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@HPCpodcast-82: Cristin Merritt on Women in HPC

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Cristin Merritt joins Shahin and Doug to discuss Women in HPC (WHPC), its goals and mission, six lessons learned about “moving the needle” on the organizational transformation that is needed to address lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the activities planned by International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and WHPC for the ISC24 conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany next week from May 12–16.

Cristin is Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Alaces Flight, a UK-based advanced computing and HPC class systems integrator and service provider. She is also the a leader of the Women in HPC organization where her official title is business manager. WHPC operates 28 chapters and affiliates around the world.

 

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@HPCpodcast-27: Thomas Sterling, The State of HPC

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Following his always-anticipated and always-insightful closing keynote at the recent ISC conference, we caught up with Prof. Thomas Sterling to discuss the state of HPC.  Dr. Sterling is Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Indiana University (IU) School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and President and Co-founder of Simultac, a technology company focused on non-von-Neumann memory-based system architectures. Since receiving his Ph.D from MIT as a Hertz Fellowm Dr. Sterling has been a pioneer of parallel processing systems in HPC. His many achievements include the creation in 1994 of  the “Beowulf cluster” with Donald Becker at NASA, a system that helped drive the scale-out computing architecture.

Here are the topics and the time-stamp in the podcast when they are discussed:

  • 01:23 Supercomputing “Race”
  • 04:15 HPC in Society
  • 06:40 Climate Change, Controlled Fusion
  • 09:00 HPC’s Role in Informing or Helping Set Social Policy
  • 10:37 Machine Intelligence
  • 15:50 Future of HPC
  • 22:25 Beowulf Bash story
  • 25:07 Getting into Parallel Processing
  • 28:10 Skill-set, Workforce, Software, Accessibility
  • 31:09 Performing at the Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center
  • 34:68 Leonard Bernstein
  • 35:30 ISC22 Closing Keynote

 

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