Georgia Tech HPC Community Shines at Supercomputing Conference

We’ve all heard that a single smartphone has more computing power than all the computers that NASA needed to land on the moon in 1969.

Despite the exponential growth in computing power over the past half-century, many of today’s data challenges are too complex for a single computer to handle efficiently.

Enter high-performance computing (HPC).

HPC technologies allow the workload of a single computational task—like making sense of a decade’s worth of satellite climate data or creating complex aerodynamic simulations—to be shared across multiple computing devices working as one.

Georgia Tech HPC experts are meeting with their global counterparts this week at the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, widely known as Supercomputing (SC).

SC24 convened yesterday at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The annual event brings together scientists, engineers, researchers, and leaders from academia and industry to:

• Share best practices
• Discover new ideas
• Discuss emerging challenges
• Develop relationships

Although Georgia Tech is not formally hosting SC24, it plays a central role in the weeklong conference.

Along with the technical program, Georgia Tech has a big footprint on the SC24 exhibition floor. Shimon, the Institute’s improvisational marimba-playing robot, will greet conference attendees visiting Georgia Tech’s booth (#4415) in the exhibition hall.

“Georgia Tech has 50 researchers presenting at Supercomputing this year, reflecting our long-time commitment to leadership in high-performance computing,” said Vivek Sarkar, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing.

“I am delighted to welcome HPC researchers from around the globe to Atlanta, and I look forward to our interactions at the conference,” said Sarkar. 

The dean and College of Computing researchers lead Georgia Tech’s SC24 contingent.

Sarkar will present three workshops and a paper at the conference. Faculty, research scientists, and graduate students from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and the School of Computer Science are part of the more than 27 Georgia Tech research teams contributing to the SC24 technical program.

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Tech’s contingent at SC24 includes a School of CSE team that will present its new HPC algorithm on Wednesday. The algorithm is faster than existing methods, highly accurate, and empowers scalable simulations of chemical systems. The team expects it to have applications in physics, chemistry, materials science, and other fields.

The SC24 technical program also features Georgia Tech researchers from:

• The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
• The School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
• The School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• The School of Public Policy
• The Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE)

The College of Computing has created a new website chronicling Georgia Tech’s presence at SC24.

The site features links to presentation and workshop schedules and the full SC24 agenda. It gives users an in-depth look at Georgia Tech’s latest HPC research, a guide to the hottest topics, and an interactive exploration of Tech’s HPC researchers and collaborators.

Along with the technical program, Georgia Tech has a big footprint on the SC24 exhibition floor.

Shimon, the Institute’s famed improvisational marimba-playing robot, will greet conference attendees visiting Georgia Tech’s booth (#4415) in the exhibition hall. Tech’s presenters and faculty will also spend time in the booth to meet attendees interested in learning more about the Institute’s latest HPC initiatives and achievements.

This year’s conference marks the first time that the City of Atlanta has hosted Supercomputing. SC is the leading global conference showcasing the latest HPC technologies and applications.