S5E1 - Lois Curfman McInnes: Building Software Sustainability and Broadening Workforce Participation

The field of high-performance computing (HPC) currently faces dual challenges: important technical problems that require a skilled workforce and the need to recruit more computational researchers. This conversation with Lois Curfman McInnes of Argonne National Laboratory examines both the complexity in building scientific software and the work needed to build the HPC workforce of the future. You'll meet: Lois Curfman McInnes is a senior computational scientist in the mathematics and computer science division at Argonne National Laboratory. She served as deputy director for the software technology focus are of the U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project and completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of Virginia.