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SUMMARY:Toward a HPC Certification Program
DESCRIPTION:Julian Kunkel (University of Reading); Kai Himstedt, Nathanael
  Hübbe, Hinnerk Stüben, Sandra Schröder, Michael Kuhn, Matthias Riebisch, 
 Stephan Olbrich, and Thomas Ludwig (University of Hamburg); Weronika Filin
 ger (University of Edinburgh); Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (Data Direct Networks
 ); Anja Gerbes (Goethe University Frankfurt); and Lev Lafayette (Universit
 y of Melbourne)\n\nThe HPC community has always considered the training of
  new and existing HPC practitioners to be of high importance to its growth
 .  This diversification of HPC practitioners challenges the traditional tr
 aining approaches, which are not able to satisfy the specific needs of use
 rs, often coming from non-traditionally HPC disciplines, and only interest
 ed in learning a particular set of competences.  Challenges for HPC center
 s are to identify and overcome the gaps in users’ knowledge, while users s
 truggle to identify relevant skills.\n\nWe have developed a first version 
 of an HPC certification program that would clearly categorize, define, and
  examine competences.  Making clear what skills are required of or recomme
 nded for a competent HPC user would benefit both the HPC service providers
  and practitioners.  Moreover, it would allow centers to bundle together s
 kills that are most beneficial for specific user roles and scientific doma
 ins.  From the perspective of content providers, existing training materia
 l can be mapped to competences allowing users to quickly identify and lear
 n the skills they require.  Finally, the certificates recognized by the wh
 ole HPC community simplify inter-comparison of independently offered cours
 es and provide additional incentive for participation.\n\nTag: Education, 
 Scientific Computing, Training, Scalable and Sustainable Approaches for HP
 C Training and Education, Emerging Tools enabling HPC Training and Educati
 on, Lightning Talks and Demos\n\nRegistration Category: Workshop Reg Pass\
 n\nSession Chairs: Evguenia Alexandrova (Hartree Centre, STFC; Science and
  Technology Facilities Council (STFC)); Scott Lathrop (University of Illin
 ois Urbana-Champaign); Susan Mehringer (Cornell University); Julie Mullen 
 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lincoln Laboratory); Nitin S
 ukhija (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania); and Aaron Weeden (Shodo
 r Education Foundation)\n\n
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