“F.O.D.—a First. Only. Different. We are a very select club, but there are more of us out there than you’d think. We know one another on sight. We all have that same weary look in our eyes. The one that wishes people would stop thinking it remarkable that we can be great at what we do while black, while Asian, while a woman, while Latino, while gay, while a paraplegic, while deaf. But when you are an F.O.D., you are saddled with that burden of extra responsibility—whether you want it or not.” [1, Chapter 8]

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science took place on February 11^th, 2020. Its aim is to raise awareness

Home to the world’s largest internet company as well as other renowned tech giants, Seattle seems like the perfect place for a meeting on high performance computing. This year’s SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing & Scientific Computing - SIAM PP20 for short - took place right in the centre of the rainy city.

Hundreds of scientists from all over the world met to discuss emerging issues in scientific computing. From best practices in benchmarking to reducing communications between processors and code reproducibility, some of which have been topics of interest for many years as anyone learning about David Bailey’s “12 Ways to fool the masses” (1991) in an introductory course on computing can probably attest to.

Of particular interest to