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By Vijay Shankar, Director of Bioinformatics and Statistics, Clemson Institute for Human Genetics

The title of this blog has multiple contextual meanings. The first comes from the fact that the number of members attending the Supercomputing Conference through STEM-Trek has doubled from 2017 to 2025. This growth is thanks to the incredible effort put forth by the STEM-Trek team in securing funding that enables HPC professionals to attend meetings and conferences for career-development opportunities. The community is stronger than ever before. This became especially apparent when, after attending SC24, I was invited to join the HPC Ecosystems Slack workspace hosted by members of STEM-Trek. Being able to collaborate, share knowledge, and solve problems collectively within this community has become a true highlight of my professional life. I’m delighted to see this group actively growing and developing. Strength in numbers, indeed!

The second meaning of the title points to this year’s …

By Horst Severini, University of Oklahoma (OU)

I am again very grateful for STEM-Trek’s support so I could attend SC25 in St. Louis. I met old friends, found new ones, and learned lots of new and exciting information, in both the TANGO/CoNGA workshops and at SC itself.

The GeoFutures Coalition presentation at the TANGO workshop on Friday morning made clear that there is always a trade off between privacy and convenience, such as when we give Google maps our location information in order to get directions. They also emphasized that US Intelligence gathering is only supposed to happen on foreign soil, not in the US — although I’m not convinced that that’s actually what’s happening. The Esri/ArcGIS talk also had lots of good information and reminded me that I went to a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop at the OU Libraries a few years ago, which was also very informative, …

By Himeshi De Silva, Scientist at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore

The Conference for Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA) found a new home this year in the form of TANGO (nonTraditional Architecture and Next-Gen Computational Orchestration) ahead of the Supercomputing (SC)25’ Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. CoNGA is the brainchild of Professor John Gustafson and provides an open venue for researchers and practitioners aiming to explore alternative forms of number representations and their arithmetic for various scientific applications to present their work. While I had been involved with organizing CoNGA for several years – joining as a student volunteer at its inception in 2018 and serving as program chair last year – attending the conference this year seemed uncertain, and I was facing the unfortunate possibility of missing it for the first time. Thankfully, Elizabeth Leake and TANGO fully embraced CoNGA and went even further to support …

By Babar Khan, Babar Khan Research

SC25 has concluded. I just checked the latest post on the LinkedIn page of SC Conference Series that SC25 welcomed 16,499 attendees and featured 559 exhibitors making it the second-largest SC conference by attendance and the largest ever in exhibition participation. That is impressive. Now that I am back home, sitting at my desk with a cup of coffee, the temperature nearing zero and Christmas not far away, this feels like the perfect moment to reflect on the experience and put my thoughts into my first ever blog for STEM-Trek.  Yay!

I would start by writing THANKS to our very own Elizabeth Leake and STEM-Trek for providing me this opportunity to attend SC2025 in St. Louis, USA. I truly mean it, because I know it is not an easy task to invite scholars from around the world while also ensuring that everyone remains safe, engaged, and …

By Maria E. Adonay, Clemson University Institute for Human Genetics

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I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Supercomputing Conference for the second year in a row, thanks to STEM-Trek. This year’s event (SC25) was held in St. Louis, MO — my first time visiting the city since childhood! Here’s a look back, told in “postcards.”

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Nov 14–15: Pre-Conference Hello from St. Louis!

The STEM-Trek group kicked off our pre-conference activities at The Post Building, where we heard a variety of talks, including some fascinating geospatial topics. (I left with several ideas about how geospatial analysis options could one day support our own cluster users!) The highlight of the day, though, was coasting down to ground level via the repurposed St. Louis Post Dispatch slide — just like …

STEM-Trek Nonprofit, in collaboration with Texas A&M University and the Conference on Next-Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA), will host the TANGO workshop ahead of the Supercomputing Conference, SC25, in St. Louis, Missouri. 

TANGO is a celebration of nonTraditional Architecture and Next-Gen Computational Orchestration. No dancing shoes are required to learn how Compute eXpress Link (CXL), RISC-V and Next-Gen Math are driving a revolution toward more energy-efficient supercomputers. TANGO will convene at the America’s Center on November 15 ahead of SC25, which will be in the same location November 16–22. A jetlag day for TANGO international delegates will be held on Friday, November 14. There is no cost to attend the workshop, but you must apply by August 31. Notifications will be sent by September 15.

We are no longer accepting applications. The final schedule will be shared with registered/accepted participants. If you wish to attend and have not registered, please …