San Diego, Calif. -- The eighth annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing '95 (SC'95) conference, taking place at the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to draw a crowd in excess of 5,000. And more than 120 industry and research organizations will be represented in the 161,000 square-foot. exhibition hall, organizers said earlier this week. In addition to showcasing the newest in supercomputing technology, SC'95 will provide a forum of education and discussion for the latest innovations in technology development and scientific applications related to high performance computing. Scheduled sessions cover everything from biology and engineering applications to the most powerful computers, virtual reality, and ATM networks. The SC'95 conference will also feature one of the most advanced experimental networks ever assembled to provide unprecedented conference capability. The SC'95 network is a year-long project created through the cooperative efforts of the research, supercomputing, and communications communities. It is the first truly national-scale, high performance network linking dozens of the country's fastest computers and advanced 3-D visualization environments. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will use supercomputer applications to test high-speed networks at Supercomputing '95. Researchers will run supercomputer simulations at a remote site, while the visualizations of the simulations will be displayed simultaneously at the convention center in San Diego. This part of the conference program is referred to as the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Testbed. The GII Testbed will showcase interactive 2-D and 3-D scientific visualization and virtual reality demonstrations of National Challenge and Grand Challenge problem solving-with simulation codes remotely computed in scientists' numerical laboratories and the results transmitted over high-speed networks for presentation in San Diego. The goal of the GII Testbed is to encourage the development of teams, tools, hardware, systems software, and human interface models to enable national-scale, multi-site collaborations to facilitate solutions to National Challenge and Grand Challenge problems. Members of the media attending this conference will be supported by the "Press Room of the Future." "Recognizing the widespread use of electronic communication such as e-mail and the world wide web, this conference is one of the first in the world to use electronic press kits with paperless access to all conference press materials," explained Mike Bernhardt, president of The Bernhardt Agency and director of media relations for SC'95. "To help members of the media take greatest advantage of these electronic capabilities, we will provide full support and training in the press room."
More Than 5,000 Expected to Attend Supercomputing ’95 CONFERENCES Nov. 3, 1995
November 3, 1995