Abstract Description: Since 1993, The TOP500 list has served as the defining yardstick for supercomputing performance. And at SC17 in November, the 50th TOP500 list will be announced. Published twice a year, it is a compilation of the world’s 500 largest installations and some of their main characteristics. Systems are ranked according to their performance on the Linpack benchmark, […]
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Submissions Open for the Test of Time Award
The SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) Committee is soliciting nominations for this year’s Test-of-Time Award to be given at the SC17 Conference in November 2017 in Denver, CO. The ToTA Award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact and recognition that the paper […]
Jack Dongarra Shares his Assessment of World’s Newest No. 1 Supercomputer
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. […]
Supercomputing Serengeti
The SC Perennials offer reflections on the annual migration By Mike Bernhardt How many of you can say you’ve attended any type of annual event 27 years in a row? When it comes to the SC conferences, that claim to fame would only apply to 18 very hardy souls we like to refer to as […]
SC15 Selects Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Program for the Test of Time Award
Austin, TX – May 20, 2015 –The Supercomputing Conference (SC15) Test of Time Award Committee has recognized “The NAS Parallel Benchmarks – Summary and Preliminary Results” written by D. Bailey, E. Barszcz, J. Barton, D. Browning, R. Carter, L. Dagum, R. Fatoohi, P. Frederickson, T. Lasinski, R. Schreiber, H. Simon, V. Venkatakrishnan, and S. Weeratunga […]
SC’s Jack Dongarra Talks Exascale and Beyond with VR World
Please note: Excerpt approved by VR World. For the full article, click here. Dr. Jack Dongarra of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee was the SC14 Technical Program Chair and is serving as the SC15 Test of Time Award Co-Chair. Jack Dongarra, SC15 Test of Time Award Co-Chair VR World: During your […]
SC15 Announces New Test of Time Award Details
The SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) Committee is soliciting nominations for this year’s Test-of-Time Award to be given at the SC15 conference in November in Austin, Texas. The ToTA recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact and recognition that the paper has changed […]
