International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Name	International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Abbreviation	SC
First	1988
Organizer	Association for Computing Machinery; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IEEE Computer Society
Frequency	annual
Location	rotating (United States, Canada, Europe, Japan)

International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis is an annual flagship conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Oak Ridge, Berkeley, San Diego, Denver and other leading institutions to present advances in supercomputing, data analytics, networking, and storage. The conference has been hosted by organizations including the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and major national laboratories, with proceedings cited by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. It serves as a forum where projects from Cray Research, Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services are showcased alongside academic work from ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Tsinghua University and University of Tokyo.

History

The conference originated in the late 1980s amid collaborations among National Science Foundation, Department of Energy (United States), European Commission, Japan Science and Technology Agency and industrial partners such as Cray Research and Thinking Machines Corporation, evolving through milestones like the introduction of petascale systems by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the deployment of the Blue Gene series from IBM. Early gatherings featured contributions from researchers affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and corporate labs at Hewlett-Packard, IBM Research, Intel Labs and Microsoft Research. Over decades the conference has paralleled developments at DARPA, European Grid Infrastructure, PRACE, Jülich Research Centre, and collaborations with initiatives such as the Human Genome Project and the Large Hadron Collider computing campaigns. Key program committee chairs have included faculty from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of California, San Diego, Georgia Institute of Technology and leaders from NVIDIA Research and Google DeepMind.

Scope and Topics

Topics span high-performance systems design and architecture presented by teams from Intel Corporation, AMD, NVIDIA, ARM Holdings, Cray Research and Fujitsu; networking and interconnect research from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Mellanox Technologies and Arista Networks; storage and file systems from EMC Corporation, NetApp, Seagate Technology and Western Digital; and software, programming models and compilers developed at LLVM, GNU Project, OpenMP Architecture Review Board, OpenACC, Kokkos, RAJA Project, MPI Forum and HPX. Applications areas include climate modeling from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cosmology simulations connected to European Southern Observatory, bioinformatics pipelines referencing Broad Institute, computational chemistry research tied to American Chemical Society publications, and machine learning work from DeepMind, OpenAI, Facebook AI Research and Microsoft Research. Networking sessions often reference standards and efforts by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Internet Engineering Task Force, Open Compute Project and cloud-scale deployments at Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Conference Organization and Governance

The program and stewardship are managed by committees drawn from Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society, national laboratories such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, academic institutions like University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Cambridge and corporate partners including IBM, Intel Corporation and NVIDIA. Leadership roles have included program chairs and steering committees populated by researchers affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Partnerships have been established with funding agencies and consortia such as National Science Foundation, Department of Energy (United States), European Commission, PRACE, RIKEN, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and industry consortia like HPC Advisory Council.

Proceedings and Publications

Peer-reviewed full papers and technical posters are published in conference proceedings indexed alongside publications from ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Springer Nature and cited by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University and international research centers including CERN and Jülich Research Centre. Proceedings often include keynote texts from leaders at Intel Corporation, IBM, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft Research, Cray Research and directors from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Special issues and collections have appeared in journals associated with SIAM, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems and Journal of Computational Physics.

Notable Contributions and Awards

The conference has showcased system designs such as Cray XT, Cray XC, IBM Blue Gene, Fujitsu K computer, Summit (supercomputer), Sierra (supercomputer), Frontier (supercomputer), and software advances including optimizations from OpenMP Architecture Review Board, MPI Forum implementations, LLVM-based toolchains, and autotuning systems developed at Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Distinguished paper awards and student paper awards have honored contributors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge and corporate research labs such as IBM Research, Intel Labs, NVIDIA Research and Microsoft Research. Recognition has also been given to collaborative projects supported by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy (United States), European Commission and national labs like Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Attendance, Workshops, and Tutorials

Annual attendance draws researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Princeton University, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, Tsinghua University and industry participants from Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, AMD and Fujitsu. The program includes workshops and tutorials organized by groups such as OpenMP Architecture Review Board, MPI Forum, Kokkos Project, RAJA Project, HPC Advisory Council and training sessions coordinated with national labs like Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. Student and early-career programs have links to initiatives at National Science Foundation, Department of Energy (United States), European Research Council and university career centers at MIT, Stanford, Cambridge.

Impact and Industry Collaboration

The conference has driven collaborations among Intel Corporation, AMD, NVIDIA, IBM, Cray Research, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Fujitsu, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and national research centers including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, influencing procurement and design of systems like Summit (supercomputer), Sierra (supercomputer), Frontier (supercomputer), and cloud architectures at Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services. Its influence extends to standards work at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Internet Engineering Task Force, collaborative projects under National Science Foundation grants, and cross-disciplinary applications in collaborations with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, European Southern Observatory, Broad Institute, Human Genome Project participants, and computational campaigns for Large Hadron Collider experiments.

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