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HPC Carpentry – A Scalable, Peer-Reviewed Training Pprogram to Democratize HPC Access

Workshop: Tenth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education

Authors: Andrew Reid (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)); Alan O'Cais (CECAM); Trevor Keller (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)); Wirawan Purwanto (Old Dominion University); and Annajiat Alim Rasel (BRAC University, Bangladesh)

Abstract: The HPC Carpentry lesson program is a highly interactive, hands-on approach to getting users up to speed on HPC cluster systems. It is motivated by the increasing availability of cluster resources to a wide range of user groups, many of whom come from communities that have not traditionally used HPC systems.

We adopt the Carpentries approach to pedagogy, which consists of a workshop setting where learners type along with instructors while working through the instructional steps, building up "muscle memory" of the tasks, further reinforced by challenge exercises at critical points within the lesson.

We review the development of the HPC Carpentry Lesson Program as it becomes the first entrant into phase 2 of The Carpentries Lesson Program Incubator. This incubator is the pathway for HPC Carpentry to become an official lesson program of The Carpentries.

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