Welcome to the HPC Training Working Group

This working group started as a result of discussions at Supercomputing'23 and spans HPC centers both in academia and at national laboratories. The main goals for this working group are to:

• Share best practices, experiences, and ideas,
• Share upcoming user training and outreach events,
• Share collaboration opportunities (e.g., on training series),
• Share training materials (e.g., to avoid duplication), and
• Explore platforms for sharing with the broader community (e.g., HPC-ED).

Get Involved

There are several ways you can get involved:

• Join the Slack community
• Participate in monthly meetings
• Share your training events and materials

If you have any questions or would like to contribute, please feel free to open an issue or send a pull request.

Contact:

John K. Holmen @jholmen

Meeting Notes

2025-09-23

• Discussed training opportunities

  • All ready for ParaView training
  • CMake training pending decision on funding
  • LaTeX training available as part of Overleaf subscription

• Discussed the BPHTE25 paper submission

  • Full paper submitted
  • Initial slides submitted
  • Edits welcome to finalize slides

2025-08-26

• Discussed training opportunities

  • Advertisement page live for ParaView training
  • Who can contribute funds for CMake training?
  • Who is interested in Chapel training?

• Discussed the BPHTE25 paper submission

  • Extended abstract submitted
  • Full passes needed before paper submission

• Discussed public presence

  • Host a BoF at SC or ISC?
  • Host a training collaborator matching event?

• Discussed HPC Carpentry

  • Shared experiences with past events
  • Discussed training models and certification

• Shared resources

  • https://www.bpccenter.org/inspired-25
  • https://intersect-training.org/training-links/
  • https://opensource.utexas.edu/

2025-07-22

• Did not meet

2025-06-24

• Discussed user vetting
  • How to handle walk-in training events?
  • Physical tokens or proxy accounts?
• Discussed training opportunities
  • How to split CMake training cost?
  • Discussion to plan ParaView training soon
  • Potential opportunity for Chapel training
• Discussed the BPHTE25 paper submission
  • Center-specific drafts started
  • Cross-center collaborations next

2025-05-27

• Discussed training advertisements

  • Current Slack-based approach works well for centers
  • Cross-center training calendar not needed at the time
  • Targeted event-specific announcements bring most registrants

• Discussed training opportunities

  • Cross-center CMake training discussions in progress
  • Potential opportunity for ParaView training

• Discussed a BPHTE25 paper submission

  • https://sighpceducation.acm.org/events/bphte25cfp/
  • Highlight individual and collaborative efforts across centers
  • Highlight challenges and lessons learned through the group
  • Highlight other collaborative efforts in HPC education and training

2025-04-22

• Discussed a USRSE'25 short talk submission
  • https://us-rse.org/usrse25/
  • Highlight challenges and lessons learned through the group
  • Highlight ways we've found to collaborate

2025-03-25

• Did not meet

2025-02-25

• Discussed ways to store training materials

  • Box, Dropbox, GitHub, Google Drive
  • No preference, let contributors decide when linking materials

• Discussed updating last year's training spreadsheet

  • Easy way to stay up to date on each other's efforts
  • Continue to maintain as a Google Sheet?
  • Document on GitHub instead?

• Discussed HPC-ED for sharing training materials

  • https://hpc-ed.github.io/
  • Federated repository with many ways to contribute
  • Already maintain a Google Sheet, update for HPC-ED?

• Discussed monthly meeting notes

  • Cumbersome to follow through email
  • Document on GitHub instead

2025-01-28

• Discussed common goals

  • Key goal to stay up to date on each other's efforts
  • Set group goals for 2025

• Discussed use of a GitHub repository to share training materials

  • Provides a linkable, centralized location
  • Eases collaborative development
  • What does material licensing look like?

• Discussed creation of a GitHub organization for the group

  • Provides a referenceable public presence
  • Create a working group repository under the OLCF organization?
    • Yes, create one similar to the HPC System Test Working Group

• Discussed upcoming events across centers

  • Cornell: Scientific Computing Training Series
  • NERSC: Deep Learning at Scale Training
  • OLCF: New User Training

• Discussed how training allocations work across centers

  • Training tokens vs. traditional logins