SC'24 recap
The premiere annual conference of the high-performance computing community, SC24, was held in Atlanta last week, and it attracted a record-shattering number of attendees-- nearly 18,000 registrants , up 28% from last year! The conference felt big as well, and there seemed to be a lot more running between sessions, meetings, and the exhibition floor. Despite its objectively bigger size though, the content of the conference felt more diffuse this year, and I was left wondering if this reflected my own biases or was a real effect of the AI industry beginning to overflow into AI-adjacent technology conferences like SC. Of course, this isn't to say that SC24 was anything short of a great conference. Some exciting new technologies were announced, a new supercomputer beat out Frontier to become the fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list, and I got to catch up with a bunch of great people that I only get to see at shows like this. I'll touch on all of...
