SC, The International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis | |
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Website: | SC Conference Series |
Genre: | High Performance Computing |
Frequency: | annual |
Status: | active |
Founder Name: | George Michael |
Sponsors: | ACM SIGHPC and IEEE Computer Society |
SC (formerly Supercomputing), the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. In 2019, about 13,950 people participated overall;[1] by 2022 attendance had rebounded to 11,830 both in-person and online.[2] The not-for-profit conference is run by a committee of approximately 600 volunteers who spend roughly three years organizing each conference.
SC is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. From its formation through 2011, ACM sponsorship was managed through ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). Sponsors are listed on each proceedings page in the ACM DL; see for example.[3] Beginning in 2012,[4] ACM began the process of transitioning sponsorship from SIGARCH to the recently formed Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC). This transition was completed after SC15,[5] and for SC16 ACM sponsorship was vested exclusively in SIGHPC (IEEE sponsorship remained unchanged).[6] The conference is non-profit.
The conference is governed by a steering committee that includes representatives of the sponsoring societies, the current conference general chair, the general chairs of the preceding two years, the general chairs of the next two conference years, and a number of elected members.[7] All steering committee members are volunteers, with the exception of the two representatives of the sponsoring societies, who are employees of those societies. The committee selects the conference general chair, approves each year's conference budget, and is responsible for setting policy and strategy for the conference.
Although each conference committee introduces slight variations on the program each year, the core components of the conference remain largely unchanged from year to year.
The SC Technical Program is competitive with an acceptance rate around 20% for papers (see History). Traditionally, the program includes invited talks, panels, research papers, tutorials, workshops, posters, and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions.[8]
Each year, SC hosts the following conference and sponsoring society awards:[9]
In addition to the technical program, SC hosts a research exhibition each year that includes universities, state-sponsored computing research organizations (such as the Federal labs in the US), and vendors of HPC-related hardware and software from many countries around the world. There were 353 exhibitors at SC16 in Salt Lake City, UT.[13]
SC's program for students has gone through a variety of changes and emphases over the years. Beginning with SC15[14] the program is called "Students@SC", and is oriented toward undergraduate and graduate students in computing related fields, and computing-oriented students in science and engineering. The program includes professional development programs, opportunities to learn from mentors, and engagement with SC's technical sessions.
SCinet is SC's research network. Started in 1991, SCinet features emerging technologies for very high bandwidth, low latency wide area network communications in addition to operational services necessary to provide conference attendees with connectivity to the commodity Internet and to many national research and engineering networks.
Since its establishment in 1988, and until 1995,[15] the full name of the conference was the "ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference" (sometimes: "ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing"). The conference's abbreviated (and more commonly used) formal name was "Supercomputing 'XY", where XY denotes the last two digits of the year. In 1996, according to the archived front matter of the conference proceedings,[16] the full name was changed to the ACM/IEEE "International Conference onHigh Performance Computing and Communications". The latter documentfurther announced that, as of 1997, the conference will undergo a namechange and will be called "SC97: High Performance Networking andComputing". The document explained that
A 1997 HPC Wire article discussed at length the reasoning,considerations, and concerns that accompanied the decision to changethe name of the conference series from "Supercomputing 'XY" to "SC'XY",[17] stating that
Despite these concerns, the abbreviated name of the conference, "SC",is still used today, a reminiscent of the abbreviation of the conference's original name—"Supercomputing Conference".
The full name, in contrast, underwent several changes.Between 1997 and 2003,[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] the name "High Performance Networking and Computing" was specified inthe front matter of the archived conference proceedings in some years(1997, 1998, 2000, 2002), whereas in other years it was omittedaltogether in favor of the abbreviated name (1999, 2001, 2003).In 2004,[25] the stated front matter full name was changed to "High PerformanceComputing, Networking and Storage Conference".In 2005,[26] this name was replaced by the original name of the conference—"supercomputing"—in the front matter. Finally, in 2006,[27] the current full name, as used today, emerged: "The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis".
Despite all of the name variances in the proceedings through the years, the digital library of ACM, the co-sponsoring society, records the name of the conference as "The ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing" from 1998 - 2008, when it changes to ""The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis". It is these two names that are used in the full citations to the conference proceedings provided in this article.
