EPCC will be running a High Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School this year. This 2-week long programme, taking place at EPCC, Edinburgh University, will give around a dozen undergraduate students at UK universities the opportunity to learn and practise HPC technologies. Students will have access to ARCHER2, the UK's most powerful supercomputer with over 700,000 CPU-cores.

The programme will run from Saturday 22 June to Saturday 6 July. Accommodation will be provided, travel costs will be covered, and successful students will receive a bursary of £490 for subsistence. It is open to undergraduate students at any UK university. Applications are welcomed from a wide range of students regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.

Applications are open until 11:59 AM on Monday 6 May.

HPC-RSE workshop at ISC24 has opened the call for talk submissions from Research Software Engineers (RSEs), High Performance Computing (HPC) engineers, or students who wish to pursue a career in these areas. The deadline for submissions is Thursday 29 February.

The workshop will take place in Hamburg on Thursday 16 May, and focus on “Enhancing the symbiosis between HPC and RSE communities”. Talks should focus on the speakers' experiences and reflect on topics such as:

• Has the RSE/HPC community helped improve a project, for example by finding collaboration partners or providing training?
• Have you been involved in developing a training course or establishing career paths? 
• Have you come across a training format that you think other people should know about?
• What do you see as the link or overlap between HPC and RSE communities? 
• Is there a clear career path for HPC-RSEs? Why do we still discuss RSE career pathways more than 12 years after the start of the RSE movement?

The two submission categories are:

• Early career speaker*: Early career RSE or HPC engineers or students who could share their experiences entering the RSE/HPC community or a story of how a collaboration/project was made possible because of community involvement. 
• Career Paths and training formats: Individuals who can talk about specific career paths in the RSE/HPC community or training formats/platforms. 

Further information about the submission requirements and how to apply can be found on the website.

The DiRAC Training Academy offers both instructor-led and self-paced courses covering a wide range of skills, including Foundation HPC Skills training, workshops in profiling, optimisation, and performance analysis, and, in collaboration with SCiML, machine learning courses tailored for scientific applications.

The Training Academy is continually evolving and expanding its course offerings, adapting to our users’ educational needs in the fast-paced field of HPC.

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A Data Carpentry style lesson was developed for high performing computing (HPC) for genomics.

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Supercomputing Wales at Cardiff University have provided several online training courses for HPC on GitHub. 

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ARCHER2 provide many beginner and intermediate training courses on using ARCHER2 a HPE Cray EX supercomputing system provided by UKRI, EPCC, HPE Cray and the University of Edinburgh.

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This course will cover the fundamental skills to enable you to use a DiRAC system. Including a version control system like Git, a workload manager like Slurm, and introducing concepts in software engineering.

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