call for submissions

We invite proposals for presentations for this year’s SC17 workshop by Tuesday, August 1 for full consideration.

All presentations can be recorded and may be posted on our YouTube channel following the SC17 Conference, if presenters consent. Slides sets will be posted on this google site.

The workshop’s goal is to foster information exchange on challenges, opportunities, and collaborative activities among people and organizations world-wide.

The SC17 workshop will include:

• • a series of short presentations on:

    • successes, challenges, and innovative new ideas

    • opportunities for collaborations

  • open discussion with the participants

  • a poster session to share information about their programs and activities

  • a resource table to which people are encouraged to bring flyers and announcements of HPC related events, calls for participation, opportunities for student involvement through internships and fellowships, career opportunities, etc.

The Best Practices for HPC Training workshop series, organized by International HPC Training Consortium, brings together specialists from HPC Centers worldwide to share expertise and lessons learned for in-person, web-based and asynchronous HPC training.

Everyone attending the workshop must register for a SC17 workshop and pay the related SC17 conference registration fee.

We welcome submissions from the community for short (about 10 minutes) presentations. Panel sessions may be proposed. Topics representing both proven and experimental programs are welcome. We welcome presentations and posters related to HPC training such as, but not limited to, the following:

• • Successes resulting from HPC training workshops

  • Collaborative efforts to develop and/or deliver HPC training

  • Challenges and opportunities for advancing HPC training

  • Best practices in developing and delivering HPC training

  • Competencies, assessments and evaluation strategies

  • Best practices utilizing webcast and asynchronous modalities

  • How to enhance access by people with disabilities

  • Strategies to identify and fill training gaps

  • Scaling from face-to-face events to distributed audiences

  • Reviewing and assessing training materials

  • Strategies for providing repositories of HPC materials

Presentation and poster submissions should include:

• • Author(s) including name, email and institutional affiliation

  • Title of presentation

  • 2 to 4 paragraph description of what would be included in the presentation

  • Describe any expected outcomes from this presentation

  • Relevant URLs

  • 2 to 3 questions you would ask the audience to encourage discussion

If you do not want to make a presentation, but you would like to hear a presentation on a topic, please submit the topic and a brief description of what you would like to see included. The organizing committee will work to find a presenter for this topic.

Please send your presentation submission to Scott Lathrop lathrop@illinois.edu by August 1 for full consideration. Poster submissions may be submitted through September 1.

If you plan to bring flyers, plan to bring about 150 copies. Please let us know by October 1 how many items you plan to bring so we may arrange enough tables to display the items.