The annual SC conference is the premiere technical and industrial meeting for high-end networking and computing and computational science. The showcase event at SC'2001 held in Denver, Colorado was SC Global--the first truly global technical conference held on the Grid.

SC Global employed Access Grid technology to link the SC Core at the Denver Convention Center with dozens of SC Constellation Sites throughout the world. The event became a multi-national meeting place for demonstrations and discussions related to high-end computing and communications, and featured real time panels, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather sessions.