"Conferences are a great way to keep up with industry trends and new products. The annual Supercomputing Conference (SC), organized by the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGARCH, brings together government, industry, and university researchers and technologists, and hardware and software vendors involved in high performance computing, networking, and storage. SC2004 was held November 6-12 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, which sits in downtown Pittsburgh at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and the Ohio rivers. This year’s conference, the theme of which was 'Bridging Communities,' demonstrated just how far cluster computing and Linux have come in a very short time..."
