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SC tutorials is one of the largest tutorial programs at any computing-related conference in the world. It offers attendees the chance to learn from and to interact with leading experts in the most popular areas of high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. Tutorial Topics Covered SC tutorials cover a wide range …
The Early Career Program (ECP) provides a series of special sessions that target early-career researchers, educators, and technical professionals: academic, industry, and laboratory staff within the first five years of a permanent position. The program aims to help participants secure a better understanding of the issues and challenges faced while navigating a successful research career. From …
Are you a student interested in HPC? Or a faculty or staff member involved in high performance computing (HPC)? If so, you should consider submitting a team to the SC18 Student Cluster Competition (SCC). What You’ll Need 6 students interested in HPC (undergraduate or high school) 1 or more advisors skilled in HPC 1 or more vendor …
The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is seeking qualified female U.S. candidates in their early to mid-career to join the SCinet volunteer workforce for SC18. The SC Conference Series is dedicated to supporting an inclusive environment. In 2015, SCinet partnered with a team of collaborators to create the pilot SCinet Diversity Program, …
The annual SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact that recognition that the paper has changed HPC trends. The ToTA also acts as an incentive for researchers and students to send their best work to the SC Conference …
ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC), in partnership with Intel, awards the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships to 12 world-class students from under-represented groups in computing. The fellowships, funded by Intel, were established to increase diversity among students pursuing graduate degrees in data and computational sciences, including women and students …
SCinet students and volunteers value collaborating with the “best professionals in the field.” Each year a select group of students from all over the world work alongside network engineers and IT professionals to build the world’s fastest temporary network—SCinet. Altogether more than 180 volunteers from educational institutions, high performance computing centers, network equipment vendors, U.S. national …
About the Author Kelly Nolan serves on the SC18 Inclusivity Committee and is the co-founder of TalentStrategy.org and a seasoned expert in strategic affairs and gender equity. Previously, she worked with Compute Canada where she led the strategy to secure commitments for more than $100 million in government funding. Limiting Growth When you examine the STEM disciplines …
ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Deadline: 1 May 2018 The ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is on high-performance computing applications, networking, storage, or large-scale data analysis using the most powerful computers that are currently available. It comes with a $5,000 honorarium, recognition on …