This year’s edition of the Supercomputing Conference - SC17 - drew a record-breaking 13,000+ registered attendees organized by the sigHPC of ACM and the IEEE CS (#SC17) to Denver, CO. The technical program spanned six days. Even though the bulk of the conference is still dominated by traditional (small data) HPC topics, newer “Big Data” themes are making inroads. Other highlights included (importance of GPUs for) Deep Learning, and the many workshops and tutorials. At the hardware front, I liked the presentation of the 64-bit ARM chips (in a working server and desktop system), continuation of the D-Wave Quantum computing success story, lots of 3D printing applications and demos. Let’s now walk through the conference in chronological order.

The conference organized a flawless bus service to the many hotels housing the close to 13,000 attendees. Below, you see the registration area. All pictures were taken by yours truly (@DirkVandenPoel) and carry my copyright.

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