Submissions Now Being Accepted for the SC11 Technical Program

By DE Editors

  The technical program for SC11, an international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, is now accepting online submissions. SC11 will take place Nov. 12-18, 2011,  and is expected to bring as many as 11,000 attendees from academia, industry and government to the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

This year’s conference will offer peered-reviewed papers covering a spectrum of technical research fields as well as panel discussions with leading researchers and industry leaders, posters showcasing research results from around the world, tutorials, workshops and a doctoral showcase. New to the technical program this year is State of the Practice, a venue for discussing best practices involving provisioning, using, and improving the critical systems and services in high-performance computing, networking and storage. All technical papers, tutorials, workshops, state of the practice reports and posters undergo an anonymous peer review by hundreds of internationally recognized experts resulting in a paper acceptance rate of 20 to 25 percent, according to show organizers.

“SC11 will continue the tradition of providing an outstanding, thought provoking technical program featuring the work of international leaders in their fields,” says Scott Lathrop, SC11 general chair and education director for the Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. “This is the conference that attracts the best minds in industry, academia and government and our attendees know they will gain insights into the future of high performance computing technologies and how they will affect everything from scientific discovery to product development to education.”

This year’s conference will feature the interdisciplinary thrust of data intensive science. Participants will be addressing this topic through a variety of conference activities including the technical program, exhibits, and the communities program.

In addition to the conference-wide thrust,  the SC11 Technical Program will focus on sustained performance, or how to achieve real, measurable productivity using leading-edge computing, networking storage and analysis technologies.

For the first time in conference history, the technical program will feature a full day of events on Friday,  November 18, which expands the program to a full six days. Friday events will include tutorials and workshops in addition to the regular offering of panel sessions.

Submissions for most areas of the SC11 technical program are now being accepted. Visualization Showcase submissions will be accepted beginning in mid March. Abstracts for technical papers and ACM Gordon Bell Prize nominations are due April 1. Full final papers and ACM Gordon Bell Prize nominations are due April 8, as are submissions for panels,  tutorials and workshops.
Submissions for the Student Cluster Competition, which showcases student teams competing to build a small computing cluster, are due by April 15 and State of the Practice reports are due May 20.

All submissions should be made online.

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