University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Gropp to Receive ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award New York, October 6, 2016 —The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society have named William D. Gropp, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken […]
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ICYMI: Dr. Victoria Stodden’s Entire SC15 Invited Talk – “Reproducibility in High Performance Computing”
The team behind the SC15 Invited Talks program took on the ambitious goal of recording as many of the Invited Talks as possible so that those who could not attend the session, could still benefit from the content. We will be profiling these sessions over the next several months. The first video is Dr. Victoria […]
Breaking News: SC16 Adds a Focus on the State-of-the-Practice
If you are in high performance computing (HPC) or a related field, you know SC16 as the leading international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. For 28 years SC has served as the conference of record in the supercomputing community for presenting the results of groundbreaking new research, getting the training needed […]
Connecting Live in Austin with One of the Mosts Powerful Networks in the World
The SCinet network, SC’s Supercomputing Internet, is now live! On November 14, the Austin Convention Center became home to the fastest and most innovative computer network in the world built by volunteers, delivering more than 1.6 terabits per second of network bandwidth to the SC conference (SC15). SCinet gives the SC conference attendees a unique […]
SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern Previews the Conference and Exhibition
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 […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Reproducibility in High Performance Computing
The number of lines of code published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 1960–2012, on a log scale. The proportion of articles that published code remained roughly constant at about a third, with standard error of about 0.12, and the journal consistently published around thirty-five articles each year. Source: click here and click here. Ensuring […]
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 […]
Way Back Wednesday! Welcome back to Reno’s SC07
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 […]
HPC Matters, because HPC Transforms – SC15 General Chair, Jackie Kern
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 […]
HPCwire Posts Interview with SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern
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 […]
