SALT LAKE CITY, Utah–Despite a strong effort by the hometown University of Utah team, students from the University of Science and Technology of China took top honors in the tenth running of the Student Cluster Competition at the SC16 conference. For the first time in the history of the event, one team won both categories: […]
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International Students Create Global Relationships Building SCinet at SC16
Graduate and undergraduate students from around the world are convening at SC16 to exchange ideas and make connections that impact much more than supercomputing. Here’s a glimpse of some of their interests and observations. SC16 is Michal Naskret’s fourth year of student volunteering. Naskret, from University of Wroclaw in Poland, is pursuing a Ph.D. in […]
SC16 and SCinet set new 1.2 Terabyte record
#SC16 and #SCinet set a new record, pushing more than 1.2 Terabytes of traffic over the show floor. #NRE accepted over 35 research intensive experiments and used 20+ wide area network circuits connecting to four continents. #SCinet offered an opportunity for all 100GB booths to blast as much traffic to and from the show room floor […]
Join the conversation – Eliminating the gender gap in tech
Let’s all agree: the gender gap in tech is more than a pipeline problem. Efforts to eliminate the gender gap must include supporting women who have risen above the barriers to entry and are already part of the field. And that support must come in multiple forms. Women in our field need funding for professional […]
Just Released: SC16 Breaks Exhibits and Workshop Attendance Records
SALT LAKE CITY–SC16, the 28th annual international conference of high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, celebrated the contributions of researchers and scientists – from those just starting their careers to those whose contributions have made lasting impacts. The conference drew more than 11,100 registered attendees and featured a technical program spanning six days. The […]
Chinese Research Team that Employs High Performance Computing to Understand Weather Patterns Wins 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18, 2016 – ACM, the world’s leading professional computing society (www.acm.org), has named a 12-member Chinese team the recipients of the 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their research project, “10M-Core Scalable Fully-Implicit Solver for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Dynamics.” The winning team presented a solver (method for calculating) atmospheric dynamics. The […]
Contributor and Vendor Engagement Draws Volunteers to SCinet Infrastructure Project at SC16 in Salt Lake City
The contribution of multiple vendors and contributors is critical to the success of SCinet according to Corby Schmitz, SCinet chair. “They’re not just sending us a random bucket of parts, we engage with the vendors. We work with them on the architecture to build the network in virtual space. Then it becomes reality based on […]
If You Missed Out on the SC16 Keynote Session or Want to See it Again – Here it is……
SC16 Sessions, Questions and Evals, Oh My!
In case you haven’t noticed, SC16 has moved from having a mobile app to a fully responsive online program that is accessible from any computer, tablet or mobile device. Attendees have many of the features that have been provided to our attendees at past conference, but without the hassle of having to download yet another […]
SCinet from a Vendor’s Perspective
Article submitted by Rod Wilson from Ciena To some, the business case to provide millions of dollars in product and services to create a network that exists for only four days might be hard to fathom. But participating vendors have stepped up year over year, some for over a decade because SCinet delivers great and […]
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