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Advance Registration Opens July 29 for SC2002
NSF Director Rita Colwell Confirmed as Keynote Speaker
BALTIMORE,
July 29, 2002 – Registration opens today (July 29) for SC2002, the
annual conference of high performance networking and computing. This year's
conference, with the theme "From Terabytes to Insights," will
convene Nov. 16-22 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
The
deadline for advance registration and housing at the conference rate is
October 11, 2002. Attendees who register in advance benefit from lower
fees and may pick up their conference materials at the Baltimore Convention
Center. Online registration information can be found at www.sc-conference.org/sc2002
.
The
upcoming conference promises the most wide-ranging, vibrant program ever
offered. Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation, will
present the keynote address, and visionaries and well-known leaders will
speak on the state of the field. Experts will participate in lively panel
discussions, including two sessions on the use of information technology
for homeland security. Several awards will be presented, including the
High Performance Bandwidth Challenge, sponsored by Qwest.
The
technical program includes 31 full and half-day tutorials, 67 technical
papers, and 16 Masterworks sessions. Over 140 participants will set up
industry and research exhibits. An education program offers hands-on sessions
for teacher and faculty teams to help them incorporate computational tools
into the classroom. SCinet, the conference's high-performance, production-quality
network backbone uses the most advanced technology to make available more
than 55 gigabits per second of wide area network connectivity to the national
networks.
In
addition to the conference's program of technical presentations and technology
displays, for the first time in conference history, SC2002 technical program
participants can take part in IntelliBadge™, a demonstration of "smart"
technology. IntelliBadge participants will track events that fit their
needs and interests, locate people of similar interests, view statistics
on the conference, and win valuable prizes.
About
SC2002
SC2002 brings together scientists, engineers, systems administrators,
programmers, and managers to share ideas and to glimpse the future of
high performance networking and computing, data analysis and management,
visualization, and computational modeling. The conference is sponsored
by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society
and by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group
on Computer Architecture. For more, see .
Media
contacts:
Jon
Bashor, JBashor@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
510-486-5849
Karen
Green, kareng@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
217-265-0748
