Mentoring in the WHPC Community
Mentoring in the WHPC Community WHPC is once again kicking off a mentoring cohort, starting January 23, 2026 (see our mentoring page for more details). As always, we are in…
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Women-in-HPC workshop an outstanding success
A guest post by: Gail W. Pieper, Argonne National Lab First published on November 12, 2018 at here Women are playing an ever-increasing role in high-performance computing (HPC). And the Women-in-HPC workshop, held at SC18 in November, paid tribute to this role – highlighting both the remarkable accomplishments achieved and the challenges remaining to thrive in…
DetailsWHPC Announces Intel as its first Corporate Champion
WHPC Announces Intel as its first Corporate Champion Edinburgh, UK, December 13, 2018 Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) today announced Intel Corporation as its first Corporate Champion. WHPC’s mission is to promote best practices in workforce diversity and inclusion in HPC through education, outreach, training and research. “Women represent less than 15% of the…
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My Experience as a Women in HPC
A guest post by: Samar Aseeri First published on Dec, 1st 2018. The Hidden Figures movie has been a timely film for me. Watching it in Minneapolis, Minnesota last year during my visit to my Ph.D. sister at UMN I realized that I had been encountering the same issues these black women were facing. It seems…
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Women-in-HPC Workshop @ SC18
A guest post by: Misbah Mubarak First published on November 12, 2018 at Linkedin This year’s women-in-HPC workshop focused to address important issues to improve workplace inclusivity, building resilience and maintaining well-being at work. The workshop started with an inspirational keynote talk by Dr. Ruby Mendenhall on using big data analytic techniques to recover the…
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The Texas chapter of Women in HPC: There never has been a better time!
A guest post by: Texas Women in HPC First published on 23rd November 2018 The Texas chapter of Women in HPC held a very successful inaugural seminar in Austin, attended by more than 50 people. The event was hosted by Intel Corporation, which has a strong presence in Austin and is a committed supporter of diversity and inclusion. “We…
DetailsWomen in HPC Continues to Lead Diversity and Inclusion Events at SC18
Women in HPC Continues to Lead Diversity and Inclusion Events at SC18 Dallas, November 10, 2018 Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) will again be leading the conversation on diversity and inclusion in the HPC community at our biggest annual event at this year’s Supercomputing conference (SC18). Women in HPC has grown into an organisation and…
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How to get ahead in networking
For network engineer Kalina Dunn, never taking the easy way out leads to success. Guest post by: Alisa Alering, Science Node First published on Science Node on 17th October 2018 For Kalina Dunn, it’s all about the puzzles. As a network engineer at Indiana University’s GlobalNOC, Dunn thrives on solving problems. “Network engineers are like the plumbers…
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Why do we keep hiring ourselves?
Guest post by: Cristin Merritt, Partner Manager, Alces Flight Limited Back in 2014, I attended a program looking at leadership skills. At the time I was doing a lot of recruiting for the company I worked for and would spend hours listening to what the manager wanted in their candidate – from preferred degree types…
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Driving Gender Equality in the Tech Industry: Breaking down unconscious bias
By: Angelo Apa, Technical Sales and Business Development Director Lenovo Data Center Group Today, women make up at least 40 percent of the global workforce — and in some countries, more than half, according to the Pew Research Center. This figure, however, plummets across the globe once we zero in on the tech industry, where only…
DetailsWomen in HPC Inspires at ISC 2018
Women in HPC Inspires at ISC 2018 Frankfurt, Germany, June 24, 2018 Leaders, early career women, and researchers in HPC will gather again this year to participate in the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) events at ISC High Performance Computing. Networking and training events take place on June 27 and 28th. “Women in HPC…
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WHPC returns to ISC High Performance in Frankfurt
By: Toni Collis, Chair Women in High Performance Computing and CBDO at Appentra Solutions. In just 10 days WHPC will be at the ISC 2018 conference for our fourth year and including the eighth international Women in HPC workshop. Our events will be focusing on current concerns from the community to improve inclusivity, as well…
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Labor Snapshot: Engaging Women and Diverse Talent is Now Imperative for High Performance Computing Sectors
Image designed by Freepik By: Kelly Nolan, WHPC Director of Business Development, and Co-Founder of Talent StrategyThis post was first published on the SC18 Blog on March 14th, 2018. Limiting Growth When you examine the STEM disciplines that produce HPC experts, unconscious bias and the lack of engagement of women is playing a major role in…
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