2022 SIGHPC Election Update
2022 is an election year for your SIG. ACM has approved the following slate of candidates:
Chair
Christine Harvey, MITRE (unopposed)
Vice Chair
Verónica G. Vergara Larrea, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michela Taufer, The University of Tennessee
Treasurer
Stephen Harrell, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Christine Cuicchi, DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Navy DSRC
Member at Large (2 positions)
Melyssa Fratkin, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Antonio Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich
Officers serve three year terms, and the winners of this election will serve from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. ACM conducts elections on behalf of all SIGs, and voting members will receive information about their ballots and the voting process in early April along with candidate statements.
According to the SIGHPC Bylaws, a petition from 1% of the voting members of SIGHPC will place other consenting candidates who are members of SIGHPC and ACM on the ballot. SIG members who wish to petition must inform ACM Headquarters, the SIG Viability Advisor, and the Secretary of the SIG of their intention by 15th March. Petitions must be submitted to ACM Headquarters for verification by 1st April.
Questions? Feel free to email them to John West at chair@sighpc.org.
SIGHPC announces 2021 winner of Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Dr. Didem Unat is the 2021 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner. Dr. Unat is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Engineering at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is recognized for her innovative work in the field of programming models for data locality in High Performance and Scientific Computing, as well as her leadership role in the international HPC community.
2021 SIGHPC Fellows Announced
ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the eleven recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2021. Funded by SIGHPC, the fellowships are highly competitive, and are awarded after a rigorous merit review.
The program is intended to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women, as well as students from backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the computing field. The fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world
Nominees spanned disciplines from mathematics and astrophysics to chemical engineering and agriculture, and represented large, mid-sized, and small institutions in countries around the world. More than 81% of nominees identified as female, and 84% identified as an underrepresented minority in their country of study. Read More...
Rohit Zambre Selected as 2021 Winner of SIGHPC's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award; Dr. AJ Lauer and Dr. Yang You are Selected for Honorable Mention
ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Rohit Zambre of the University of California, Irvine has won the 2021 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year, and includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC’XY) in November. In addition, SIGHPC selected two submissions from Dr. AJ Lauer and Dr. Yang You for Honorable Mention in the 2021 Dissertation Award.
2021 Winner Rohit Zambre
2021 Virtual Member's Meeting
The 2021 Annual Virtual Member Meeting took place on November 6, 2021. To view the presentation, please visit our Meeting Membership page.