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Towards a European Training Network in Scientific Computing
Pekka Manninen, PhDCSC – IT Center for Science Ltd
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Outline
Supercomputing education & training: challengesEuropan supercomputing: the PRACE projectTraining & education initiatives within PRACE– Face-to-face learning programme– Online Training Portal– PRACE Advanced Training Centres
Utilizing supercomputers is difficult
A supercomputing application has to employ 1,000-100,000 processors at the same time: massive parallelism– Programming these machines is much more difficult than
that of a laptopScientists that employ the machines are (usually) not computer scientists: – Interdisciplinary user community– Lack of programming skills
Training & education & user support: as important for a fully functional supercomputing ecosystem as the machines themselves
PRACE in a nutshell
Provide world-class supercomputer systems for world-class science– Deploy systems of the highest performance level
(Tier-0) with ensuring diversity of architecturesCreate a permanent research infrastructure through a single European legal entityProvide the full ecosystem for the PRACE systems– Application enabling, user support– Grid access– HPC training network
Challenges for PRACE training activities
PRACE comprises of 23 countries– Large geographical distances– Large differences in users’ skills and training needs
Great variety of skills that need to be transferredInterdisciplinary audience from all levels
PRACE training activities
Seasonal Schools & Workshops in HPC all around Europe– 9 seasonal schools, 7 workshops so far– Almost 700 reserachers trained, great impact in European
HPC know-howPRACE Training PortalPRACE Advanced Training Centers– Local resource centers for HPC training & education
Training surveys
PRACE has conducted two landscape analysis on HPC training & education needs in EuropePronounced demand for HPC skills transfer in all levels from basic to advanced– The results are utilized in planning of PRACE trainings
Both of these reports are publicly available at www.prace-ri.eu/Public-Deliverables
Slides & lecture recordings from all PRACE f2f training
events: 100 hours of lecture videos
www.prace-ri.eu/training
PRACE Advanced Training Centres
Mandate“The PRACE Advanced Training Centres will serve as
European hubs of advanced, world-class training for researchers working in the computational sciences.”
Vision“When all centres are functional, the PATC network is a
visible and important part of the electronic research infrastructure in Europe.”
Six centers for 2012-2014– Finland (CSC), France (MdS/GENCI), Germany (GSC), Italy
(CINECA), Spain (BSC), UK (EPCC)
Training collaboration
”EU-U.S. Summer Schools on HPC Challenges in Computational Science” organized jointly together with the U.S. XSEDE e-Infrastructure– 2010 in Italy, 2011 in California, 2012 in Ireland
Exploring collaboration possibilities with other nations as well– China, Japan and Canada likely to join the organization of
2013 EU-U.S. summer schools
Summary
Supercomputing: the no-nonsense path to progressPRACE is building a permanent, pan-European research infrastructure for high-end scientific computing– An elaborate training programme is paramount for the
success of the infrastructurePRACE training activities– Face-to-face events: Workshops and Seasonal Schools– Training Portal– PRACE Advanced Training Centers
For more information, see www.prace-ri.euwww.prace-ri.eu/training