Preface

摘要

ISC High Performance, formerly known as the International Supercomputing Conference, was founded in 1986 as the Supercomputer Seminar. Originally organized by Hans Meuer, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany, and former director of its computer center, the seminar brought together a group of 81 scientists and industrial partners who shared an interest in high-performance computing. Since then, the annual conference has become a major international event within the HPC community and, accompanying its growth in size over the years, the conference has moved from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Dresden, Hamburg, and Leipzig to Frankfurt. Over recent years, we have seen a steady increase in the number of submissions of high-quality research papers to the conference and in the number of conference attendees. A record-setting attendance was anticipated for ISC-HPC 2020 in Frankfurt, but as with all other conferences in summer 2020, the global coronavirus pandemic forced it to be a digital event.