Georgia Tech showing off their HPL run.

In its second year, IndySCC is an event sharing the goals of the SCC but with an emphasis on education and inclusion, intended for less-experienced teams. The teams compete remotely, using hardware secured by the committee. The teams interface with the hardware using the Chameleon Cloud platform. For this year’s competition, we used over 300 nodes of a retired cluster at Purdue University.

Ten teams competed in this year’s competition from all over the world. The competition began in August with four educational modules where the teams learned the platform and the three applications. Each module included a webinar, homework, and a chance for Q&A.

From October 20–30, the teams took on the Hero HPL Challenge where they had 24 hours to build out a cluster of up to 300 nodes and produce the best possible HPL scores. To conclude, from Nov 4–6, the teams competed in a 49-hour (thanks, Daylight Saving Time) competition similar to the SCC. The teams competed to complete tasks from 3 applications as quickly and as accurately as possible – the teams were also interviewed by the app judges to judge their knowledge of the applications.

Universitas Indonesia working in the dark thanks to a blown fuse!

Team Revontuli, CSC, Finland having a pizza party!

Congratulations to the winners, and to all the teams for a successful competition! 

Best Poster

Clemson University 

Hero HPL Challenge

Winner: CSC, Finland (144 TF on 250 nodes)
2nd Place: SUSTech (109 TF)
3rd Place ShanghaiTech (102 TF)

Overall

Winner: ShanghaiTech
2nd Place: SUSTech
3rd Place: CSC, Finland

The SC22 Conference is underway in Dallas, bringing together members of the international high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis community to share the latest research, technologies, and demonstrations.

Exhibitors and visitors at the SC Conference this year will enjoy access to 5.01 terabits per second of bandwidth across 1 million square feet in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas thanks to SCinet, the dedicated high-capacity network for the conference.

SCinet is a collaborative effort by over 175 volunteer experts from 80 volunteer organizations that span industry, academia, and government. This spirit of collaboration is a major driver for the success and innovation that SCinet delivers on a yearly basis.

Seventeen organizations in particular were instrumental in supporting large-scale international science at the SC Conference this year, and they are being recognized with the SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award:

“The winners of the 2022 SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award have embraced the spirit of collaboration and cooperation that showcases the best there is to offer in demonstrating, implementing, and operating leading-edge solutions to challenging problems,” said Matt Zekauskas, SCinet Chair. “This collaboration is truly special to SCinet, and we are all encouraged by and appreciative of their efforts to showcase partnership and innovation.”

The research innovations are being demonstrated at the NICT booth at SC22 this year, and feature several experiments that will leverage International connectivity and technology support being provided by the collocating partners. These demonstrations will transmit data and video streams of various qualities across a multi-continental path, use cloud and edge computing approaches to perform at scale video processing and measuring and monitoring of the network infrastructure, and use this intelligence to dynamically control the network path.

SCinet contributors donate millions of dollars in equipment, software, and services that are needed to build and support the network each year for the SC Conference. At this year’s conference in Dallas, it’s estimated that contributions from 29 organizations will total $70 million.

AARNet, APONET, ARENA-PAC, CENIC, Ciena, Cisco, HARNET, Internet2, KISTI, NICT, NII, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, REANNZ, SingAREN, TransPAC, University of Hawaii, and Verizon were recognized at a private ceremony on Monday, November 14.

Our conference begins in just a few days. Whether you’re joining us in Dallas, or virtually from elsewhere in the world, I’m delighted you will be attending SC22. Welcome.

To me, HPC is all about speed. That’s why our theme this year is “HPC Accelerates.” Throughout more than 200 sessions – lectures, panels, exhibits, award presentations and more – you’ll see that theme come to life. You’ll also see this theme in the exhibit hall, where you’ll find more than 350 exhibitors ready to welcome you.

“HPC Accelerates” also describes how supercomputing is rapidly changing the world, by “accelerating” the speed of finding solutions – for corporations, governments, and other organizations. That was certainly proven during the pandemic, when the HPC community answered the call and illustrated the importance of being able to ramp up scientific research in the blink of an eye.

