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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.
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 …
Announcing SC19 Invited Speakers: The Translational Impact of HPC in All Areas of Science and Society
HPC is playing an increasingly important role in transforming science and society and has become an important catalyst for insight, discovery, and innovation. Complementing the SC19 conference theme, “HPC is Now!”, the SC19 Invited Talks program brings together 12 leading researchers whose talks will highlight the translational impact of HPC in all areas of …
Early Career HPC Professionals: Don’t Miss This Opportunity to Connect and Grow at SC19
Who Is the Early Career Program For? The Early Career Program (ECP) is designed for early career researchers in their first five years of academic, industry, or government positions, including postdocs. ECP provides activities designed to jump start or boost early HPC careers. The program is for participants already planning to attend SC19 and requires …
A First-Time Student Volunteer Is Struck by HPC’s En-‘Lightning’ Possibilities
Meet Julia Julia Milani, a third-year student majoring in computer science at Universidade Federal de São Carlos in Brazil, participated in the HPC for Undergraduates program at SC17. So, becoming a “first-time” student volunteer for SC18 actually marked her second SC conference experience. Struck by Lightning (Talks and Demos) While at SC18, Julia particularly …
Nominations Are Open for the Second ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Make Your Nomination Before June 30 The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC) is a biennial award open to any woman who has engaged in HPC and technical computing research, education, and/or practice for 5-15 years since receiving her highest degree. This international award creates a new career milestone achievement and consists …
Food Production & HPC: Understanding Plant Growth From Above & Below
Applying Ones and Zeros to Fields and Farms From Thomas Malthus in the 18th century to Paul Ehrlich in the 1960s, people have long feared that population would outstrip the planet’s capacity to feed people. What has kept those predictions at bay has been technology—not only in the soil, but more recently in the field …
Teams Named for SC19 Student Cluster Competition
Competitors Represent Growing Diversity, International Interest This year’s competitors for the Student Cluster Competition (SCC), showcase a mix of new and returning talent. From of a pool of 30 applicants, 13 teams were selected to compete, where they will be joined by last year’s SCC winners, Tsinghua University (China), along with the Asian Supercomputing Challenge …
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 …
Stephen Herbein Keeps His SC Conference Connection Thriving
Stephen Gets Acquainted with SC as a First-Time Student Volunteer In 2012, Stephen Herbein joined Michela Taufer’s lab at the University of Delaware and one of the first things she had him do was apply to be a student volunteer for the SC12 conference. He was selected upon his first application. For Stephen, this was …
Calling All HPC Community Leaders: Get Involved with SC
Volunteering is a Rewarding Way to Give Back and Build Community Have you ever contributed to the SC program by presenting a poster, talk, or tutorial? Have you organized a workshop, BoF, or panel? If you are a long-time participant of the SC conference and have dreamt of becoming part of the “behind-the-scenes” team who …