Article written by Kim McMahon SC16 has embraced diversity with this year’s conference by stepping up and stating: “Diversity and inclusivity is important to SC16.” I joined the Diverse HPC Workforce committee (Diversity Committee) earlier this year as the communications lead to help shape the message and get this message out to the SC audience. […]
Please Help: Exhibitor and Volunteer Guides Needed for Utah High School Tours
SC16 will host local Salt Lake City high school Students on Wednesday, November 16th during the conference. Students will listen to two talks on high performance computing and go on a guided tour of the exhibit floor from 3:00pm to 4:30pm, originating in Ballroom BD of the convention center. SC16 needs volunteers to help guide […]
New App-like Online Program for SC16 Debuts
Instead of having attendees download another conference app, the SC16 organizers decided to create a fully responsive online program. This mobile and tablet-friendly program offers many of the features that have been provided to our attendees at past conferences, but without the hassle of having to download yet another app. Some of the features include […]
#Germany#SC16#SCC: Student Cluster Competition Team Focus – Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
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 […]
Growing Importance for ‘Smart Cities’ Initiatives Brings Focus to the Transformative Power of High Performance Computing
Every day, leaders of large cities grapple with knotty, complex problems like decaying public transportation infrastructures, aging utility lines, urban blight, neighborhoods that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and other multi-faceted socio-economic challenges. Increasingly, municipal leaders are turning to the game-changing tools of urban analytics, data collection, and advances in sensor technology […]
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. […]
National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Warren Kibbe Joins HPC Matters Plenary Panel on Precision Medicine
Dr. Warren Kibbe, acting deputy director and chief information officer for the National Cancer Institute and director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, has just been added to the HPC Matters Plenary Panel at SC16. The panel discussion, which will be held Monday, November 14, 5:45-6:45 p.m., will focus on high performance […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: ORNL’s Dr. Thomas Schulthess Presents “Reflecting on the Goal and Baseline for Exascale Computing”
Full Abstract: Application performance is given much emphasis in discussions of Exascale computing. A 100-fold increase in sustained performance over today’s applications running on multi-petaflops supercomputing platforms should be the expected target for Exascale systems deployed early next decade. In this talk we will reflect on what this means in practice and how much these […]
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 […]
ACM/IEEE-CS 2016 Award Winners Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society recently announced the winners of three awards that are highly regarded by the high performance computing community: ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award […]
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