Salt Lake City, UT – Saturday, Nov. 12 – The Salt Palace Convention Center is home to the fastest, most innovative computer network in the world during the SC16 conference, November 13-18. SCinet, the high-performance, experimental network built specifically for the conference, offers an unprecedented amount of bandwidth within the conference exhibit hall and connecting […]
Archives for November 2016
#SC16 – First Time Attendee Session Info
The SC Conference has a long tradition of welcoming our first time attendees with open arms. We aim to attract new and diverse groups of HPC professionals and students to the conference each year with the goal of sparking new conversations, new connections, and new ideas. However, as a first time attendee, we understand that […]
#SC16: The Official SC16 Attendee Guide
Preparing for SC16 SC16 will be a rich and exciting experience for both new and old attendees. To start planning your agenda, begin at the SC16 website. Here you will find descriptions of the activities and a detailed Technical Program Schedule that can be used to build your own personalized agenda. When viewing the online […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University
The SC16 SCC marks the fifth time students from the University of Texas at Austin have competed and this year they are teaming up with Texas State University. To reflect their interschool association of the two schools and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), they named their group “Team Texas”, and extended the theme to […]
SC16 Computer Science/STEM Leaders Explain How to Spark and Nurture STEM Interest in Youth
The future demands a large, diverse pool of innovative scientists, engineers and mathematicians who can work together to solve big problems. The working scientists who lead SC16, the premier international conference showcasing high performance computing coming up this November, envision and advocate for a future talent pool that looks far larger and more diverse. “Teams […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome Team SwanGeese from China’s University of Science and Technology
After their attendance at SC12 and SC14 China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) “SwanGeese” team is making their third appearance in the SC conference Student Cluster Competition this year. In traditional Chinese culture, the rare Swan Goose stands for teamwork, perseverance and bravery. Since these spirits well represent the characteristics of the team, and […]
#SCC #SC16 #Germany: “Willkommen” Technical University of Munich, Germany
In making their second run at the SCC, the team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has a couple of obstacles to overcome. The first was choosing a name. “In terms of punnies, we have to live up to our university’s previous team called TUMuchPhun. In order to beat this we had to surpass […]
A Deeper Preview of Dr. Katharine Frase’s Upcoming SC16 Keynote
Watson, IBM’s powerful and multi-faceted cognitive computing system which was once best known for beating humans at the game show Jeopardy, has grown into a powerhouse of a problem-solving tool for doctors, scientists and business leaders. Thought leaders in the high performance computing arena will gather to hear insights about Watson’s evolving applications as well […]
Unveiling Your Link to the #SC16 Invited Talks
Invited Talks are a premier component in the SC Conference Program and complement nicely the presentations of the regular Technical Papers Program Speakers include global, bleeding-edge leaders in the areas of high performance computing, networking, analysis and storage. Invited Talks typically describe innovative technical contributions and their application to address the critical challenges of the […]
#SC16 #SCC: Welcome Back – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Representing National Tsing Hua University from Taiwan is Team PPAP, which stands for Password Paraview and Parconnect. And since there is a popular song also titled PPAP, they have a ready-made theme song. Not only do they like to listen to the song, the team also sings it while they are working and for good […]
