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Move the Needle: The 2024 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition and the Drive for Diversity in HPC Cristin Merritt, CMO of Alces Flight, spoke with Dan Olds, Chief Research Officer of Intersect360 Research, about how his novel idea for a Student Cluster Competition targeted at historically black and Hispanic colleges in the US came…
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The Alces Flight and Women in HPC (WHPC) Project – Move the Needle – is moving towards goal commitment time… here are some ideas on how you can help change HPC for the better. Historically, January has been a time for goal setting. Whether personal or professional many people begin a new year aiming for…
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Women in HPC hosts 2nd Annual CIUK Breakfast This year’s event featured a history of women in engineering and insights from CIUK’s Keynote Speaker, as well as contributions from senior female leaders and allies throughout the UK and Europe. While train strikes hampered some attendance, the spirit of this year’s WHPC CIUK’23 Breakfast remained as…
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Women in HPC at SC23 – Presenting our Recap! In 2023, Women in HPC experienced a significant increase in engagement, fuelled by a robust turnout of over 14,000 at the Denver conference. Attendee enthusiasm for our work reached unprecedented heights, with our morning workshop session hitting capacity for the first time, a fantastic response to…
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Women in HPC announces ISC24 Travel Fellowships – Part of the WHPC Poster Series The Executive Committee and Volunteers for ISC24 are pleased to announce the launch of our Travel Fellowships! Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, and our Champions, Do IT Now, we are once again able to offer two travel fellowships to…
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WHPC and Alces Flight to Collaborate on “Move the Needle” Initiative This year-long project, running from January to November, 2024 will track the ways in which individuals, companies and institutions are making positive progress in workplace inclusion. Despite the continuous growth of the supercomputing field, fueled by larger systems, new research domains, and the integration…
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Women in HPC (WHPC) joins ISC24 in Collaboration Partnership The Executive Board and Volunteers of WHPC are excited to announce our collaboration with the ISC24 team in a partnership aimed at fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML). Together with the ISC24 team, we aspire to…
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Reflecting on my time as an Enrichment student at the Alan Turing Institute. Seeking a pathway into HPC? Thanks to the Alan Turing Institute’s Enrichment Scheme, a new door may have opened for you. Enrichment schemes invite new people and ideas into our field, with the Alan Turing Institute just launching applications for interested PhDs…
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Women in HPC – UK Chapters – Return to Host Breakfast at CIUK 2023 Join us for the 2nd Annual Women in HPC UK Chapters Breakfast at CIUK 2023! We invite all members, friends, and allies to Manchester Central on December 8th, from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM, for a delightful morning of networking and…
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In conversation with Brendan (boof) Bouffler, Head of Developer Relations at AWS Engineering 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, continuing with Brendan (boof) Bouffler. boof will be presenting, “Surviving and thriving as…
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In conversation with Elisabeth Ortega, HPC Specialist at Do IT Now 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, continuing with Elisabeth Ortega. Elisabeth will be presenting, “Our success case of full remote…
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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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