CHPC and the University of Utah well represented at SC22
Dallas, Texas skyline with the Omni Dallas Hotel, where several SC events were held, is at right (courtesy of SC22)
The University of Utah's exhibitor booth (courtesy of Anita Orendt)
Attendees of the HPC Systems Professional Workshop included Center for High Performance Computing staff members (courtesy of Brian Haymore)
Dan Reed, Ph.D., professor of computational science at the U, seated at center, at the SC22 panel Reinventing High Performance Computing (courtesy of SC22)
Anita Orendt, computational scientist, CHPC
The University of Utah returned to the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis on November 13-14. Known this year as SC22, the annual conference was held in Dallas, Texas, which previously hosted SC18.
A total of 361 exhibitor booths and 11,830 attendees, including 1,300 virtual only, far exceeded the attendance at last year’s hybrid event.
As in past years, multiple staff members from UIT’s Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) attended the conference and hosted an exhibitor booth, which gave CHPC an opportunity to showcase research accomplishments by the U of U and Utah State University achieved through access to CHPC-provided resources.
With the return of vendors to the conference, CHPC staff members attended “whisper suites,” which allowed them to preview upcoming systems and meet with vendors to discuss CHPC’s future needs.
The University of Utah's banner is seen above its SC22 exhibitor booth in the background (courtesy of SC22)
CHPC System Administrator Brian Haymore was program chair for the HPC Systems Professionals Workshop. Sponsored by the ACM SIGHPC SYSPROS virtual chapter and held in conjunction with SC22, the workshop was “designed to share best practices for common HPC system deployment and maintenance, to provide a platform to discuss upcoming technologies, and to present the state of the practice techniques that increase performance and reliability of systems, and in turn increase researcher and analyst productivity.”
“About 200 people attended the workshop, and they all showed strong community involvement and interest in collaboration, sharing knowledge and experiences, and advancing the state-of-the practice,” Haymore said.
As in the past, the University of Utah was well represented by the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, whose participants presented papers, participated in panels, and chaired sessions.
“SC serves as an important element of the research computing and data (RCD) ecosystem, one that provides networking and development opportunities and sharing of experiences and expertise among RCD professionals,” CHPC Director Tom Cheatham, Ph.D. said.
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