Wednesday 22 January 2014 Speaker: Abdeslem Djaoui (RAL/PPD) Title: "Supercomputing13 Conference Summary" Abstract: The yearly Supercomputing conference is the largest gathering of the High Performance Computing community where thousands of users from academia, government and private industry present their latest and most advanced scientific and technical applications, and hundreds of vendors exhibit their latest products and technologies often for the first time. I will report on some relevant (to PP) topics from Supercomputing13 in Denver, with a focus on advances and trends in new processors, memory and interconnects as well as the associated software development stack.