Mississippi State University at SC2004



On November 6-12, 2004, the Mississippi State University ERC participated in "Supercomputing 2004" (SC2004), the annual IEEE/ACM international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage held in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 1988, this conference series has grown to include scientists, researchers, software developers, policy makers, corporate managers, CIOs and IT administrators from universities, industry and government. Attendees had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the latest state-of-the-field developments in technology, applications, vendor products, research results, national policy and national/international initiatives. SC2004 had a record-setting attendance of nearly of 8000 people.

MSU has had significant involvement in the conference for more than a decade, and for the third consecutive year, the MSU ERC invited the Mississippi Center for Supercomputer Research at the University of Mississippi to participate in their research booth. During the conference, the booth was visited by distinguished guests, including many alumni, researcher partners, and representatives from many of the ERC's funding agencies.

MSU was well represented at the conference where ERC research was displayed among research initiatives at all of the major federal research labs and most of the major research universities in the world.


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Booth Construction Photos




The Completed Booth




Distinguished Visitors to the Booth

David Roach of the State ITS Board and MCSR Booth workers Joe Thompson (MSU ERC) and George Heburn of the DoD HPCMP PET Program Jack Dongarra of UT-Knoxville and the Top500 Supercomputer Sites List
Hans Meuer and Erich Strohmeier of the Top500 Supercomputer Sites List Ron Brightwell of Sandia National Labs and MSU ERC Alumnus Jianping Zhu, former MSU ERC researcher, John West, ERDC MSRC Director and MSU ERC alumnus, and Trey Breckenridge (MSU ERC)
Jianping Zhu, former MSU ERC researcher, John West, ERDC MSRC Director and MSU ERC alumnus, Trey Breckenridge (MSU ERC), and Steven Carter, Oak Ridge National Labs and MSU alumnus Joe Thompson (MSU ERC) and Cray Henry, Director of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Mike McCraney, Director of Operations for the Maui High Performance Computing Center and MSU alumnus, and Roger Smith (MSU ERC)



Other Booths

Purdue University U.S. Department of Homeland Security Army High Performance Computing Research Center University of Kentucky
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Indiana University Argonne National Labs Oak Ridge National Labs
NASA California Institute of Technology San Diego Supercomputing Center Ohio Supercomputer Center
Texas Advanced Computing Center StorCloud (1 Petabyte of Disk Storage)



The Show Floor From Above