Students interested in demonstrating their high-performance computing skills on a global stage are invited to team up and sign up to compete in the tenth annual Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the SC16Conference. The deadline for submitting applications has just been extended to Friday, April 22, to help those teams who weren’t sure if they […]
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SC16 General Attendee Housing Open – Act Fast for Desired Locations
While SC16 is still several months away, the early bird truly gets the worm when it comes to securing your desired hotel during conference week. Hotels near the convention center are always in peak demand and book up early. SC16’s exclusive contractor for booking hotel rooms – Orchid Event Solutions – recently provided these interesting […]
Reminder: SC16 Tutorials Submissions due Sunday, April 17
Are you willing to share your HPC experience or expertise with others? SC16 is currently accepting proposals for half- and full-day tutorials. However, the deadline for submitting tutorials is approaching rapidly – Sunday, April 17. Please click here for more information about what a proposal should include and how to submit it. Submissions due: Sunday, […]
Personal Perspective: Helping to Build One of the World’s Fastest Computer Networks – SCinet at SC15
Jamie Curtis is the Head of Technology Strategy and Architecture at REANNZ. He participated as a SCinet volunteer in 2015. The following is his recap of the experience. Every year for the past 25 years a group of volunteers gather to build one of the world’s fastest networks, only to then tear it down a […]
Breaking News: SC16 Adds a Focus on the State-of-the-Practice
If you are in high performance computing (HPC) or a related field, you know SC16 as the leading international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. For 28 years SC has served as the conference of record in the supercomputing community for presenting the results of groundbreaking new research, getting the training needed […]
SC16 Technical Papers Deadlines April 3, 2016: Papers and Conflicts of Interest due
Here are some important reminders about technical paper submissions. The official paper submission deadline is April 3, with an automatic extension until April 10 … and no extensions beyond April 10, 11:59 pm anywhere-on-earth (AOE). While papers are due on April 10, conflict-of-interest (COI) declarations are due on April 3! ALL AUTHORS SHOULD SUBMIT COI […]
SC16 Technical Papers Deadline Approaching: Abstracts due March 27, 2016
The abstract submission for Technical Papers is mandatory and needs to be submitted by March 27, 2016, end of day AOE (Anywhere on Earth time zone). No extensions will be given for abstract submissions. New this year: Double-blind review: SC16 Technical Papers submissions will undergo a double-blind reviewing process. For an explanation of this policy and guidelines […]
Student Cluster Competition: Throwback Thursday
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 […]
SC16 Explores Reproducibility for Advanced Computing Through Student Cluster Competition by Michela Taufer
Data sets and software are important by-products products of research in fields that depend upon data-intensive and high performance computing. But these elements are typically absent when research results are recorded in a journal article or conference proceedings. There is a growing sense in the computational community that this gap needs to be filled if […]
SC15 Invited Talks: Now Playing on the SC Conference Series YouTube Channel
When 10,000 high performance computing experts from around the world convene every November at the annual SC conference, the Invited Talks are a popular venue for learning about topics ranging from high-level policy to improved supercomputer performance. Now, for the first time ever, SC is releasing the full-length version of many of these talks. “The […]
