All, this email and following information is for those employees that are interested in attending Supercomputing (SC19)<https://sc19.supercomputing.org/> November 17-22, 2019 in Denver, CO AND have not yet already been approved in the Conference Attendance Systems (CAS) to do so. FYI - we are handling SC19 approvals differently this year as they will be processed in a wave approach. Wave 1.) Pre-approved = CLS Leadership, Divisional Leadership, Senior Managers/Leaders, Attendees working SC, etc. COMPLETED Wave 2.) Accepted (based on accepted work) / Program Involvement (Chairs/Co-Chairs,etc.) = Researchers, Assistant Researchers, New Staff Employees, Tenured Postdocs, Administrative Staff, etc. Wave 3.) For Consideration/last-minute accepted work = New Postdocs, First-time attendees, etc. Wave 1 has been completed. If you are in Wave 1 (and you know who you are) continue on with your travel arrangements as normal. Wave 2 is currently underway. For those interested in attending SC19, you are encouraged to enter your detailed justification into CAS ASAP. As of today there are 14 people in pending status. ***When entering into CAS, you will be able to find the conference listed as the following: Conference Name: International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Sponsor: IEEE/ACM Dates: 11/17/2019 through 11/22/2019 Location: Denver, CO United States Purpose: The purpose of this conference is to discuss the most prominent advances in high performance computing over the last year. This justification will be reviewed by CELS management and should justify the need to attend, so please try to be as detailed/accurate as possible with your justification, cost and funding source. Wave 2 review and approval will happen the week of September 9th, so you have two weeks to get your justification into CAS. The Wave 3 process will be similar to Wave 2. Wave 3 will primarily be for those people that are waiting to hear whether or not their submissions are accepted and some last minute stragglers/etc. Early-bird registration ends October 16th. I would estimate Wave 3 review and approval to take place in early October (prior to deadline). Even if there is a slight chance/desire to attend SC, you are encouraged to submit your justification. It is easier to handle once in the CAS system then a late add for whatever the reason as we will be held to a pre-determined specific # of attendees and total cost for the conference for the Lab. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks, Scott Scott A. Ehling Business Transformation Partner Argonne National Laboratory Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Office: (630) 252-3338 “To give anything else less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift,” Steve Prefontaine -- Computing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing