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Posters!!! Submit Now!! Posters offer an excellent opportunity for you to hear brief presentations and have informal conversations with researchers in diverse areas of HPC innovation. A Best Poster and a Best Student Poster award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) The …
ACMās Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC), in collaboration with Intel, has announced theĀ seven recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2018. The fellowship is funded by Intel and is presented each year at the annual SC conference. The fellowship was established as a five-year program to increase the …
Presenter: Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory Time: Thursday, November 15th, 10:30am-11:15am Location: Exhibit Hall B Abstract: The number of network-connected devices (sensors, actuators, instruments, computers, and data stores) now substantially exceeds the number of humans on this planet. Billions of things that sense, think, and act are connected to a planet-spanning network of cloud and …
Presenter: Cecilia Aragon, University of Washington in Seattle Time: Thursday, November 15th, 9:15am – 10am Location: Exhibit Hall B Extraordinary advances in our ability to acquire and generate data are transforming the fundamental nature of discovery across domains. Much of the research in the field of data science has focused on automated methods of analyzing …
ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) recently announced the 16 undergraduates chosen to compete in the inaugural Computing4Change competition. Co-located with the SC18 conference in Dallas, TX, Computing4Change introduces students to the potential of computing to create positive change in our society. Students learn to work as part of a team, applying …
Exhibit floor booths are often not very accessible to the physically disabled, particularly for persons with mobility impairments, including those persons using wheelchairs. Here are some tips and standards related to physical accessibility to consider to improve accessibility on the showroom floor: Informational displays in booths should be hung such that the top of the …
Nominations for two openings on the SC Steering committee are now open and will close on September 16, 2018. To nominate a person (or yourself), send an email giving the candidateās name, a short paragraph describing how the candidate meets the following criteria, and a recent curriculum vitae (CV) that highlights professional and SC experience. …
The SC18 Early Career Program (ECP)Ā provides a series of special sessions thatĀ support (pre-registered)Ā early-career researchers, educators, and technical professionals.Ā Those interested in applying for the ECP should beĀ academic, industry, laboratory,Ā post-doc positions, and beĀ within the first five years ofĀ their careers. TheĀ ECP aims to help participants secure a better understanding of the issues and challenges faced while navigating a …
The year was 1992.Ā The annual SC conference was being held in Minneapolis.Ā I was directing Market Relations and Communications for Intelās Supercomputer Systems Division. Due to some unanticipated product delays, we were not going to have what we had hoped would be a spotlight system for the Intel booth, so I was given a …
The SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) Committee announced the selection of āA Parallel Hashed Oct-Tree N-Body Algorithmā by John SalmonĀ and Mike WarrenĀ as the SC18 ToTA winner. āThe award-winning paper describes a technique for solving N-body problems, which arise in a large number of fields from astrophysics to chemistry at both large and small scales,ā …