Professional Talk from Purdue University WHPC - Donna Cumberland shares from DOS to HPC

[Claire Stirm]

Good morning, all!

I hope all is well. I wanted to pass along an opportunity for those that would be interested. I know the event is early for PST, but for those interested, Donna is a very interesting leader and I had the privilege to work underneath her early in my career.

Purdue’s chapter of Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) will host a presentation by Donna Cumberland, the former executive director of the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, “From DOS to HPC: an unlikely journey” on Friday, February 28 at 10 a.m. EST The event will take place in the Envision Center, with an option to attend virtually as well. 

Those interested in attending should register here.

A bit of background on this speaker:

Cumberland spent the majority of her 30+ year career in various IT roles. She began her Purdue IT service in 1995 as an Instructional Computing Coordinator with Purdue University Computing Center (PUCC) supporting faculty and students using the instructional computing resources on campus. She advanced to managing the IT Day on Campus activities and managing the IT help desk. Her next step was working in IT Security training PU staff on IT security best practices. 

In 2005, Cumberland decided to go to Purdue's MBA program full time. After graduating with her MBA in 2007, she joined ITaP's Research Computing group as a director. She worked in Research Computing from 2007 to 2019. During this time, she led the building of Steele, the first HPC cluster built in one day. Cumberland became the first woman Executive Director of Research Computing at Purdue and served in that role until 2019. She has a bachelor’s and MBA degree from Purdue.

All the best,

Claire