Click above to view the latest SC Conference video on the importance of HPC. Steve Conway, Research Vice President in IDC’s High Performance Computing group, provides a high-level overview of the importance supercomputers and cites specific examples where it is making a difference every day. Mr. Conway plays a major role in directing and […]
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SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Trends and Challenges in Computational Modeling of Giant Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
Multimodal visualization of giant oil and gas reservoir models. Giant oil and gas reservoirs continue to play an important role in providing energy to the world. Nowadays, state of the art technologies are utilized to further explore and produce these reservoirs since a slight increase in the recovery amounts to discovering a mid-size reservoir somewhere […]
Getting to Know the Student Cluster Competition Teams
From left, the Technische Universität München team is: Michael Zellner, Gregor Matl, Felix Thimm, Daniel Gallenberger, Felix Spaeth, and Sharru Moeller. The following is an interesting look at one of the nine Student Cluster Competition teams competing in Austin this November. Click here to learn more about some of the other teams. For what reasons […]
Mateo Valero Selected as Recipient of 2015 IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Mateo Valero Mateo Valero, a professor in the Computer Architecture Department at UPC in Barcelona, has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Prof. Valero, Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center at the National Center of Supercomputing in Spain, was selected as the recipient for the award […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Superscalar Programming Models – Making Applications Platform Agnostic
StarSs is a task-based programming model by Barcelona Supercomputing Center that has the potential to change the way applications are developed (click on image to enlarge). Programming models play a key role providing abstractions of the underlying architecture and systems to the application developer and enabling the exploitation of the computing resources possibilities from a […]
Brief Q&A with SC15 SCinet Chair David Wheeler
The following is a brief Q&A with David Wheeler, SC15 SCinet Chair from the National Center for David Wheeler, SC15 SCinet Chair Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois where he serves as a Senior Network Engineer. Describe your day job: One of the responsibilities of our team is to architect the HPC system […]
Five Women in IT Selected to Participate in SCinet and Attend SC15
The 2014 SCinet team at last year’s conference in New Orleans. A collaboration between the University Corporations for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER) are pleased to announce that five women IT professionals have been selected to receive funding […]
Finalists Compete for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing
Winners to be announced at SC15 in Austin, TX (USA) Austin, TX (USA) – August 20, 2015 – Five outstanding research efforts in high performance technical computing have been selected as finalists in supercomputing’s most prestigious competition, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing. The $10,000 prize will be presented to a single […]
Scientific Visualization Deadline Extended to August 21st
SC15’s Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase Program provides a forum for the year’s most instrumental movies in HPC. Six finalists will compete for the Best Visualization Award, and each finalist will present his or her movie during a dedicated session at SC15 in a 15-minute presentation. Movies are judged based on how their movie illuminates […]
Meet the SC15 Student Cluster Competition Chair: Hai Ah Nam
The SC15 Student Cluster Chair Hai Ah Nam from Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1999, the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Hai Ah Nam left graduate school for a summer hiatus to take care of her ailing father and save a marriage that was cracking under the grad school pressure. The summer hiatus ended up lasting […]
