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SC21 General Chair Bronis R. de Supinski Recaps the First-Ever Hybrid SC Conference
SC21 Marks a Number of Firsts It was the first time we hosted SC in St. Louis, where the famous Gateway Arch rises over the banks of the Mississippi River. It was the first time we delved into how the power of HPC is expanding to other disciplines, beyond traditional science and to areas such …
Celebrate This Year’s SC and Society Awardees by Watching the SC21 Awards Ceremony
During the SC21 Awards Ceremony, held on Thursday, November 18, 2021 in St. Louis, the SC Awards and selected ACM and IEEE awards were presented. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees! Society Awards ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award David Abramson, University of Queensland IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award David A. Bader, New Jersey Institute of …
Introducing the SC21 HUBB for Remote Participants & Attendees in St. Louis
Welcome to the SC21 HUBB We’ve compiled this PDF to introduce you to the SC21 HUBB, and to give you some instructions regarding the login process, platform features, and more. If you are attending the conference in St. Louis or as a remote participant, please take a moment to review these instructions. SC21 HUBB Overview …
A Diverse Students@SC Committee Brings Robust Programming to SC21
Students@SC Metrics The incredible body of volunteers led by SC21 Students@SC Chair Jay Lofstead encompasses 85 committee members! Students@SC has selected 164 students to participate across a variety of programs both in-person and remotely. Representing 22 countries, this diverse and international group will benefit from 40 mentors and 46 speakers that will share their time …
Bringing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Into the Heart of SC21 Planning
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has taken a central role in this year’s SC21 conference planning. There are nine dedicated sessions with a DEI element, and the DEI philosophy surrounds all of this year’s Students@SC and Student Cluster Competition events. In addition to these events, we will have a staffed Inclusivity office on-site in St. …
SC Is Seeking Feedback on the Early-Career Attendee Experience
SC21 would like to invite all past and present early-career attendees, including those formerly or presently involved in the Early Career Program, to participate in an anonymous survey to provide feedback on the early-career attendee experience at SC. The goal of the survey is to understand the strengths and potential areas of improvement for the …
SIGHPC CARES for Our Community
Many of us look forward to attending the SC Conference and other HPC-related conferences every year, knowing that we’ll get to interact with friends and colleagues, absorb new knowledge about our field, and share our own accomplishments with our peers. Unfortunately, not everyone has a great experience at these big events, whether because of plagiarism, …
Get to Know These First-Time Exhibitors at SC21
Throughout the past year we’ve shared stories about the many ways that high performance computing is expanding beyond scientific and academic communities to inform other industries, help unlock new discoveries and solve tough challenges. With this growth, we’ve also seen a number of new organizations join our community – eager to display their advanced technologies …
Birds of a Feather Session Celebrates 30 Years of the HPC Act: From Exascale to Quantum and Beyond
Thirty years has brought so much in the way of new emerging high-performance computing (HPC) technology to the United States and the global community. Why is 30 years an important marker in the computing world? It has been 30 years since the HPC Act of 1991 was signed into law and since then we have …
Advanced Computing for Social Change (ASCS) is the New Computing4Change (C4C)
C4C has changed its name to Advanced Computing for Social Change. Meet the executive committee, mentors, and students participating this year, including team metrics! Christine Baissac-Hayden, SC21 Students@SC Communications Liaison Christine Baissac-Hayden created Easy English 4 All, which provides multilingual communication tools for clients from diverse backgrounds in the renewable energy, medical, defense, marine science, …