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 […]
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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 […]
SC16’s SCinet Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science Workshop and the Network Research Exhibition
SCinet’s third annual Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS) workshop will be held Nov. 13 during SC16 in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. The SC16 INDIS program features a full day of demonstrations of emerging computing and storage technologies, including software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined exchanges (SDX) and OpenFlow. These technologies […]
SC16 Conference Brings World’s Most Powerful Network to Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, UT – Saturday, Nov. 12 – The Salt Palace Convention Center is home to the fastest, most innovative computer network in the world during the SC16 conference, November 13-18. SCinet, the high-performance, experimental network built specifically for the conference, offers an unprecedented amount of bandwidth within the conference exhibit hall and connecting […]
SCinet Security Boosted by Utah’s CloudLab Site
SCinet is the backbone of SC, and the volunteer-driven Network Security Team goes to great lengths to protect that backbone from threats. Planning network security strategies and tactics begins nearly a year before the conference. As threats evolve, the team relies on new partnerships and innovative solutions to overcome emerging challenges. This year, the team […]
Personal and Industry Perspectives: Women in IT Networking at SC
This is a follow-up piece to the article “Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16” Now in its second year, Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and […]
Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been chosen to help build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network, under the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program. Now in its second year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research […]
SCinet Inventory: High Performance Storage – Untangling 89 miles of fiber…
By JP Velders, ICT Services, University of Amsterdam As with almost all aspects of the SC Conference, SCinet transcends the big/bigger/biggest paradigm. The planning of each conference takes multiple years, with the work – for most involved – gradually picking up the pace as the previous year’s conference has yet to conclude. For SCinet, the […]
SCinet INDIS Proposal Submission Deadline is August 21st
The 3rd International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) 2016, in conjunction with SC16, in Salt Lake City, Utah, will be held on Sunday, November 13, 2016, 9am – 5pm. They invite full original papers to be submitted via the FGCS submission system (for more detailed information visit the INDIS workshop […]
How SCinet Changed My Life
I first started working on SCinet during SC09 in Portland. I was teamed up with David Boertjes who worked on the Wide-area Network Transport Team–the team responsible for bringing worldwide connectivity to SC. Boertjes introduced me to a collaborative group of engineers with such camaraderie between network engineers and vendors to build the highest capacity, […]
