National Science Foundation – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 SCinet Seeks to Close Gender Gap with Women In IT Networking Program for Professional Development http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/11/15/6902/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:49:41 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6902 Priority on Inclusivity Spans SC17 in Denver SCinet is working to zap the gender gap in network engineering and high performance computing.Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Energy Sciences Network, six professionals from throughout the U.S. are bringing their knowledge, skills and abilities to build and […]

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]]> 6902 SC17 Highlights Nobel Prize Winning LIGO Collaboration in First HPC Connects Video http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/10/04/sc17-highlights-nobel-prize-winning-ligo-collaboration-in-first-hpc-connects-video/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:37:46 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6241 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 […]

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]]> 6241 SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Author Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Presents “Bias: from Overt to Unconscious and What Research Suggests Can Be Done” http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/09/16/sc16-invited-talk-spotlight-author-sharon-bertsch-mcgrayne-presents-bias-overt-unconscious-research-suggests-can-done/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:10:30 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3895 Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is the author of several books about the history of science and scientific discoveries. Her last book was a history of Bayesian probability, “The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy”. Summary of the Talk: […]

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]]> 3895 Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/08/30/seven-women-chosen-get-hands-experience-building-managing-super-fast-network-sc16/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:35:10 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3742 Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been chosen to help build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network, under the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program. Now in its second year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research […]

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]]> 3742 Happy Birthday to the National Science Foundation http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/05/12/happy-birthday-national-science-foundation/ Thu, 12 May 2016 14:17:37 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=2868 Funding is critical to research and discovery. In this light for more than six decades the National Science Foundation has supported research and education in the fields of science and engineering that then led to some phenomenal discoveries and innovations. Take a moment to read about just some of these great accomplishments over the past […]

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]]> 2868 Hear from NSF’s Aaron Dubrow as He Lists 10 Ways Advanced Computing Catalyzes Science http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/11/18/hear-from-nsfs-aaron-dubrow-as-he-lists/ Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:19:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/11/18/hear-from-nsfs-aaron-dubrow-as-he-lists/ Visualization of 3-D Cerebellar Cortex model generated by researchers Angus Silver and Padraig Gleeson from University College London. The NeuroScience Gateway was used for simulations. Credit: Angus Silver and Padraig Gleeson, University College London When researchers need to compare complex new genomes; or map new regions of the Arctic in high-resolution detail; or detect signs […]

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]]> 1685 SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Reproducibility in High Performance Computing http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/09/25/sc15-invited-talk-spotlig/ Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:03:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/09/25/sc15-invited-talk-spotlig/ 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 […]

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]]> 1727 Five Women in IT Selected to Participate in SCinet and Attend SC15 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/09/09/five-women-in-it-selected-to/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:40:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/09/09/five-women-in-it-selected-to/ 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 […]

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