Traveling to the Supercomputing conference is nearly impossible for HPC professionals living in remote areas of the world working for organizations with little to no budget for such global collaborative opportunities. To open up opportunities to attend the conference, SC17 set up a new “Inclusivity Travel Grant” with the goal of helping individuals with demonstrated […]
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Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell to Share Insights at SC17 – Marking 30 Years of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Everyone knows that computers have grown exponentially faster and more powerful. But only a few know exactly why and how – and Gordon Bell has been a sage among them since the 1960s as the former head of R and D at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), establishing the minicomputer industry with the PDP and Vax […]
Out-of-this-World Science Project to be Featured as Keynote at SC17’s High Performance Computing Conference in Denver
Denver, CO – Professor Philip Diamond, Director General of the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, will be the keynote speaker at SC17, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Denver, Nov. 12-17. SKA is an international collaboration to build the world’s largest radio telescope that will change our […]
Insights from the SC17 General Chair Bernd Mohr: At Halftime – A Win-Win for All
By now it is already halftime between SC16 and SC17. Preparations for this years’ conference are in full swing. And I think we can say very confidently, that SC17 is really starting to take shape: Be it papers, panels, workshops or tutorials – we have had countless submissions to the SC17 technical program. First feedback […]
HPCwire Names SC17 General Chair Bernd Mohr as a Person to Watch in 2017
SC17 will be special in many ways. For one, it marks the conference’s 30th year and it also is the first time that the General Chair is from the international community. Bernd Mohr hails from Germany, works at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, and is an avid outdoors man/hiker. He has served as a SC volunteer […]
A Note from the SC17 General Chair Bernd Mohr on “#hpcconnects”
“The best thing at SC this year was meeting with people, sharing ideas….” We often hear comments like this as SC winds down each year and attendees reflect on the past week and start to look ahead to returning home. We’ve heard it equally from men and women who attended, whether they came from the […]
#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 […]
SC15 Invited Talks: Now Playing on the SC Conference Series YouTube Channel
When 10,000 high performance computing experts from around the world convene every November at the annual SC conference, the Invited Talks are a popular venue for learning about topics ranging from high-level policy to improved supercomputer performance. Now, for the first time ever, SC is releasing the full-length version of many of these talks. “The […]
10 Questions with SC17 General Chair Bernd Mohr
Bernd Mohr is the first SC chair from outside the U.S. In November 2014, Bernd Mohr was announced as the general chair for the SC17 conference, marking the first time that someone from outside the United States was selected as conference chair. Mohr attended his first SC conference more than 20 years ago and has […]
