The first YoungPEx general meeting

The YoungPEx committee is an initiative from NumPEx to bring together young researchers together to discuss the future of high-performance computing and open science. This event was an important first step to energize the committee and talk about topics that will be key in the future. Various workshops were organized:

• A workshop on the environmental impact of HPC
  led by Georges Da Costa, Université de Toulouse professor and Exa-SoFt member
• A general assembly to discuss the YoungPEx committee’s upcoming actions and the renewal of organizing members
• A workshop on the theme of social and gender inequalities

This first day of workshop was led by Georges Da Costa, Université de Toulouse professor and Exa-SoFt member

• Substainable computing?
• Future of HPC: next steps for HPC?
• Grid 5000 introduction

This second day was the occasion to go further on the first day topics.

• Energy Measure on Grid’5000
• Measure on Grid’5000 Tutorial

The afternoon was dedicated to gather the members of the community, exchange on their works by many activities:

• Antithèse: Four presentations were prepared before the day, and four participants volunteered to present it, by discovering the slides 5 minutes before the presentation.
• Start-up nation: the participants were split into four groups and should create a pitch of a strat-up, or a research project, that would gather the interest of all the members
• Feedback on the workshop, and emergence of ideas
• Ideas for the futures actions of YoungPEx.

On the last day, the main topic was the Equity and Equality in Science. Three different sessions were organized:

• the Monopoly of inequalities, a game inspired by the famous Monopoly, meant to highlight that everyone doesn’t have the same chance to succeed, hosted by Yasmina Asso from the Observatory of Inequiality;
• A presentation by Julie Lesthelle, from Université de Bordeaux, of the results of her master thesis entitled Les études en licence de mathématiques sous le prisme du genre : Construction d’un environnement masculin et expériences des étudiantes en situation minoritaire.
• A round table about the concept of leaking pipeline, with the intervention of Elsa Cazelles (Chargée de Recherche at IRIT), Sylvie Chambon (Professeure des Universités à ENSEEIHT), Julie Lesthelle (student at Université de Bordeaux), Lucie Baudouin (Directrice de Recherche at LASS) and Aline Roc (research ingeneer at CATIE).

These sessions addressed a state of the art on the matter of equality and equality, and and produced some recommendations and warning signs to identify or prevent further inequalities in the NumPEx community.

• Thomas Saigre, Inria postdoctorant at IRMA and Exa-MA member
• Karmijn Hoogveld, CNRS doctorant at IRIT and Exa-SofT member
• Méline Trochon, Inria doctorant at LaBRI and Exa-DoST
• Mathis Certenais, doctorant of the Université de Rennes at Irisa and Exa-AtoW member
• Romain Garbage, Inria engineer and Exa-DI member

The organizers would like to thanks all the participants to this event, as well as Georges Da Costa, Yasmina Asso, Julie Lesthelle, Elsa Cazelles, Sylvie Chambon, Lucie Beaudouin and Aline Roc for their time and their participation to the different activties !