ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference

SC, The International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Status Active
Genre High Performance Computing Conference
Country United States United States
Inaugurated 1988
Most recent 2016 (Salt Lake City)
Next event 2017 (Denver)
Organized by ACM SIGHPC and IEEE Computer Society

SC (formerly Supercomputing), the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the name of the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. In 2012, about 10,000 people participated overall (slightly less than SC11 but more than SC10). The not-for-profit conference is run by a committee of approximately 600 volunteers who spend roughly three years organizing each conference.

Not to be confused with the International Supercomputing Conference.

Sponsorship and Governance

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).[1] Beginning in 2012,[2] ACM began the process of transitioning sponsorship from SIGARCH to the newly formed Special Interest Group on HPC(SIGHPC). This transition was completed after SC15,[3] and for SC16 ACM sponsorship was vested exclusively in SIGHPC. 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.[4] All steering committee members are volunteers, with the exception of the two representatives of the sponsoring societies, who are 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.

Conference Components

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.

Technical Program

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.[5]

Awards

Each year, SC hosts the following conference and sponsoring society awards:[6]

Exhibits

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.[7]

Student Program

SC's program for students has gone through a variety of changes and emphases over the years. Beginning with SC15[8] 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

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.

Name changes

Since its establishment in 1988,[9] and until 1995,[10] 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,[11] the full name was changed to the ACM/IEEE "International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications". The latter document further announced that, as of 1997, the conference will undergo a name change and will be called "SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing". The document explained that

1997 [will mark] the first use of "SC97" as the name of the annual conference you've known as "Supercomputing 'XY". This change reflects our growing attention to networking, distributed computing, data-intensive applications, and other emerging technologies that push the frontiers of communications and computing.
— SC97 Call for Participation, included in the archived front matter of Supercomputing '96.[11]

An 1997 HPCwire article discussed at length the reasoning, considerations, and concerns that accompanied the decision to change the name of the conference series from "Supercomputing 'XY" to "SC 'XY",[12] stating that

It's official: the age of supercomputing has ended. At any rate, the word "supercomputing" has been excised from the title of the annual trade shows, sponsored by the IEEE and ACM, that have been known for almost ten years as "Supercomputing '(final two digits of year)". The next event, to be held in San Jose next November, has been redesignated "SC '97." Like Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, "supercomputing" has faded steadily away until only the smile, nose, and whiskers remain. [...] The loss is a real one. An enormous range of ordinary people had some idea, however vague, what "supercomputing" meant. No-caf, local alternatives like "SC" and "HPC" lack this authority. This is not a trivial issue. In these days of rapid change, passing technofancies, and information overload, a rose with the wrong name is just another thorn -- or forgotten immediately. After all, how can businessmen, ordinary consumers, and taxpayers be expected to pay money for something they can't comprehend? More important, will investors and grant-givers hand over money to support further R&D on something whose only identity is an arbitrary clump of capital letters?
— Norris Parker Smith. HPCwire. February 7, 1997.

Despite these concerns, the abbreviated name of the conference, "SC", persists to this day, 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,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] the name "High Performance Networking and Computing" was specified in the front matter of the archived conference proceedings in some years (1997, 1998, 2000, 2002), whereas in other years it was omitted altogether in favor of the abbreviated name (1999, 2001, 2003). In 2004,[20] the stated front matter full name was changed to "High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference", which is nearly identical to the current full name, except that the suffix ("and analysis") is missing. In 2005,[21] without any explanation, this full name vanished; instead, the original name of the conference—"supercomputing"—reappeared in the front matter. Finally, in 2006,[22] the current full name, as used today, emerged: "International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis".

