{"title":"SC17 preview: connecting minds, systems, and science","authors":"B. Mohr","doi":"10.1145/3231036.3231039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3231036.3231039","url":null,"abstract":"It's hard to believe that the 30th edition of SC17 is almost here! Our community continues to deliver breakthrough research, best practices, and emerging services, creating a truly exceptional technical program and exhibition for 2017. Whether it be via minds, systems, or science, our SC17 goal is to connect you with the best technology, networking and content. Below, I've highlighted just a few of this year's many excellent events.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114062638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New George Michael Memorial HPC fellows selected","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3231036.3231040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3231036.3231040","url":null,"abstract":"The two recipients of the ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships for 2017 are Shaden Smith from the University of Minnesota and Yang You from the University of California, Berkeley. Their awards will be presented at the SC17 Awards Ceremony on Thursday afternoon.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123309357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging woman leader in technical computing: Dr. Ilkay Altintas","authors":"I. Altintas","doi":"10.1145/3231036.3231038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3231036.3231038","url":null,"abstract":"The first winner of the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing is Dr. lkay Altintas, of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. She is recognized \"for research leadership that makes distributed scientific and technical computing applications more reusable, scalable, and reproducible.\"","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134271212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seven students receive SIGHPC travel grants to attend SC17","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3231036.3231042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3231036.3231042","url":null,"abstract":"This year SIGHPC awarded seven travel grants to students to help them attend SC17. The grants consist of complimentary Technical Program registration and a stipend of $600 US for those traveling from within North America or $1200 US for those traveling from outside. In addition, the students are paired with a mentor to help them navigate the conference.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127960390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travel grantees reflect on SC18","authors":"Fabio Bancelli, Charu Kalra","doi":"10.1145/3329097.3329101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3329097.3329101","url":null,"abstract":"This year, all grants were awarded to students who were serving or presenting: two were student volunteers, two were presenting papers and one was presenting a poster. We followed up with the grantees for highlights from their trip. All expressed amazement at the size and scope of the conference as well as their appreciation to SIGHPC for providing the grant.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120944400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Apply for a student travel grant","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3329082.3329087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3329082.3329087","url":null,"abstract":"If you are a student interested in HPC, apply to the SIGHPC Travel Grants program. A grant can help support your travel to the attend the SC18 conference.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124229430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kothe delivers ACM-wide webinar on exascale computing project","authors":"D. Kothe","doi":"10.1145/3352694.3352697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3352694.3352697","url":null,"abstract":"In late April 2019, Doug Kothe, Director of the Exascale Computing Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, delivered the ACM-wide webinar entitled, \"The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Future of HPC.\" John West (Texas Advanced Computing Center) moderated the event.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130794719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positive response to SC18's new featherweight revisions process","authors":"Jeff Hollingsworth","doi":"10.1145/3329082.3329084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3329082.3329084","url":null,"abstract":"The SC18 Technical Papers Program Committee (TPC) met in-person during the first week of June to consider \"featherweight revisions\" as part of a new process in SC18, and there is positive early feedback from authors and reviewers.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114692226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computing4Change winners","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3329097.3329100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3329097.3329100","url":null,"abstract":"Following an intense three-day competition held at SC18, a team of four undergraduates took home the top prize of $250 in the Computing4Change contest for their project, Resisting Cultural Acceptance of Violence. This team consisted of: Peizhu \"Pam\" Qian (Simmons College), Hoano Rosario (Chaminade University of Honolulu), Nilo Espinoza (University of Guam), and Claire Fiorino (San Diego State University).","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128620780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A personal best at Computing4Change in 2018: Thomas Johnson III","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3352694.3352696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3352694.3352696","url":null,"abstract":"SC'19 is maintaining a blog with special articles, features, and updates on upcoming deadlines or events, to help attendees get oriented and excited about the show. The following article is taken from there; please head to the SC'19 blog site for the latest happenings.","PeriodicalId":170052,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGHPC Connect","volume":"35 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114006787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}