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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 …
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 …
SC20 Invited Speakers Tackle Challenges for the Earth, Its Inhabitants, and Our Security Using “More Than HPC”
The Invited Talks for SC20 represent the breadth, depth and future outlook of technology and its societal and scientific impact. HPC has always played a critical role in advancing breakthroughs in weather and climate research. This year’s invited talks extend this further to data driven approaches, including biodiversity, geoscience, and quantum computing. Our speakers will …
COVID, Cancer, and HPC Highlight the Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop at SC
COVID-19 has transformed life around the globe. In NYC, where I work for the Mount Sinai Health System, we were at the center of the epidemic in the United States in March. At this time, our clinicians and researchers leveraged their domain expertise to focus solely on better understanding and treating this new disease. The …
SC20 Virtual Event Announced by General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi
SC20 is everywhere we are. You may have noticed a change in our logo—after months of hard work by the SC20 Planning Committee, we are thrilled to announce that SC20 will be a fully virtual conference. As we began exploring how to bring our conference to life in a digital environment, we had the option to go big or go home. We’ve chosen to go big. The vast majority of our usual conference content will be shared during our virtual event in November.
Computational Approaches for Cancer – Looking Around the Corner
Eric Stahlberg, PhD Director, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Looking ahead to the sixth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop (CAFCW) at SC20, I am extremely excited about how the HPC community has embraced cancer research and how far we’ve progressed in such a short time. Five years ago, …
SC20 Conference Planning Update by General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi
Planning each SC conference is a three-year journey. By the time we are in the final year of planning, the shape of the conference is well-determined, as are the known unknowns. The events of 2020 have upended all of that, and have made for the most challenging final year for any SC planning committee yet. …
HPC & COVID-19: The HPC Community’s Effort to Respond
HPC has been a tremendous enabler of advances in healthcare and medical research for many years. And as you’d expect, HPC is helping scientists get a lead on the coronavirus and its impacts on human health. Japanese Researchers Use Fugaku, the World’s Fastest Supercomputer, to Simulate Air Particle Movement Resulting in Recommended Procedures for …
A Great Reason to Bring the Kids to SC
Zoo Atlanta Zoo Atlanta inspires value and preservation of wildlife through a unique mix of education and outdoor family fun. From well-known native wildlife to critically endangered species on the brink of extinction, the zoo offers memorable close encounters with more than 1,000 animals from around the world. The zoo’s highlights include one of the …
HPC Supports Pandemic Research Efforts
Monitoring the Situation As the impact of COVID-19 and the worldwide response to the virus grows, I want to express the SC20 team’s heartfelt concern for our friends, colleagues, and families around the world. So, you may be wondering: is SC20 still on? The short answer is, yes. Because there is extreme fluidity with …