Invitation to Join

International HPC Training Consortium

Invitation to Join the HPC Training Community

We are actively recruiting people from HPC Centers around the world to join in a collaborative effort to enhance HPC training. You and other representatives from your organization are welcome to join the International HPC Training Consortium. There is no cost to join.

The International HPC Training Consortium has proposed a workshop entitled “Fourth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training” to be held at the SC17 Conference. The goal of this workshop is to bring together individuals from HPC Centers from all countries to share expertise and best practices for in-person, web-based and asynchronous HPC training for the community on HPC skills.

We will be distributing a call for submissions from the community in May.

As observed during previous SC and ISC Conferences there is a high level of interest from among the international community to share information. This community has formed an informal consortium of organizations working together to enhance HPC training that we refer to as the International HPC Training Consortium.

At this past year’s SC17 workshop, there was a keynote followed by 7 lightning talk presentations with time for discussion among the audience. The goal of the workshop was to foster collaborative activities that members of the International HPC Training Consortium may pursue throughout the following year.

Monthly calls will follow during 2017 to allow the consortium members to work through topics of common interest.

This web space is also being used to support on-going collaborations among the International HPC Training Consortium.

We offer the following ways to become involved:

  • Individuals from your organization are encouraged to attend the SC and ISC workshops.

  • Submitting the names of people from your organization to be added to the International HPC Training Consortium mailing list so that we may keep people within your organization informed about HPC training efforts. This mailing list will be a closed list and will not be shared with anyone else.

  • Individuals from your organization are welcome to join in the monthly International HPC Training Consortium conference calls to discuss HPC training challenges, opportunities and lessons learned.

We will let everyone on the Consortium know whether the “Fourth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training” is accepted and request submissions for presentations for SC17. We will also let you know of plans for the ISC 2017 Conference.

To participate in the International HPC Training Consortium discussions, you may send the names and email of interested people to Scott Lathrop at lathrop@illinois.edu.

We look forward to your participation!