HPC Carpentry - a way forward

[ocaisa]

Title of the session: HPC Carpentry - a way forward

Session details

• Session type: Breakout discussion

• Keywords: HPC, HPCCarpentry, cluster, incubator

• Permission to record this session: Yes

Abstract

At CarpentryCon 2018, the community expressed the will and desire to create a
Carpentry inspired curriculum for teaching new users of High Performance Computing
systems how to use such resources effectively. Subsequently the HPC Carpentry GitHub
team was created and relevant existing material was repurposed and integrated into a single home. By mid 2020, development in the
hpc-carpentry repos has stalled, with only a subset of the original goals met.

In Europe, there are at least two initiatives that have the potential to provide the
human resources to refine and extend the teaching material, but with clear goals of
their own derived from their own context. We would like to involve the community in a
discussion on how to encourage and integrate such initiatives to help sustain the
development of the existing material, and extend it to new topics.

For this, we propose a breakout session composed of

• a review of activity to date
• series of lightning talks by different stake holders
• an open discussion on how to move forward.

Personal details

• Name or pseudoname of the session lead: See below.

• Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): Alan O'Cais, Peter Steinbach

• Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: a.ocais@fz-juelich.de, p.steinbach@hzdr.de

• Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): Spain, CEST

• Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: WRITE HERE

• Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone: WRITE HERE

Is there any help you would like to invite from the community? Please provide below in bullet points.

Anyone is welcome to chime in and make a contribution. We would really love to have lightning talks from
(potential) stakeholders, e.g., those involved in a project or initiative whose goals
may (or could) align with those of HPC Carpentry.

• Other comment:

[ChristinaLK]

thanks for submitting @ocaisa ! We're hoping to direct the community here for involvement and feedback next week - can you add another comment after mine that reiterates your ask for help + any other feedback you'd like from the community?

[ocaisa]

Thanks @ChristinaLK

Anyone is welcome to chime in and make a contribution. We are particularly open to have lightning talks from:

• (potential) stakeholders, e.g., those involved in a project or initiative whose goals may (or could) align with those of HPC Carpentry
• people who have delivered the material from HPC Carpentry, and any challenges that they encountered

[Sabryr]

Very nice to see this effort. Main reason for our fork to diverge so much was the delay in getting pull requests accepted/refused. More than happy to contribute to the session in any way if you need it. Not sure how the resonances are collected, reply to this thread or should one email

[ocaisa]

@Sabryr I think this experience would be a really valuable contribution to the discussion. Either email or the thread are both fine for me, I'll connect with @psteinb once we've had a round of feedback (and if the session gets accepted) to decide the details of how we organise ourselves.

[megan-guidry]

I'm keen to get involved with this! Happy to do a lightning talk on what we are hoping for in the AU/NZ region re: HPC Carpentry. Time zone is tricky though, would have to be 9 or 10am CEST (for a 7 or 8pm start in NZ)... I could facilitate a AU/NZ/ Pacific friendly time.

[methylnick]

I would be keen to be involved too, from Downunder Australia.

[orchid00]

I'm interested to join, also AEST Downunder Australia. Thanks for pointing out @megan-guidry

[levlafayette]

Adding my name to the collection of people from AU/NZ; AEST also.

Hat-tip to @megan-guidry

[AnnBackhaus]

Adding my name to the Aus/NZ collection, AWST.
Thanks @megan-guidry !

[prosoitos]

I would be interested to attend this conversation from Vancouver, BC, Canada.