Above the Fold
- MIT Open Data Prize from the School of Science and Libraries
What We're Reading
- Spelunking the HPC and AI GPU Software Stacks
- AI PCs - the most exciting moment since the birth of WiFi - Really?
- A dead satellite broke into 100 pieces - this is bad
Lauren Milechin Named Director of Scientific Consulting
Lauren Milechin, a longtime ORCD team member with extensive experience working with the MIT research community, has been appointed as ORCD’s Director of Scientific Consulting, effective June 1. Before joining ORCD, she spent over 6 years supporting the MIT SuperCloud. Lauren has been teaching and consulting with researchers as a facilitator for 9 years. She started her career with the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center as Associate Technical Staff before moving to main campus. Her interests and projects involve high performance computing (HPC), HPC education, big data, database technology, machine learning, and applications of these topics in other fields.
Lauren and the ORCD research community-facing team have done considerable work expanding and improving ORCD’s documentation for users, including launching the ORCD Docs help pages site. The research community-facing team also hosts in-person office hours on campus twice a week for the MIT community.
Meet the Team: Charlotte Wirth
Charlotte Wirth, ORCD's Administrative Assistant 2, came to ORCD from Amazon’s Alexa Data Services, where she worked as a data associate, helping improve Alexa’s AI abilities. One of her proudest achievements while at Amazon was working to curate the daily recipes that get displayed on the home screens of Echo devices.
Charlotte graduated from University of Toronto with a Bachelor’s degree in English, and continued to live in Toronto for years after graduating. During that time, Charlotte worked at Onextra, a Toronto-based media-accessibility company that focuses on creating closed captions and subtitles for broadcast television. This job left a lasting impact, because now Charlotte can’t watch anything with subtitles without judging those subtitles harshly.
Charlotte enjoys spending her spare time at the climbing gym, cooking and baking tasty treats, and diving further and further down the fiber-crafting rabbit hole (it started with learning how to sew as a child, and now she’s spinning her own yarn).
HPC and Research Computing Events
- 28th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference: September 23-27, online.
- Call for papers (July 7 submission deadline)
- HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the field.
- Second Annual US Research Software Engineer Association Conference, October 17-14, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Call for submissions (see site for format deadlines)
- This year's theme is Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: A celebration of all that RSEs have done for computing in the past, in the present, and in the future.