Improving diversity at EuroMPI
Toni Collis explains the motivation for Women in HPC’s partnership with EuroMPI and the initial steps undertaken to examine the role that gender plays within the HPC community
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mproving diversity at conferences should be high up on the agenda for everyone. It is generally accepted that diversity in the workforce is a good thing; improving the representation of women in teams boosts the overall performance of the teams [1]
, seeing
women in positions that were traditionally male dominated helps to overcome the negative stereotypes that women are not suited to these roles, as well as providing visible role models for future generations. HPC is currently preparing for the
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exascale challenge; a time that may require a complete re-think of our current HPC concepts, and at the very least will require major adaptations to take into account fault tolerance, accelerators, power usage and soſtware design among many other issues. At the other end of the HPC spectrum, we are reaching a point where the future of scientific breakthroughs may rely on HPC concepts, as more and more technologies, systems and databases are designed, analysed and understood using supercomputing
technology and programming methods. Te challenges are great.
Tus, to help achieve our goals, quickly and efficiently it is essential that we update all of the stakeholders on potential benefits of HPC in the future design and implementation of such technologies, and this must therefore include women.
Embracing change Tis is why I was delighted to be approached by the organisers of the
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