Boston Green Team, a joint collaboration between Boston University, Umass Boston, and MIT, chose the green theme to show that they’re committed to running code efficiently, and in doing so saving the planet and advancing the frontier of what’s possible. “We’ve experimented with green architectures in the past, at ISC we ran an 8-node NVIDIA […]
Archives for November 2016
The Latest News from the Student Cluster Competition in Salt Lake City
With this year marking the tenth year of the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the SC conference, it’s a good time to look both forward to this year’s event, as well as look back at the history of this competition that has been adopted by organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. It all traces back […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome to Northeastern University/Auburn University
Although they’re teaming up for the first time, the team from Northeastern University/Auburn University is not entirely new to the SCC. Two-thirds of the team was at SCC at SC15 in Austin last year and that was their first experience with the conference and competition, as well as with HPC in general. The other third […]
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 […]
#SC16 – First Time Attendee Session Info
The SC Conference has a long tradition of welcoming our first time attendees with open arms. We aim to attract new and diverse groups of HPC professionals and students to the conference each year with the goal of sparking new conversations, new connections, and new ideas. However, as a first time attendee, we understand that […]
#SC16: The Official SC16 Attendee Guide
Preparing for SC16 SC16 will be a rich and exciting experience for both new and old attendees. To start planning your agenda, begin at the SC16 website. Here you will find descriptions of the activities and a detailed Technical Program Schedule that can be used to build your own personalized agenda. When viewing the online […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University
The SC16 SCC marks the fifth time students from the University of Texas at Austin have competed and this year they are teaming up with Texas State University. To reflect their interschool association of the two schools and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), they named their group “Team Texas”, and extended the theme to […]
SC16 Computer Science/STEM Leaders Explain How to Spark and Nurture STEM Interest in Youth
The future demands a large, diverse pool of innovative scientists, engineers and mathematicians who can work together to solve big problems. The working scientists who lead SC16, the premier international conference showcasing high performance computing coming up this November, envision and advocate for a future talent pool that looks far larger and more diverse. “Teams […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome Team SwanGeese from China’s University of Science and Technology
After their attendance at SC12 and SC14 China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) “SwanGeese” team is making their third appearance in the SC conference Student Cluster Competition this year. In traditional Chinese culture, the rare Swan Goose stands for teamwork, perseverance and bravery. Since these spirits well represent the characteristics of the team, and […]
