Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) will again be leading the conversation on diversity and inclusion in the HPC community at our biggest annual event at this year’s Supercomputing conference (SC18). Women in HPC has grown into an organisation and network with global reach, holding programmes of events at the major international supercomputing and IT conferences.

Read on to find out more about all of our SC18 activities — we hope to see you there. If not, join the conversation online on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

WHPC Activities at SC18

Sunday, November 11, 9am-5:30pm: 9th International WHPC Workshop, Room D220

Our ninth international workshop will include a series of talks on best practices for diversity, a special session on developing personalised resilience toolkits, and a keynote presentation from Dr. Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  

Monday, November 12, 7:30-8:30 am: Mentoring and Chapters Breakfast — Invitation Only

Thanks to the kind support of AWS, we are delighted to be hosting a Mentoring and Chapters breakfast at SC18. This event is invitation only, but an essential part of building the community of women who excel in the international HPC workforce.

Tuesday, November 13: Diversity Day 2018

We are asking our supporters to wear a WHPC T-shirt, courtesy of Arista Networks, and WHPC #WeAreHPC wristbands on Tuesday, November 13th, and tweet selfies of themselves and colleagues to inspire the diversity conversation at SC18. T-shirts and wristbands can be collected from the Sunday workshop or our Chapter Booths during the Monday Evening Gala:

• University of Michigan (booth #1204)

• EPCC (booth #280)

• PRACE (booth #2033)

• Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) (booth #2310)

• Purdue University (booth #1005)

• Compute Canada (booth #2303)

Tuesday, November 13: 6:30-9:30 pm: Networking Reception

Join us at the third annual WHPC@SC networking reception at Cafe Herrera on Lamar (at the Omni Dallas) for a special networking evening with appetizers and drinks. The event is hosted by Anchor Supporter Intel in collaboration with Career Supporters Compute Canada, EPCC, Lenovo, IBM, NAG, NCSA, and University of Michigan, and our Diversity and Media Supporter Science Node. Come celebrate the work done by WHPC and meet members, founders, advocates, and supporters. Places are limited, so register soon.

Wednesday, November 14th, 12:15pm-1:15pm: BoF — The Importance of Male Allies

In a male-dominated field such as HPC, male allies are particularly vital to ensure that women advance equitably in their careers. Research shows that men who work to support, mentor, and sponsor their women colleagues are viewed favorably, while women advocating for equity are viewed unfavorably. Organizations with effective male allies exhibit improved career satisfaction and better retention of women. In this BoF, panelists will explore how male allies have made a difference in their careers and contrast their allyship with examples of exclusionary experiences.

Purdue’s All-Women Student Cluster Competition Team

Young women interested in pursuing computer science have six new role models: the members of Purdue’s first all-women student supercomputing team. The team, known as Ada Six in honor of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, will compete in the Student Cluster Competition at the upcoming SC18 supercomputing conference.  

Opportunities in HPC

Make sure you stay in touch with what WHPC is doing each month between newsletters.

Jobs

If you are looking for your next opportunity, be sure to keep an eye on the WHPC Resources page, where we list new job opportunities in the HPC sector from around the world.

Open Positions:

• NERSC Exascale Science Applications Postdoctoral Fellow (NESAP) – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA

• Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA

• IPODI Fellowship – TU Berlin, Germany

• Research Software Engineer (RSE) – University of Sheffield – Faculty of Engineering: Department of Computer Science, Sheffield, UK

• Archive Storage System Administrator – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

• HPC Scientific Cloud Architect – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

• HPC Network Specialist/Researcher – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

• Research Software Engineer – UKRI, STFC Hartree Centre, Daresbury Laboratory, UK

• Assistant Storage Engineer/ Storage Engineer/Senior Storage Engineer – University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) – Urbana, Illinois, USA

• Assistant System Engineer/ System Engineer/Senior System Engineer – University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) – Urbana, Illinois, USA

• Assistant System Engineer/ System Engineer/Senior System Engineer – University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) – Urbana, Illinois, USA

• Security Engineer/ Senior Security Engineer – University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) – Urbana, Illinois, USA

• Staff Scientist (ESnet/Scientific Networking) – SN-Scientific Networking, Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, California, USA

• Research Computing Technologist – Case Western Reserve University-Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

• Postdoc – Stanford SLAC Computer Science, California USA

• Transportation Computational Research Scientist – NE-NERSC, Berkeley, California, USA

• IT Engineer / IT Support Engineer – Shearwater Geoservices Limited, Tunbridge Wells, UK

• ORNL Distinguished Staff Fellowship Program – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Software Engineer – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Performance Engineer – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Research Software Engineer – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Computational Scientist – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning- Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Senior Research Scientist in Biomedical and Health Data – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Data Scientist/Architect – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Computational Scientist in Earth System Modeling – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Quantum Computer Science – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Research Software Engineering – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Power Systems Modeling and Simulation – Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cloud Physics for Exascale Computing – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Scalable Statistical Computing – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Scientific Visualization – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Math for Computational Earth and Weather Modeling – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer Science – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence for Health – Oak Ridge, TN, USA

• Computer Systems Engineer – AL-Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA

• Network Engineering Manager – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA

• Senior Data Analyst – University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) – Urbana, Illinois, USA
   

• Network Engineering Manager – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA

• Senior Data Analyst – University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) – Urbana, Illinois, USA

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