ACM SC Proceedings

ACM SC Proceedings
Name	ACM SC Proceedings
Discipline	Supercomputing, High-Performance Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Country	United States
Established	1988
Frequency	Annual

ACM SC Proceedings are the collected peer-reviewed papers and materials presented at the annual international supercomputing conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery. The proceedings serve as a primary archival venue for advances in supercomputing and high-performance computing, linking research communities including those around Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and international institutions such as CERN and Tokyo Institute of Technology. The collection commonly interfaces with other forums such as IEEE symposia, SIAM meetings, and topical workshops hosted by organizations like USENIX and IEEE Computer Society.

Overview

The proceedings compile full papers, short papers, posters, tutorials, and panel summaries presented at the annual conference historically associated with cities such as San Diego, Denver, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, and Denver. Submissions reflect work by authors affiliated with universities like Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and corporations such as IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, and Google. The venue often showcases collaborations among national laboratories—Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories—and consortia like the Exascale Computing Project or initiatives tied to European Organization for Nuclear Research. Proceedings items are indexed alongside records from ACM Digital Library and cross-referenced by indexing services including Scopus, Web of Science, and INSPEC.

History and evolution

The proceedings trace roots to early gatherings on parallel computing and vector architectures in the late 1980s, contemporaneous with milestones involving Cray Research and projects at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Over decades the scope expanded from hardware-focused studies—featuring vendors such as Cray Inc. and Fujitsu—to include software ecosystems exemplified by MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, and runtime systems developed at groups like NERSC. The archive documents transitions aligned with initiatives such as the Human Genome Project computational demands, the rise of machine learning workloads on accelerators, and exascale programs pursued by agencies including DOE and international partners like Jülich Research Centre and Riken. Editorial practices evolved to incorporate reproducibility badges inspired by movements at conferences such as NeurIPS and repositories like GitHub and Zenodo.

Conference organization and submission process

The annual program is structured with tracks for algorithms, systems, applications, visualization, and education, coordinated by program chairs drawn from institutions such as University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Texas at Austin. The submission pipeline uses double-blind or single-blind peer review depending on track policies, leveraging program committees with members from Microsoft Research, Google Research, AMD Research, and academic labs. Submission components typically include an anonymized manuscript, supplemental artifacts hosted via services like Bitbucket or Figshare, and ethical disclosures influenced by guidelines from bodies such as ACM SIGARCH and ACM SIGSOFT. Committees evaluate originality, reproducibility, and impact, and shepherd accepted manuscripts through camera-ready preparation for inclusion in the ACM proceedings series.

Publication format and indexing

Proceedings items are published in the ACM conference proceedings series and included in the ACM Digital Library with Digital Object Identifiers assigned by registration agencies like CrossRef. Content appears in IEEE‑style and ACM LaTeX templates used widely by authors from Princeton University, University of Cambridge, and ETH Zurich. Metadata integration supports indexing by Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and discipline-specific resources such as INSPIRE-HEP for computational physics works. Long-term preservation aligns with infrastructures like CLOCKSS and institutional repositories at universities including University of Michigan and University of Oxford. Supplemental artifacts and datasets referenced in proceedings are increasingly curated through data centers such as Zenodo, Dryad, and national data archives.

Notable papers and impact

The proceedings have hosted influential contributions on scalable algorithms, communication-avoiding linear algebra, and network topology studies cited alongside foundational works from researchers affiliated with LLNL, ORNL, and Sandia. Landmark papers have addressed performance tuning for multicore CPUs from Intel and manycore accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD, as well as middleware and job scheduling systems used at centers like Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Texas Advanced Computing Center. Research presented in the proceedings has influenced standards such as MPI-3 and software projects including PETSc, Trilinos, OpenFOAM, and visualization platforms like ParaView and VisIt. The venue’s impact is reflected in citations in works tied to large-scale simulations for disciplines represented at agencies such as NASA and projects like the Square Kilometre Array.

Licensing and access policies

Publication contracts for proceedings items are governed by ACM policy options, including author agreements enabling open access via Article Processing Charges or traditional publishing routes retained by ACM. Authors affiliated with institutions participating in transformative agreements with ACM or national consortia such as Project DEAL may secure open access release. Access mechanisms include subscription through research libraries at institutions like Columbia University and pay-per-article options, while permitted self-archiving of preprints follows policies compatible with repositories such as arXiv and institutional archives at Yale University and University of Toronto. Increasing adoption of Creative Commons licenses for OA deposits mirrors practices at venues like PLOS and initiatives championed by funders such as the National Institutes of Health and Horizon Europe.

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