The table below provides the location, name of the general chair, and acceptance statistics for each year of SC. Note that references for data in these tables apply to data preceding the reference to the left on the same row; for example, for SC17 the single reference substantiates all the information in that row, but for SC05 the source for the convention center and chair is different than the source for the acceptance statistics.
Originally slated to be held in Atlanta, GA, SC20 was converted to a fully virtual conference[28] due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the conference agenda spread across two weeks instead of the typical one week for an in-person conference. Over 7,440 attendees participated from 115 countries.[29] SC21 was held as a hybrid conference with both in-person attendance in St. Louis, MO, and virtual attendance options available.[30]
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Year | Location | Conference center | Chair | Accepted | Submitted | Percentage (%) | |
1988 | Orlando, Florida | Orange County Convention Center | George Michael | 40% | |||
1989 | Reno, Nevada | Reno-Sparks Convention Center | Ron Bailey[31] | ||||
1990 | New York, New York | New York Hilton Midtown[32] | Joanne Martin[33] | ||||
1991 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Albuquerque Convention Center | Ray Elliott | 83 | 215 | 39%[34] | |
1992 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Minneapolis Convention Center | Bill Buzbee[35] | 75 | 220 | 34%[36] | |
1993 | Portland, Oregon | Oregon Convention Center[37] | Bob Borchers | 72 | 300 | 24%[38] | |
1994 | Washington, D.C. | Washington D.C. Convention Center[39] | Gary Johnson[40] | ||||
1995 | San Diego, California | San Diego Convention Center[41] | Sid Karin | 69 | 241 | 29% | |
1996 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | David L. Lawrence Convention Center[42] | Beverly Clayton | ||||
1997 | San Jose, California | San Jose Convention Center | Dona Crawford | ||||
1998 | Orlando, Florida | Orange County Convention Center | Dennis Duke | ||||
1999 | Portland, Oregon | Oregon Convention Center | Cherri Pancake | ||||
2000 | Dallas, Texas | Dallas Convention Center[43] | Louis Turcotte | 62 | 179 | 35% | |
2001 | Denver, Colorado | Colorado Convention Center[44] | Charles Slocomb | 60 | 240 | 25% | |
2002 | Baltimore, Maryland | Baltimore Convention Center[45] | Roscoe Giles | 67 | 230 | 29% | |
2003 | Phoenix, Arizona | Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center | James R. McGraw[46] | 60 | 207 | 29% | |
2004 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | David L. Lawrence Convention Center | Jeffrey C. Huskamp[47] | 60 | 200 | 30% | |
2005 | Seattle, Washington | Washington State Convention Center | William Kramer[48] | 62 | 260 | 24% | |
2006 | Tampa, Florida | Tampa Convention Center[49] | Barbara Horner-Miller | 54 | 239 | 23% | |
2007 | Reno, Nevada | Reno-Sparks Convention Center | Becky Verastegui | 54 | 268 | 20%[50] | |
2008 | Austin, Texas | Austin Convention Center | Pat Teller | 59 | 277 | 21%[51] | |
2009 | Portland, Oregon | Oregon Convention Center | Wilf Pinfold | 59 | 261 | 23%[52] | |
2010 | New Orleans, Louisiana | New Orleans Morial Convention Center | Barry Hess | 51 | 253 | 20%[53] | |
2011 | Seattle, Washington | Washington State Convention Center | Scott Lathrop | 74 | 352 | 21%[54] | |
2012 | Salt Lake City, Utah | Salt Palace Convention Center | Jeff Hollingsworth | 100 | 461 | 22% | |
2013 | Denver, Colorado | Colorado Convention Center | 91 | 449 | 20%[55] | ||
2014 | New Orleans, Louisiana | New Orleans Morial Convention Center | Trish Damkroger | 83 | 394 | 21%[56] | |
2015 | Austin, Texas | Austin Convention Center | Jackie Kern | 79 | 358 | 22% | |
2016 | Salt Lake City, Utah | Salt Palace Convention Center | John West | 81 | 446 | 18.3% | |
2017 | Denver, Colorado | Colorado Convention Center | Bernd Mohr | 61 | 327 | 18.7%[57] | |
2018 | Dallas, Texas | Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center | Ralph McEldowney [58] | 68 | 288 | 24%[59] | |
2019 | Denver, Colorado | Colorado Convention Center | Michela Taufer[60] | 87 | 339 | 25%[61] | |
2020 | Planned: Atlanta, Georgia Actual: Virtual | Georgia World Congress Center | Christine E. Cuicchi[62] | 95 | 378 | 25.1%[63] | |
2021 | St. Louis, Missouri | America's Center | Bronis de Supinski[64] | 98 | 379 | 25.9%[65] | |
2022 | Dallas, Texas | Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center | Candace Culhane[66] | 81 | 320 | 25.3%[67] | |
2023 | Denver, Colorado | Colorado Convention Center | Dorian C. Arnold[68] | 90 | 376 | 23.9%[69] | |
2024 | Georgia World Congress Center | Philip C. Roth[70] |
The following table details the keynote speakers during the history of the conference; as of SC23, 16.7% of the keynote speakers have been female, with a mix of speakers from corporate, academic, and national government organizations.
