What's the Big Deal About SC?

1 Big Deal Name

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

2.1 SCinet

• 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

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

4.1 Exhibit Hall

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

5 Big Deal Parties

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

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

8 Credits

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