History

Peer reviewed paper measures
Year Location Conference center Chair Accepted Submitted Percentage (%)
2016 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Palace Convention Center John West [23] 81 446 18.3%
2015 Austin, Texas Austin Convention Center Jackie Kern [3] 79 358 22% [3]
2014 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Morial Convention Center Trish Damkroger [24] 83 394 21% [24]
2013 Denver, Colorado Colorado Convention Center William Gropp [25] 91 449 20% [25]
2012 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Palace Convention Center Jeff Hollingsworth [2] 100 461 22% [2]
2011 Seattle, Washington Washington State Convention Center Scott Lathrop [26] 74 352 21% [26]
2010 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Morial Convention Center Barry Hess [27] 51 253 20% [28]
2009 Portland, Oregon Oregon Convention Center Wilf Pinfold [29] 59 261 23% [30]
2008 Austin, Texas Austin Convention Center Pat Teller [31] 59 277 21% [32]
2007 Reno, Nevada Reno-Sparks Convention Center Becky Verastegui [33] 54 268 20% [33]
2006 Tampa, Florida Tampa Convention Center[34] Barbara Horner-Miller [35] 54 239 23% [35]
2005 Seattle, Washington Washington State Convention Center[36] William Kramer [37] 62 260 24% [38]
2004 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania David L. Lawrence Convention Center[39] Jeffrey C. Huskamp [40] 60 200 30% [41]
2003 Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center[42] James R. McGraw [43] 60 207 29% [44]
2002 Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Convention Center[45] Roscoe Giles [46] 67 230 29% [46]
2001 Denver, Colorado Denver Convention Center[47] Charles Slocomb [48] 60 240 25% [48]
2000 Dallas, Texas Dallas Convention Center[49] Louis Turcotte [50] 62 179 35% [51]
1999 Portland, Oregon Oregon Convention Center[52] Cherri Pancake [53]
1998 Orlando, Florida Orange County Convention Center[54] Dennis Duke [55]
1997 San Jose, California San Jose Convention Center[56] Dona Crawford [57]
1996 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania David L. Lawrence Convention Center[58] Beverly Clayton [59]
1995 San Diego, California San Diego Convention Center[60] Sid Karin [61] 69 241 29% [61]
1994 Washington, D.C. Washington D.C. Convention Center[62] Gary Johnson [63]
1993 Portland, Oregon Oregon Convention Center[64] Bob Borchers [65] 72 300 24% [65]
1992 Minneapolis, Minnesota Bill Buzbee [66] 75 220 34% [67]
1991 Albuquerque, New Mexico Ray Elliott 83 215 39% [68]
1990 New York, New York New York Hilton Midtown [69] Joanne Martin [70]
1989 Reno, Nevada Reno-Sparks Convention Center Ron Bailey [71]
1988 Orlando, Florida Orange County Convention Center George Michael [72]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sponsors are listed on each proceedings page in the ACM DL; see for example Proceedings of SC88. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  2. 1 2 3 Proceedings of SC12. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  3. 1 2 3 Proceedings of SC15.Retrieved 11-05-2016
  4. ↑ SC Steering Committee. Accessed 11-06-2016
  5. ↑ SC16 Technical Program. Accessed 11-06-2016
  6. ↑ SC16 awards program. Accessed 11-06-2016
  7. ↑ SC16 List of Exhibitors. Retrieved 11-06-2016
  8. ↑ SC15 conference website
  9. ↑ Supercomputing '88: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference. website. Orlando, FL, USA. 1988. ISBN 0-8186-0882-X. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  10. ↑ Supercomputing '95: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference. website. San Diego, CA, USA. 1995. ISBN 0-89791-816-9. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  11. 1 2 Supercomputing '96: ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications. website. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 1996. ISBN 0-89791-854-1. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  12. ↑ Smith, Norris Parker (1997-02-07). "Supercomputing is dead; the new king needs a name". HPCwire. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  13. ↑ SC97: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. San Jose, CA, USA. 1997. ISBN 0-89791-985-8. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  14. ↑ SC98: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. Orlando, FL, USA. 1998. ISBN 0-89791-984-X. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  15. ↑ SC99: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. Portland, OR, USA. 1999. ISBN 1-58113-091-0. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  16. ↑ SC00: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. Dallas, TX, USA. 2000. ISBN 0-7803-9802-5. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  17. ↑ SC01: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. Denver, CO, USA. 2001. ISBN 1-58113-293-X. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  18. ↑ SC02: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. Baltimore, MD, USA. 2002. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  19. ↑ SC03: ACM/IEEE High Performance Networking and Computing. website. Phoenix, AZ, USA. 2003. ISBN 1-58113-695-1. