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16 International Teams to Compete in SC18 Student Cluster Competition

When the SC18 conference convenes November 11th in Dallas, 16 teams of students will compete in the 12th annual SC Student Cluster Competition (SCC). Sixteen teams were chosen from 23 submissions, the highest number to date.  Of these teams, five are from institutions that have never competed at SCC.  The teams come from around the world,

Invited Talk Profile: “A Quantum Future of Computation” by Microsoft’s Matthias Troyer

Presenter: Matthias Troyer Time: Thursday, November 15th, 8:30am – 9:15am Location: Exhibit Hall B Abstract: Still in early development, quantum computing is already overturning our contemporary notions of computational methods and devices. Using new concepts of computing based in quantum physics, quantum computers will be able to solve certain problems that are completely intractable on

Panel Focus – SC: The Conference

Moderator: Beverly Clayton – SC96 General Chair Panelists: Joanne Martin, 1990 Chair; Roscoe Giles, 2002 Chair; Becky Verastegui, 2007 Chair; Bill Gropp, 2013 Chair, Bernd Mohr, 2017 Chair; and Michela Taufer, 2019 Chair Time: Wednesday, November 14th, 10:30am – 12pm Location: C147/148/154 Started as the Supercomputing Conference in 1988, The Conference on High Performance Computing,

Panel Focus – HPC in Cloud or Cloud in HPC: Myths, Misconceptions and Misinformation

Moderator: Sadaf R. Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Panelists: Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois; Eli Dart Energy Sciences Network;, Dirk Pleiter, Juelich Supercomputing Centre; David Hancock, Indiana University; Stephen Poole, Los Alamos National Laboratory Time: Tuesday, November 13th, 10:30am – 12pm Abstract: Scientific workflows today, especially those involving large-scale data sources, require an ecosystem of HPC and

Please Join Our Efforts in SC Mentoring!!

The SC Mentor–ProtĂ©gĂ© Program supports the growth of a vibrant HPC community by connecting students with experienced mentors. For SC18, the Students@SC and Early Career programs are joining forces to unify their mentoring activities. By jointly designing and hosting an exciting series of activities, we anticipate this merger will create an even stronger mentoring community.

Supercomputing History: The Cloud Before the Cloud – Metacomputing and Heterogeneous Supercomputing

The term “metacomputing” was coined around 1987 by NCSA Director, Larry Smarr. But the genesis of metacomputing at NCSA took place years earlier, when the center was founded in 1986. Smarr’s goal was to provide the research community with a “Seamless Web” linking the user interface on the workstation and supercomputers. By 1988, NCSA’s vision

Explore How to Deploy the Unruly Power of Machine, Platform, and Crowd in the SC18 Keynote Address by MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson

Your organizational playbook is being rewritten by radically shifting environments. The only question: Will you be the disruptor or the disrupted? The SC18 Keynote promises help. Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT will join us to explore the seismic changes being brought about in societies, economies, and organizations by three primary elements of the machine age: Machines

From Famine to Feast in Supercomputing – Over Three Decades of Inspiration and Progress in Access to Supercomputing

Speaking to in 1981 to Larry Smarr, an American astrophysicist, “How come your country, which makes the supercomputer 
 why is that American academics have to come over here? How did you win the war?” questioned Karl Heinz Winkler, a fellow astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Munich, West Germany. “America is number

Important Update: INDIS Workshop Deadline Extended to September 12th

Deadline extension: Paper submissions for the 5th annual INDIS Workshop are now due on Wednesday, September 12th! The SCinet experimental networks team invites original papers for the 5th annual Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS) workshop. INDIS is an academic forum for researchers and engineers to share information systems infrastructure developments that are essential

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