Welcome to SC|05!

Co-sponsored by ACM and IEEE Computer Society, the SC conference series brings together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, senior managers, programmers, and system managers from the world's leading computing installations and companies to showcase innovative developments that are sparking new ideas and new industries, as well as reinvigorating older ones. We continue the Supercomputing Conference tradition of highlighting the most innovative developments in high-performance computing, storage and networking with the theme, "Gateway to Discovery," inspired both by the beautiful and exciting city of Seattle, Washington and by the ever-expanding efforts of the High Performance Computing community to expand our knowledge through the use of HPC as gateways to new and useful discoveries.

The best minds in HPC discuss and debate the latest issues through plenaries, papers, panels and more.

Teams of educators learn to use high-end computing and modeling as an instructional tool.

Undergraduates and graduate students can apply for the student volunteer program and have the opportunity to network with leading researchers in high-performance computing.

Faculty and staff with minority serving institutions are welcomed into the SC family through this innovative effort.

New to SC|05, this initiative showcases powerful data analysis applications and visualization tools used to solve complex, real-world problems.

Evolutionary and revolutionary HPC storage technologies strut their stuff through this high-bandwidth, heterogeneous storage initiative.

These annual competitions push the limits of network applications, storage systems, and high-performance analytics.