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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SC’23 Speaker Profile: Annie Ma-Weaver
In conversation with Annie Ma-Weaver, Group PM for HPC at Google Special thanks to our WHPC Communications volunteer, Nandhana, for bringing these interviews together. We are delighted to present a short series of interviews with some of our SC’23 Workshop Speakers, starting with Annie Ma-Weaver. Annie will be co-presenting with Bill Magro on, “Fostering Diversity,…
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2023 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards – Voting Open!
2023 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards – Voting Open! Women is HPC is proud to highlight the 2023 nominees for Workforce Diversity & Inclusion Leadership and Outstanding Leadership in HPC. 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards are now open for voting. We are excited that this awards ceremony recognises the most outstanding individuals, organisations, products, and technologies in…
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Pawsey takes action on gender equity
How the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is taking action on gender equity. Executive Director (and Women in HPC Australia and New Zealand member!) Mark Stickells of the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre noticed in 2018 that there were more men named Mark working at the centre then there were women in the whole of Pawsey –…
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Computing for the Common Good – WHPC at PEARC23
Computing for the Common Good – Women in HPC at PEARC23 – Portland, Oregon WHPC chapter members participated in an informal mentor-mentee activity at the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation reception on July 24 at the PEARC23 conference in Portland, Oregon. This year the CASC team was excited to host an informal session focused on…
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WHPC hosts mini-workship at the SSI CW23 Conference
For Sustainability in Software Inclusivity is a MUST! The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) hosts its first ever hybrid Collaborations Workshop (CW23) in Manchester, UK and online. Included in the mix was a hefty dose of an often forgot about topic at technical conferences – that of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The volunteers of Women in…
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Women in HPC to present on open-source and accessibility at HPCKP 2023
Women in HPC to present on open-source and accessibility at HPCKP 2023 Executive Board Member and Alces Flight CMO, Cristin Merritt, is set to speak about the importance of making HPC more accessible to novice users. The volunteers and executive committee members of Women in HPC (WHPC) are pleased to announce that one of our…
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After interviewing over 40 women in HPC, here’s what one of our volunteers learned.
For three years Executive Committee Member Cristin Merritt has had the opportunity to learn some valuable lessons about how female leaders found their career path in supercomputing. (Reprinted with Permission.) I’ve always been a big believer in contributing to positive change. So, in 2021, I got the opportunity to volunteer for the Supercomputing (SC) conference series and…
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SC22 Networking Reception brings members, friends and allies together
Women in HPC bring back the Supercomputing (SC) Networking Reception in Dallas, TX This year’s reception was captured by the team at the Purdue University Rosen Center for Advanced Computing – special thanks for the incredible images of the event. SC22 has now come and gone but the volunteers for Purdue made sure that good…
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CIUK’s First Women in HPC Breakfast starts with heart
CIUK’s First Women in HPC Breakfast starts with heart For the first time the Computing Insight UK (CIUK) conference welcomed WHPC volunteers and chapter leaders together in what hopes to become an annual event. Over two hours CIUK badge holders networked, listened to talks, and engaged in lively discussion around the positive changes needed in…
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WHPC Shares HPCWire’s Diversity and Inclusion Award!
Women in HPC shares HPCWire’s Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award! We are proud to announce that this year’s HPCWire award for Diversity and Inclusion Leadership is being shared between ourselves and STEM-Trek. HPCWire’s Editors have also selected Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for additional recognition, taking the honours…
DetailsCIUK’s Jacky Pallas Award – Celebrating Early Career Research in the UK
Jacky Pallas was a true pioneer in High Performance Computing in the UK. She focused on what her friend and colleague, Dr. Jeremy Yates, referred to as the ‘Other,’ emphasising the outcome, health, safety, and wellbeing of the research and the researchers first and letting those needs guide the technical requirements. Her persistent drive to…
DetailsWHPC nominated for HPCWire Reader’s Choice Award
We are pleased and humbled to announce that we have been nominated alongside of seven other institutions for the 2022 HPCWire Reader’s Choice Award for Workforce Diversity & Inclusion Leadership. It is wonderful to see so many nominees in this category and we want to thank the HPC Community for putting our work forward. HPCWire’s…
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