The world is spinning faster than ever, and HPC plays a key role in helping us all keep up. Innovative hardware and software are emerging every day throughout the HPC community. HPC is “accelerating” our understanding of the world; from weather forecasting in a world challenged by climate change, to the critical importance of scientific computing combined with artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics, HPC is helping to make new discoveries happen. And with the advancements in exascale and the exciting new field of quantum computing, we are developing specialized hardware to solve particular problems with unprecedented speed.

Planning for SC22 began more than three years ago. You may not be aware that SC conferences are planned and executed by volunteers from the global HPC community. You can see the complete list of volunteers on the planning committee page on our website. This year, we have more than 1,000 people who donated their time and expertise to bring you this conference, including:

• 735 Volunteers who planned and organized the Technical Program;
• 15 Virtual Logistics Volunteers who devoted countless hours to developing a new digital platform, purpose-built for our conference;
• 1 Mobile App Volunteer who worked diligently to bring the Eventbase mobile app back to the conference so you can connect with other attendees, whether in Dallas or virtually, as well as find your way around the convention center;
• 175 SCinet Volunteers who designed and deployed the world’s fastest network for the conference, capable of 5.01 terabits per second of WAN capacity and WiFi 6E wireless capabilities in the convention center.

The Digital Experience is now live and the SC22 Mobile App is available for download, so you can start planning your schedule. In the mobile app, be sure to “opt in” to make yourself visible to your friends and colleagues, so you can easily message and stay in touch during the conference.

It’s going to be a great conference. There’s still time to register, so if you know of someone who’s not yet attending be sure to let them know it’s not too late.

I’ll see you in just a few days at SC22!

Candace Culhane, SC22 General Chair

The Beatles performing September 1964 (left) and SCinet staging October 2022 (right), both at what is now the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Arena in Dallas, Texas.

Photos: Hans C. Addleman, AP photo

Ground-breaking Technology and Revolutionary Musicians Distinguish the Same Dallas Venue

The Beatles and High Performance Networking may seem like entirely unrelated topics. But they’re connected this fall at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.

In 1964 the Beatles broke musical ground when they performed here, and now 58 years later another ground-breaking performance is underway.

Zekauskus, who is SCinet Chair this year, is directing an international team of more than 175 volunteer engineers, technicians and students. It’s all in preparation for SC22, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
The SCinet team at SC includes 16 committees that range from plain English names like architecture, communications, contributor relations, experimental networks, help desk, logistics, power, network security and volunteer services to more jargon-heavy terms like dev-ops, edge, fiber, NRE and WAN transport.

It takes that team more than a year to plan, a month to build, a week to operate and a single day to dismantle the network. All of it involves extensive collaboration, or as Lennon and McCartney called it, HELP!

Starting October 19, equipment racks were initially staged in the convention center’s arena and then moved to its exhibit hall to deliver connectivity across half a million square feet. Those racks weighed about four tons.

When SC22 starts on November 13, thousands of attendees are expected to descend on Dallas from all over the world, but they won’t be isolated from global connections. SCinet will connect attendees, exhibitors, and network performance experiments to other high performance sites in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

The speed of that global network is expected to break the 3.02 Terabits per seconds (Tbps) delivered for last year’s conference in St. Louis, by delivering 5.01 Tbps of bandwidth to Dallas. That’s fast enough to download the movies “HELP!” and “A Hard Day’s Night” along with the entire movie collection in iTunes in about seven minutes.

About SC22

SC22 is the premier international conference showcasing the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education, and commerce. The annual event, created and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), attracts thousands of HPC professionals and educators from around the globe to participate in its complete technical education program, workshops, tutorials, a world-class exhibit area, demonstrations, and the world’s fastest temporary computer network.

It’s always exciting to be the one sharing good news. It is my pleasure to announce a generous donation made by longtime SC advocate Jack Dongarra, this year’s ACM A.M. Turing Award winner. SC22 previously announced that Dr. Dongarra has chosen SC22 as the forum where he will deliver his Turing Lecture. In addition, Dr. Dongarra has donated his entire SC22 speaker’s honorarium to the Students@SC program. This generous donation will be used to support the travel costs for the SC22 Lead Student Volunteers (LSVs).

Fostering Leadership

LSVs are previous student volunteers who are selected to help plan the current conference and serve as managers for the army of student volunteers who help staff the conference. They work directly with the planning committee as junior committee members gaining exposure and experience as an SC committee member. This opportunity allows students to foster professional relationships by working alongside the committee members. Additionally, it provides a fantastic pathway for students who are interested in becoming full committee members once they finish their studies, or who just want to learn how to organize events to become leaders in the research community.

