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SC Steering Committee Seeks Nominations for SC19 – Deadlines June 30 and September 16

brianban — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:45:55 +0000

The SC Conference Steering Committee is now taking nominations for the SC19 General Chair and two Steering Committee positions. They encourage people to nominate well-qualified colleagues. Individuals may also nominate themselves for these roles. To nominate a person (or yourself) for the position, send an email providing the candidate’s name, a short paragraph describing how the candidate […]

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SC15 Awards Ceremony Recap: Part Two

brianban — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:56:00 +0000

This is the second installment of the SC15 Awards recap. To read the first article, click here. SC15 Posters Chair, Manish Parashar, addresses the SC15 attendees during the Best Poster and ACM Student Research Competition Awards presentation in Austin, Texas. This article will recap the following from the SC15 Awards Ceremony: Best Posters The IEEE […]

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SC15 Awards Recap: Part 1

brianban — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:43:00 +0000

Once again, the SC Awards Ceremony was an entertaining event and one of the many highlights of conference week. This year, the SC15 Award Co-Chairs were Padma Raghavan and Franck Cappello who helped open the SC15 Awards Ceremony According to Cappello, “The awards are very important for the SC conference series. They celebrate the best […]

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Australian Teens Pick Up Supercomputing Knowledge, Souvenirs on Trip to SC15

brianban — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:18:00 +0000

The Australian group visits the U.S. Department of Energy booth at SC15. Eight students from three specialized science schools in eastern Australia spent a week at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas, with the goal of bringing home more than the usual conference swag — they came looking for information that will help them with […]

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China’s Team Diablo Turns Up the Heat to Win SC15 Student Cluster Competition

brianban — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:13:00 +0000

Tsinghua University Claims Third Cluster Competition Title this Year Team Diablo from Tsinghua University, the overall winners of the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua University in China, won the top prize in the Student Cluster Competition at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas. A team from Germany, […]

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SC15 Breaks Exhibits and Attendance Records While in Austin, Texas

brianban — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:30:00 +0000

Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda gives the SC15 Keynote Address in Austin, TX, where record-breaking attendance reached approximately 13,000 people. Media Contact: Brian Ban (773) 454-7423 or BrianBan@SC15Austin.com Austin, TX – SC15, the 27th anniversary conference of high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, celebrated the contributions of researchers and scientists […]

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Hear from NSF’s Aaron Dubrow as He Lists 10 Ways Advanced Computing Catalyzes Science

brianban — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:19:00 +0000

Visualization of 3-D Cerebellar Cortex model generated by researchers Angus Silver and Padraig Gleeson from University College London. The NeuroScience Gateway was used for simulations. Credit: Angus Silver and Padraig Gleeson, University College London When researchers need to compare complex new genomes; or map new regions of the Arctic in high-resolution detail; or detect signs […]

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Alan Alda Gives Inspiring Keynote to Open SC15 in Austin Today

brianban — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:32:00 +0000

Alan Alda gives the 2015 SC Keynote to more than 3,000 attendees on Nov. 17th in Austin. Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda opened SC15 with keynote speech focusing on the role of science in our society and the intersection of science and computing to a full house of more than 3,000 people […]

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SC15 HPC Matters Plenary Session Available Now Online

brianban — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:47:00 +0000

SC15 just released the full HPC Matters Plenary on YouTube for all to access. Watch as Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois, introduces Diane Bryant who then discusses how next-generation supercomputers are transforming HPC and presents exciting opportunities to advance scientific research and discovery to deliver far-reaching impacts on society. As […]

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Connecting Live in Austin with One of the Mosts Powerful Networks in the World

brianban — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:31:00 +0000

The SCinet network, SC’s Supercomputing Internet, is now live! On November 14, the Austin Convention Center became home to the fastest and most innovative computer network in the world built by volunteers, delivering more than 1.6 terabits per second of network bandwidth to the SC conference (SC15). SCinet gives the SC conference attendees a unique […]

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