The Department of Computer Science invites anybody at Illinois Tech and any other university and research institution to an online talk Friday, March 29, 2024, at 1-2 p.m. titled “SCinet: The World’s Fastest Temporary Network!” The lecture will be presented by Angie Asmus, the Director of Network & Telecommunications at Colorado State University, and Jason Zurawski, Science Engagement Engineer with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet).

Please register ahead of time. Contact Nik Sultana at nsultana1@iit.edu with any questions.

Abstract

Each year a dedicated group of over 200 volunteers gathers together to design, build, operate, and teardown SCinet: the networking infrastructure that supports the SC conference. SC draws nearly 14,000 attendees and is the premier conference for high performance computing, networking, and other technological advancements. This talk will discuss how SCinet takes on this herculean task yearly, and offer some previews of SC24 in Atlanta.

Biographies

Angie Asmus is the Director of Network & Telecommunications at Colorado State University. She has 25 years of experience in IT across both private and public sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University and an MBA from Colorado State University. Angie is the SCinet chair, for SC24 in Atlanta GA.

Jason Zurawski is a Science Engagement Engineer with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). Jason has over 20 years of experience in the R&E networking community, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University, and an Master of Science degree from the University of Delaware. Jason was a founding member of the perfSONAR project, and the Science DMZ network architecture.

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