ACM SIGHPC is the

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's Special Interest Group on

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, an international community of students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners working on

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and in

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practice related to

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, high-end

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s, and

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. The organization co-sponsors international conferences related to high performance and scientific computing, including: SC, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis; the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference; Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC); and PPoPP, the

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History

ACM SIGHPC was founded on November 1, 2011, with the support of

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. The first chair was Cherri Pancake, who was also the 1999

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chair. During its formation, the SIG was led by a set of volunteer officers: These officers were replaced by the first elected slate of officers in July 2013, with subsequent elections scheduled every three years. In addition to elected officers, the SIG is supported by a variety of appointed volunteer leaders who are responsible for membership coordination, creating the newsletter, and other duties needed to operate the SIG; the roles vary as the needs of the SIG change over time. These volunteer leaders are appointed by the SIG chair.

Conferences

ACM SIGHPC co-sponsors the following international conferences related to high performance computing: * The SC Conference, the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. * Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) * Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming PPoPP * Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) In addition, ACM SIGHPC supports the following conferences with in-cooperation status: * IEEE

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* International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers * IEEE Cluster Conference * EuroMPI/USA Conference

Grants and Awards

SIGHPC offers a variety of travel grants to support student participation in its conferences, including a program in partnership with

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that focuses specifically on participation by women. SIGHPC also sponsors an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in

high performance computing High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Overview HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into a multi ...

. This award is open to students studying anywhere in the world who have completed a PhD dissertation with HPC as a central research theme. The SIG also sponsors the Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award. This award is offered once every two years and recognizes a woman in high performance and technical computing during the important middle years of their career for their work in research, education, and/or practice over the five to fifteen years after completing her last academic degree. The ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships are part of a multi-year program to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science. Specifically targeted at women or students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have not traditionally participated in the computing field, the program is open to students pursuing degrees at institutions anywhere in the world. The program began in 2015 with a five-year commitment of $1.5M in funds from

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, and continued beginning in 2020 under the sole sponsorship of the SIG. As of the announcement of the 2022 class, the fellowship has supported a total of 73 Phd and MS students.

Chapters

Chapters are sub-organizations within ACM SIGs that may be organized by a geographic region or by a technical topic area. Chapter activities vary, but may include physical meetings, webinars, and workshops. SIGHPC currently supports the following chapters: * BigData: a topic-oriented chapter devoted to the intersection of HPC and

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

. * Education: this chapter targets aspects of teaching HPC, developing educational or training materials, and curriculum development. * SIGHPC-RCE: this chapter focuses on issues related to HPC operations in resource constrained environments (RCE). * SYSPROS: the Systems Professionals chapter (or SYSPROS) supports the interests of systems administrators, developers, engineers, and other professionals involved or interested in the operation and support of systems for high performance computing.

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