Dear Peter,
Seems like HPC Carpentry crops up at least every 2 months in
conversations around the world.
We recently had a great email chat between Mateusz Kuzak (Netherlands
eScience Centre), Christina Koch (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Peter van Heusden (South African National Bioinformatics Institute) and
myself.
We would ideally like to see a lesson on research computing
infrastructure - explaining the different infrastructures that are
available - grid, cloud, hpc, other(?) and helping researchers to
understand when to use what - or rather what they need to address their
specific research computing needs. This is more than just HPC novice,
but with such a wide variety of infrastructures becoming very accessible
(even to researchers in Africa) it would be great if our researchers
understood why they should/could use the one or the other.
Once we have a lesson like this in place, an applied HPC lesson might
have much more impact? I'd love to see a HPC novice lesson developed to
complement that as our university (and I suppose many around South
Africa) could benefit greatly from it. Previously people have bumped
into the problem of HPCs which are differently configured, but I think
there is a sufficient level of abstraction possible where novices can
learn concepts applicable to HPC in the broad even if they were taught
the details of a specific system. Learning the new vocabulary of queues,
head nodes, schedulers, etc will already take them a long way in being
able to talk to their HPC service provider.
I'm not sure how far things have gone with the lesson I describe above -
I think Christina and possibly Mateusz was working on something to this
effect?
Happy to be involved in both.
By chance I'll be at the South African HPC conference this week and
could see if there is interest there to help develop?
Kind regards,
Anelda
On 2016-12-05 22:26, Peter Steinbach wrote:
Dear list members,
as 2016 ends, 2017 begins. With it, some unique opportunities are
arising to revive hpc-novice, aka the novice HPC lessons that we once
discussed and laid out to get into SC16.
https://github.com/swcarpentry/hpc-novice
I see 2 possible venues in the near future in my geographic proximity,
where we could apply for having a HPC novice lesson take place.
parallel 2017: http://www.parallelcon.de/call_en.php (small and new
conference)
ISC2017: http://isc-hpc.com/tutorials.html (one of the standard HPC
conferences in the year)
[I am sure you can list more conferences on your continent here ...]
and of course:
https://www.software.ac.uk/cw17 (as a venue for having a first course
or for working on its contents)
To cut a long mail short: Who would be interested in trying to bring
hpc-novice to new life? Or in other words, does the software carpentry
community still think a hpc-novice lesson is worth pursuing?
Best,
Peter
PS. I am currently unclear who maintains the above mentioned repo
swcarpentry/hpc-novice as there are 4 unanswered PRs, some of which
are over a year old.
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