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Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Help Power Discoveries
Watch a quick overview of how SciViz aids researchers featuring highlights from last year’s SciViz Showcase finalists. HPC accelerates scientific and engineering discoveries. In the process, it often creates overwhelming amounts of data. To better understand their data, researchers frequently turn to scientific visualization, also known as SciViz, to graphically represent their data. This is …

ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture to be Presented at SC22
Dongarra Presentation to Open SC22 Congratulations to Jack Dongarra, recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award. A long-time SC supporter, his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled HPC software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades has, through the years, accelerated HPC. With our SC22 conference theme, …

Student Cluster Competition Benchmark Selected
Announcing the SCC Benchmark We are excited to announce that the SC22 Reproducibility Challenge Committee has selected the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) benchmark for this year’s Reproducibility Challenge. The honor goes to the SC21 paper “Productivity, Portability, Performance: Data-Centric Python,” by Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Timo Schneider, Tal Ben-Nun, Alexandru Calotoiu, Tiziano De Matteis, Johannes de …

The Early Career Program Helped Four Young Professionals Thrive and You Can Too
Thaleia Dimitri Doudali Having just earned her PhD in computer science from Georgia Tech University in 2021, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali was ready to embark on the next phase of her career. At the urging of her advisor, Ada Gavrilovska, she applied for and was accepted into the Early Career Program for SC21 in St. Louis. …

Advice for International Attendees From an SC Veteran
Is the annual SC conference relevant for HPC professionals from outside the U.S.? Is the time commitment, plus the expense of traveling from Europe, Asia or elsewhere, worth it? “Absolutely yes, to both questions,” says Dr. Bernd Mohr. And he should know, as the Germany-based scientist has attended SC on an almost annual basis since …

Reserve Your Hotel for Your Stay in Dallas
SC22 Housing Is Open! SC22 Housing Chair Christine Harvey welcomes all attendees to view room blocks reserved in the vicinity of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Hotel reservations can be made using onPeak’s Compass reservation system. onPeak is the ONLY authorized contractor for arranging hotel rooms for SC22. Be sure to review the “Know …

Explore Delightful and Diverse Dallas – Our SC22 Host City
If you haven’t been to Dallas in a while, the host city for SC22 has really grown and evolved – and continues to live up to its nickname, “Big D.” There are numerous reasons why Dallas is ranked among the top five cities in the nation for meetings and conventions. Restaurants and boutiques, lively entertainment, …

Call for Interest in SC Leadership Roles
Get Involved! The SC Steering Committee is seeking future leaders for the SC Conference Series. In the video above, SC20 General Chair and SC Steering Committee Member Christine E. Cuicchi explains the value of serving in these positions and how fresh perspectives can influence the future of the SC Conference. Further develop your own leadership …

Students Focus Their Career Trajectories Through Participation in Students@SC
While pursuing her master’s degree in computational science, Verónica Melesse Vergara attended her first SC conference – SC10 in New Orleans – as a student volunteer. And that experience completely changed her career trajectory. “It opened my eyes to the wide range of career possibilities in high performance computing,” says Verónica, who today is the …

Reproducibility Initiative Announces Webinar Series to Assist Paper Authors
On March 14, 2022, the SC22 Reproducibility Initiative Committee will kick-off a webinar series to provide potential authors with key information on using several technologies and platforms to help them prepare the Artifact Description and Artifact Evaluation (AD/AE) appendix for paper submissions. The series will include webinars on the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S), Chameleon …