SC17- Note for the cHiPSet Members


Dear cHiPSet Members,

This years Supercomputing conference (SC17) was held Nov. 12-17 in Denver, Colorado, USA. SC is the premier conference in the area of High Performance Computing with more than 10.000 participants from all over the world. The dominating themes were the convergence of HPC and Big Data technologies as well as Deep Learning facilitated by new generations of extremely powerful GPUs and other types of special purpose hardware. Many of the research paper sessions, panels and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions addressed topics of high relevance to the cHiPSet Action.

More details about the conference program can be found at: http://sc17.supercomputing.org/conference-overview/sc17-schedule/

With warm regards,

Siegfried Benkner