SPCL at Supercomputing (SC13)

Supercomputing is the premier conference in high performance and parallel computing. With more than 10,000 attendees, it’s also the largest and highest-impact conference in the field. Literally everybody is there. Torsten summarized the role of the conference in a blog poster over at CACM.

SPCL had a great year at Supercomputing 2013 (SC13)! We’ve been involved in multiple elements of the technical program:

  1. Three paper talks (Alexandru, Andrew, Robert) in the technical papers program
  2. Two posters (Aditya, Robert) in the posters program
  3. SPCL researchers received three awards
  4. Torsten gave a keynote at the ExaMPI’13 workshop
  5. Torsten co-presented a well-attended (~50 people) tutorial on advanced MPI programming
  6. Torsten revealed the 2nd Green Graph 500 List at the Graph 500 BoF
  7. Torsten co-organized the Emerging Technologies program

Here are some impressions:

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Impressions from the Emerging Technologies Booth

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Impressions from the Emerging Technologies Booth

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Impressions from the Emerging Technologies Booth

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Impressions from the Emerging Technologies Booth

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Emerging Technology Booth Talks were generally well attended!

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Maciej and his session chair (Rajeev Thakur) are preparing for the presentation of our best paper candidate.

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The large room was packed (this shows only the right half, left was as full).

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Robert and Maciej fielding questions.

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Robert presenting his poster … unfortunately, Maciej didn’t take a picture of Aditya and his poster which was upstairs (and looked at least as good :-)).

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Torsten releasing the 2nd Green Graph 500 list with surprises in the top ranks!

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The SC13 Best Paper team and presentation!

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Torsten receives his “Young Achievers in Scalable Computing” Award.

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Torsten receives his “Young Achievers in Scalable Computing” Award.

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Robert received the ACM SRC Bronze medal.

All in all – a great success! Congrats and thanks to everyone who contributed!

Some more nice pictures can be found here.