China’s HPC Iron Curtain Creating a Top500 Problem
At Supercomputing 2023, observers said that the Top500 list of the world’s fastest computers needs a shakeup. That is because submissions of benchmarks are dropping, and cloud providers are not...
View ArticleSC23 BOF: Inclusivity Progress and Challenges
New to SC23 was a series of talks on Inclusivity topics. Sponsored by the Inclusivity Committee and open to all conference attendees, these 90-minute birds-of-a-feather-style (BOF) presentations...
View ArticleSCREAM wins Gordon Bell Climate Prize at SC23
The first Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling was presented at SC23 in Denver. The award went to a team led by Sandia National Laboratories that had developed and run a model of the global...
View ArticlePSC Recognized for Advances in Clean Energy Technology, Application of New...
Nov. 21, 2023 — A potential way to turn coal into clean-energy graphite and carbon nanotubes and an application of a bleeding-edge computing technology to speed up a classical but difficult turbulence...
View ArticleSC23 HPC Student Cluster Smackdown
Since 2007, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) has provided an international multi-day contest for the best and brightest university HPC teams. This year, the in-person event was held at SC23 in...
View ArticleLLNL’s Doerfert Awarded IEEE Computer Society Early Career Researchers Award
Nov. 22, 2023 — The IEEE Computer Society on Nov. 16 presented Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)’s Johannes Doerfert with its IEEE-CS Technical Community on High Performance Computing...
View ArticleSC23: The Ethics of Supercomputing
Why should HPC practitioners care about ethics? And, what are our ethics in HPC? These questions were central to a lively discussion at the SC23 Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session: With Great Power Comes...
View ArticleThe Annual SCinet Mandala
Perhaps you have seen images of Tibetan Buddhists creating beautiful and intricate images with colored sand. These sand mandalas can take weeks to create, only to be ritualistically dismantled when the...
View ArticleJülich’s Sandra Diaz Leads Discussion on Neuroscience and HPC at SC23
Dec. 11, 2023 — Sandra Diaz, head of the Simulation and Data Lab Neuroscience at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), was invited to give a talk about “Boosting Neuroscience Research with...
View ArticleThe New Space Age – NASA, SpaceX, AI, and the Artemis Missions
The future of spaceflight lies in the successful transition from an approach in historical past brilliance and relative consistency, such as found in classical music, into a new Space Age utilizing an...
View ArticleSTEM-Trek NRG@SC23 Workshop: Inspiring and Enlightening!
STEM-Trek, a nonprofit that supports scholarly travel, mentoring, and advanced skills training for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, hosted a pre-conference workshop ahead of the...
View ArticleUC San Diego Students Win MLPerf Contest at SC23
Feb. 2, 2024 — A team of UC San Diego undergraduate students won third place in the annual Student Cluster Competition (SCC), which was held at the recent 2023 Supercomputing Conference in Denver,...
View ArticleArgonne Computing Research Wins Accolades
Feb. 9, 2024 — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were recognized for their achievements in high performance computing (HPC) with three HPCwire Awards. The...
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