Set Your Expectations High

something for everyone

This year, we’re expecting a record-breaking number of attendees. In fact, 330 exhibitors are locked in for what promises to be one of the largest SC conferences yet. Participants can look forward to an exciting lineup of world-class exhibitors, coupled with a broad array of programs that delve into the cutting edge of HPC. These programs are designed to foster discussions, share successful strategies, and display state-of-the-art results. These wide-ranging sessions and events ensure there’s something for everyone—from students just starting their journey and early-career researchers making their mark to seasoned industry veterans with years of experience.

Here’s your opportunity to meet and interact with industry, research organizations, startups, and universities all under one roof—the SC23 exhibition. Over 300 exhibitors strong and growing!

Exhibitor list

Each year, SC provides the leading technical program for professionals and students in the HPC community, as measured by impact, at the highest academic and professional standards.

program & Events

Prepare for a Robust Program

HPC Turned up to eleven

SC23’s Technical Program features focused sessions, such as Birds of a Feather, an ideal platform for dialogue on trending HPC topics. True to form, we’ll be hosting a robust Panels program, allowing for insightful Q&A sessions with domain experts. Papers and Posters provide the opportunity to present groundbreaking research to the most sizable gathering of HPC minds. We’ll also have an Exhibitor Forum, where organizations can delve technically into their specialties. And precious insight into the industry and network-building activities await students and early-career attendees.

Quantum entanglement

Meanwhile, Tutorials and Workshops promise to be insightful, particularly in advancing research areas. For example, SC23 will welcome a variety of quantum computing institutions and new vendors as interest in its potential capabilities keeps increasing. Many programs also will include sessions focused on this evolving field, such as the Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software. This workshop is accepting abstracts until July 21, 2023. There’s still time to get involved!

SC is a great place to catch up with old friends—and make some new ones! It’s a full week and the opportunities are endless. And don’t forget your walking shoes! The convention center is vast.

Convention Center

Making all attendees feel welcome is important to SC. Through the programs and services that we provide for attendees we all make progress toward the goal of improved science and research.

Inclusivity

Let’s Be HPC Together

Register Beginning July 12

With its compelling mix of professional and educational opportunities centered around advancing HPC, SC23 will be an event you won’t want to miss. We encourage everyone, whether you’re a student, researcher, or industry veteran, to join us in Denver or via the Digital Experience, for what promises to be an enlightening and exciting conference. Mark your calendars and don’t forget to secure your spot on July 12 when registration opens. Together, let’s explore the future of computing!

SC Becomes Family Tradition

While his service at the SC Conference has been expansive, Hayden has the enthusiasm of a first-timer and is more than happy to share why everybody should take the chance, get to know the community, and find their place among the multitude of disciplines and research that stems from HPC and grows through participation in the SC Conference. For Hayden, it seems everyone should have a chance to proclaim: “I AM HPC!”

Kevin Hayden

Senior Network Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

Kevin on Linkedin

Q: What single event most made you realize you wanted a career in HPC/computing?

Hayden: Attending my first SC Conference in Seattle (SC05).

Q: What do you consider your biggest contribution to the HPC/computing community?

Hayden: Being a member of the SC Steering Committee and SC Steering Diversity and Inclusivity sub-committee.

Q: In the past 35 years, what is the most significant overlooked breakthrough that has impacted the field in your eyes?

Hayden: Clean, inexpensive nuclear power.

Q: What would you like to see change about, within, or among the HPC/computing community?

Hayden: The community is getting older, and we need young people to be excited about the future of HPC and engineering as a whole. The United States has become a little soft, and other countries are catching us quickly due to their desire to make an impact on the world.

Q: Can you share any “words of wisdom” for those new to HPC or curious about the SC Conference and how they may fit in?

Hayden: I began my journey in HPC (support) at SC05 when I was asked to help set up the conference as a fiber optic cable installer as a member of SCinet. Since I was a fiber technician who didn’t directly work with the HPC community, I only supported the data pathway to the computers. I really had no idea what the conference was or what it was even about. Turned out, it was such a great experience! Not only did I help install, troubleshoot, and repair this incredibly fast network for the conference, I also had the opportunity to learn all the amazing things the HPC community did with their supercomputers, and I met the wonderfully captivating group of people that made up the SC Conference. I was so excited to learn more and couldn’t wait to go back again the next year and the next and the next. 

As my career progressed at work, so did my positions within SC. I worked my way through SCinet as the fiber team lead for several years, edge network lead for two years, then onto the management team. Eventually, I became SC20 SCinet Chair, where I was responsible for leading 100-plus SCinet volunteers through the challenges of the first virtual conference. While I am still a member of the SCinet team as the Physical Security Chair and still helping with the fiber team, I am also the SC Exhibits Deputy Chair and a member of the SC Steering Committee, where we set and approve conference policies, budgets, future sites, and work closely with the two sponsoring societies, IEEE-CS [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society] and the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery].

I was so fortunate to be asked to participate way back in 2005. I know I am lucky to work with such an amazingly talented, passionate group of volunteers from all around the world. SC is a family, and, as such, I have my family involved as well. My father-in-law has been a member of the SCinet wireless/edge team since 2018; my son, a wireless and fiber team member since 2021; my brother-in-law, a member of the SC21 SCinet logistics team; and my wife is now the SC23 Communications Chair after joining SC in 2016.

If you have the opportunity to volunteer at SC, I say, DO IT! And, have a great time meeting extraordinary people, expanding your horizons, working long (fun) days, and having a wonderful time. Who knows where it will take you?

My name is Kevin Hayden, and I am an HPC supporter… I AM HPC!