Ashley and Joshua Michalenko certainly appreciate the SC17 theme of “HPC Connects.” The sister and brother attended the conference as Student Volunteers and enjoying the opportunity to spend a week hanging out together. Ashley, 27, is working on her master’s degree in computer science at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the Michalenko’s home town […]
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New SC17 Video: With HPC, Researchers Search for Elusive Proteins that Perform Gene Editing – Discoveries Could Drive Cures for Diseases, Agricultural Advances
Biologists at UC Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) – a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility – are using NERSC, the Office of Science’s primary supercomputing center, to identify a class of enzymes capable of editing out genes responsible for disease. This revolutionary work requires petaflops of computing power to sift […]
Breaking News: Announcing the SC17 Inaugural Inclusivity Travel Grant
Traveling to the Supercomputing conference is nearly impossible for HPC professionals living in remote areas of the world working for organizations with little to no budget for such global collaborative opportunities. To open up opportunities to attend the conference, SC17 set up a new “Inclusivity Travel Grant” with the goal of helping individuals with demonstrated […]
Jesύs Labarta Recognized with ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
Barcelona Supercomputer Center Leader Made Major Contributions to Programming Models and Performance Analysis Tools New York, NY—The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) have named Jesύs Labarta of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) as the recipient of the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. […]
SC17 Highlights Nobel Prize Winning LIGO Collaboration in First HPC Connects Video
To help tell the story of how high performance computing is enabling truly “out of this world” discoveries, SC17 has released a new video that focuses on the role of high performance computers in the Nobel Prize-winning LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) collaboration. The just-announced prize was awarded for the discovery of gravitational waves, originally theorized 100 […]
Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell to Share Insights at SC17 – Marking 30 Years of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Everyone knows that computers have grown exponentially faster and more powerful. But only a few know exactly why and how – and Gordon Bell has been a sage among them since the 1960s as the former head of R and D at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), establishing the minicomputer industry with the PDP and Vax […]
SC17 Invited Talk Profile: The TOP500 List – Past, Present and Future
Abstract Description: Since 1993, The TOP500 list has served as the defining yardstick for supercomputing performance. And at SC17 in November, the 50th TOP500 list will be announced. Published twice a year, it is a compilation of the world’s 500 largest installations and some of their main characteristics. Systems are ranked according to their performance on the Linpack benchmark, […]
Tour the Farthest Reaches of the Observable Universe in the SC17 Keynote Address
As science projects go, building and leveraging the largest radio telescope in the world is a whopper—complex, international in scope and wildly bleeding edge. It’s widely regarded as one of the most ambitious science enterprises of our time. Who better to headline SC17 as speakers than the brilliant minds leading such an endeavor? The Square […]
Breaking News: SC17 Exhibition Setting Records
Even though SC17 is still more than two months away, this year’s Exhibition is already setting records. “We are excited to report that we have already smashed the record for both net square feet of exhibit space sold as well as the total number of exhibitors,” says Bronis R. de Supinski, SC17 Exhibits Chair from […]
SC17 Invited Talk Spotlight: Indiana University’s Dr. Judy Qiu Presents “Harp-DAAL: A Next Generation Platform for High Performance Machine Learning on HPC-Cloud”
Abstract Description: Scientific discovery via advances in simulation and data analytics is an ongoing national priority. A corresponding challenge is to sustain the research, development and deployment of the high performance infrastructure needed to enable those discoveries. Early cloud data centers are evolving with new technologies to better support massive data analytics. Analysis of Big […]