Valuable Experiences

The conference planning committee, which is comprised of more than 700 volunteers, relies on LSVs and student volunteers for the additional help needed to ensure a successful conference. Student volunteers perform a wide range of tasks for the SC Conference, such as working the information booth and staffing conference activities. Student volunteers work 15–20 hours during the conference, allowing plenty of time to engage in important educational and career-advancing activities such as tutorials, technical talks, panels, poster sessions, and workshops, as well as explore the Exhibit Hall.

Everyone in the Students@SC22 program is grateful for Dr. Dongarra’s gracious gift. Thank you, Dr. Dongarra!

By engaging computer engineers, scientists, academia, students, and industry professionals from all areas of the HPC community, SC sets the standard for the education and engagement that fuels continued global technological advancement. All indicators are showing that the standard is staying strong and SC22 is going to be the place to be in November!

Exhibit Hall

– filled from one end to the other –

Registration

– on par with non-pandemic years –

Hotel Blocks

– filling up with reservations –

Email Inquiries

– about attending SC on the rise –

Exhibitors Are Back

SC empowers, shapes, and guides the future of not only our attendees, but the greater industry, enabling new opportunities to better serve our world. A key metric of how an SC conference is shaping up is exhibit booth sales. And exhibitors are turning out to show their wares in Dallas; the exhibit hall will be filled with over 300 exhibitors.

Many exhibitors have increased their booth space from previous years. We’re also excited to welcome several new exhibitors, too. Be sure to grab your exhibitor map at the registration desk when you claim your badge so you can plan your stops and more easily navigate the exhibit hall.

Watch a brief video featuring an interview with SC22 Exhibits Chair Jim Stewart.

The Community Gathers

Meeting up with old friends and making some new ones is an aspect of the conference that post-attendee surveys consistently tell us is a key reason why people attend. We’ve had many anecdotal reports of attendees already making arrangements for business and social meetings with others who will also be attending the conference.

The SC22 theme is HPC Accelerates. Speed is the foundation of HPC, and will be at the forefront of our industry over the next year as more exascale systems come online. So it’s fitting that speed also serves as the foundation for SC22. The conference offers a robust technical program, plus programs geared just for students and those early in their careers.

SC22 strives to be an inclusive conference; ALL are welcome. We offer family resources including session access, a parents room that provides private feeding areas, and on-site care for children ages 6 months and older. If this will be your first time attending an SC conference, please check out the first-timers page and plan to attend the first-timers session on Monday, November 14, at 4 pm. You’ll learn tips for navigating the conference and have a chance to ask questions.

So join us in-person in Dallas – or via the Digital Experience. It’s shaping up to be a great conference and we can’t wait to see you!

Presenting the Digital Experience

Just as the science of high performance computing continues to evolve, so too does the online platform that will bring SC22 to individuals around the globe who are unable to attend in person.

Digital SC attendance was inaugurated in 2020 due to the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Building upon lessons learned in the past two years, the SC22 Digital Experience is a new, custom-built platform. Conference attendees who won’t be making the trek to Dallas this coming November will experience an easy-to-use interface that allows them to access content in real time, or later on demand.

Digital Experience access is also included with an in-person Technical Program registration. Attendees can plan their day without worrying about schedule conflicts—see one presentation in person, watch recordings of others later.

With just a few exceptions, we will be live-streaming all technical sessions from the convention center with all of that content available for on-demand access.

What’s New?

This year’s Digital Experience has been made more intuitive, enabling participants to easily access the preponderance of lectures, panels, exhibitor sessions, tutorials, and showcases taking place throughout the conference. For Digital Experience attendees to benefit from automatic closed captioning, the content will be live-streamed with a 12- to 15-second delay.

Digital Experience attendees will also be able to participate in Q&A sessions for most live-stream content through a Q&A interface. This allows participants to ask questions and/or vote on what questions they consider to be the most important; the session chairs will moderate the in-person and Digital Experience questions.

See what is included in the SC22 Digital Experience.

A sample presentation page from the Digital Experience.

