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Inaugural SCinet Technology Challenge at SC19 Brings Supercomputing and Networking Together to Reimagine the Future of Data-driven Scientific Applications
SCinet, the SC Conference’s high-capacity network, hosted the inaugural Technology Challenge at SC19 this year with the goal of demonstrating that both networking and high performance computing resources are essential elements of the cyber infrastructure required to advance modern data-driven scientific applications. Three teams presented live demonstrations of their applications and experiments this past week …
SCinet Recognitions Spotlight Contributors’ Significant Role in Advancing Networking Technologies at SC19
A group of more than 200 volunteers have just completed the successful launch of SCinet, a global collaboration of high-performance networking experts who provide the fastest and most powerful volunteer-built network in the world for the SC Conference which is taking place this week in Denver. SCinet offers an unprecedented amount of bandwidth — 4.22 …
SCinet Student Volunteers Are Here! SC19 Set-up Has Started
Rajani Pingili, from Hyderabad, India, is a first-year PhD student majoring in Computer Science at Western Michigan University. Her mentor, Dr. Ajay Gupta, introduced her to the conference, and she was selected as a SCinet student volunteer for the first time this year. Pingili joined a group of 19 SCinet student volunteers that arrived in …
Prepping SCinet for SC19: Behind the Scenes with the SCinet Family
To prepare for SC19, this year’s SCinet Chair, Jim Stewart, Chief Technology Officer of the Utah Education and Telehealth Network, has been leading his team of 300 volunteers for over a year. That full year of hard work came together on October 21 when SCinet started its deployment to build the SC19 network in Denver. …
New SC Theater to Showcase Live Presentations That Advance Modern Data-Driven Scientific Applications
How well do high-performance networking and the theater work together? We’re not talking broadway here, but the new SC Theater will debut during the Grand Opening Gala Reception, Monday, November 18, 7–9 pm. The SC Theater, with seating for 20 and standing room as well, is located next to SCinet on the exhibit floor. It …
Real-Time Analysis of Streaming Synchrotron Data Technology Challenge Demo May Impact Electronics and Pharmaceuticals
Technology Challenge Is New for SC19 Whether it’s the battery in your smartphone, or a prescription in your medicine cabinet, the SC19 Technology Challenge involves large scale research that may impact your daily life. Examples include increasingly complex experiments using the Advanced Photon Source Facility (APS) generating huge amounts of data that may exceed …
SCinet Help Students Prepare, Build, and Staff World’s Fastest Temporary Network
Students from throughout the planet collaborate with each other and advanced HPC professionals to build SCinet, the world’s fastest network during the SC conference. Before the conference begins students help install miles of fiber optic cable at the exhibit hall, configure wireless access point throughout the convention center, and connect the event to locations worldwide …
Student Cluster Competitors Thrive Despite Unforeseen Obstacles
Cliff hangers aren’t just the stuff of fiction and movies. Participants in the SC Student Cluster competition faced several real life glitches prior to and during the event in Dallas, Texas last year. Those challenges included sponsors who withdrew or didn’t show up and the failure of technology in the midst of the competition. But …
WIN-ning Women Selected for Women in IT Networking at SC
Enabling Growth The Women in IT Networking at SC program, better known as WINS, was created to remedy the vast gender gap in Information Technology, particularly in network engineering and high-performance computing. When the program started in 2015, 13.93% of SC professional volunteers were women. By 2017, the number climbed to 20.97%. This upward trend …
SC19 June Need to Know: Food Production & HPC, Free Proceedings, SC22 Chair Nominations, Major June Announcements, SCinet Spring Cleaning, Submissions & Nominations Deadlines
June’s Theme: Food Production and HPC When you imagine where your food comes from, I’m willing to bet that data centers and high performance computing are not in your immediate stockpile of images about how what you eat gets from the field to the table. Increasingly, though, these technologies ensure that you are able to …