Our Mission
The HDCRS working group is part of the IEEE GRSS Earth Science Informatics (ESI) Technical Committee. The main objective of HDCRS is to connect a community of interdisciplinary researchers in remote sensing who are specialized on high-performance and distributed computing, quantum computing and parallel programming models with specialized hardware accelerators.
HDCRS disseminates information and knowledge through educational events, special sessions and tutorials at conferences and publication activities. The group welcomes anyone interested from academia and industry to contribute to our mission.
Research Topics
Supercomputing and Distributed Computing
Supercomputing is the processing of complex or data-intensive problems with a vast number of highly interconnected compute nodes that work in parallel (i.e., HPC). Distributed computing uses multiple compute resources not necessarily located in close proximity to one another but connected via Internet or other networks (e.g., cloud computing).
Specialized Hardware Computing
Specialized hardware accelerators (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs) can perform some computing tasks more efficiently than is possible on general-purpose CPUs. Their high processing performance and energy efficiency is due to a combination of specialized operations, parallelism, efficient memory systems, and reduction of overhead.
Quantum computing
Quantum computing exploits explicitly quantum mechanical properties (i.e., superposition, entanglement, interference) of matter to perform computations. Emerging quantum technologies (e.g., gate-based and adiabatic quantum computing) have the potential to improve performance and solve previously intractable problems
HDCRS News
Events & Initiatives
Tutorial: “From Big EO Data to Digital Twins: Hybrid AI and Quantum based Paradigms”
Tutorial: “From Big EO Data to Digital Twins: Hybrid AI and Quantum based Paradigms” July 2021 IGARSS (Brussels, Belgium) Tutorial Page The tutorial will cover an introduction in quantum information
1st International Workshop on Searching and Mining Large Collections of Geospatial Data (GeoSearch)
1st International Workshop on Searching and Mining Large Collections of Geospatial Data (GeoSearch) November 2, 2021 Online Program Page This workshop brings together the art of search engine construction with
Tutorial on ”Scalable Machine Learning with High Performance and Cloud Computing”
Tutorial on “Scalable Machine Learning with High Performance and Cloud Computing” July 2021 IGARSS (Brussels, Belgium) Tutorial Page The tutorial provides a complete overview of supercomputing and cloud computing technologies
Special session on ”Data Intensive Computing for Remote Sensing”
Special session on ”Data Intensive Computing for Remote Sensing” July 2021 IGARSS (Brussels, Belgium) Event Page This special session collects papers in the most advanced and trendy areas interested in
Cognitive Cloud Computing in Space
Cognitive Cloud Computing in Space Deadline: Nov 21, 2021 More info ESA is looking to support your ideas on how to combine satellites and in-space cloud/edge computing with AI Details
High-performance computing with Python
High-performance computing with Python June 7-11, 2021 Online More info PRACE training course on High-performance computing with Python Details General Information Python is increasingly used in high-performance computing projects. It
HDCRS Chairs
Prof. Dora Blanco Heras
Lead
Dr. Rocco Sedona
Co-Lead
Iksha Gurung
Co-Lead
Prof. Dr. Sudan Jha
Co-Lead
