WHPC@SC25 Call for Submissions!
WHPC@SC25 Call for Submissions! Exciting news! The Call for Participation for WHPC@SC25 is officially OPEN! I’m so pleased to let you all know that submissions are now being…
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Diverse Candidates in Data and Computational Science Supported by New ACM/Intel Fellowships
[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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Using HPC to track worldwide protest outbreaks
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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EuroMPI and Women in HPC partnership to improve diversity
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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Grace Launch: The Importance of Grace and Why We Need More Women in HPC
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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Broadening participation in HPC: taking outreach to the next level
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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How many women should you expect at an academic event?
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…
DetailsISC High Performance Keynote Proclaims Women’s Excellence in Computational Science
We 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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Women through time: from computer science to software development with Grace.
[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] [/section] [section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] Raquel Alegre I work as a Software Developer at University College London in the Research Software Development Group where we collaborate with researchers across campus, covering fields from Ancient History to Astrophysics, to facilitate their research by improving the quality of their…
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Women in Scientific Application Software – from the NSCCS perspective
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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HPCwire People to Watch 2016: Dr. Toni Collis, Director and Founder, Women in HPC
Our Co-Founder, Toni Collis, has been named an ‘HPCWire Person to Watch in 2016’. This interview is published here with the permission of HPCWire. Toni Collis is the Director and founder of the Women in HPC (WHPC) network in the UK, as well as an Applications Consultant in HPC Research and Industry at Edinburgh Parallel Computing…
DetailsAcknowledging Women’s Success—in HPC and Beyond
Guest blog by: Nadine Horner, External Relations Officer for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and T.R. Girill, Visiting Scientist at LLNL. In October, 2013, the Women’s Association (LLLWA) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (California, USA) began a project to recognize the sometimes neglected technical and administrative achievements of the lab’s women staff members (many of whom are…
DetailsThe new Women in HPC website
After months of planning our new website went live in November to coincide with Supercomputing 2015. We wanted a new website to better collaborate with the community and share with you the topics we are most passionate about, and we were delighted when McMahon Consulting (http://bizmarkstrat.com/), a full-service marketing agency based in Colorado, USA and Xand Marketing…
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