If you are in the southern hemisphere this month, the autumn chill is definitely in the air as you wind down towards winter, while spring is definitely in the air despite the chilly nights north of the equator. Whatever the season where you are, the conference season is about to kick off, and this newsletter is full of opportunities.

Finally, don’t forget to nominate inspiring women in HPC in Europe for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. Nominations close tomorrow, Friday, 29 March 2019, at 15:00 Central European Time.

Take Part in SC19 as a WINS Program Participant

The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is seeking qualified female candidates in their early- to mid-career to join the SCinet volunteer workforce for the Supercomputing 2019 Conference (SC19), to be held in Denver, Colorado, 17-22 November. Selected candidates will receive full travel support and mentoring by well-known engineering experts in the research and education community.

PRACEdays19 Discussion on Equality and Diversity in HPC

PRACE, a WHPC Affiliate, will be hosting a session dedicated to an open discussion on Equality and Diversity in HPC at their annual conference, PRACEdays19. The session features some invited speakers, but PRACE is currently seeking suggestions for presentations and topics from an audience as large and diverse as possible.

If you are willing to give a short presentation on your views and experience, please write to PRACE to briefly describe your speech and your contact details. Applications are welcome until the end of March 2019.

Attend CarpentryConnect in Manchester, UK

The Carpentries and the Software Institute is organising the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester from 25-27 June in collaboration with the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research and with support from Manchester’s Data Science Institute.

• Increasing the sustainability of scientific software and research through training


• Good teaching practices in research computing


• Tools and resources for the education of researchers in computing

• Lesson/curricula development (working on existing curricula or establishing completely novel domain-specific materials)


• Other topics relating to The Carpentries community or delivering training in research software: e.g., building a local carpentry group/community at research institutions or bringing the Carpentries curriculum to universities, finding funding, or making a case with the senior management at your institution.


Opportunities in HPC

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

Recent news and blog articles

• WHPC Mentoring Programme

• SCinet at SC’18: Inspirations and Experiences of a Volunteer

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. We are currently listing jobs in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, and in New Zealand. 
 

Selected Open Positions:

• HPC and Cloud Systems Engineer – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand

• Computer Engineer/HPC Lead – AST, Data Systems, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

• HPC Systems Administration Specialist – Argonne National Laboratory, nr Chicago, IL, USA

• Computer Systems Engineer – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA, USA

• PhD positions – The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

WHPC does not directly endorse any of these advertisements, nor do we receive any funding for advertising. Our aim is simply to put prospective employers in contact with prospective employees.We take no responsibility for the contents of the adverts nor any inaccuracies.

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