5 things to know about the Supercomputing Conference 2013

Established in 1988, the annual Supercomputing Conference is an innovative forum for a diverse range of researchers, scientists, application developments and technology enthusiasts around the world. With around 5,000 people participating annually in its technically program and with about 11,000 overall attendees, the SC Conference impacs computing, networks and technology on a global scale. If you are planning to attend this year's conference, here are five things you need to know:

1. Held in Denver, Colorado, this year’s SC Conference will feature nearly 400 exhibitors from diverse industry and research around the world, one of the biggest exhibitions in the conference’s history. There will also be exhibitor forums on topics such as Software for HPC, Hardware and Architecture, and Moving, Managing, and Storing Data.

2. The keynote address, on “The Secret Life of Data,” will be given on Tuesday, November 19th by noted technology anthropologist and Intel Fellow Genevieve Bell. Bell worked as a Stanford researcher before joining the Intel Corporation as a cultural anthropologist, where she studied the ways different cultures use technology. Her keynote will examine how we have dealt with “big data”—data that is either so complex or so fast that our ability to process it is strongly challenged—in the past and how we must deal with it in the future.

 Keynote speaker Genevieve Bell
3. The Scientific Visualization Showcase is back for its third year at the SC Conference, where the latest engineering HPC results and science will be put on display. Submissions closed this August, and selected entries will be displayed in a museum-like setting so conference attendees can better experience their visual innovation.

4. A new part of the SC Technical Program, the Emerging Technologies Track aimed at creating a discussion about large-scale efforts and projects in fields including computing, networking, and storage. I will display 17 high-profile presentations including The Mont-Blanc Project: Building HPC out of Mobile phone processors, Evolving the Power Architecture into Microserver DenseCore Nodes, and Carbon Nanotube Digital Circuits.

5. Avago Technologies will showcase the latest high-speed optical interconnect solutions at this year’s conference. Attendees will also have the chance to meet with Avago design and marketing experts at this exhibition, where they can discuss the design requirements in the Ethernet Alliance Booth 622.

 
Source Supercomputing.org