SC17 – SC17

SCinet Experiment Yields Unprecedented Data Exchange with Stanford University

brianban — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:39:46 +0000

Data Transfer Node and BBR Protocol Lead to 72 Gpbs Exchange Between Colorado and California When actor Kevin Costner made famous the phrase “If you build it, they will come” in the 1989 fantasy “Field of Dreams,” the first SCinet was three years from inception. While much has changed since SCinet’s premiere in 1992, the […]

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Brother, Sister take SC17 “HPC Connects” Theme to Heart

brianban — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:21:53 +0000

Ashley and Joshua Michalenko certainly appreciate the SC17 theme of “HPC Connects.” The sister and brother attended the conference as Student Volunteers and enjoying the opportunity to spend a week hanging out together. Ashley, 27, is working on her master’s degree in computer science at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the Michalenko’s home town […]

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SCinet Seeks to Close Gender Gap with Women In IT Networking Program for Professional Development

brianban — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:49:41 +0000

Priority on Inclusivity Spans SC17 in Denver SCinet is working to zap the gender gap in network engineering and high performance computing.Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Energy Sciences Network, six professionals from throughout the U.S. are bringing their knowledge, skills and abilities to build and […]

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Expert Advice: How to Safeguard Your Devices and Connect Securely at SC17

brianban — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:08:40 +0000

Network Security Team Offers Tips to Protect SCinet and You With approximately 12,000 researchers, students, professionals and vendors at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver for SC17, electronic device safety is no trivial matter. If those attendees are typical of most adults, about half of them possess two to four internet connected devices. That’s a […]

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New SC17 Video: With HPC, Researchers Search for Elusive Proteins that Perform Gene Editing – Discoveries Could Drive Cures for Diseases, Agricultural Advances

brianban — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 17:58:53 +0000

Biologists at UC Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) – a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility – are using NERSC, the Office of Science’s primary supercomputing center, to identify a class of enzymes capable of editing out genes responsible for disease. This revolutionary work requires petaflops of computing power to sift […]

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Breaking News: Announcing the SC17 Inaugural Inclusivity Travel Grant

brianban — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:04:52 +0000

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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Mentor-Protege Program Still Needs Mentors

brianban — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:51:27 +0000

When registering for SC17, consider signing up as a mentor to help students get the most out of the conference and make a difference in their careers. And if you’ve already registered, there’s still time to become a mentor. If you didn’t sign up during SC17 registration but would like to now, please email this […]

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SC17 Panel Discussions: Something for Everyone

brianban — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:16:16 +0000

SC17 features a diverse and exciting range of panels. Plan on actively participating in one or more of the panel offerings. Come and debate hot topics and big HPC challenges, with energetic discussions among experts and broad mainstream contributors. This year’s panels include: How Serious Are We About the Convergence Between HPC and Big Data? The […]

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Check Out the Breadth of the Tutorials Program at SC17

brianban — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:21:41 +0000

The SC tutorials program is one of the highlights of the SC Conference series, and it 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 (HPC), networking, […]

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Jesύs Labarta Recognized with ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

brianban — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:00:59 +0000

Barcelona Supercomputer Center Leader Made Major Contributions to Programming Models and Performance Analysis Tools New York, NY—The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) have named Jesύs Labarta of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) as the recipient of the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. […]

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