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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…
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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…
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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…
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It is one week since I left Frankfurt after the best week for Women in HPC so far since our launch in 2014. I spent a lot of my week personally talking about how I want to ‘make the world a better place’. It sounds very cliché but I believe it is a message that…
DetailsThis post was first published on the PRACE website. By Harry O’Neil, For PRACE. In The Summer of HPC is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe. Up to 20 top applicants from across Europe are selected to participate. Participants spend two months working on projects related to PRACE technical…
DetailsAn Interview with Minna Palmroth, by CSC, the Finish IT Center for Science This post was first published on the CSC website. Minna Palmroth and her team have developed the most accurate space weather simulator in the world – a model that shows us how solar wind affects us. Why doesn’t the water under bridges…
DetailsBy: Dr Alistair Grant, EPCC. This post was first published on the EPCC blog. Wee ARCHIE: a wee bit of history Some time ago (actually 2015), EPCC built a Raspberry Pi cluster called Wee ARCHIE to demonstrate some of the principles behind a full-sized supercomputer. We designed the cluster to be portable as we can’t carry around…
DetailsBy: Dr. Barbara Collignon, Senior Systems Analyst, Bank of Canada. The views expressed here are those solely of the author. No responsibility for them should be attributed to the Bank of Canada. On April the 13th 2017, I attended the Data Effect in Ottawa to learn about the next-gen supercomputing Canadian infrastructure. Investments are indeed pouring…
DetailsThis week we bring you a very special post from the next generation of Women in HPC. By Chloe Berryman, chloeberryman.net I like high performance computing because you get to learn different computer languages and ‘talk’ to the HUGE computers. I think girls should do high performance computing too. What I have done in high…
DetailsGuest author: Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield (Department of Computer Science), UK Following the success of the first conference of Research Software Engineers (RSE), the second conference will be held at the Museum of Science and Industry at Manchester on the 7th-8th September 2017. RSE2017 is not a standard academic conference! We welcome…
DetailsThe Advanced Computing for Social Change Program (ACSC) held their inaugural event November 13-16, 2016 in conjunction with SC16. The event hosted by XSEDE, TACC, and SC16 identified 20 graduate and undergrad students to participate in a week-long event. The goal was to capture the imagination of millennial and post-millennial students by engaging them in…
DetailsBy: Dr. Charikleia Tzanakou, The University of Warwick I am a social sciences researcher, interested in gender and academic careers in different disciplinary, institutional and national contexts. Since my PhD, I have been fascinated asking PhD graduates for their career stories especially in subject areas such as engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics. Social science researchers can…
DetailsBy: Negin Sobhani and AJ Lauer, NCAR, USA The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Sciences (SIParCS) program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has a goal of encouraging women and students from other underrepresented groups to pursue careers and academic studies in areas related to high performance and scientific computing. This is Negin…
DetailsAttending the EQUATE Scotland event about Women in STEM and Feminism on 4th November was the perfect way to end a work week in my notoriously male-dominated STEM field . It was a fun and informative evening full of ideas and concerns about women’s (and men’s) views on feminism and women’s position in STEM. The…
Details[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] [/section] Find out what Toni Collis get’s up to during SC16 by following her blog series this week. By Toni Collis, Women in HPC Founder and Director and Applications Consultant at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. SC16 and Women in HPC’s activities in Salt Lake City kick-off in earnest…
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