How We Made a Custom Platform

To optimize virtual access to SC22, we realized we needed to create our own platform. We began by assessing the platforms and features used for SC20 and SC21. We also considered virtual best practices implemented at other technology conferences, such as those conducted in the past year by IEEE.

The Virtual Logistics committee worked diligently to integrate this new Digital Experience within the SC22 website schedule. In this, attendees will not need to juggle between the website and a secondary virtual platform! We believe the refinements made for SC22 will simplify the online experience, and we believe our approach this year will reduce problems with latency and buffering that many conferences have experienced.

More importantly, everything live-streamed during SC22 will be recorded, edited, and uploaded for on-demand replay within 24 hours of being broadcast, as it was at SC21. That’s a significant benefit for both virtual and in-person conference attendees, who will be able to access the content from multiple conference sessions that take place simultaneously.

All on-demand content will remain available through January 1, 2023.

How to Attend Digitally

All in-person registrants automatically receive access to Digital Experience content, according to the registration category chosen. Attendees who only register for the Digital Experience will pay a reduced fee. Learn more about registration and fee options.

The SC22 Digital Experience will go live a few days before the conference begins, on or about November 1, 2022. You may access it via the blue bar at the top of each SC22 website page.

All registered attendees will receive an email invitation once the Digital Experience goes live, and the username will be the email address they used to register. The password will be the attendee’s registration ID number.

For more information, visit the SC22 Digital Experience page, which includes an FAQ at the bottom of the page.

Watch a quick overview of how SciViz aids researchers featuring highlights from last year’s SciViz Showcase finalists.

HPC accelerates scientific and engineering discoveries. In the process, it often creates overwhelming amounts of data. To better understand their data, researchers frequently turn to scientific visualization, also known as SciViz, to graphically represent their data. This is not making bar-charts and graphs like you would for a presentation slide, however.

As a science, SciViz is concerned with the (often interactive) display and analysis of data. This involves research in computer graphics, image processing, HPC, and other areas. Basic visualization techniques include surface rendering, volume rendering, and animation — software designed especially for scientific visualization. The resulting images can usually be manipulated by the researcher, allowing them to gain new insights into what they are studying.

But scientific visualization isn’t limited to visualizing data output. Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data to make conclusions about that information, and often researchers would like the ability to do real-time analysis and visualization of data from any source. There are existing software packages, with many more being researched and developed, that incorporate scientific or engineering visualization with computational steering or multivariate analysis. These capabilities involve research in computer graphics, image processing, HPC, and other areas.

We should note that SciViz isn’t just used by researchers. Blockbuster Hollywood movies like Interstellar and The Tree of Life incorporated astrophysics visualizations into the films. And you’ll regularly see SciViz in educational programs and IMAX theaters. You’ll even occasionally see a scientific visualization on a news site if it helps explain information.

About the SciViz Showcase

The Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase (SciViz) provides a forum for the year’s most instrumental videos in HPC.

Each submission has two main components: a video and a manuscript. There are two categories of submissions: explanatory and exploratory visualizations.

Explanatory submissions aim to convey a science story in a manner accessible by a broad audience. Exploratory visualizations illuminate research discoveries in a format targeted towards science domain experts. While an exploratory submission may not have the same level of professional polish as an explanatory submission, its impact stems from the scientific insights gleaned or the scale of the visualization achieved.

You can view last year’s SciViz Showcase winners playlist on the SC Conference Series YouTube channel to fully appreciate the artistry, computer science, and domain science knowledge required to be a successful visualization expert.

For those considering submitting to this year’s SciViz Showcase, the videos may also spark some ideas for your submission. Deadline for submitting is August 5. Videos are judged by overall quality, how they illuminate science, and for creative innovations in the production process. Submissions are peer-reviewed by the SciViz Committee.

SciViz Submission Details

View the SciViz Showcase in Dallas

Six finalists will compete for the Best Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase Award. There will be a live display of their submissions on high resolution monitors for the duration of the conference so that attendees can experience and enjoy the latest in science and engineering HPC results expressed through state-of-the-art visualization technologies.

Each finalist will present the work behind their submission in a 15-minute presentation in a special session of the Technical Program on Wednesday, November 16. Presenters will also participate in the Posters Reception on Tuesday, November 15, to answer attendees’ questions. We hope to see you there!

