The team behind the SC15 Invited Talks program took on the ambitious goal of recording as many of the Invited Talks as possible so that those who could not attend the session, could still benefit from the content. We will be profiling these sessions over the next several months. The first video is Dr. Victoria […]
Archives for May 2016
Women in IT Networking Call for Participation @ SC16
The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program, introduced in November 2015 at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas, developed as a means for addressing the prevalent gender gap that exists in Information Technology (IT) particularly in the fields of network engineering and high performance computing (HPC). The 2015 program* enabled five talented early […]
SC16 Student Cluster Competition to Mark Tenth Year with 14 Teams Competing
The application reviews have been completed and the SC16 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) committee has invited 14 teams to compete in this year’s event in Salt Lake City. The teams hail from across the U.S., as well at Asia, Europe and South America. The competition will feature six universities competing for the first time: Peking […]
Student Volunteer Deadline Quickly Approaching – June 1st
For those undergraduate and graduate students interested in being a Student Volunteer at SC16 time is quickly running out. Benefits include making mentor connections, attending workshops, access to world-class technical sessions, and forging relationships that will last your entire career. To learn more about the Students@SC program, click here. To submit an application online click […]
MIT Unveils New Supercomputing Center – Will Focus on HPC Data Analysis
According to Campus Technology, MIT just unveiled a new supercomputing center called MIT Lincoln Laboratory that will provide more than 1,000 MIT researchers with access to high-performance computing cluster nodes with a main focus on data analysis. The article references that the center features an interactive, on-demand parallel computing system running thousands of processors that […]
Happy Birthday to the National Science Foundation
Funding is critical to research and discovery. In this light for more than six decades the National Science Foundation has supported research and education in the fields of science and engineering that then led to some phenomenal discoveries and innovations. Take a moment to read about just some of these great accomplishments over the past […]
SC Conference Student Volunteers Open Themselves to a World of Opportunities
For William Killian, being a Student Volunteer at the SC conference means opening himself up to new opportunities to learn, meet many of the leading lights of the high performance computing community, and to hone his own research as he works toward his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. His first year as a volunteer […]
From Student Volunteer at SC Conference to Pursuing a Ph.D. – Ather Sharif – A Prospective
When Ather Sharif begins his Ph.D. work at the University of Washington in September, he can look back at his experience as a Student Volunteer at the SC13 and SC15 conferences as one of the drivers convincing him to enter the program. He attended his first SC in 2012 as one of 83 participants in […]
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 […]
