The Massachusetts Great Team hard at work at SC14. “The SC Student Cluster Competitions allow students to learn and advance their education and knowledge, supplying an extraordinary, unique and concrete experience in the field of supercomputing. The Student Cluster Competition at SC14 provided a real, hands-on glimpse into the world of supercomputing. Scaling tests and […]
HPCwire Posts Interview with SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern
SC15 Chair on HPC Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin Jackie Kern By John Russell SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern is hardly new to the HPC community. A member of the SC planning committee since 2003, Kern led the building of SCINET in 2007. The largest network in the world for a week, it delivered multicast video […]
Student Cluster Competition from a Student’s Perspective
SC14 Purdue University and EAUSIT University (Colombia) SCC team. Back row from left to right: Alejandro Gomez, Matt Molo, and Kurt Kroeger. Front Row from left to right: Pablo Restrepo, Mateo Gomez, and Fangning Cheng. My name is Kurt Kroeger, a senior Computer Science major at Purdue University, and I participated on the SC12 and […]
10 Questions with SC15 Student Programs Chair Jeanine Cook
In the months leading up to SC15, the conference communications team will be highlighting various aspects of the conference by asking questions of the volunteers leading those areas. In this first installment, SC15 Student Programs Chair, Jeanine Cook, talks about plans to broaden the size and scope of student activities at the conference. Jeanine Cook, […]
LA Times Profiles How HPC is Transforming Hollywood
In a recent LA Times profile, Disney Animation is using supercomputers to make some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and Oscar winners. According to the LA Times, in the making of “Big Hero 6,” Disney Animation built a supercomputer that is roughly the same size as those operated by the Center for Computational Sciences at Japan’s […]