Conference | Keynote Speaker | Gender | Affiliation[71] | Job Title | Presentation Title | |
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SC88 | Male | Founder | What's this about Gallium Arsenide?[72] | |||
SC89 | John Rollwagon | Male | CEO | Supercomputing – A Look Into the Future | ||
SC90 | Male | Founder | The Fastest Computers | |||
SC91 | Male | Chair | The President's Initiative in HPCC | |||
SC92 | Male | Director | Grand Challenges! Voyages of Discovery in the 1990s [73] | |||
SC93 | Male | Director | HPCC and the NII[74] | |||
SC94 | Male | CEO | Making the NII Real[75] | |||
SC95 | Male | Professor | And Now For Some "Really" Super Computing[76] | |||
SC96 | Female | IBM Fellow | Scaling Up[77] | |||
SC97 | Male | Director | Is Digital Dead?[78] | |||
SC98 | Male | President of R&D | There's No Bits Like Show Bits[79] | |||
SC99 | Female | Mars Exploration Program manager | Managing Creativity in Technical Projects[80] | |||
SC00 | Male | CenterPoint Ventures | Advisor | Petaflops in the year 2009 | ||
SC01 | Male | Founder | Accelerating Discovery through Supercomputing | |||
SC02 | Female | Director | Computing: Getting us on the Path to Wisdom | |||
SC03 | Female | Professor | Beyond Computing: The Search for Creativity | |||
SC04 | Tom West | Male | CEO | NLR: Providing the Nationwide Network Infrastructure for Network and "Big Science" Research | ||
SC05 | Male | CEO | The Changing Role of IT in the Sciences | |||
SC06 | Male | Inventor | The Coming Merger of Biological and Non-Biological Intelligence | |||
SC07 | Male | Professor | Programming Bits and Atoms | |||
SC08 | Male | Founder and CEO | Higher Performance: Supercomputing in the Connected Era[81] | |||
SC09 | Male | US Government | Former Vice President of the United States | Building Solutions: Energy, Climate and Computing for a Changing World[82] | ||
SC10 | Male | Professor | How to Create New Growth in a Risk-Minimizing Environment | |||
SC11 | Male | CEO | Exascale: An Innovator's Dilemma | |||
SC12 | Male | Professor | Physics of the Future[83] | |||
SC13 | Female | Intel Fellow | The Secret Life of Data[84] | |||
SC14 | Male | Professor | The Quest for Nature's Deepest Laws[85] | |||
SC15 | Male | Actor | Getting Beyond a Blind Date with Science: Communicating Science for Scientists[86] | |||
SC16 | Katharine Frase | Female | IBM (Retired) | Chief Technology Officer of Public Sector | Cognitive Computing: How can we accelerate human decision making, creativity and innovation using techniques from Watson and beyond?[87] | |
SC17 | Philip Diamond | Male | Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project | Director General | Life, the Universe and Computing: The Story of the SKA Telescope[88] | |
SC18 | Erik Brynjolfsson | Male | Director | How to Deploy the Unruly Power of Machine, Platform, and Crowd[89] | ||
SC19 | Steven Squyres | Male | Cornell University | Professor | Exploring the Solar System with the Power of Technology[90] | |
SC20 | Bjorn Stevens | Male | Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology | Department Head/Professor | Climate Science in the Age of Exascale[91] | |
SC21 | Vint Cerf | Male | Vice President | Computing and the Humanities[92] | ||
SC22 | Jack Dongarra | Male | University of Tennessee | Distinguished Professor | ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture: A Not So Simple Matter of Software[93] | |
SC23 | Hakeem Oluseyi | Male | Self | Inspirational Speaker | A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars[94] |