Jackie Kern – 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 Exhibitor Forum Deadline Sept. 15 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/07/28/exhibitor-forum-deadline-sept-15/ Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:32:47 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3452 Each year, the Exhibitor Forum provides manufacturers, vendors and HPC service providers with a venue to deliver a technical presentation that is open to both Exhibit and Technical Program attendees. This year’s forum will focus on forefront issues such as data, HPC services, usability, and networking. Topic areas include: Hardware & Architecture Moving, Managing & […]

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]]> 3452 SC15 Breaks Exhibits and Attendance Records While in Austin, Texas http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/11/19/sc15-breaks-exhibits-and-attendance/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:30:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/11/19/sc15-breaks-exhibits-and-attendance/ 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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]]> 1684 Alan Alda Gives Inspiring Keynote to Open SC15 in Austin Today http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/11/17/alan-alda-gives-inspiring-keynote/ Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:32:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/11/17/alan-alda-gives-inspiring-keynote/ 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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]]> 1686 SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern Previews the Conference and Exhibition http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/11/10/10-questions-with-sc15-general-chair/ Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:59:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/11/10/10-questions-with-sc15-general-chair/ SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern Following is a brief conversation with Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Since 2003, she has served as  a member of the SC planning committee and in 2007 she also served as SCinet Chair.   At the University of Illinois, she is the Director […]

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]]> 1694 SC15 Releases Video on How Berkeley Lab’s Electrolyte Genome Project Could Be Battery Game-Changer http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/09/21/sc15-releases-video-on-how-berkeley/ Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:23:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/09/21/sc15-releases-video-on-how-berkeley/ A new breakthrough battery—one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer—will likely be impossible without a new material discovery. And a new material discovery could take years, if not decades, since trial and error has been the best available approach. But Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson […]

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]]> 1730 SC15 Announces Intel’s Diane Bryant as HPC Matters Plenary Speaker http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/09/10/sc15-announces-intels-diane-bryant-as/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:54:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/09/10/sc15-announces-intels-diane-bryant-as/ Intel’s Diane Bryant Austin, TX (USA) – September 10, 2015 – SC15 today announced that Intel’s Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, has been selected as the HPC Matters plenary speaker at the 27th annual SC15 conference on high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. Starting in […]

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]]> 1734 Way Back Wednesday! Welcome back to Reno’s SC07 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/05/27/way-back-wednesday-welcome-back-to/ Wed, 27 May 2015 21:38:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/05/27/way-back-wednesday-welcome-back-to/ A seldom-seen photo during the blackout inside the Reno convention center at the Student Cluster Competition area. SCinet’s Year of Epic Power Outages and Road Construction SCinet, the world’s fastest network built each year for the SC conference by SC volunteers, has a heritage of  heroic stories about installing, bringing up, operating and managing networks […]

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]]> 1763 HPC Matters, because HPC Transforms – SC15 General Chair, Jackie Kern http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/03/24/hpc-matters-because-hpc-transforms-sc15/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:22:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/03/24/hpc-matters-because-hpc-transforms-sc15/ Jackie Kern From Jackie Kern: Like many of you, HPC is more than just a vocation for me — there are many ways that I could make a living, but I choose to stay in HPC because only HPC allows me the chance to enable breakthroughs in such a broad range of fields. From new […]

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]]> 1780 HPCwire Posts Interview with SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/03/03/hpcwire-posts-interview-with-sc15/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:25:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/03/03/hpcwire-posts-interview-with-sc15/ SC15 Chair on HPC Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin Jackie Kern By John Russell SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern is hardly new to the HPC community. A member of the SC planning committee since 2003, Kern led the building of SCINET in 2007. The largest network in the world for a week, it delivered multicast video […]

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]]> 1784 SC15 to Strengthen, Enhance Programs for Students, Early Career Researchers http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/02/18/sc15-to-strengthen-enhance-programs-for/ Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:25:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/02/18/sc15-to-strengthen-enhance-programs-for/ Student volunteers play a variety of important roles before and during the conference. Revamped programs aimed at increasing diversity and supporting younger researchers at various career stages For the past 15 years, the annual SC conference has welcomed hundreds of students to the week-long conference held every November, providing an entry into the community of […]

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