The SC conference series has traditionally been home to cutting-edge developments in high-performance networking alongside those in high-performance computing, storage, and analytics. SCinet is soliciting proposals from research and industry participants to display new or innovative demonstrations in network testbeds, emerging network hardware, protocols, and advanced network intensive scientific applications. Topics for this year’s Network Research […]
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Personal Perspective: Helping to Build One of the World’s Fastest Computer Networks – SCinet at SC15
Jamie Curtis is the Head of Technology Strategy and Architecture at REANNZ. He participated as a SCinet volunteer in 2015. The following is his recap of the experience. Every year for the past 25 years a group of volunteers gather to build one of the world’s fastest networks, only to then tear it down a […]
On Evolving Network Security for a Research and Enterprise Network
SC15 security technology racks with help from Dell, Gigamon, Reservoir Labs, Splunk, and Verisign. With more than 12,000 researchers, students, professionals, and vendors attending the conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis conference, better known as SC, SC’s internet, SCinet, has to be at the forefront of network security research and implementations to […]
SC15 Breaks Exhibits and Attendance Records While in Austin, Texas
Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda gives the SC15 Keynote Address in Austin, TX, where record-breaking attendance reached approximately 13,000 people. Media Contact: Brian Ban (773) 454-7423 or BrianBan@SC15Austin.com Austin, TX – SC15, the 27th anniversary conference of high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, celebrated the contributions of researchers and scientists […]
Connecting Live in Austin with One of the Mosts Powerful Networks in the World
The SCinet network, SC’s Supercomputing Internet, is now live! On November 14, the Austin Convention Center became home to the fastest and most innovative computer network in the world built by volunteers, delivering more than 1.6 terabits per second of network bandwidth to the SC conference (SC15). SCinet gives the SC conference attendees a unique […]
SC15’s SCinet “Network Research Exhibition” Demonstrates Innovations on High-Capacity Networks, Driving Science Discovery
Look for these signs to find the NRE 2015 demos. The 2015 edition of SC15’s SCinet Network Research Exhibition, a forum to showcase new and cutting-edge networking technologies, will host the Second Annual Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) on Monday, November 18. This year’s workshop will feature new emerging technologies, […]
Simplifying the World’s Most Powerful Computer Network with SDN
For the first time, SC’s research and production network (SCinet) will be using the emerging technology software defined networking (SDN) to manage and simplify the operations for a portion of the SC conference’s show floor network. SCinet is the research and production network that serves as the backbone of data communications for the annual SC […]
Brief Q&A with SC15 SCinet Chair David Wheeler
The following is a brief Q&A with David Wheeler, SC15 SCinet Chair from the National Center for David Wheeler, SC15 SCinet Chair Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois where he serves as a Senior Network Engineer. Describe your day job: One of the responsibilities of our team is to architect the HPC system […]
Five Women in IT Selected to Participate in SCinet and Attend SC15
The 2014 SCinet team at last year’s conference in New Orleans. A collaboration between the University Corporations for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER) are pleased to announce that five women IT professionals have been selected to receive funding […]
SC15 Announces New NSF-Funded Diversity Program for SCinet
SCinet, SC’s dedicated high-performance research network and backbone of information and communication, is running a new “pilot” program that will fund up to five US women candidates in their early to mid-career to join the SCinet volunteer workforce for SC15. Marla Meehl “I am very excited to be enabling career women to expand their experience […]
