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Every year since the late 1980s, the world’s leading high-performance computing (HPC) experts gather to showcase innovation, discuss challenges and opportunities in their industry, share critique and best practices, and deepen the bonds within their community. The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, or SC24 for short, takes place this year Nov. 17–22 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Just like the event itself, the centers that comprise the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)—the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), and Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)—will actively participate in paper presentations, panels, birds of a feather sessions, and more.

HLRS staff will be at booth 2231. The center’s staff will participate in panels discussing HLRS’s philosophy group, and regulatory ethics for biomedical research on supercomputing, among other topics. Then, on Tuesday, Nov 19 at 3:30 local time, the center is hosting an aviation-themed happy hour together with technology partner Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The center will showcase its upcoming next-generation supercomputer, Hunter, and have invited staff from industry partners to showcase how they use HLRS resources to advance their artificial intelligence (AI) workflows. For a full list of HLRS’s activities and the center’s staff participating in SC24, please visit the center’s event page.

LRZ has joined forces with other research colleagues in Bavaria to host a Bavarian HPC experience on the conference floor. At booth 3147, LRZ colleagues will be joined by HPC enthusiasts from the Technical University of Munich, the Ludwigs-Maximillians-Universität in Munich, the Munich Quantum Valley, and NHR at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen to showcase the center’s advancements in sustainable HPC, hybridizing traditional HPC and quantum computing, as well as showcasing the center’s investments in scaling AI workflows on their HPC infrastructure. A full list of LRZ’s activities can be found on the center’s event page.

JSC will be represented with its brand-new exhibition at booth1443. The center’s motto, “Unleashing Next-Gen Computing Power!” highlights some of the topics the center will focus on: HPC tools, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, information on JSC’s role in various European projects and collaborations, and, of course, the latest information on the first European exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, which is currently being built at Jülich. Details and times of the JSC’s activities can be found on the center’s event page.