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SUMMARY:From Student SIG to Success: The Journey of a Student HPC Special 
 Interest Group Towards Sustainable Training and Success in Student Cluster
  Competitions
DESCRIPTION:Bryan Johnston and Lara Timm (Council for Scientific and Indus
 trial Research (CSIR), South Africa; Centre for High Performance Computing
  (CHPC)); Sayfullah Jumoorty, Lily de Melo, Jonathan Faller, and Reinhard 
 Jansen van Vuuren (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); Michael
  Coenraad Beukman (University of Oxford, England; University of the Witwat
 ersrand, South Africa); John Poole (Clemson University, Center for Human G
 enetics); and David Macleod (Council for Scientific and Industrial Researc
 h (CSIR), South Africa; Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC))\n\nD
 eveloping a sustainable high-performance computing (HPC) workforce pipelin
 e remains a global priority. \n\nSouth Africa has several workforce traini
 ng initiatives aimed at developing career HPC system administrators. Apart
  from the annual South African Student Cluster Competition (SCC), there ar
 e no other formal training programmes available for the undergraduate stud
 ent community.\n\nEach year, the University of the Witwatersrand (“Wits”) 
 has entered at least one team in the SCC. Through the implementation of st
 udent-led training approaches, Wits has enjoyed continued success at SCC e
 vents. Wits students have been part of numerous teams, achieving six top-t
 hree finishes in international Student Cluster Competitions. \n\nThis pape
 r provides an overview of the student HPC Special Interest Group (SIG) for
 med at the University of the Witwatersrand that focuses on delivering HPC 
 training to the undergraduate student community. \n\nThe paper outlines th
 e approach towards growing and maintaining the interest group, including t
 eaching and learning strategies to prepare for SCCs.\n\nTag: Distributed C
 omputing, Education, Emerging Technologies\n\nRegistration Category: Works
 hop Reg Pass\n\nSession Chairs: Nia Alexandrov (Hartree Centre); Scott Lat
 hrop (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Julie Mullen (Massachusett
 s Institute of Technology (MIT), Lincoln Laboratory); and Nitin Sukhija (S
 lippery Rock University of Pennsylvania)\n\n
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