ISC 2024: Call for Presentations Is Open

Hamburg – Call for presentations at ISC 2024 is now open for scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government to contribute discussions of their work and discoveries. “The ISC conference and exhibition attracts technology enthusiasts interested in HPC, machine learning, and quantum computing….

ISC 2024 Announces Contributed Program Categories and Committee Leaders

HAMBURG, August 2, 2023 – The ISC 2024 HPC conference has announced the contributed program categories for next year’s event (May 12-16) in Hamburg along with committee leaders: Research Paper – Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA Finland Research Poster – Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Project Poster – Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA […]

From 24 Hours to 7 Minutes, Huawei OceanStor Pacific Accelerates Genome Sequencing

International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is an annual conference that showcases the key technologies in the supercomputing field. It brings together experts from multiple specialist fields, including research into life sciences and genetics to shed light on the origins and mysteries in our lives. HPC….

Torsten Hoefler Named First Winner of Jack Dongarra Early Career Award

HAMBURG, April 17, 2023 – Professor Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been named the inaugural Jack Dongarra Early Career Award recipient. This award acknowledges his significant contributions to converging high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). His research focuses on performance-centric system design, which includes scalable networks, parallel programming techniques, and performance […]

Prof. Dan Reed to Deliver ‘Reinventing HPC’ Opening Keynote at ISC

HAMBURG, February 27, 2023 – The ISC High Performance 2023 conference has announced that Professor Daniel Reed, presidential professor in Computational Science at the University of Utah, will be the ISC Monday (May 22) keynote speaker on the subject of “Reinventing High Performance Computing,” which is also the theme of this year’s conference program. In […]

ISC Appoints Senior Advisor to Expand Focus of ISC Conference Series

HAMBURG, January 16, 2023 – The ISC conference organization has announced that Eric Schnepf, the former Distinguished Engineer and Lead Solution Architect for HPC and AI at Fujitsu Central Europe, has joined us as the Senior Advisor for program development. His focus will be to develop the ISC High Performance conference further to suit the needs of […]

ISC 2023 Names LBNL’s John Shalf Program Chair

HAMBURG, Germany, September 28, 2022 – The organizers of ISC High Performance have announced that John Shalf, department head for Computer Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), will be the ISC 2023 Program Chair. Shalf is is a nearly 30-year veteran of the HPC industry, having started at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications […]

OLCF’s Doug Kothe on Pushing Frontier Across the Exascale Line and the Future of Leadership Supercomputers

Everyone involved in the Frontier supercomputer project got a taste of what a moonshot is like. Granted, lives were not on the line with Frontier as they were when Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon in 1969. But in other ways there are parallels between the space mission and standing up Frontier, the world’s […]

Women in HPC Returns to In-Person Events at ISC 2022 in Hamburg

June 15, 2022 — The Women in HPC (WHPC) organization released this report on its activities at the ISC 2022 conference earlier this month in Hamburg. Members, allies and friends gathered together for the 13th Annual WHPC Workshop at ISC, as well as celebrated Early Career Research in HPC and the return of Diversity Day. […]

It’s a Wrap! We’ll See You at ISC Next Year

[SPONSORED POST] After attending ISC, it’s safe to say that no remote conferencing or communication technology can ever replace the experience of face-to-face human interaction.  It was fantastic to engage directly with our customers and partners, sharing new platform developments and intriguing customer stories.  It is truly inspiring to hear about some of the new initiatives aimed to conquer challenges that seemed insurmountable in previous years.