SCinet, the undisputed fastest computer network in the world, is now live! Beginning Sunday, November 16, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center became home to the fastest and most innovative computer network, delivering more than 1.3 trillion bits per second (terabits per second!) of network bandwidth to the Supercomputing Conference (SC14) from around the world.

The SC conference series has traditionally been home to cutting-edge developments in high-performance networking, alongside those in high-performance computing, storage, and analytics.

The SC conference series has traditionally been home to cutting-edge developments in high-performance networking, alongside those in high-performance computing, storage, and analytics.  This year, SCinet and the SC14 Technical Program solicited papers about past innovative network research projects that will be published in the Future Generation Computer Systems Journal.

SCinet connects computing resources around the world during the SC conference every year. This robust, state-of-the-art network is always the fastest, most reliable network during the conference, allowing attendees to run HPC demos that display the latest and greatest from HPC hardware and software. SCinet covers the operations, deployment, and configuration of everything from high performance networking and routing to the wireless you use at SC.

Each year exhibitors plan large scale demos that connect the convention center to remote HPC resources around the world. In order to support these often ground breaking demos each year, the conference builds SCinet - a highly sophisticated, very high-capacity network. Last year, SCinet boasted nearly 1 Terabit of capacity.