The ISC trade show celebrates this year its 30th anniversary. Here are some of the highlights of this year’s keynotes and events.

Now in its 30th year, ISC High Performance is the world’s oldest and Europe’s most important conference and networking event for the HPC community. It offers a strong five-day technical program focusing on HPC technological development and its application in scientific fields, as well as its adoption in commercial environments.

Over 400 hand-picked expert speakers and 160 exhibitors, consisting of leading research centers and vendors, will greet attendees at ISC High Performance. A number of events complement the technical program including Tutorials, the TOP500 Announcement, Research Paper Sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Sessions, the Poster Sessions, Exhibitor Forums, and Workshops.

ISC High Performance is open to engineers, IT specialists, system developers, vendors, scientists, researchers, students, journalists, and other members of the HPC global community. The exhibition attracts decision-makers from automotive, finance, defense, aeronautical, gas & oil, banking, pharmaceutical and other industries, as well those providing hardware, software and services for the HPC community. Attendees will learn firsthand about new products and applications, in addition to the latest technological advances in the HPC industry.

Program Focus
ln 2015, we will be highlighting technologies and applications most relevant ta our attendees. Both current and future HPC technologies will be covered, and some of the most challenging applications areas will receive special attention.

• FUTURE HPC-SYSTEM DESIGN CONCEPTS
• HIGHLY SCALABLE OPERATING SYSTEMS
• FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE
• LARGE SCALE COMPUTING IN BIOENGINEERING & BIOMEDICINE
• HPC IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
• HIGHLIGHTS FROM EUROPE’S HORIZON 2020 ICT
• HPC PROCESSOR & NODE ARCHITECTURE TRENDS
• HPC AND PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR
• ADVANCED DISPLAY & VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY
• EMERGING/ADVANCED INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURES
• HUMAN BRAIN PROJECT-PRESENTATIONS
• TOP10 EXASCALE RESEARCH TOPICS
• MEMORY SYSTEMS FOR HPC
• WHAT’S THE IMPACT OF QUANTUM COMPUTING
• HPC IN LATIN AMERICA

ISC Exchibition
The ISC exhibition features the largest collection of HPC vendors, universities, and research organizations annually assembled in Europe. Together, they represent the level of innovation, diversity and creativity that are the hallmarks of the global high performance computing community. Having them all available on the same exhibition floor presents a unique opportunity for users to survey the HPC landscape and for vendors to display their latest and greatest wares.

Who attends ISC
ISC attracts top managers, researchers, engineers and sales and marketing staff from universities, national laboratories, automotive, defense, aeronautical, gas & oil, banking and other industries that rely on HPC to help fulfill their orqanizations mission. According to our latest survey, over 97 percent of last year’s [20141 attendees are planning to return to the conference as they were highly satisfied with the program and our choice of speakers.

Who exhibits at ISC
Exhibitors come from every facet of the HPC community, including system vendors, server manufacturers, chip and memory makers, ISVs, storage vendors, networking solution providers, hardware and software distributors, service providers, data centers, universities, research labs and special projects.