Recovery, refurbishing and reuse are keys to SCinet sustainability. Most high-speed, high-bandwidth networks consist of fiber optic cable that is permanently installed in protective walls, ceilings and flooring, or buried underground in thick, waterproof conduit. But building the world’s fastest and most powerful temporary network from the ground up each year for the SC conference necessitates […]
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Q&A with SC17 SCinet Chair Jeffrey Schwab from Purdue University
SCinet is a global collaboration of high-performance networking experts who provide the fastest and most powerful volunteer-built network in the world for the SC Conference. About the Chair: Jeffrey Schwab is the SC17 SCinet Chair and the infrastructure architect at Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus, where he is responsible for the design and architecture of the […]
Six Women in IT Selected to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC17
Six women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the United States have been chosen to participate in the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program, helping to build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network. Now in its third year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation […]
Network Research Exhibition Seeks Demo Proposals Starting May 15th
CALL FOR DEMOS OPENS MAY 15, 2017 The SC conference series has traditionally been home to cutting-edge developments in high-performance networking, alongside those in high-performance computing, storage, and analytics. SCinet is soliciting proposals from research and industry participants that displayed new or innovative demonstrations in network testbeds, emerging network hardware, protocols, and advanced network intensive […]
Call for Tutorial Submissions – Deadline April 17, 2017 (11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth)
SC tutorials is one of the largest tutorial programs at any computing-related conference in the world. It offers attendees the chance to learn from and to interact with leading experts in the most popular areas of high performance computing, networking, and storage. SC tutorials cover a wide range of topics in the following areas (as […]
SCinet from a Vendor’s Perspective
Article submitted by Rod Wilson from Ciena To some, the business case to provide millions of dollars in product and services to create a network that exists for only four days might be hard to fathom. But participating vendors have stepped up year over year, some for over a decade because SCinet delivers great and […]
Personal and Industry Perspectives: Women in IT Networking at SC
This is a follow-up piece to the article “Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16” Now in its second year, Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and […]
Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been chosen to help build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network, under the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program. Now in its second year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research […]
How SCinet Changed My Life
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, […]
Career Opp: How to Make a Big Impression in Your New HPC Career
Early Career Program applications being accepted through July 31 Are you interested in making a big impression early in your career? The SC16 Early Career Program is designed to equip participants for significant contributions in their new careers by building skills related to obtaining funding, identifying publishing venues, establishing long-term mentor relationships, and effectively managing […]
