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This year’s conference theme is Complex Analytic Workflows. Large-scale analytics is at an inflection point: expanding data volumes and more capable compute platforms have made it easier to prototype and deploy systems across supercomputers, cloud infrastructure, and distributed edge networks. This accelerates scientific discovery, enabling real-time insight and transformative optimization in both industry and government, but also requires better and more usable workflows for more efficient use of this greatly improved capability.
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Thursday, October 22
Kevin Barker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Almadena Chtchelkanova, Committee Advisor
John Feo, MambaQ
Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David Haglin, Rocketgraph
Dave Mountain, Committee Advisor
Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard Murphy, MambaQ
Justin Newcomer, Sandia National Laboratories
Steve Pritchard, Committee Advisor
Brad Spiers, Committee Advisor
Lara Kisielewska, Conference Organizer
CLASSIC envisions a future where the world’s most complex data challenges are solved through rigorous science, advanced computing, and human insight, helping society understand, secure, and act on critical information responsibly.
The CLASSIC conference has been held each fall in Annapolis, Maryland since 2012, convening experts from the government, national laboratories, academia and private industry to discuss challenges and implications of the emergent field of large-scale data analytics. Topics cover a wide range of subjects, from applications to algorithms to hardware to security and policy. CLASSIC drives critical conversations amongst decision makers in high-performance computing and analytics.
Attendance at CLASSIC is by invitation only; the number of attendees is intentionally limited to around 150 people to foster the kind of informal discussion and interaction that can lead to greater collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the field.
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