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Ground-breaking technology and revolutionary musicians distinguish the same Dallas venue (Dallas, Texas) – The Beatles and High Performance Networking may seem like entirely unrelated topics. But they’re connected this week +5 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. In 1964 the Beatles broke musical ground when they performed here, and now just 2,824 weeks later …
As we get closer to SC18, SIGHPC wanted to learn a little bit more about the students who will be participating in the Computing4Change (C4C) competition. For the next few weeks, we will be sharing short bios of the students (and the student mentors), so that we can all catch a glimpse of the incredible …
Infectious Disease Epidemics, Refugee Migration, & Global Food Supplies; Experts from the United Nations, The Institute for Disease Modeling, the Arrell Food Institute, and Intel Share Insights CONTACT: Brian Ban, SC18 Communications (brianban@sc18dallas.com) To solve humanity’s most complex and demanding problems ranging from creating sustainable global food production and preventing infectious disease epidemics to …
Moderator: Paul Messina, Argonne National Laboratory Panelists: Arthur Bland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jackie Chen, Sandia National Laboratories; Phil Colella, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory; Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Thom Dunning, University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Wendy Huntoon, Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research; and Dan Reed, University of Iowa Time: …
Moderator: Sadaf R. Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Panelists: Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois; Eli Dart Energy Sciences Network;, Dirk Pleiter, Juelich Supercomputing Centre; David Hancock, Indiana University; Stephen Poole, Los Alamos National Laboratory Time: Tuesday, November 13th, 10:30am – 12pm Abstract: Scientific workflows today, especially those involving large-scale data sources, require an ecosystem of HPC and …
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 …
Speaker: Depei Qian Time: Wednesday, November 14th, 11:15am – 12pm Location: Exhibit Hall B Abstract: Description: After a brief introduction to the key project on HPC under the national key R&D program, this talk focuses on the progress made by the key project, including the exascale prototype system development, the HPC applications and enabling platforms …
Pesenter: Mary Ann Piette from Lawrence Berkley National Lab (LBNL) Time: Wednesday, November 14th, 4:15pm-5pm Location: Exhibit Hall B Abstract: “Urban Energy Science and High Performance Computing” will cover current research to evaluate how to reduce energy use in cities and report on progress of exascale computing funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Several national laboratories …
Once again, the HPC community responded strongly to our call for insightful and engaging content for workshops. As a reminder or for those who are new, workshops provide a focused, in-depth venue for HPC presentations, discussions, interactions, and hands-on activities. Many workshops run “mini-conferences” on a specific theme. Workshop proposals are peer-reviewed and selected with …
Presenter: Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory Time: Thursday, November 15th, 10:30am-11:15am Location: Exhibit Hall B Abstract: The number of network-connected devices (sensors, actuators, instruments, computers, and data stores) now substantially exceeds the number of humans on this planet. Billions of things that sense, think, and act are connected to a planet-spanning network of cloud and …