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Kicking Off SC21 TV with an Interview on Inclusivity, the Humanities, and HPC
SC21 is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion as discussed in our first SC21 TV interview with Cristin Merritt, a program manager for Alces Flight Lt. at Oxford in Great Britain. She also highlights how HPC and the humanities in the UK are making literature, music, and design more accessible. Merritt is volunteering as Inclusivity …
From Digital Humanities to Music – HPC Finds Its Footing in Wide-Ranging Disciplines
The Scope and Impact of Supercomputing Seemingly Has No Boundaries One is in the field of digital humanities, an emerging area of study that amplifies and extends humanities research through the use of such advanced information technologies as technology, media and computational methods. An academic who is striving to elevate the use of HPC within …
Call for Nominations: IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award
The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 1 of the year of the award. It is …
XNet Accepting Proposals for SC21
The Experimental Networks Team (XNet) call for proposals is open until June 30. SC21 will be held November 14–19, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri. The SC Conference Series is a test-bed for cutting-edge developments in high-performance networking, computing, storage and analysis. The SC21 XNet team engages partners in research, education and industry to facilitate high-performance …
INDIS Workshop Again Coming to SCinet
Since SC14 in New Orleans, INDIS (Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science) has brought together network engineers and researchers to share challenges and potential solutions in the information systems and networking communities. The 8th annual INDIS Workshop will be held in conjunction with SC21 on Monday, November 15, 2021. Traditionally, this has included eight presentations …
Students@SC Chair Jay Lofstead on the Value of Participating in SC as a Student
Students@SC Chair Jay Lofstead and Computing4Change Liaison Dawn Hunter share programs available to students at SC21, as well as the long term objective of fostering students through their HPC journey – which could eventually lead to the position as General Chair for the SC conference. For SC21, students will be able to chose to participate …
Q&A with SC21 SCALE Co-Chair Rocío Carratalá-Sáez
From Student Volunteer to SCALE Co-Chair – Rocío Has Evolved with SC! Rocío Carratalá-Sáez received her BSc in Computational Mathematics at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) of Castellón (Spain) in 2015 and MSc in Parallel and Distributed Computing at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) in 2016. She was a PhD candidate in the Department …
SC21 TV Expands Previous Video Interviews From the SC News Desk
As thousands of high performance computing experts from all over the world prepare to gather in St. Louis in November, preparations are underway to tell some of their stories via video interviews on social media. SC21’s theme — “Science & Beyond” — is guiding the selection of topics and VIPs who will be interviewed prior …
Robot Burns: Using HPC to Create Modern-Day Poems Inspired by 18th Century Master
Two hundred and twenty five years after his death, famed Scottish poet Robert Burns continues to create masterpieces. Well, sort of. The new verses — penned in the style of the author of the acclaimed ‘Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’ collection of poems and lyricist to “Auld Lang Syne” and other tunes — are actually …