Six women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the United States have been chosen to participate in the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program, helping to build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network. Now in its third year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation […]
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The 2017 Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) Application is Now Open!
SCinet Diversity Program: WINS Application submissions should be made using the 2017 WINS Application Form. Apply Now Submission deadline: 11:59 PM Friday, March 24, 2017 (Pacific time) Award notifications will be sent by mid to late May 2017 The WINS program is currently seeking qualified women U.S. candidates in their early to mid-career to join […]
Contributor and Vendor Engagement Draws Volunteers to SCinet Infrastructure Project at SC16 in Salt Lake City
The contribution of multiple vendors and contributors is critical to the success of SCinet according to Corby Schmitz, SCinet chair. “They’re not just sending us a random bucket of parts, we engage with the vendors. We work with them on the architecture to build the network in virtual space. Then it becomes reality based on […]
Personal and Industry Perspectives: Women in IT Networking at SC
This is a follow-up piece to the article “Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16” Now in its second year, Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and […]
Simplifying the World’s Most Powerful Computer Network with SDN
For the first time, SC’s research and production network (SCinet) will be using the emerging technology software defined networking (SDN) to manage and simplify the operations for a portion of the SC conference’s show floor network. SCinet is the research and production network that serves as the backbone of data communications for the annual SC […]
Berkeley Lab’s Katherine Yelick Wins Ken Kennedy Award
UC Berkeley Professor to Receive ACM/IEEE-CS Kennedy Award at SC15 for Contributions to International Research Agenda Katherine Yelick ACM and IEEE Computer Society have named Katherine Yelick as the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research […]
