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NCSA at SC17: It’s Time to Change the World Again

It’s time to change the world again. That is the bold call-to-action that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will share at SC17, the industry’s largest annual supercomputing conference November 12-17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.

“There’s been an explosion in the types of challenges facing the world that can be addressed through data and computing,” said William “Bill” Gropp, director and chief scientist of NCSA. “Today, the demand for these resources nationwide is greater than the supply. At SC17, NCSA is raising awareness for the world-changing discoveries that computing enables to advocate on behalf of the open science community for greater investments by the federal government that will not only change the world but will allow the U.S. to lead the world in computing and solutions.”

Attendees are invited to explore the world-changing research that creative scientists from across the nation are conducting in collaboration with NCSA, featured in NCSA’s booth (booth #1335) and at the 38 talks and workshops featuring NCSA experts. NCSA will also be hosting a number of in-booth events including a Happy Hour and a Coffee Hour. Attendees can RSVP for NCSA’s in-booth events here.

NCSA@SC17 event details

A full list of NCSA staff presenting during the technical program of SC17 may be found on our SC17 website, http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/SC17/.

Follow NCSA’s SC17 journey all week on Twitter (@NCSAatIllinois), Facebook (/NCSAatIllinois), Instagram (ncsa_at_illinois), and LinkedIn (National Center for Supercomputing Applications).

NCSA Happy Hour: Changing the World Again—One Conversation at a Time

Come connect with us on Tuesday, Nov. 14 from 4–6 p.m. in the NCSA booth as we share conversation and a drink in the official It’s Time to Change the World Again Silipints (while supplies last). Let’s kick-start a collaboration. RSVP here!

NCSA Coffee Talk

Join us again on Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 10–11 a.m. in the NCSA booth! Come chat with us about collaboration and career opportunities. We’ll be giving out coffee in travel mugs you can keep (while supplies last). RSVP here!

NCSA Family Night

Whether you’ve got your family with you or not, join us at our booth on Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 4–6 p.m.! We’ll be giving out retro tin lunchboxes as well as our highly-anticipated annual NCSA Coloring Book. RSVP here!

Looking to join our team?

We’ll be at the Student/Postdoc Job Fair Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in room 702-704-706. Come meet with our recruiting team to learn more about the various fellowships, internships, and other employment opportunities that NCSA has to offer.

SC17 Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase

Check out some of the work that our Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) and Data Analysis and Visualization teams have produced at the Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase on Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. in rooms 210-212. NCSA will be highlighting Milky Way Analogue Isolated Disk Galaxy (10:45–11:00 a.m.), Simulation and Visual Representation of Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions (11:00–11:15 a.m.), and First Light in the Renaissance Simulation Visualization: Formation of the Very First Galaxies in the Universe (11:15–11:30 a.m.).

Student Cluster Competition

A team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been invited to take place in the 16-team Student Cluster Competition! The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to immerse undergraduate and high school students in high performance computing. These student teams design and build small clusters with hardware and software vendor partners, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop, 48-hour challenge at the SC conference to complete a real-world scientific workload, while impressing conference attendees and interview judges with their HPC knowledge. For more information on this competition, visit the SC17 Student Cluster Competition webpage.

Parallel Computing Institute at the University of Illinois

Visit our closely-affiliated partners, the Parallel Computing Institute at the University of Illinois, at SC17 in booth #2037 where they will be showcasing student research projects and demos.

XSEDE at SC17

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), one of NCSA’s major projects, will also have a booth (#225) at SC17 where conference attendees are encouraged to stop by and learn about XSEDE-enabled projects, chat with XSEDE representatives, and see what types of collaborations XSEDE offers researchers. XSEDE’s collaboration booth also will feature two-half day events to encourage XSEDE meetups and project collaborations.

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About the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides supercomputing and advanced digital resources for the nation’s science enterprise. At NCSA, University of Illinois faculty, staff, students, and collaborators from around the globe use advanced digital resources to address research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society. NCSA has been advancing one third of the Fortune 50® for more than 30 years by bringing industry, researchers, and students together to solve grand challenges at rapid speed and scale.

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