2014

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2014 attracted 2,405 conference attendees from 51 countries as well as 156 companies and research organizations from around the world, which showcased their products and solutions at the ISC exhibition.

ISC’14 was well-received by the attendees. Over 87 percent of those surveyed rated ISC as a superior HPC event compared to similar conferences.

JUN 22-26LeipzigGermany


2,405Attendees

156
Exhibitors
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  • Conference Keynote Speaker
  • Video Blogs
  • Conference Photos

 

STEERING COMMITTEE

The members of the ISC Steering Committee are distinguished HPC experts and decision makers who provide guidance on the conference program and help enhance publicity, acceptance and growth of ISC in industry, research and academia.

  • David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Frank Baetke, HP, Germany
  • Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA *
  • Frank Behrendt, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Costas Bekas, IBM, Switzerland
  • Brad Best, Archelon Deutschland, Germany
  • Arndt Bode, Leibniz Rechenzentrum & Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Gerd Büttner, Airbus Deutschland, Germany
  • Dona Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  • Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
  • Luc Gauthier, Sanofi-Aventis R&D, France
  • Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC Consultant, Germany
  • Horst Gietl, Prometeus, Germany (Co-Chair)*
  • Merle Giles, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Eng Lim Goh, SGI, USA
  • Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
  • Earl Joseph, IDC, USA
  • Dean Klein, Micron Technology, USA
  • Sigi Knecht, EADS, Germany
  • Oleksiy Koshulko, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS, Ukraine *
  • Kimmo Koski, CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland *
  • Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany
  • Jysoo Lee, KISTI, Korea
  • Tau Leng, Supermicro, USA
  • Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
  • Thomas Lippert, Jülich Supercomputing Center, Germany
  • Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Michael Mayer, Novartis Pharma, Switzerland
  • Martin Meuer, Prometeus, Germany *
  • Marek Michalewicz, A*Star, Singapore *
  • Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Center, Germany (Co-Chair)*
  • Wolfgang Nagel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  • Motoi Okuda, Fujitsu, Japan
  • Yale Patt, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany
  • Michael Resch, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
  • Marie-Christine Sawley, Intel, Switzerland
  • Thomas Schulthess, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland
  • Felix Schürmann, EPFL, Switzerland *
  • Gilad Shainer, Mellanox, USA
  • Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  • Pradeep K. Sinha, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
  • Happy Sithole, Center for High Performance Computing, ZA *
  • Rainer Spurzem, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Heidelberg *
  • Peter Stauffert, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Germany
  • Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
  • Erich Strohmaier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  • Marius Swoboda, Rolls-Royce, Germany
  • Ulla Thiel, Cray, Germany
  • Ash Vadgama, University of Warwick, UK
  • Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia *
  • Steve Wallach, Convey Computer, USA
  • Tadashi Watanabe, RIKEN, Japan
  • Gerhard Wellein, Erlangen Regional Computing Center, Germany *
  • Andreas Wierse, SICOS BW, Germany

* Also in charge of selecting the BoF sessions for ISC.

RESEARCH PAPERS COMMITTEE

The Research Papers Committee sets up the Research Paper Sessions, based on a call-for-papers procedure.

  • Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Francisco Javier Garcia Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Mahdi Bohlouli, University of Siegen, Germany
  • Jed Brown, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Eva Burrows, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Xing Cai, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
  • Damien Declat, Bull, France
  • Francisco Duro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Tomas Flouri, HITS, Germany
  • Luzt Gross, University of Queensland, Australia
  • David Ham, Imperial College London, UK
  • Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Stephan Herhut, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, USA
  • Weicheng Huang, National Applied Research Laboratory, Taiwan
  • Volodymyr Kindratenko, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
  • Oleksiy Koshulko, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS, Ukraine
  • Julian Kunkel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany (Co-Chair)
  • Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
  • Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
  • Thomas Ludwig, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany (Chair)
  • Manjunathaiah Manjunathaiah, University of Reading, UK
  • Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
  • Richard Membarth, Intel Visual Computing Institute, Saarland University, Germany
  • Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Center, Germany
  • Daniel Molka, ZIH, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  • Alexander Moskovsky, RSC SKIF, Russia
  • Matthias Müller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Ramon Nou, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
  • Stephan Olbrich, RRZ, Universität Hamburg, Germany
  • Julio Ortega, University of Granada, Spain
  • Huynh Phung Huynh, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
  • Thomas Poulet, CSIRO, Australia
  • Ying Qian, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
  • Michael M. Resch, HLRS Stuttgart, Germany
  • Damian Rouson, Center for Computational Earth & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University, USA
  • Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
  • Alexandros Stamatakis, HITS, Germany
  • Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam, Oxford University, UK
  • Matthew Tolentino, Intel, USA
  • Yuichi Tsujita, RIKEN AICS, Japan
  • Zhonglei Wang, Intel Mobile Communications, Germany
  • Thomas Wild, Technische Universität München, Germany
RESEARCH POSTERS COMMITTEE

From all posters submitted, the Research Posters Committee, which is a sub-committee of the Research Papers Commitee, selects the ones to be presented at ISC and the best poster to receive the Research Poster Award.

  • Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Mahdi Bohlouli, University of Siegen, Germany
  • Jed Brown, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Tomas Flouri, HITS, Germany
  • Lutz Gross, University of Queensland, Australia
  • David Ham, Imperial College London, UK
  • Volodymyr Kindratenko, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
  • Oleksiy Koshulko, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS, Ukraine
  • Julian Kunkel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany (Chair)
  • Muniyappa Manjunathaiah, University of Reading, UK
  • Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
  • Richard Membarth, Intel Visual Computing Institute, Saarland University, Germany
  • Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Center, Germany
  • Daniel Molka, ZIH, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  • Alexander Moskovsky, RSC SKIF, Russia
  • Matthias Müller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Ramon Nou, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
  • Stephan Olbrich, RRZ, Universität Hamburg, Germany
  • Julio Ortega, University of Granada, Spain
  • Ying Qian, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
  • Damian Rouson, Center for Computational Earth & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University, USA
  • Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
  • Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam, Oxford University, UK
  • Matthew Tolentino, Intel, USA
  • Yuichi Tsujita, RIKEN AICS, Japan
  • Zhonglei Wang, Intel Mobile Communications, Germany
HPC IN ASIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE

This HPC in Asia Program Committee aims to promote the supercomputing trends and excellence in Asia via a self-designed program and handpicked speakers.

  • George Beckett, iVEC & University of Western Australia, Australia
  • Taisuke Boku, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan (Chair)
  • Horst Gietl, Prometeus, Germany
  • R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Weicheng Huang, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
  • Zhong Jin, Supercomputing Center, CNIC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Co-Chair)
  • Jysoo Lee, Supercomputing Center, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea
  • Yutong Lu, National University of Defence Technology, China
  • Marek T. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, Singapore
  • Martin Meuer, Prometeus, Germany
  • Hiroshi Nakashima, Academic Center for Computing & Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Nages Sieslack, Prometeus, Germany
TUTORIALS COMMITTEE

From all tutorial proposals submitted, the Tutorials Committee selects the most popular topics to be presented at ISC.

  • Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA (Chair)
  • Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University, Japan
  • Franck Cappello, INRIA & UIUC, France
  • David Goodell, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA
  • William Gropp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Alice Koniges, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  • Thomas Ludwig, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany
  • Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
  • Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France
  • Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
EXHIBITORS INNOVATION FORUM STEERING COMMITTEE
  • Rich Brueckner, insideHPC, USA
  • Steve Conway, IDC, USA
  • Ad Emmen, Primeur, Netherlands
GAUSS AWARD COMMITTEE

From all papers accepted for the Research Paper Sessions, the Gauss Award Committee chooses the most outstanding paper in the field of scalable supercomputing to receive the Gauss Award.

  • Arndt Bode, Technical University Munich, Germany
  • Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
  • Thomas Ludwig, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany
PRACE SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE

From all papers submitted to the ISC Research Paper Sessions and the PRACE Scientific Conference, the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) will select the best paper to receive the PRACE Award.

  • Paolo Carloni, German Research School for Simulation Science (GRS), Germany
  • Giovanni Ciccotti, University Roma, Italy
  • Christoph Dellago, University Vienna, Austria
  • Sylvie Joussaume, CNRS, France
  • Richard Kenway, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Dimitri Komatitsch, CNRS, France
  • Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Erik Landahl, KTH, Sweden
  • Christian Lang, University Graz, Austria
  • Ben Moore, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
  • Antonio Navarra, CMCC, Italy
  • Maurizio Ottaviani, CEA Cadarache, France
  • Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Olivier Pironneau, University Paris VI, France
  • Simon Portegies Zwart, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  • Kenneth Ruud, University Oslo, Norway (Chair)
  • Wolfgang Schröder, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • Christof Schütte, FU Berlin, Germany
  • Luis Silva, IST Lisbon, Portugal
  • Joost VandeVondele, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Claudio Zannoni, University Bologna, Italy