Click above to view the latest SC Conference video on the importance of HPC. Steve Conway, Research Vice President in IDC’s High Performance Computing group, provides a high-level overview of the importance supercomputers and cites specific examples where it is making a difference every day. Mr. Conway plays a major role in directing and […]
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SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: The Power of Visual Analytics – Unlocking the Value of Big Data
Visual Exploration of Network Traffic for Host and Server Monitoring: The screenshot shows the hourly amount of network traffic for thousands of hosts in a large computer network for 24 hours. The different nested circles represent the topological subnet hierarchy of the network. Each filled circle represents a whole subnet or when zoomed in single […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Trends and Challenges in Computational Modeling of Giant Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
Multimodal visualization of giant oil and gas reservoir models. Giant oil and gas reservoirs continue to play an important role in providing energy to the world. Nowadays, state of the art technologies are utilized to further explore and produce these reservoirs since a slight increase in the recovery amounts to discovering a mid-size reservoir somewhere […]
Mateo Valero Selected as Recipient of 2015 IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Mateo Valero Mateo Valero, a professor in the Computer Architecture Department at UPC in Barcelona, has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Prof. Valero, Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center at the National Center of Supercomputing in Spain, was selected as the recipient for the award […]
SC15 Releases Video on How Berkeley Lab’s Electrolyte Genome Project Could Be Battery Game-Changer
A new breakthrough battery—one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer—will likely be impossible without a new material discovery. And a new material discovery could take years, if not decades, since trial and error has been the best available approach. But Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Simulation and Compilation of Quantum Algorithms
First Majorana experiment (from Leo Kouwenhoven, TU Delft). Speaker: Dave Wecker, Microsoft The LIQUi|⟩ architecture (from the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4467). Languages, compilers, and computer-aided design tools will be essential for scalable quantum computing, which promises an exponential leap in our ability to execute complex tasks. LIQUi|> and SoLi|> provide a modular software architecture for the simulation […]
Science Advocate and Emmy Award Winning Actor Alan Alda to Open SC15
Alan Alda is the SC15 Keynote Speaker. SC15 announces that noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda will discuss the role of science in our society and the intersection of science and computing as he delivers the keynote address November 17, 2015 in Austin, TX (USA). “High performance computing has a transformational impact on […]
Doctoral Showcase Deadline Extended to Aug. 21st
As part of the SC15 Technical Program, the Doctoral Showcase provides an important opportunity for students near the end of their Ph.D. to present a summary of their dissertation research in the form of short talks and posters. Unlike technical paper and poster presentations, Doctoral Showcase highlights the entire contents of each dissertation, including previously […]
Focus on Austin: Take a Nature Break Minutes from Downtown
McKinney Falls State Park is a popular attraction close to downtown Austin. Planning to bring your family with you to Austin or just want a quick get-away for yourself? The weather in Austin is beautiful, so why not head to a nearby park? A local favorite is the nearby McKinney Falls State Park. Located just […]
SC15 Technical Program Committee Update from Recent Austin Meeting
The SC15 Technical Program Committee met in Austin on June 22nd-23rd. During the meeting, 358 paper submissions were discussed in nine different focus areas. Out of these papers, 57 papers were accepted for presentation at SC15 and 22 were accepted with shepherds. The Program Committee also nominated five papers for the Best Paper award and […]
