HPC Carpentry

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Why HPC Carpentry?

Provide practical, hands-on skills in using remote, advanced computing for researchers

Carpentry is aimed at novice users

Carpentry approach has proven very successful at getting reesearchers from non-traditional areas up and running with computational tools

Provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for training for all

Allow the HPC community to work together to generate high quality training materials

Enable access to high quality HPC training materials worldwide, including developing countries

Sustainability

Through community involvement - following the approach used successfully by Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry

Set of maintainers responsible for reviewing and strategic decisions around each lesson

Lessons created in a format that makes contribution easy

HPC Carpentry Metrics

This has not been discussed in much detail. Potential metrics include:

Number of workshops run in different countries/terretories in a year

Number of workshop attendees and trainers from underrepresented groups

Number of feedback responses received in pre and post workshop surveys and during workshops

Average score in post-workshop feedback surveys

Number of different contributors to lesson development

Number of different countries/terretories involved in lesson development

HPC Carpentry Impact

Enabling new research on advanced computational facilities

Increase in uptake of advanced computing by new disciplines

Improve advanced computing skills in researchers

Improved quality of HPC basic training available for researchers

Wider range of people able to train researchers to use advanced computing

Increased awareness of impact and utility of advanced computing in research

Train the trainers

Train-the-trainer is a fundamental part of the Carpentry approach to training

Embedded into the process for Carpentry workshops, each workshop is an opportunity to expand the pool of HPC Carpentry trainers

Open source nature of the training material allows new instructors to take the material and modify it for their needs easily

Free Carpentry instructor training available online: https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/