BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260422T143040Z LOCATION:B308 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T173000 UID:submissions.supercomputing.org_SC24_sess752@linklings.com SUMMARY:Eleventh SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Educat ion DESCRIPTION:The inherent wide distribution, heterogeneity, and dynamism of the current and emerging high-performance computing and software environm ents increasingly challenge cyberinfrastructure facilitators, trainers, an d educators. The challenge is how to support and train the current diverse users and prepare the future educators, researchers, developers, and poli cymakers to keep pace with the rapidly evolving HPC environments to advanc e discovery and economic competitiveness for many generations.\n\nThe elev enth annual full-day workshop on HPC training and education is an ACM SIGH PC Education Chapter coordinated effort, aimed at fostering more collabora tions among the practitioners from traditional and emerging fields to expl ore educational needs in HPC, to develop and deploy HPC training, and to i dentify new challenges and opportunities for the latest HPC platforms. The workshop will also be a platform for disseminating results and lessons le arned in these areas and will be captured in a Special Edition of the Jour nal of Computational Science Education.\n\nComputational Skills Training f or Undergraduates in Molecular Engineering\n\nIn June 2024, the University of Washington’s (UW) Clean Energy Institute and Molecular Engineering and Materials Center, in partnership with the UW high-performance computing ( HPC) facilitation team, prepared complimentary training for a group of 25 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)...\n\n\nKristen Finch, Ryan B eck, Xiaosong Li, Nam Pho, and Xiao Zhu (University of Washington)\n------ ---------------\nNAIRR User Experience: Recap and Future Thoughts\n\nShell ey Knuth and Alana Romanella (University of Colorado), Marisa Brazil (Ariz ona State University), and Nitin Sukhija (Slippery Rock University of Penn sylvania)\n---------------------\nHPC-ED: Building a Community CyberTraini ng Catalog\n\nHPC-ED aims to improve discovery and sharing of CyberTrainin g resources through the combination of the HPC-ED CyberTraining Catalog, a n effective and flexible interface, thoughtful metadata design, and active community participation. HPC-ED encourages authors to share training reso urce information w...\n\n\nSusan Mehringer (Cornell University); Charlie D ey (The University of Texas at Austin); John-Paul Navarro (Argonne Nationa l Laboratory (ANL), University of Chicago); Katharine Cahill (New Jersey I nstitute of Technology); Brian Guilfoos (Ohio Supercomputer Center); David Joiner (Kean University); Richard Knepper (Cornell University); Je'aime P owell (The University of Texas at Austin); Mary Thomas (University of Cali fornia San Diego); and Zilu Wang (Cornell University)\n------------------- --\nQ/A Session\n\nNia Alexandrov (Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK)\n---------------------\nExercise: Design a Learning Pathway\n\nDespite the quantity of existing training materials, a cquisition and development of the specialist skills required for high perf ormance computing (HPC) is not straightforward enough to address the needs of the growing, diversifying and constantly evolving HPC community. The H PC education and trainin...\n\n\nWeronika Filinger (EPCC, The University o f Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh, Scotland); Jeremy Cohen (Imperial Co llege, London); and Samantha Wittke (CSC - IT Center for Science)\n------- --------------\nIntegration of Actors in HPC Ecosystems: Transdisciplinari ty, Interdisciplinarity and Interaction\n\nThe interest in high-performanc e computing (HPC) has grown due to the need for skills to leverage advance d computing, such as managing large volumes of data, using complex algorit hms, and developing AI applications. HPC ecosystems are essential for addr essing complex scientific and engineering chall...\n\n\nCarlos Jaime Barri os Hernandez (Industrial University of Santander, Colombia; Advanced Compu ting Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCALAC)) and Luis Alejan dro Torres Niño and Sergio Gelvez (Industrial University of Santander, Col ombia)\n---------------------\nThe National Artificial Intelligence Resear ch Resource (NAIRR) Project: Researcher Training, Community Outreach, and Classroom Education\n\nSharon Geva (National Science Foundation (NSF))\n-- -------------------\nEducation and Support of Large Language Models in a R esearch Institution\n\nAs the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) continue to expand, with more accurate and powerful models being released monthly, researchers and educators are increasingly eager to incorporate these tools. The growing demand for this technology reflects its transform ative potential in natural ...\n\n\nJuan Jose Garcia Mesa and Gil Speyer ( Arizona State University)\n---------------------\nIntegrating Captive Port al Technology into Computer Science Education: A Modular, Hands-On Approac h to Infrastructure\n\nA Captive Portal (CP) represents an interface for n etwork connectivity where access to specific resources is restricted until certain conditions are satisfied. It represents a light-weighted sort of authentication mechanism where triggering requirements are displayed, typi cally in a web page-type in...\n\n\nLianting Wang and Marcelo Ponce (Unive rsity of Toronto Scarborough; University of Toronto Scarborough, Departmen t of Computer and Mathematical Sciences)\n---------------------\nMorning B reak\n---------------------\nQ/A Session\n\nNia Alexandrov (Hartree Centre , Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK)\n----------------- ----\nEnhancing HPC Education through Virtual Cluster Administration and B enchmarking\n\nThe rapid advancement in high-performance computing (HPC) p oses significant challenges for the HPC community. Current HPC training ap proaches are often too generic or too customized to local environments, li miting their applicability and impact. Often, these shortcomings are due t o the limited acces...