SC16 marks the 10th Student Cluster Competition (SCC) held in the United States. Since the event’s inception, it has inspired similar events in Germany, China and South Africa. In all, more than 500 hundred students have participated. The inaugural event was held at SC07 in Reno, Nevada, and the participants had to battle through an […]
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SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern Previews the Conference and Exhibition
SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern Following is a brief conversation with Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2003, she has served as a member of the SC planning committee and in 2007 she also served as SCinet Chair. At the University of Illinois, she is the Director […]
HPC Matters Plenary Session with Diane Bryant to be Webcast
Intel’s Diane Bryant Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Group at Intel, will speak at the upcoming SC15 conference HPC Matters Plenary Session to discuss how next-generation supercomputers are transforming HPC and presenting exciting opportunities to advance scientific research and discovery to deliver far-reaching impacts on society. Based on the interest […]
Previewing SC15 Diversity Committee Focused Events
Attendees are encouraged to participate in the SC15 Diversity Sessions. The SC15 Diversity Committee is passionate about gaining insight from the SC community on how we can increase the diversity of our community by increasing the representation of under-represented groups. Please join the conversation at any or all of the following events at SC15 where […]
SC15 Releases Short Video on How HPC is Impacting Personalized Medical Treatments Especially in Children with Epilepsy
SC15 recently released this short video about how high performance computing (HPC) is making a difference in personalizing medical treatments as described by Dr. Chris R. Johnson, Founding Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. One specific example he cites is the amazing impact HPC is having on children with epilepsy. According to Dr. […]
SC15 Student Cluster Competition Fires Things Up with Secret Sauce
SCC Secret Sauce Salsa secreta. Geheime Sosse. Secret sauce. 紹兴. 沙茶. No matter how you say it, that extra special ingredient known only to you can sometimes make all the difference in the world. And that’s just what nine teams of students are hoping as they converge on Austin, Texas, to demonstrate their prowess in […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Revealing the Hidden Universe – Supercomputer Simulations of Black Hole Mergers
Numerical Relativity simulation of Binary Black Holes by Campanelli et al, 2006. Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies power some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. Our understanding of these extremely powerful events and their observations has numerous exciting consequences for our understanding of galactic evolution, black hole demographics, plasmas in […]
SC15 Panel Line-Up for Nov. 18th
Supercomputing and Big Data: From Collision to Convergence As data intensive science emerges, the need for high performance computing (HPC) to converge capacity and capabilities with Big Data becomes more apparent and urgent. Capacity requirements have stemmed from science data processing and the creation of large scale data products (e.g., earth observations, Large Hadron Collider, […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: the U.S. Under Secretary for Science and Energy Lynn Orr Presents the 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review
Click here to download the Quadrennial Technology Review. The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution. Over the last decade, the United States has slashed net petroleum imports, dramatically increased shale gas production, scaled up wind and solar power, and cut the growth in electricity consumption to nearly zero through widespread efficiency […]
Berkeley Lab’s Katherine Yelick Wins Ken Kennedy Award
UC Berkeley Professor to Receive ACM/IEEE-CS Kennedy Award at SC15 for Contributions to International Research Agenda Katherine Yelick ACM and IEEE Computer Society have named Katherine Yelick as the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research […]
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