CELEBRATING
40 YEARS OF ISC
June 10 – 13, 2025
CCH, Hamburg
GERMANY
From Mannheim Seminar to
Global Stage
Global Stage
ISC High Performance is proudly celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. What began as the Mannheim Supercomputing Seminar, organized by HPC enthusiast Prof. Dr. Hans Werner Meuer and attended by just 81 professionals from Germany and the English-speaking world – including researchers, university professors, and a few vendors – has evolved into a globally respected event in the HPC community. Today, ISC attracts a diverse audience of scientists, researchers, engineers, technology developers and providers, students, analysts, and journalists.
Furthermore, ISC is where the TOP500 list was first introduced, ranking the world’s fastest supercomputers! Now, in its 40th year, ISC remains a vital gathering place for knowledge exchange, innovation, and collaboration, extending its focus beyond traditional HPC to include developments and trends in AI and Quantum Computing.
STATISTICS
THE BIG 4-0
To celebrate ISC’s 40th anniversary, we created a Memory Wall that showcases significant high performance computing achievements and milestones, memories from past conferences, as well as personal reflections from community members. This wall was designed to evoke nostalgia and also encourage conversations at ISC 2025.
The Memory Wall is now available for digital viewing on our website and accessible to everyone, including community members who were unable to attend in person.
We posed a key question on the Memory Wall – Which will dominate science and industry in the next decade: Traditional HPC, AI, or quantum computing?
We invite you to explore this question and reflect on the future of our field.
40th Anniversary PANEL
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