Texas Advanced Computing Center – 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 Growing Importance for ‘Smart Cities’ Initiatives Brings Focus to the Transformative Power of High Performance Computing http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/10/25/growing-importance-smart-cities-initiatives-brings-focus-transformative-power-high-performance-computing/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:24:46 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4310 Every day, leaders of large cities grapple with knotty, complex problems like decaying public transportation infrastructures, aging utility lines, urban blight, neighborhoods that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and other multi-faceted socio-economic challenges. Increasingly, municipal leaders are turning to the game-changing tools of urban analytics, data collection, and advances in sensor technology […]

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]]> 4310 SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. John D. McCalpin Presents “Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/10/07/sc16-invited-talk-spotlight-dr-john-d-mccalpin-presents-memory-bandwidth-system-balance-hpc-systems/ Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:14:28 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4098 Short Introduction:                                                                                                                                                                                                                       This talk reviews the history of the changing “balances” between computation, memory latency, and memory bandwidth in deployed HPC systems, then discusses how the underlying technology changes led to these market shifts. Key metrics are the increasing relative “cost” of memory accesses and the massive increases in concurrency that are required to obtain […]

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]]> 4098 SC15 Paper Highlighted in Effort to Raise HPC Research Integrity to Serve as Basis for SC16 SCC Reproducibility Application Challenge http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/09/28/sc15-paper-highlighted-effort-raise-hpc-research-integrity-serve-basis-sc16-scc-reproducibility-application-challenge/ Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:46:44 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4025 Authors of a paper judged at SC15 in Austin, Texas, have transformed a portion of their experiment into an application challenge for the SC16 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) as part of a larger effort to raise the bar for experimental research in computing. SC is responding to the growing need for scientific repeatability, replicability and […]

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]]> 4025 STEM Gender Gap: SC Experts Advise Strength in Diversity, Mentorships and Open Reporting http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/09/26/stem-gender-gap-sc-experts-advise-strength-diversity-mentorships-open-reporting/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:42:34 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3827 Men still outnumber women in STEM training and employment, and engineering leaders are working to bring awareness to that diversity gap and the opportunities it presents. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, only 29% of STEM jobs are held by women, although women comprise more than half of the national workforce. The gender disparity […]

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]]> 3827 SC16 Keynote Speaker Katharine Frase to Focus on Cognitive Computing http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/08/02/sc16-selects-industry-veteran-katharine-frase-keynote-speaker/ Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:41:15 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3490 Salt Lake City, Utah – SC16 announced that Katharine Frase has been selected as the SC16 Keynote Speaker and will focus her discussion on “Cognitive Computing:  how can we accelerate human decision making, creativity and innovation using techniques from Watson and beyond?” as she delivers the keynote on November 15, 2016 in Salt Lake City, […]

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]]> 3490 Part Two: Q&A with SC16 General Chair John West from Texas Advanced Computing Center http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/06/14/part-two-qa-sc16-general-chair-john-west-texas-advanced-computing-center/ Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:32:23 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3011 SC16 General Chair John West works at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as the Director of Strategic Initiatives. At TACC, he is involved in identifying new communities that can benefit from TACC’s advanced computing technologies and in connecting industry partners to TACC’s advanced computing expertise. He has been a volunteer with SC off and […]

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]]> 3011 Part One: Q&A with SC16 General Chair John West from Texas Advanced Computing Center http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/06/01/part-one-qa-sc16-general-chair-john-west-texas-advanced-computing-center/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:56:41 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=2955 SC16 General Chair John West works at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as the Director of Strategic Initiatives. At TACC, he is involved in identifying new communities that can benefit from TACC’s advanced computing technologies and in connecting industry partners to TACC’s advanced computing expertise. He has been a volunteer with SC off and […]

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]]> 2955 Breaking News: SC16 Adds a Focus on the State-of-the-Practice http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/04/05/sc16-adds-focus-state-practice/ http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/04/05/sc16-adds-focus-state-practice/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:57:27 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=2672 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 […]

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]]> http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/04/05/sc16-adds-focus-state-practice/feed/ 2 2672 Eight Questions with “HPC Matters” Chair Wilf Pinfold from Intel http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/04/22/8-questions-with-hpc-matters-chair-wilf/ Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:39:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/04/22/8-questions-with-hpc-matters-chair-wilf/ Wilf Pinfold Wilf Pinfold has a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Studied Business at Stanford.  He serves as the HPC (High Performance Computing) Matters Chair as well as the Chair of the ACM SIGHPC Advisory Board. What is your role in the “HPC Matters” program? SC conference organizers launched the “HPC Matters” program in […]

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