For the first time SC16 will offer professional childcare services in the convention center to registered attendees and exhibitors. Children between the ages of 6 months through 12 years old are eligible to participate in the fun and activities! Activities include arts & crafts, group games, music and movement, board games, story time and dramatic […]
Archives for October 2016
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 […]
