SC08 to Feature Wide-Ranging Technical Program

The SC08 Conference taking place from November 15-21 2008
at

the Austin Convention Center will feature six days of technical
sessio

ns three exhibition days and several events celebrating
the conferenc

e''s 20th anniversary. SC08 co-sponsored by ACM
marks the 20th anniv

ersary of Supercomputing ''88 and a number
of activities are planned t

o celebrate the evolution of the conference
and supercomputing and rela

ted technologies including an anniver-
sary DVD and a history display i

n the convention center lobby.
Invited speakers will share their exper

tise in fields ranging from
parallel programming to energy to medicine.
The SC08 Tutorial
Program offers 10 half-day and 15 full-day tutorial

s on a variety of
supercomputing educational opportunities. The SC08 pr

ogram also
features three days of Technical Papers sessions in which 5

9 papers
selected from 277 submissions and 1080 reviews will be present

ed.
Almost 350 industry and research exhibitors will showcase their
technologies and sixteen Masterwork presentations will address
real-w

orld applications of high-performance computing technologies
in the art

s finance transportation medicine energy and green
computing. The
conference also will feature 13 workshops that
complement the SC08 Tec

hnical Program.
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