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By Marie-Christine Sawley, Ph.D; Director of the Intel Exascale Lab in Paris This post first appeared on https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/ on 13 June 2016. Technical professions still attract more men than women, and high performance computing (HPC) is no exception. Although there are growing numbers of women working in the diverse areas of HPC, women as a whole…
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By Aleksandra Pawlik, formerly of the Software Sustainability Institute Closing the gender gap in STEM is a broad topic. Increasing diversity and female participation at all levels of education and professional world in science and technology is a subject of lots of debates. The Software Sustainability Institute where I work has hosted a series…
DetailsGuest post by Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College. [one_sixth valign=”top” animation=”none”] [/one_sixth] [two_third valign=”top” animation=”none”] [/two_third] [one_sixth_last valign=”top” animation=”none”] [/one_sixth_last] Heres how we did it This article first appeared on BackChannel on 26 February 2016. I’ve been passionate my whole life about getting more women into technology careers. After 40 years as an…
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[one_sixth valign=”top” animation=”none”] [/one_sixth] [two_third valign=”top” animation=”none”] [/two_third] [one_sixth_last valign=”top” animation=”none”] [/one_sixth_last] The annual SC conference is the “go-to” event for innovation in our community, but for those focused on the development of a robust future computational workforce, one announcement in particular stood out at SC15: creation of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science…
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Starting with the Arab Spring, recent years have witness waves of protests sweeping across the countries and continents sometimes resulting in political and governmental change. During the time of protests, social media has been used not only for casual everyday communication but also mobilising the public, organising protests and spreading information which is vital in…
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Guest post by: Daniel Holmes, EPCC and Chair of EuroMPI 2016. EuroMPI 2016 and Women in HPC are delighted to announce the first partnership between Women in HPC and a High Performance Computing Conference. EuroMPI is the pre-eminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message passing parallel…
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By: Toni Collis This blog post is a transcript from Toni Collis’ speech at the launch of the GRACE HPC service at UCL, April 2016. I’d like to begin with a question. It’s the question that drives us. What percentage of registered Grace users are women? A: 43% B: 22% C: 12% D: 5% The…
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One of the reasons why EPCC set up Women in HPC is because we recognised there was a problem. The problem was the apparent lack of women in the supercomputing community. When my colleagues and I started Women in HPC, our purpose was very clear: to recruit and retain women in the international HPC workforce.…
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By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, Software Sustainability Institute I’ve attended a lot of events during my time in academia, but I can think of only one where women outnumbered men (one of the BSA’s Science Communication Conferences). This is not a revelation, of course. It’s well known that women are poorly represented at events: as…
DetailsWe are excited to announce that the conference’s Tuesday keynote session will highlight contributions from female researchers and scientists in advancing the field of computational science. This ongoing commitment to recognize the importance of diversity in the HPC community will provide a platform for women to address computational challenges in HPC, science and engineering. This…
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Guest post by Alex Simperler, NSCCS, Imperial College London. Intrigued by talking to Toni Collis of “Women in High Performance Computing” who are working towards equal representation in HPC, I started to question how “equal” we are in Scientific Application Software usage. The NSCCS – short for EPSRC National Service for Computational Chemistry Software –…
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