SC15 Sets Attendance and Presentation Records

This year’s Supercomputing Conference (SC15) saw a record-breaking number of attendees, presentations and exhibitors, according to the organization. The program spanned a total of six days and had more than 12,914 registrants view the 343 exhibitors from industry, academia and research.

The event also became a home for the world’s fastest conference computer network, SCinet. This network made 1.62 Terabits of bandwidth available to exhibitors and attendees. To run the network, volunteers set up 84 miles of fiber throughout the convention center and loaned $18 million in equipment.

For research, SC15 workshops hosted more than 2,000 attendees, and hosted 10 Best Paper Finalists and five Gordon Bell Finalists. Some overall stats on Tech Program Tracks include:

• 75 Birds-of-a-Feathers
• 78 Papers
• 12 Panels
• 135 Posters
• 41 Tutorials
• 42 Workshops
• 14 Invited Speakers
• 14 Doctoral Showcase Presentations
• 10 Emerging Technology Presentations

“In a world of ever-growing, complex problems, high performance computing has a plethora of opportunities to impact lives across multiple fields,” said Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. “No longer is high performance computing reserved for only the biggest corporations in the world. It is now trickling down to smaller, medium-sized firms, which is only increasing its impact. This conference brings together the best research and industry minds in the world for one packed week of sharing ideas, networking, and education.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the organization and additional information gleaned from the organization’s website.