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The SC16 Supercomputing Conference has focused on raising awareness and helping to change attitudes about diversity. That's according to SC16 General Chair John West, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. West explained that long-term efforts are underway at SC16 to promote diversity in the supercomputing community. These include a new double-blind review of technical papers; a new standing subcommittee focused on diversity and inclusion added to the conference organizing committee; adoption of demographics measurements of the SC16 conference committee and attendees; active recruitment of student volunteers at organizations and universities that serve underrepresented groups; on-site child care; an added official code of conduct; fellowships that promote inclusivity; and continued support of the Women and IT Networking program. John West: For me, (diversity) is a numbers problem. If you look at HPC (high performance computing), more and more communities are adopting advance