Seventeenth edition of ISC2002 opens with 350 participants from 21 countriesHeidelberg 20 jun 2002 More than 350 participants are attending the annual International Supercomputer Conference these days. Again more visitors at this 17th edition than last year, proving that recent developments in high performance and grid computing are stimulating colleagues from all over the world to join each other in Heidelberg to exchange new ideas. The fabulous results of the Earth Simulator in the Top500 probably have enhanced interest. The conference opened today with a traditional warm welcome to all HPC veterans and expert newcomers by Professor Dr. Hans Meuer from the University of Mannheim.
The ISC2002 audience is composed of computer specialists from 21 countries, 11 of which are located in Europe. The international impact of the Conference is clearly illustrated by visitors coming from Japan, Korea, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and maybe less evident supercomputing countries such as Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Ghana.
This year, the number of German attendees is somewhat higher than in 2001 with 66 percent compared to 60 percent last year. The industrial and commercial sectors are best represented (33%), followed by academic users (24%), government and HPC manufacturers (each 12%), and press (6%). Session chairmen and speakers are filling no less than 13% of all Conference registrations.
ISC2002 provides the 19th edition of the Top500 supercomputer list as well as a rich variety of sessions addressing exciting and innovative HPC applications in a panel discussion; petaflops and grid computing; short presentations from HPC manufacturers; a visualisation theatre; and an exhibition with the most powerful supercomputing centres in Europe and the world.
The ISC2002 event is sponsord by 18 companies including AMD, HP-Compaq, Dell, Delta, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, HPCwire, IBM, Intel, Klaus-Tschira-Foundation, Myricom, NEC, Platform Computing, SGI, Sun, T-Systems, and Western Scientific.
Special key note speaker at the first conference day was Monika Henziger from Google Inc. talking about the challenge of indexing the web using supercomputing power. Extensive details on this key note presentation are available in the current PrimeurLive! issue.
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