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  20. ↑ SC04: ACM/IEEE High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference. website. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 2004. ISBN 0-7695-2153-3. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  21. ↑ SC05: ACM/IEEE High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference. website. Seattle, WA, USA. 2005. ISBN 1-59593-061-2. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  22. ↑ SC06: ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. website. Tampa, FL, USA. 2006. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  23. ↑ SC16 Committee Listing. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  24. 1 2 Proceedings of SC14. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  25. 1 2 Proceedings of SC13. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  26. 1 2 Proceedings of SC11. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  27. ↑ SC10 Committee Listing. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  28. ↑ Proceedings of SC10. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  29. ↑ SC09 Committee Listing.Retrieved 11-05-2016
  30. ↑ Proceedings of SC09. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  31. ↑ SC08 Committee Listing. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  32. ↑ Proceedings of SC08. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  33. 1 2 Proceedings of SC07. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  34. ↑ "SC06 Exhibits Facilities & Floor Plan". 2006. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  35. 1 2 Proceedings of SC06. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  36. ↑ "SC05 Gateway to Discovery". 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  37. ↑ Proceedings of SC05, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  38. ↑ Proceedings of SC05. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  39. ↑ "SUPERCOMPUTER SHOW HAS MEMORIES TO LAST A LIFETIME". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 11, 2004. p. B-6.
  40. ↑ Proceedings of SC04, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  41. ↑ Proceedings of SC04. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  42. ↑ "SC2003 Conference Advance Registration Ends Oct. 10". 2003. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  43. ↑ Proceedings of SC03, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  44. ↑ Proceedings of SC03. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  45. ↑ "SC2002 latest news". 2002. Retrieved May 7, 2002.
  46. 1 2 Proceedings of SC02. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  47. ↑ "Registration Now Open for SC2001, The Conference of High-Performance Computing and Networking. Denver to Host SC2001 Conference Nov. 10-16, 2001". September 7, 2001.
  48. 1 2 Proceedings of 2001. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  49. ↑ "SC2000 GENERAL INFORMATION". 2000. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  50. ↑ Proceedings of SC00, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  51. ↑ Proceedings of SC00. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  52. ↑ "I2-NEWS: Internet2 Backbones Power Supercomputing Demonstrations". November 18, 1999. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  53. ↑ Proceedings of SC99, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  54. ↑ "Upcoming HPCC Events SuperComputing 1998 (SC98)". 1998. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  55. ↑ Proceedings of SC98, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  56. ↑ "SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing State of the Field Talks". November 6, 1997. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  57. ↑ Proceedings of SC97, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  58. ↑ "High Fibre Supercomputing Conference Organizers cable the convention for the future". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 16, 1996. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  59. ↑ Proceedings of SC97. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  60. ↑ "Strong technical program characterizes Supercomputing '95". 1995. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  61. 1 2 Proceedings of SC95. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  62. ↑ "SC index". 1994. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  63. ↑ Proceedings of SC94. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  64. ↑ "SCD Computing News". 14 (1). May 7, 1993. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  65. 1 2 Proceedings of SC93. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  66. ↑ Proceedings of SC92, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  67. ↑ Proceedings of SC92. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  68. ↑ Proceedings of SC91. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  69. ↑ Proceedings of SC90, front matter. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  70. ↑ Proceedings of SC90. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  71. ↑ Proceedings of SC89. Retrieved 11-05-2016
  72. ↑ Proceedings of SC88. Retrieved 11-05-2016

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