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A second in a series! The following are exhibitor partner organizations responding to “How did your organization make supercomputing history?” survey as compiled by the 30th Anniversary team. Thanks to all our exhibitors for their participation/collaboration over the past three decades and special thanks to those who filled out the survey. Name of Individual or Organization: Cornell …
SC18 HISTORY MAKERS The following are partner organizations responding to “How did your organization make supercomputing history?” survey as compiled by the 30th Anniversary team. Check back to the blog for additional installments. Name of Individual or Organization: IBM Name: Celeste Bishop Type of organization: Academic; Vendor/Industry Number of years exhibited at SC? 10 Description …
Moderator: Beverly Clayton – SC96 General Chair Panelists: Joanne Martin, 1990 Chair; Roscoe Giles, 2002 Chair; Becky Verastegui, 2007 Chair; Bill Gropp, 2013 Chair, Bernd Mohr, 2017 Chair; and Michela Taufer, 2019 Chair Time: Wednesday, November 14th, 10:30am – 12pm Location: C147/148/154 Started as the Supercomputing Conference in 1988, The Conference on High Performance Computing, …
The term “metacomputing” was coined around 1987 by NCSA Director, Larry Smarr. But the genesis of metacomputing at NCSA took place years earlier, when the center was founded in 1986. Smarr’s goal was to provide the research community with a “Seamless Web” linking the user interface on the workstation and supercomputers. By 1988, NCSA’s vision …
Speaking to in 1981 to Larry Smarr, an American astrophysicist, “How come your country, which makes the supercomputer … why is that American academics have to come over here? How did you win the war?” questioned Karl Heinz Winkler, a fellow astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Munich, West Germany. “America is number …
SC Perennials Background Someone once described the SC conferences to me as the keystone of HPC community relationships and networking. Each year since 1988, SC has been bringing together scientists, researchers, academics, government funding agents and policy makers, students, and vendors for one exciting week noted for an incredible technical program and world-class exhibition hall. …