Belfast e-Science Centre – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 How SCinet Changed My Life http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/08/03/scinet-changed-life/ Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:37:22 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3545 I first started working on SCinet during SC09 in Portland. I was teamed up with David Boertjes who worked on the Wide-area Network Transport Team–the team responsible for bringing worldwide connectivity to SC. Boertjes introduced me to a collaborative group of engineers with such camaraderie between network engineers and vendors to build the highest capacity, […]

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]]> 3545 Jack Dongarra Shares his Assessment of World’s Newest No. 1 Supercomputer http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/06/20/sc16s-jack-dongarra-shares-assessment-worlds-newest-no-1-supercomputer/ Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:15:24 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3100 The release of the 47th TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers on June 20 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany showed a new No. 1 system – the Sunway TaihuLight machine in China that is nearly three times as fast and three times as efficient as system it displaces in the top spot. […]

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]]> 3100 University of Oxford’s Ron Perrott Receives ACM Distinguished Service Award http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/05/04/hpc-expert-ron-perrott-receives-acm-distinguished-service-award/ Wed, 04 May 2016 19:15:35 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=2834 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 […]

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