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Welcome to the 40th Annual ACM-ICPC World Finals in Phuket, Thailand
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming competition in the world.
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SC16 Adds Computational Reproducibility to Student Competition
SC16 has replaced the standard HPC benchmarks in its popular Student Cluster Competition with the task of reproducing the results of a recent HPC paper.
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A Week of HPC at SC15
ETH's Torsten Hoefler walks through a week of workshops, tutorials, papers, and his reactions to a week at SC.
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HPC Matters
The HPC Matters program is a multi-year effort to communicate the benefits — from the development of new medical therapies to and increased understanding of climate...
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SC Turns Reproducibility Challenges Into Opportunities
The annual SC conference is instituting new practices over the next five years that will help establish SC as the "gold standard" for computational science practice...
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The Robots Are Taking Over! (Perhaps Not Quite Yet)
Programs fix themselves! Today! It's scary!
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Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
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Learning About Parallel and Distributed Computing
Parallel and distributed computing are now in the core CS curriculum, and every CS program should be teaching their students about it. How can CS educators learn...
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Budget Beowulf Clusters
At SIGCSE 2015, five CS educators brought and live-demo'd the low-cost Beowulf clusters they had built for teaching parallel and distributed computing.
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Battling Bias
A regional Grace Hopper Celebration event this week focused on "advancing a gender diverse technology workforce in New York."
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The NIPS Experiment
In the NIPS experiment, 10% of papers submitted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation went through its review process twice, with results compared...
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Why the 'Data Lake' Is Really A 'Data Swamp'
The notion of putting all one's data into a "data lake" to encourage employees to run analytics has a serious flaw.
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HPC: Computational Performance vs. Human Productivity
One of the themes at SC14 was the tension between developing programs that run fast vs. the time required by humans to develop and maintain fast-running programs...
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Locality, Locality, Locality: A Note from SC14
Steadily growing chips, systems, and application parallelism are driving the movement of data across larger distances in systems, and data locality is becoming...
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Why Does HPC Matter?
SC14 launched this year’s gala with a new plenary session to highlight the advancements that HPC enables in everything from soap to safer cars to the discovery...
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Computing Is The Safe STEM Career Choice Today
The US-BLS 2012-2022 employment projections predict that nearly 3 out of 4 new STEM jobs and 3 out of 5 total STEM jobs will be in computing.
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Building a Computationally-Literate Workforce
Students must leave their formal training ready to take up the state of the practice in fields that routinely use computational tools, and ready to advance the...
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HPC Every Day, Everywhere
This Saturday the world's largest, and most influential, conference on high performance computing opens in Denver. Over the next week new advances in supercomputing...
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Turing's 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers
The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer...
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