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, […]
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Jack Dongarra Shares his Assessment of World’s Newest No. 1 Supercomputer
The release of the 47th TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers on June 20 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany showed a new No. 1 system – the Sunway TaihuLight machine in China that is nearly three times as fast and three times as efficient as system it displaces in the top spot. […]
University of Oxford’s Ron Perrott Receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
Ron Perrott, an international leader in the development and promotion of parallel computing, will receive ACM’s prestigious Distinguished Service Award. He will be formally honored at the ACM Awards Banquet on June 11 in San Francisco, California. Perrott was selected by his peers for providing vision and leadership in high performance computing and e-science, championing […]
