BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260522T150116Z LOCATION:D222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181112T173000 UID:submissions.supercomputing.org_SC18_sess166@linklings.com SUMMARY:Fifth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education DESCRIPTION:Introduction - Fifth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Tra ining and Education\n\nHigh-Performance Computing (HPC) has become central for empowering progress in scientific, technical, social, business and me dical domains by facilitating the solution of large-scale complex scientif ic and big data applications in a range of diverse fields. However, the i nherent wide distribution, ...\n\n\nNitin Sukhija (Slippery Rock Universi ty of Pennsylvania), Scott Lathrop (University of Illinois), Nia Alexandro v (Hartree Centre), and Julia Mullen (Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y)\n---------------------\nThe Impact of MOOC Methodology on the Scalabili ty, Accessibility and Development of HPC Education and Training\n\nThis wo rk explores the applicability of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for scaling High Performance Computing (HPC) training and education. Most HP C centers recognize the need to provide their users with HPC training; how ever, the current educational structure and accessibility prevents many... \n\n\nJulia Mullen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Weronika Filin ger (University of Edinburgh), Lauren Milechin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and David Henty (University of Edinburgh)\n----------------- ----\nProgrammable Education Infrastructure: Cloud Resources as HPC Educat ion Environments\n\nCloud computing is a growing area for educating studen ts and performing meaningful scientific research. The challenge for many e ducators and researchers is knowing how to use some of the unique aspects of computing in the cloud. One key feature is elastic computing - resource s on demand. The elastic...\n\n\nJ. Eric Coulter (Indiana University, XSED E); Richard Knepper (Cornell University, XSEDE); and Jeremy Fischer (India na University, XSEDE)\n---------------------\nEvaluating Active Learning A pproaches for Teaching Intermediate Programing at an Early Undergraduate L evel\n\nThere is a growing need to provide intermediate programing classes to STEM students early in their undergraduate careers. These efforts face significant challenges owing to the varied computing skill-sets of learne rs, requirements of degree programs and the absence of a common programing standard. I...\n\n\nDhruva Chakravorty, Donald McMullen, Honggao Liu, Nou shin Ghaffari, Dylan Rodriguez, and Shaina Le (Texas A&M University)\n---- -----------------\nThe HPC Best Practices Webinar Series\n\nThe Best Pract ices for HPC Software Developers (HPC-BP) webinar series is a major compon ent of the outreach efforts of the IDEAS (Interoperable Design of Extreme- scale Application Software) Productivity Project, funded by the US Departm ent of Energy's (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP). Since it...\n\n\nO sni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), David Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories) , Ashley Barker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), and Rebecca Hartman-Baker (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)\n---------------------\nWorkshop Morning Break\n---------------------\nWorkshop Afternoon Break\n---------- -----------\nTrends in Demand, Growth, and Breadth in Scientific Computing Training Delivered by a High-Performance Computing Center\n\nWe analyze t he changes in the training and educational efforts of the SciNet HPC Conso rtium, a Canadian academic High Performance Computing Center, in the areas of Scientific Computing and High-Performance Computing, over the last six years. Initially, SciNet offered isolated training events on how...\n\n\ nRamses van Zon, Marcelo Ponce, Erik Spence, and Daniel Gruner (SciNet HPC Consortium, University of Toronto)\n---------------------\nUsing CloudLab as a Scalable Platform for Teaching Cluster Computing\n\nA significant ch allenge in teaching cluster computing, an advanced topic in the parallel a nd distributed computing body of knowledge, is to provide students with an adequate environment where they can become familiar with real-world infra structures that embody the conceptual principles taught in lec...\n\n\nLin h B. Ngo (West Chester University) and Jeff Denton (Clemson University)\n- --------------------\nToward a HPC Certification Program\n\nThe HPC commun ity has always considered the training of new and existing HPC practitione rs to be of high importance to its growth. This diversification of HPC pr actitioners challenges the traditional training approaches, which are not able to satisfy the specific needs of users, often coming from n...\n\n\nJ ulian Kunkel (University of Reading); Kai Himstedt, Nathanael Hübbe, Hinne rk Stüben, Sandra Schröder, Michael Kuhn, Matthias Riebisch, Stephan Olbri ch, and Thomas Ludwig (University of Hamburg); Weronika Filinger (Universi ty of Edinburgh); Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (Data Direct Networks); Anja Gerbe s (Goethe University Frankfurt); and Lev Lafayette (University of Melbourn e)\n---------------------\nDeep Learning by Doing: Nvidia Deep Learning In stitute\n\nOver the past two decades, High-Performance Computing (HPC) com munities have developed many models for delivering education aiming to hel p students understand and harness the power of parallel and distributed co mputing. Most of these courses either lack hands-on experience or heavily focus on theore...\n\n\nXi Chen (University of Kentucky), Joe Bungo (Nvidi a Corporation), and Gregory S. Gutmann (Tokyo Institute of Technology)\n-- -------------------\nDiscussion Session\n---------------------\nPotential Influence of Prior Experience in an Undergraduate-Graduate Level HPC Cours e\n\nA course on High Performance Computing at Case Western Reserve Univer sity included students with a range of technical and academic experience. We consider these experiential differences with regard to student performa nce and perceptions. The course relied heavily on C programming and multit hreading,...\n\n\nChris Fietkiewicz (Case Western Reserve University)\n--- ------------------\nHPC Education and Training: An Australian Perspective\ n\nThe Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has been running a variety of educatio n, training and outreach activities addressed to all Australian researcher s for a number of years. Based on experience and user feedback we have dev eloped a mix of on-site and on-line training, roadshows, user forums and h ackatho...\n\n\nKarina Nunez and Maciej Cytowski (Pawsey Supercomputing Ce ntre)\n---------------------\nTraining Computational Scientists to Build a nd Package Code\n\nHigh performance computing training and education typic ally emphasizes the first-principles of scientific programming, such as nu merical algorithms and parallel programming techniques. However, as appli cations and libraries proliferate on the Internet and mature, the need for computational scientis...\n\n\nPrentice Bisbal (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)\n---------------------\nCiSE-ProS - Using Virtual Reality to E nforce Principles of Physical Cybersecurity\n\nThe Cyberinfrastructure Sec urity Education for Professionals and Students (CiSE-ProS) virtual reality environment is an exploratory project that uses evidence-generating appro aches to evaluate the impact of learning environments produced by augmente d reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologie...\n\n\nJinsil Hwaryou ng Seo, Michael Bruner, Austin Payne, Nathan Gober, Donald “Rick” McMullen , and Dhruva K. Chakravorty (Texas A&M University)\n---------------------\ nWorkshop Lunch (on your own)\n---------------------\nBreakout Groups\n\nT ag: Education, Scientific Computing, Training, Scalable and Sustainable Ap proaches for HPC Training and Education, Emerging Tools enabling HPC Train ing and Education, Lightning Talks and Demos\n\nRegistration Category: Wor kshop Reg Pass\n\nSession Chairs: Evguenia Alexandrova (Hartree Centre, ST FC; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)); Scott Lathrop (Univ ersity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Susan Mehringer (Cornell University) ; Julie Mullen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lincoln Labor atory); Nitin Sukhija (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania); and Aaro n Weeden (Shodor Education Foundation) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR