SC15 – SC17

Personal and Industry Perspectives: Women in IT Networking at SC

brianban — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:06:14 +0000

This is a follow-up piece to the article “Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16” Now in its second year, Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and […]

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ICYMI: Dr. Victoria Stodden’s Entire SC15 Invited Talk – “Reproducibility in High Performance Computing”

brianban — Fri, 27 May 2016 14:45:40 +0000

The team behind the SC15 Invited Talks program took on the ambitious goal of recording as many of the Invited Talks as possible so that those who could not attend the session, could still benefit from the content. We will be profiling these sessions over the next several months. The first video is Dr. Victoria […]

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SC Conference Student Volunteers Open Themselves to a World of Opportunities

brianban — Tue, 10 May 2016 17:26:03 +0000

For William Killian, being a Student Volunteer at the SC conference means opening himself up to new opportunities to learn, meet many of the leading lights of the high performance computing community, and to hone his own research as he works toward his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. His first year as a volunteer […]

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Personal Perspective: Helping to Build One of the World’s Fastest Computer Networks – SCinet at SC15

brianban — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:53:37 +0000

Jamie Curtis is the Head of Technology Strategy and Architecture at REANNZ. He participated as a SCinet volunteer in 2015. The following is his recap of the experience. Every year for the past 25 years a group of volunteers gather to build one of the world’s fastest networks, only to then tear it down a […]

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SC15 Awards Ceremony Recap: Part Two

brianban — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:56:00 +0000

This is the second installment of the SC15 Awards recap. To read the first article, click here. SC15 Posters Chair, Manish Parashar, addresses the SC15 attendees during the Best Poster and ACM Student Research Competition Awards presentation in Austin, Texas. This article will recap the following from the SC15 Awards Ceremony: Best Posters The IEEE […]

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SC15 Awards Recap: Part 1

brianban — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:43:00 +0000

Once again, the SC Awards Ceremony was an entertaining event and one of the many highlights of conference week. This year, the SC15 Award Co-Chairs were Padma Raghavan and Franck Cappello who helped open the SC15 Awards Ceremony According to Cappello, “The awards are very important for the SC conference series. They celebrate the best […]

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Australian Teens Pick Up Supercomputing Knowledge, Souvenirs on Trip to SC15

brianban — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:18:00 +0000

The Australian group visits the U.S. Department of Energy booth at SC15. Eight students from three specialized science schools in eastern Australia spent a week at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas, with the goal of bringing home more than the usual conference swag — they came looking for information that will help them with […]

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On Evolving Network Security for a Research and Enterprise Network

mhester — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:07:00 +0000

SC15 security technology racks with help from Dell, Gigamon, Reservoir Labs, Splunk, and Verisign. With more than 12,000 researchers, students, professionals, and vendors attending the conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis conference, better known as SC, SC’s internet, SCinet, has to be at the forefront of network security research and implementations to […]

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China’s Team Diablo Turns Up the Heat to Win SC15 Student Cluster Competition

brianban — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:13:00 +0000

Tsinghua University Claims Third Cluster Competition Title this Year Team Diablo from Tsinghua University, the overall winners of the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua University in China, won the top prize in the Student Cluster Competition at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas. A team from Germany, […]

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SC15 Breaks Exhibits and Attendance Records While in Austin, Texas

brianban — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:30:00 +0000

Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda gives the SC15 Keynote Address in Austin, TX, where record-breaking attendance reached approximately 13,000 people. Media Contact: Brian Ban (773) 454-7423 or BrianBan@SC15Austin.com Austin, TX – SC15, the 27th anniversary conference of high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, celebrated the contributions of researchers and scientists […]

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