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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 […]
SC15 Paper Highlighted in Effort to Raise HPC Research Integrity to Serve as Basis for SC16 SCC Reproducibility Application Challenge
Authors of a paper judged at SC15 in Austin, Texas, have transformed a portion of their experiment into an application challenge for the SC16 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) as part of a larger effort to raise the bar for experimental research in computing. SC is responding to the growing need for scientific repeatability, replicability and […]
STEM Gender Gap: SC Experts Advise Strength in Diversity, Mentorships and Open Reporting
Men still outnumber women in STEM training and employment, and engineering leaders are working to bring awareness to that diversity gap and the opportunities it presents. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, only 29% of STEM jobs are held by women, although women comprise more than half of the national workforce. The gender disparity […]
SC16 Keynote Speaker Katharine Frase to Focus on Cognitive Computing
Salt Lake City, Utah – SC16 announced that Katharine Frase has been selected as the SC16 Keynote Speaker and will focus her discussion on “Cognitive Computing: how can we accelerate human decision making, creativity and innovation using techniques from Watson and beyond?” as she delivers the keynote on November 15, 2016 in Salt Lake City, […]
Part Two: Q&A with SC16 General Chair John West from Texas Advanced Computing Center
SC16 General Chair John West works at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as the Director of Strategic Initiatives. At TACC, he is involved in identifying new communities that can benefit from TACC’s advanced computing technologies and in connecting industry partners to TACC’s advanced computing expertise. He has been a volunteer with SC off and […]
Part One: Q&A with SC16 General Chair John West from Texas Advanced Computing Center
SC16 General Chair John West works at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as the Director of Strategic Initiatives. At TACC, he is involved in identifying new communities that can benefit from TACC’s advanced computing technologies and in connecting industry partners to TACC’s advanced computing expertise. He has been a volunteer with SC off and […]
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 […]
Eight Questions with “HPC Matters” Chair Wilf Pinfold from Intel
Wilf Pinfold Wilf Pinfold has a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Studied Business at Stanford. He serves as the HPC (High Performance Computing) Matters Chair as well as the Chair of the ACM SIGHPC Advisory Board. What is your role in the “HPC Matters” program? SC conference organizers launched the “HPC Matters” program in […]
