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| SC|05 is a window on DOE research |
| William Kramer |
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The 2005 Supercomputing Conference (SC|05) was held in November in Seattle and provided a unique view of the thriving high performance computing community. More than 9,700 scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, senior managers, programmers, and system managers from the world's leading computing installations and companies came to showcase innovative developments that are sparking new ideas and industries, as well as reinvigorating older ones. For the first time, SC|05 brings a focus on analytics - the software that, along with the computing storage and networking resources, solves large-scale real-world problems.
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SC|05 had the most competitive technical program on record, featuring the latest developments in fields such as computational systems and information architectures.With 62 papers, a series of major plenary sessions and over 20 tutorials, the 2005 conference was one of the strongest ever.
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In addition to high-performance computing, networking, and storage, SC|05 introduced a focus on HPC analytics, which brings physical computing, storage, and networking resources together with software and algorithms to produce new insights and tools. Its uses include analyzing tremendous amounts of data for everything from genomics to astrophysics and cybersecurity.
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The technical sessions started with a keynote by Bill Gates, who talked about how computers are changing the way in which science is being done. Gates talked of how data acquisition and data analysis are intricately connected through a series of remote sensing networks to massively parallel systems for simulation.
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Dozens of remote locations throughout the world were connected in real time over the Internet to showcase achievements in the arts and sciences. And SC Desktop enabled the entire technical program to be available to anyone at their desktop. More than 140 teachers participated in the educational program.
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SC|05 was an exciting event for the DOE community. Researchers from the DOE, including many involved with SciDAC, participated in 10 of the 20 tutorials, 23 papers, 12 posters and three of six panels. DOE staff were involved with two SCinet bandwidth challenges, three Storcloud challenges, and three HPC analytics challenges.
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Dr John Bell of LBNL, who is involved with SciDAC, received the prestigious Sid Fernbach award. A team of researchers from LLNL and IBM won the Gordon Bell prize for their paper "100+ TFlop Solidification Simulations on Blue-Gene/L." DOE researchers were on teams that won the Storcloud, the SCinet Bandwidth and the HPC Analytics challenges.
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William Kramer is NERSC Center General Manager and General Chair, SC|05.
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