Here we’ll keep you up to date with the latest news and perspectives on topics related to SC and the upcoming conference throughout the year. Check out the tags to explore more posts on the subjects that interest you.
Post-Conference Recap and Gratitude from SC20 General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi
More than HPC. The SC20 Planning Committee chose that theme in early 2019 to emphasize that as a community, we are more than just the bits and bytes that we work with to solve the problems facing us today. Little did we know how important that would become. And when it became apparent that, with …
Congratulations to the SC, ACM, and IEEE-CS Awardees for SC20
During the SC20 Awards Ceremony, held virtually on Thursday, November 19, 2020, the SC Awards and selected ACM and IEEE-CS awards were presented. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees! Society Awards ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Read about the awardee on the ACM website Dr. Vivek Sarkar, Georgia Institute of Technology Watch the award presentation …
SC’s First Virtual Student Cluster Competition Concludes with Teams Greatly Expanding Their Knowledge of Running HPC Workloads in the Cloud
This past Wednesday at 5 pm EST, 19 student teams all breathed a sigh of relief as the 72-hour long Virtual Student Cluster Competition concluded. Over the past 3 days, 114 students, the mentors from all 19 teams, and the VSCC committee worked non-stop as the competition unfolded. Throughout it all, the teams and the …
SC20 Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative Discusses Early Findings of Community Survey
The SC20 Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative undertook a survey in August of this year to study perceptions within the community of the measures implemented by SC to make results from the Technical Program and Workshops more transparent and reproducible. SC’s measures for increased reproducibility take the form of additional information collected at the time of …
Highlights for Students@SC at SC20
We look forward to seeing you at SC20 and hosting students from around the world! This blog includes special event highlights and items of interest for students attending the conference. These events and programs are completely free with your registration! Pro Tips To make the most of your experience at SC, make sure you have …
First Peer-Reviewed Paper to Disclose the Blue Gene/L System Wins SC20 Test of Time Award
The Test of Time Award (ToTA) recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact and recognition that the paper has changed HPC trends. We are pleased to announce the selection of the SC02 paper, “An Overview of the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer” as the SC20 ToTA …
Statement on Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion at the SC Conference
Recognizing Racism Recent events, including the horrific and unacceptable killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd as well as the protests of police actions that led to their deaths, have heightened our awareness of the ways systemic racism impacts us all. The SC Steering Committee recognizes that systemic and institutionalized racism have been blinding, leading …
How to Convince Your Supervisor That You Should Attend SC20
As a week-long event held in different cities every year, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, known as SC, provides one of the best opportunities for computer scientists, engineers, network experts, and other HPC researchers from academia, government, and industry to gather and assess the state of the field. The …
Computing4Change Student Profiles: 2020 Edition (Part 3)
Although SC20 and Computing4Change have shifted to virtual mode, we still want to share profiles of the incredible students and mentors that will be participating in the C4C program. They hail from 10 states and US Territories, and have a wide range of diverse experiences and life goals. Que’Aire Anderson, a C4C mentor, is studying …
Thoughts at the Threshold of the Exascale Era
An exaflop is an arbitrary milestone, a nice round figure with the kind of symbolic lure the four-minute mile once held. And as we know, there are three stages to these computing milestones that have occurred about once a decade. First comes peak exaflop performance, then a Linpack/TOP500 exaflop, and finally the one that counts …