on that momentum, adding robust participation from the AI, HPC, and data vendor communities, the industrial end user community, and funding agencies.”
The Trillion Parameter Consortium is a global, community-driven, open initiative that convenes researchers, technical practitioners, educators, trainees, and other stakeholders working across the fields of AI and HPC that are dedicated to enabling large-scale AI for science and engineering. There are currently 82 active member organizations within TPC, representing more than 1,400 individual participants.
By building an open environment, nurturing diverse collaborations, and aligning resources with the evolving needs of the global scientific community, TPC aims to advance the frontier of AI, while adhering to principled, responsible, and transparent development. “One of the objectives shared by all of us who founded TPC, which was inspired by the concept of “foundation models,” is to create AI models that can play the role of a scientific assistant,” explained Catlett. “To make progress on this goal we need to measure — and improve — the scientific reasoning skills for AI models.”
“AI for science and engineering will be transformative, to say the least,” agreed Tabor. “Developing technologies in this space will lead to cures for cancer and disease, solutions for climate challenges, mastery of material sciences — tackling the many grand challenge issues that will lead to near-term improvements to the quality of life on our planet.”
About Tabor Communications Inc.
Tabor Communications Inc. publishes AIwire, HPCwire, BigDATAwire, and QCwire, which broadly cover Advanced Scale technologies for scientific and technical computing. The Wire publications closely follow the convergence of AI, HPC, and Big Data, and the evolution of Quantum Computing. Together, they unify the IT communities that we serve, providing news, analysis, and information to educate and engage users and decision-makers seeking high performance and advanced scale computing solutions for scientific and technical workloads across AI, HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing. More information can be found at www.taborcommunications.com.
About Trillion Parameter Consortium
The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) is a global, community-driven, open initiative that brings together researchers, technical practitioners, educators, trainees, and other stakeholders working across the fields of AI and HPC. Established in 2023, the TPC community has grown to more than 1,400 participants from over 100 organizations around the world. Participants include computer scientists, mathematicians, and computational scientists; domain experts from astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, environment, materials, and climate science; and experts in large-scale computing systems, computational frameworks, data management, ethical considerations, and responsible AI practices.
Source: Tabor Communications Inc.
