What's the Big Deal About SC?

Elsa Gonsiorowski

September 22, 2021

Created: 2021-09-22 Wed 14:52

1 Big Deal Name

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1.1 International Conference for High Performance Comptuing, Networking, Stroage, and Analysis

  • Started in 1988
  • Sponsored by ACM SIGHPC and IEEE-Computer Society
  • About 12,000 attendees
  • Representing 70 countries worldwide
  • Only 20-25% of attendees are from the US

2 Big Deal Network

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2.1 SCinet

1 year to design, 1 month to build,

1 week to operate, 1 day to teardown

  • 130+ volunteers
  • 60+ miles of fiber optic cable in the exhibit halls
  • 300+ wireless access points
  • 1,000,000 Sq-ft coverage
  • 4.22 Terabits per sec of wide area network connectivity
  • $52M loaned network equipment

3 Big Deal Program

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3.1 Tutorials (Sun/Mon)

36 different topics including:

  • Fault Tolerance
  • Lossy Compression
  • Deep Learning
  • Distributed GPU Programming
  • Parallel Programming 101
  • Kubernetes

3.2 Workshops (Sun/Mon/Fri)

38 different sessions (many with published proceedings):

  • Women in HPC
  • HPC User Support Tools (HUST)
  • Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of HPC Systems (PMBS)
  • RSE in HPC
  • Quantum Computing Software
  • Best Practices for HPC Training and Education

3.3 Papers / Technical Program (Tue-Thur)

  • Algorithms
  • Applications
  • Architectures & Networks
  • Clouds & Distributed Computing
  • Data Analytics, Visualization & Storage
  • Machine Learning and HPC
  • Performance
  • Programming Systems
  • State of the Practice
  • System Software

3.4 Posters (Tue)

  • Research
  • ACM Graduate Students
  • ACM Undergraduate Students
  • Doctoral Showcase
  • Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics

3.5 Awards

  • Gordon Bell
  • ACM SIGHPC
  • ACM/IEEE-CS
  • IEEE-CS Seymour Cray, Sidney Fernbach, TCHPC
  • Test of Time Award, Best of
  • Student Cluster Competition

4 Big Deal Vendors

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4.1 Exhibit Hall

  • Intel
  • Cray/HPE
  • NVidia
  • Amazon
  • Google
  • Department of Energy

5 Big Deal Parties

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5.1 Receptions and Free Food

  • Grand Opening Gala Reception
  • Poster Reception
  • Technical Program Reception
  • Vendor events: Beowulf Bash, RedHat LLNL Party

6 Big Deal People

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6.1 Students

  • Student & Post-Doc Job Fair Wednesday
  • Students@SC Sessions open to all
  • Student Cluster Competition
    • 16 Teams, 5 from new institutions
  • Student Volunteers
  • HPC Experience for Undergraduates
  • Mentor-Protege Program
  • Tours for local students

6.2 Organizing Committee

  • Conference Chair Bronis de Supinski
  • Executive Assistant Michele Bianchini-Gunn
  • Virtual Logistics Chair Lori Daichin
  • Technical Program Vice Chair Todd Gamblin
  • Mobile Application Chair Stephen Herbein
  • Reporter Jeremy Thomas
  • 30 others from LLNL

7 SC is a Big Deal

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