Lawence Livermore Chief Computational Scientist and HPC Innovation Center Director Fred Streitz spoke at the SC18 booth about how high-performance computing and machine learning were impacting precision medicine, particularly in his pilot project for the DOE/National Cancer Institute collaboration. Here he is shown during an interview by InsideHPC at the IBM booth.
(Download Image)DOE machines dominate record-breaking SC18
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and the 30th anniversary of the annual International Conference of High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC18), held Nov. 11-16 in Dallas, did not disappoint. The conference, which broke records for attendees and exhibitors, saw LLNL once again make its presence felt on the world’s biggest HPC stage. For the first time in five years, the U.S. captured the top two spots on the TOP500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers. LLNL’s Sierra, an IBM/NVIDIA system developed for the NNSA, leapfrogged China’s Sunway TiahuLight system for second place after placing third on the previous list released in June. Read more at LLNL News.