Videos will also have representation in the Digital Experience.

While pursuing her master’s degree in computational science, Verónica Melesse Vergara attended her first SC conference – SC10 in New Orleans – as a student volunteer. And that experience completely changed her career trajectory.

“It opened my eyes to the wide range of career possibilities in high performance computing,” says Verónica, who today is the System Acceptance & User Environment Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). “The relationships I formed at SC10 have been invaluable, and the collaborations I established as a result have helped me grow as an HPC professional.”

“The relationships I formed at SC10 have been invaluable, and the collaborations I established as a result have helped me grow as an HPC professional.” — Verónica Melesse Vergara

Anthony Cabrera, a PhD student, discovered the SC conference through Twitter contacts. Anthony applied and was accepted to be a student volunteer at SC17 in Denver.

“My experience as an SC student volunteer was truly a game changer for me,” explains Anthony, a research scientist in the Architectures and Performance Group at ORNL. “All of my career opportunities have been through my involvement with SC.”

Verónica and Anthony are not alone. They are among countless HPC professionals who, as undergraduate or graduate students, have kickstarted their careers by participating in Students@SC.

“All of my career opportunities have been through my involvement with SC.” — Anthony Cabrera

Dozens of students will have an equally robust opportunity to learn, serve and network at this year’s event in Dallas. Three primary areas where students can benefit:

• Serving as a Lead Student Volunteer, which is limited to those who have previously served as SC student volunteers;
• Serving as a Student Volunteer, assisting in conference operations while also attending/participating in the Technical Program;
• Participating in the Student Cluster Competition, which involves teams of undergraduate students from around the world who put their skills to the test building, operating and tuning powerful cluster computers.

This is a program I’m passionate about, because I know Students@SC is important for finding and developing the next generation in HPC. The student program produces great future HPC leaders.

Besides volunteering and the Student Cluster Competition, students attending SC22 will also be able to attend a job fair, participate in a variety of mentoring programs, and become immersed in HPC through student-specific technical programs aimed at advancing the skills required to thrive in an HPC career.

But perhaps the greatest benefit is for students to take advantage of the ability to meet and interact with some of the world’s leading HPC proponents.

“The networking opportunities are unparalleled,” says Sally Ellingson, who works in computational biology and high performance computing as Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky and Markey Cancer Center. Like Verónica, she first participated in SC as a student volunteer at SC10. “I fell in love with the community at SC and knew immediately that I would be back.”

Learn more about the Students@SC program, including how to apply for selection as a student volunteer, cluster competition details, and many other valuable opportunities for students.

Students@SC

March is Women’s History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the essential roles and impact women have had throughout history. That impact is especially significant in the field of high-performance computing. We’re honored to highlight here just a few of the women in HPC. Their contributions – and those of many other women, including more than 200 women on the SC22 planning committee, led by General Chair Candace Culhane – are helping accelerate HPC and leading our field into an even brighter tomorrow.

Fouzhan Hosseini

Technical Sales Specialist, Intel

A computer scientist with a strong interest in parallel programming and HPC, Fouzhan works closely with customers to understand their needs, helping them choose HPC solutions that best meet their current requirements while informing them about upcoming technologies. 

“While many people still do not know much about HPC, it touches the lives of every human on our planet through its various applications in science and technology. It is the engine that enables [astounding] innovation – and that motivates me to be part of this force.” 

FOUZHAN HOSSEINI

Much of Fouzhan’s work involves choosing the best HPC solution for a customer, which is often “a complex process which involves choosing the best solution that meets both technical and financial needs.” Fouzhan helps them understand and explore relevant trade-offs, helping decision-makers select a solution that maximizes the benefits to their end-users, the scientists or technologists who use HPC systems to advance human knowledge and improve lives.

She encourages women in HPC to “pursue their interest with courage and to not worry too much about having perfect results at every step of their journey. It is the ‘not-trying’ that we often regret.”

Fouzhan also suggests women participate in the HPC community, seek help when they need it and help others when they can: “Our community is realizing the importance of diversity, and [women] are part of the solution.” 

