The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

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The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Conference Dates: November 12-17, 2017 • Exhibition Dates: November 13-16, 2017
Colorado Convention Center

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Secrets of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition

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From duct tape to tin-can communications systems, each of the 16 teams from around the world participating in this year’s Student Cluster Competition (SCC) has a secret weapon for winning the non-stop, 48-hour contest taking place in the Colorado Convention Center. Just kidding—did you really think we were going to give away their hard-won formulas […]

Flashback Friday: A Look Back to Former Student Cluster Competition Participants

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Student Cluster Competition, or SCC, now in its eleventh year, is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the SCC is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high performance computing community. Over the years, the competition has drawn teams from […]

SC17 Volunteer Dustin Leverman Profile: A Unique Route to HPC Systems

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When Dustin Leverman was growing up, he likely didn’t imagine that his interest in machines would someday turn into a career at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. But since childhood, he has been curious about how things work. “When I was little, my dad would give me something like a flashlight, and […]

SC17 Student Cluster Competition Team Deadline Extended to April 14

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Students@SC: The SC17 Student Cluster Competition deadline has been extended to April 14. Don’t miss out on your chance to participate in this always popular event! Now in its 11th year, the Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC program, […]

Deadline Alert: Student Cluster Competition Deadline Approaching – April 7

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Now in its 11th year, the Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the competition is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high-performance computing community, drawing teams from across the United States and around the world. […]

SC17 Student Cluster Competition to Continue Pushing for Reproducibility

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By Kris Garrett, SC17 SCC Reproducibility Chair from Los Alamos National Laboratory For years, computational science research literature has relied upon computational results. While this mimics relying on experimental results in other sciences, the ability to reproduce computational results has been lacking. At SC16, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) began taking the lead in pushing […]

Submitting a Technical Paper to SC17? Participate in the SC17 Reproducibility Initiative!

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Background: Many computational science community members recognize the need for improving our ability to assure the trustworthiness of computational results.  At the same time, significant impediments make the goal difficult to realize.  Through its reproducibility initiative, the SC conference series is committed to enabling better reproducibility of computational results. SC16: The Beginning SC16 introduced the […]

#SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University

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The SC16 SCC marks the fifth time students from the University of Texas at Austin have competed and this year they are teaming up with Texas State University. To reflect their interschool association of the two schools and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), they named their group “Team Texas”, and extended the theme to […]