When asked to provide an interesting fact about their group, Team SegFAUlt from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany was tempted to write a funny story, but then remembered, “We’re German – we are efficient and have no sense of humor! ;).” For the university’s third time in the SCC, they wanted to come up with a […]
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Invited Talk Spotlight: Argonne’s Charlie Catlett Presents “Computationally Empowered Urban Sciences: Making Cities Work Better for People”
Abstract: Urbanization is one of the great challenges and opportunities of this century, inextricably tied to global challenges ranging from climate change to sustainable use of energy and natural resources, and from personal health and safety to accelerating innovation and education. There is a growing science community—spanning nearly every discipline—pursuing research related to these challenges. […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: NCAR’s Janice Coen Presents “Advances and Challenges in Wildland Fire Monitoring and Prediction”
Short Summary: This talk will highlight current research in integrated weather – wildland fire computational modeling, fire detection and observation, and their application to understanding and prediction. Invited Talk speaker Dr. Janice Coen is a Project Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. She investigates wildland fire behavior and its interaction […]
Recommend Someone for ‘Dinner with Interesting People’
The SC16 Students@SC Program is hosting a “Dinner with Interesting People” on Wednesday, November 16. But it’s more than just dinner—it is a networking event designed to help students hone their networking skills by interacting with these Interesting People. Interesting People could be from our HPC community or other interesting fields. We are especially interested […]
SC16 HPC Matters Plenary Announced: Precision Medicine Panel
HPC Impacts on Precision Medicine: Life’s Future–The Next Frontier in Healthcare Panel Date/Location: 5:45-6:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14 in Ballroom-Full at the Salt Lake City Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Emerging technology is transforming the practice of medicine from an analog field of paper notebooks, textbooks and charts into a digital domain. This transition may […]
Early SC16 Registration Ends Sunday, Oct. 16
Have you registered yet for SC16? If not, there’s still time – and you can save a chunk of change to boot! The fee structure for SC16 makes it advantageous to register early. Registering early for the Technical Program can save you up to $275 off your registration, depending on your registration category. Also, registering […]
SC16 Invited Talks Chair William Gropp Receives Ken Kennedy Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Gropp to Receive ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award New York, October 6, 2016 —The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society have named William D. Gropp, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. John D. McCalpin Presents “Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems”
Short Introduction: This talk reviews the history of the changing “balances” between computation, memory latency, and memory bandwidth in deployed HPC systems, then discusses how the underlying technology changes led to these market shifts. Key metrics are the increasing relative “cost” of memory accesses and the massive increases in concurrency that are required to obtain […]
SC16 Invited Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Kristin A. Persson Presents “The Materials Project – A Google of Materials”
Short Introduction: This talk will focus on how The Materials Project (www.materialsproject.org) is harnessing the power of supercomputing together with state-of-the-art quantum mechanical theory to compute the properties of all known inorganic materials and beyond, design novel materials and offer the data for free to the community together with online analysis and design algorithms. Invited […]
Don’t Miss SC16’s 55 Great Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
The Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) component of the SC16 technical program will feature 55 BOF sessions spanning a range of important and timely topics, including hardware and software research, government program updates and various areas of computational science. These 55 sessions will run throughout the day (Tuesday through Thursday) in parallel with other elements of the technical […]
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