WHPC Mentorship: Jay Lofstead
“HPC is changing the world. Only through diverse opinions and perspectives can we ensure it changes the world for the better” Our new series showcases the WHPC Mentorship…
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WHPC’s Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh awarded SSI Fellowship
Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh is a Research Associate/ RSE at the University of Sheffield working in the area of complex systems modelling. Here we interview Mozhgan to find out what the Fellowship and WHPC mean to her.
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SCinet at SC’18: Inspirations and Experiences of a Volunteer
Tuesday Keynote at SC’18 in Dallas: It is the welcome session for every attendee and SC’18 General Chair Ralph McEldowney is on stage. He talks about passion in this inspired research field. His general message is to be successful and happy in what you are doing, you need passion. Ralph has been a volunteer since…
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WHPC-SA BoF Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) National Meeting 2018
A guest post by: Khomotso Maenetja First Published on Feb 1st, 2019. This was my second time hosting BoF session for Women in HPC South Africa at Centre for High-Performance Computing; it has run for 3 years. It was a more relaxed kind of setup, whereby everyone who attended the session could participate. Surprisingly, 40 %…
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The Texas chapter of Women in HPC: There never has been a better time!
A guest post by: Texas Women in HPC First published on 23rd November 2018 The Texas chapter of Women in HPC held a very successful inaugural seminar in Austin, attended by more than 50 people. The event was hosted by Intel Corporation, which has a strong presence in Austin and is a committed supporter of diversity and inclusion. “We…
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Why do we keep hiring ourselves?
Guest post by: Cristin Merritt, Partner Manager, Alces Flight Limited Back in 2014, I attended a program looking at leadership skills. At the time I was doing a lot of recruiting for the company I worked for and would spend hours listening to what the manager wanted in their candidate – from preferred degree types…
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Driving Gender Equality in the Tech Industry: Breaking down unconscious bias
By: Angelo Apa, Technical Sales and Business Development Director Lenovo Data Center Group Today, women make up at least 40 percent of the global workforce — and in some countries, more than half, according to the Pew Research Center. This figure, however, plummets across the globe once we zero in on the tech industry, where only…
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WHPC returns to ISC High Performance in Frankfurt
By: Toni Collis, Chair Women in High Performance Computing and CBDO at Appentra Solutions. In just 10 days WHPC will be at the ISC 2018 conference for our fourth year and including the eighth international Women in HPC workshop. Our events will be focusing on current concerns from the community to improve inclusivity, as well…
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Labor Snapshot: Engaging Women and Diverse Talent is Now Imperative for High Performance Computing Sectors
Image designed by Freepik By: Kelly Nolan, WHPC Director of Business Development, and Co-Founder of Talent StrategyThis post was first published on the SC18 Blog on March 14th, 2018. Limiting Growth When you examine the STEM disciplines that produce HPC experts, unconscious bias and the lack of engagement of women is playing a major role in…
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Broadening Participation in Blue Waters
Guest post by Scott Lathrop, Blue Waters Project, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. In 2013, NSF commissioned the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the priorities and associated trade-offs for advanced computing in support of NSF-sponsored science and engineering research. The committee’s report made recommendations…
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International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day from the WHPC team. International Women’s Day was first celebrated in 1910, after the initial observance in New York on February 28 1909. Now, 108 years later, society has come a long way to recognising the participation and achievements of women, though as our followers know, we still have some way…
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Nevertheless, She Coded
By: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This post was first published on http://www.gonsie.com/blorg. In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, dev.to is boosting stories from women. Here is some of my story, inspired by Nevertheless, She Coded. Why I Code I code to communicate science. I define myself as a scientist and have had a life-long…
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“DNC: White Men Shouldn’t Apply for Tech Jobs” – this was a recent headline in the news. A manager within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out an email seeking diverse candidates for IT positions, but added: “I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight white males, as they are already in…
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