Member Benefits

For just $25 per year, you can become part of the SIGHPC community. Prospective members may join at the annual SC conference, or online anytime. Join us today by using ACM's membership website. Membership in ACM is not required. 

What do you get for your membership? Over time, SIGHPC.org will serve as a home base for a number of activities that currently do not exist or are run on an ad-hoc basis. Currently, the following member benefits apply:

Member Benefits:

• Registration Discounts for all conferences/workshops/symposia that are in-cooperation, co-sponsored, or sponsored by SIGHPC

• Access to the following content in the ACM Digital Library:

  • Proceedings of conferences sponsored by SIGHPC

  • SIGHPC Newsletter

  • Proceedings of conferences and workshops in cooperation with SIGHPC

• Subscription to SIGHPC newsletter, published three times per year (online)

• Special announcements and communications via SIGHPC-MEMBERS mail list

• Eligibility for SIGHPC travel grants to HPC conferences

• Voting rights in SIGHPC elections

Community Benefits:

• A virtual community joining individuals who study, develop, teach, or support high-performance systems with those who are engaged in applying HPC across a broad spectrum of domains

• Open access to past conference content through ACM OpenTOC for SC, PASC, and other events.

• Virtual chapters, organized by special interest rather than geographic region

• Co-sponsorship of four leading conferences in the field

• Annual SIGHPC Outstanding Dissertation Award

• Annual SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

• Co-sponsorship of the George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships            

• Funds and administers the SIGHPC Fellowship program supporting graduate study for students from underrepresented groups in computational and data science ($2M in fellowships funded since 2016)   

• Promotes the inclusion of students, early career professionals, and underrepresented groups at HPC conferences

• Support for ACM-W scholarship recipients attending SC conference, including mentorship and complimentary registration

• Sponsors travel grants for students to all sponsored conferences

• Social networking community through LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

Additional benefits if you choose to join ACM as well:

As a member of ACM, you receive: Communications of the ACM; conference, journal, SIG, and book discounts; an e-mail forwarding address as a free service to members - and more.  See the following for details:

•     Benefits of membership in ACM

•     Cost of ACM membership

•     ACM's website and email accounts

•     How and why to join ACM (and/or SIGHPC)