Over the past 33 years the International Super Computing conference in Germany has become one of the world's major computing events with the bi-annual announcement of the Top500 systems, which continues to be dominated in entirety by Linux systems. In June this year over 3,500 people attended ISC with a programme of tutorials, workshops and miniconferences, poster sessions, student competitions, a vast vendor hall, and numerous other events.

This presentation gives an overview of ISC and makes an attempt to cover many of the new developments and directions in supercomputing including new systems. metrics measurement, machine learning, and HPC education. In addition, the presentation will also feature material from the HPC Advisory Council conference in Fremantle held in August.