Women in HPC Workshop at ISC High Performance 2015

“Our workshop at ISC will bring together female early career researchers with a focus on European participation, providing them with the opportunity to showcase their work and network with role-models and peers in an environment designed to reduce the stereotype of men dominating the field of HPC. The workshop will open with an introduction on current research by the Women in HPC network, what the current demographics of the HPC community are and the differences experienced by men and women in the field.”

JSC and IBM Win the Inaugural Hans Meuer Award

Today ISC announced that a research paper in the area of in-memory architecture, jointly submitted by a team of seven researchers representing the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), IBM Germany, and the IBM Watson Research Center in the US, has been selected to receive the inaugural Hans Meuer Award.

Interview: MEGWARE Gears up for ISC High Performance

MEGWARE in Germany celebrated its 25th anniversary in February. With the company in the midst of a big cluster deployment at CERN, we caught up Jörg Heydemüller from MEGWARE to learn what they have in store for the upcoming ISC High Performance conference in July.

Interview: A*STAR to Spotlight Singapore at ISC High Performance

The ISC High Performance conference brings out the very best in international supercomputing, and this year will be no exception with a host of content focused on HPC in Asia. Singapore has been a hotbed of HPC activity of late, so we caught up with Marek Michalewicz, who was recently named Chief Executive Officer at A*STAR Computational Resource Centre.

The Future of Cars and Computers On Deck at ISC High Performance

The application of HPC in the automotive industry will be featured at this year’s ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt. Both location and date have changed this year – previous conferences have been held most recently in Leipzig and have taken place a month earlier in June. The opening keynote by Jürgen Kohler will explore how Mercedes-Benz makes use of supercomputing to deliver competitive advantage.

Dr. Jürgen Kohler from Daimler AG to Keynote ISC High Performance in July

In his Monday address at ISC High Performance on July 13, Dr. Kohler, who is also the Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee, will introduce the integration of digital prototyping at the business unit, Mercedes-Benz Cars Development.

ISC High Performance Announces Hans Meuer Award

“We are pleased to announce that ISC is introducing the Hans Meuer Award to honor the most outstanding research paper submitted to the conference’s research paper committee. This award has been introduced in the memory of the late Dr. Hans Meuer, general chair of the ISC conference from 1986 through 2014, and co-founder of the TOP500 project.”

Interview: D-Wave Systems Steps Up With Quantum Computing

“We’ve grown substantially and matured as a company. We’ve expanded our customer base. We’ve hired many talented people who have strengthened our core technical, administrative, legal, and management teams. We’re in the final stages of perfecting the design of our next generation, “Washington”, quantum processor. We’ve cemented new business relationships with companies, including 1QBit, DNA-SEQ, and QxBranch, aiming to develop software for our platform. And we have gained a deeper understanding of the best ways to harness quantum computing resources.”

Submissions Due Feb 15: ISC High Performance 2015

Time is running out to submit your submissions for the ISC High Performance Conference. Submissions for workshops, tutorials, BoF sessions, and research posters sessions are still open until February 15. The student volunteer program application ends April 10.

CHPC Student Cluster Competition Winners on the Road to ISC

“Kruger National Park was the perfect setting for the conservation-themed meeting titled “Towards an Energy-Efficient HPC System,” but the environment proved to be extra challenging for the contest, with occasional power outages and a saturated Wi-Fi network. The playing field was level, however, and the conditions prepared the students to be persistent and to not take anything for granted–good lessons for life, in general! Eight teams with 32 competitors were selected in Sept. from among 84 applicants.”