The International Supercomputing Conference, ISC’14, was held at the stunning Congress Center in Leipzig, Germany this week. This year, the conference attracted nearly 3,000 HPC professionals from around the world and provided an excellent platform to lay the groundwork for a Data Vortex presence at SC14 in New Orleans in November. Carolyn Devany and Plexus Director of Engineering Services, Chris Rosewski, used this opportunity to interface with a broad community of HPC users, vendors, and global supercomputing visionaries.