Why I Brought an All-Female Team to the Student Cluster Competition at ISC16

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[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] [/section] By Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Acting Leader of User-Engagement Group, NERSC, Berkeley Lab I recently gained some notoriety by coaching a team of six high-school and college-age women to compete in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at ISC. It was the first-ever male-free team in the history of the ISC competition.…

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Graydon helps HPCS delegates tackle gender bias

Campaigns, Diversity and Inclusion

[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] [/section] By Kelly Nolan, Compute Canada Executive Director, External Affairs and Compute Canada’s Women in HPC Chapter Click here for more information about the Compute Canada Women in HPC Chapter Give this a try: Type “woman and computers” in Google Images. Included among the first images to appear are a…

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WHPC at ISC 2016

Women in HPC events

[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”] [/section] By Toni Collis, Women in HPC Founder and Director and Applications Consultant at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. The week of ISC High Performance 2016 in mid June, saw the most exciting set of WHPC events to date!  The Women in HPC team set off from all over the…

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To Attract More Women to HPC Careers, We Need to Tell the Full Story

Diversity and Inclusion, Working in HPC

By Marie-Christine Sawley, Ph.D; Director of the Intel Exascale Lab in Paris This post first appeared on https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/ on 13 June 2016. Technical professions still attract more men than women, and high performance computing (HPC) is no exception. Although there are growing numbers of women working in the diverse areas of HPC, women as a whole…

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