\n\n\nCharles Lindsey, Jeffrey Valdez, Aaron Jezghan i, Will Powell, and Rich Vuduc (Georgia Institute of Technology)\n-------- -------------\nT3-CIDERS: Fostering a Community of Practice in CI- and Dat a-Enabled Cybersecurity Research through a Train-the-Trainer Program\n\nWe present a training program named T3-CIDERS, a "Train-The-Trainer Approach to Fostering CI (cyberinfrastructure)- and Data-Enabled Research in Cyber Security.'' T3-CIDERS is a train-the-trainer program for advanced CI skill s that is designed to be synergistic with research, teaching, and learning a...\n\n\nWirawan Purwanto (Old Dominion University), Mohan Yang (Texas A &M University), Peng Jiang (University of Nebraska Omaha), Masha Sosonkina (Old Dominion University), and Hongyi Wu (The University of Arizona)\n--- ------------------\nHPC Andragogy: Automating Batch Scheduler Feedback\n\n This paper proposes a monitoring system that emails feedback to users abou t submitted jobs and has the capability to stop and resubmit jobs to a bat ch scheduler. The proposed system has been implemented for a small superco mputing environment with a mix of high-performance and high-throughput com puti...\n\n\nKyriakos Tsoukalas (Colgate University)\n-------------------- -\nAfternoon Break\n---------------------\nLunch Break\n------------------ ---\nHPC Education and Training: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges\n\n The rapid advancement of new HPC technologies has facilitated the converge nce of artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and HPC platforms to solve complex, large-scale, real-time analytics and applications for s cientific and non-scientific fields. Given the dynamism of today’s compu.. .\n\n\nNitin Sukhija (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania)\n--------- ------------\nFrom Student SIG to Success: The Journey of a Student HPC Sp ecial Interest Group Towards Sustainable Training and Success in Student C luster Competitions\n\nDeveloping a sustainable high-performance computing (HPC) workforce pipeline remains a global priority. \n\nSouth Africa has several workforce training initiatives aimed at developing career HPC syst em administrators. Apart from the annual South African Student Cluster Com petition (SCC), there are no ...\n\n\nBryan Johnston and Lara Timm (Counci l for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa; Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC)); Sayfullah Jumoorty, Lily de Melo, Jona than Faller, and Reinhard Jansen van Vuuren (University of the Witwatersra nd, South Africa); Michael Coenraad Beukman (University of Oxford, England ; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); John Poole (Clemson Univ ersity, Center for Human Genetics); and David Macleod (Council for Scienti fic and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa; Centre for High Performa nce Computing (CHPC))\n---------------------\nDeveloping Personas and Prog rams to Enable Research Software Engineers to Specialize in High Performan ce Computing\n\nMany research software engineers (RSEs) come to high perfo rmance computing (HPC) after previously pursuing a related degree, and rec eiving on-the-job experience as part of a PhD or junior staff position. If we are to increase the diversity of RSEs working in HPC, we need to exami ne different routes ...\n\n\nNeil Chue Hong and Weronika Filinger (EPCC, T he University of Edinburgh)\n---------------------\nThe Use of High-Perfor mance Computing Services in University Settings: A Usability Case Study of the University of Cincinnati’s High-Performance Computing Clusters\n\nHig h-performance computing (HPC) clusters are powerful tools that can be used to support a wide range of research projects across all disciplines. Howe ver, HPC clusters can be complex and difficult to use, limiting their acce ssibility to researchers without a strong technical background. This study ...\n\n\nMahmoud Junior Suleman, Amy Latessa, Shane Halse, and Jess Kropc zynski (University of Cincinnati)\n---------------------\nDeveloping an Ef fective HPC Training Program: A Process Example from One Research Universi ty\n\nBuilding an HPC training program, keeping the program fresh, and mee ting the evolving needs of users can be challenging. Considerations for be ginning a program include the type of training, when to provide training, advertising methods, and how to measure the effectiveness of the program. Planning t...\n\n\nSandra Nite, Joshua Winchell, Dhruva Chakravorty, Trent on Gray, Wesley Brashear, and Marinus Pennings (Texas A&M University)\n--- ------------------\nHPC Carpentry\n\nThe HPC Carpentry project aims to dev elop workshop training materials to empower novices to effectively leverag e HPC to solve scientific problems in their domains.\n\nModeled after The Carpentries training programs, the project’s goal is to develop foundation al HPC skills. The workshop setting p...\n\n\nAndrew Reid and Trevor Kelle r (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)); Alan O'Cais (Un iversity of Barcelona, Spain; CECAM); Annajiat Alim Rasel (BRAC University , Bangladesh); Wirawan Purwanto (Old Dominion University); Jane Herriman ( Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)); Benson Muite (Kichakato Ki zito); and Marc-André Hermanns (RWTH Aachen University)\n\nTag: Distribute d Computing, Education, Emerging Technologies\n\nRegistration Category: Wo rkshop Reg Pass\n\nSession Chairs: Nia Alexandrov (Hartree Centre); Scott Lathrop (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Julie Mullen (Massachus etts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lincoln Laboratory); and Nitin Sukhija (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR