International Conference on Computational Science
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| International Conference on Computational Science | |
|---|---|
| Name | International Conference on Computational Science |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Academic conference |
| Frequency | Annual |
| First | 2001 |
International Conference on Computational Science The International Conference on Computational Science is an annual scholarly meeting that convenes researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in computational modeling and high-performance computing. It brings together communities represented by institutions such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University with publishers like Springer Science+Business Media, IEEE, ACM, Elsevier and societies including SIAM, IEEE Computer Society, Royal Society, and Royal Society of Chemistry. The conference often intersects with venues and events such as the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography and programs at centers like National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Overview
The conference serves as a nexus for contributors from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich, Tsinghua University, Peking University, University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Yale University, Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Max Planck Society, CNRS, CERN and industry partners such as Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Google, Microsoft Research, IBM Research and ARM Holdings. Attendees present peer-reviewed papers, poster sessions, workshops, and tutorials that parallel programs at Gordon Research Conferences, AAAS annual meeting, World Economic Forum technical tracks, and national laboratories’ summer schools.
History and Development
The conference originated in the early 2000s with founders affiliated with University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Washington, University of California, San Diego, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and research groups from Sandia National Laboratories and Battelle Memorial Institute. Over time the event expanded alongside milestones at Intel Corporation and Cray Research, the emergence of architectures by NVIDIA and AMD, and developments in programming models such as those from OpenMP Architecture Review Board, Message Passing Interface Forum, and research projects at DARPA, European Research Council and Horizon Europe. The conference’s evolution mirrors turning points like the deployment of systems at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Blue Gene installations, and initiatives led by PRACE and XSEDE.
Conferences and Proceedings
Proceedings are commonly published by Springer, Elsevier, ACM Press, IEEE Xplore and indexed in repositories linked to arXiv, DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science. Past venues include universities and cities associated with Barcelona, Beijing, Sydney, Melbourne, Vienna, Paris, Prague, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangalore and Zurich. Sessions often coordinate with workshops sponsored by National Science Foundation, European Commission, Japan Science and Technology Agency, NSFC, CNRS, CNPq and thematic meetings tied to projects at Human Brain Project, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Trust and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Topics and Areas of Focus
Typical subject areas include algorithm design and analysis presented by groups from Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and applied work from institutes such as Sanger Institute, Broad Institute and Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Research spans numerical linear algebra linked to work at SIAM, multiscale modeling as in projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory, computational fluid dynamics with teams from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, climate modeling research connected to NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, bioinformatics work from European Bioinformatics Institute, machine learning intersections from DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, and quantum simulation efforts aligned with IBM Quantum and Google Quantum AI.
Organization and Sponsorship
The conference is typically organized by academic steering committees drawing members from IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGARCH, SIAM, INRIA, NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group), and regional associations such as Australian Computer Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Funding and sponsorship come from corporations like Intel Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Amazon Web Services, and agencies including National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and philanthropies such as Wellcome Trust. Host institutions often include national laboratories and universities such as Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Manchester and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Impact and Contributions
The conference has influenced milestones credited to initiatives at XSEDE, PRACE, Blue Waters Project, Summit (supercomputer), Frontier (supercomputer), Titan (supercomputer), and algorithmic advances recognized by Turing Award winners and prize committees such as those of ACM and IEEE. Contributions have catalyzed collaborations with projects at Human Genome Project, Large Hadron Collider, ITER, IPCC, Copernicus Programme, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and industrial applications at Boeing, General Motors, Pfizer, and Roche. Outputs include software stacks influenced by Linux Foundation, Kubernetes, CUDA, OpenCL, numerical libraries like BLAS, LAPACK, PETSc, Trilinos, and ecosystem tools from GitHub and GitLab.
Notable Participants and Awards
Speakers and contributors have included researchers associated with John von Neumann Institute for Computing, laureates connected to Turing Award, Fields Medal collaborators, and directors from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Max Planck Society, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and universities such as Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University and Princeton University. The conference has recognized outstanding work via awards modeled on honors from ACM, IEEE, SIAM, Royal Society, and named lectures in the tradition of Knuth Prize and Neal Award-style recognitions.