AJ Lauer

CISL Outreach, Diversity, & Education (CODE) Team Lead, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Computational & Information Systems Laboratory (CISL)

AJ’s work is an extension of her lifelong passion for diversity and inclusion (D&I), and she recalls facilitating D&I educational training activities as far back as middle school. Throughout her professional career, she has continued to focus on D&I. She started in HPC by running the Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) program at NCAR, which has a goal of preparing a diverse workforce for 21st-century computing.

“As I’ve learned more about the field,” AJ says, “I’ve expanded from working only with students to also working with full-time members of the HPC community.”

AJ is excited about working in HPC because “it touches every one of our lives. But what I think we sometimes forget about HPC is that it is more than just our supercomputers and what we do with them. It’s also the people who create and use those machines.”

As a result, AJ’s work is focused on advancing the field by providing resources and training to make the field as inclusive of all identities and ways of thinking as possible.

“We need a diverse,  inclusive workforce to ensure that HPC will continue advancing at this rapid pace, and if we want to make sure these machines are used for good, for all people.”

AJ LAUER

She encourages women and anyone interested in HPC to take advantage of every opportunity to learn about the field, including participating in a multitude of events and groups through SC, including the Early Career Program, WINS or the SIParCS program. As she says, “There are lots of people out here who want you to succeed, so come hang out with us!”

Laura Parry

HPC Specialist, EMEA Global Black Belt HPC Team, Microsoft

In her role at Microsoft, Laura leads HPC work relating to the energy, life sciences and research vertical markets, and enjoys working with a wide variety of customers and industry partners, all of whom are either active in the cloud or in the process of transitioning to a more cloud-based way of running HPC workloads.

“Cloud-based HPC adoption is bringing huge innovation to the industry. A move to cloud-based HPC is typically a phased approach, so helping customers determine what makes most sense for them, in their unique scenario, is a key part of my role.”

LAURA PARRY

Laura has enjoyed a wide-ranging career: working as a music teacher before making the switch to oil and gas data management, during which time she traveled the world. With three small children she took on a role closer to home in 2011 to work for HPC Wales at Bangor University, the first-of-its-kind Welsh national supercomputing initiative.

“This provided excellent exposure to the variety of HPC applications and the very real need not only for hardware but also for support services, collaboration and training to ensure research impact,” Laura notes.

Staying in the HPC world, she next joined Dutch HPC systems integrator ClusterVision and then the Atos UK HPC team before joining Microsoft in 2020. “What I love about working in this field is the pace of change, the community and the variety,” Laura adds. “It is amazing how quickly technology is developing and how things have changed over the past few years alone: seeing customers achieve life-changing and transformative science through cloud-based HPC is enormously motivating.

It’s also been great to see the drive to increase diversity and inclusion within the HPC community itself: there are very many opportunities to get involved and learn, so I’d definitely encourage young women to consider HPC as an interesting, varied and exciting career path.”

Heidi Poxon

Principal HPC Technologist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

For more than 25 years, Heidi has worked in HPC, designing and building tools and solutions that enable science and new technology discovery. As she describes it, “I like to find ways to extract the maximum performance from a system while providing easy-to-use interfaces so that scientists can focus on their science.”

Throughout her career, Heidi has worked to identify and deliver the capabilities needed for large-scale application development and execution. Her particular area of expertise is application developer environments, especially the MPI distributed memory programming model and application profiling.

She has worked at AWS since February 2021 and is currently investigating how technology can be used to meet HPC computing needs in the cloud, searching for strategic solutions that advance HPC application performance.

“I am motivated by [finding creative solutions to] challenging problems,” Heidi explains. “I also like to make things go fast, which is why I gravitated towards leadership-class computing.” 

An astrophysics major at the University of Minnesota, Heidi began her career at Cray Research, working on a compiler team and then developing software for shared and distributed memory parallelism. She then moved to application performance tools and to leading the technology direction for developer environments to help users reduce time to solution and to scale their codes, enabling the use of more complex models or more parameters in simulations. 

“I find I am good at combining technical detail with the big picture to advance a product or a technology, and listening to users to find a solution to an issue or a pain point. I make it a point to learn something new every day and find some way to contribute.” 

HEIDI POXON

She encourages women interested in HPC to be “willing to try something new. Find mentors to learn from, while bringing your own talent and skills to the table. HPC is full of extremely talented people who want to advance computing capability and to make new scientific discoveries, and who are happy to share their knowledge.”

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