SC25 Reflections
The WHPC community once again came together for a week of connection, support, and fun at Supercomputing 2025. There were a number of formal and informal events, from our workshop…
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Move the Needle Insights – Dan Olds of Intersect360 Research talks about the Winter Classic
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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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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Closing the gap: software carpentry training for women
By Aleksandra Pawlik, formerly of the Software Sustainability Institute Closing the gender gap in STEM is a broad topic. Increasing diversity and female participation at all levels of education and professional world in science and technology is a subject of lots of debates. The Software Sustainability Institute where I work has hosted a series…
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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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