Conveners
HPC Education BoF: I
- John Poole (CHPC)
HPC Education BoF: II
- John Poole (CHPC)
Description
Academics from relevant disciplines (Computer Science, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Computational Physics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, etc.) and others interested in, or involved with, teaching and curriculum development are invited to discuss how core HPC concepts can be integrated into the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula at South African and African universities.
A broad range of topics related to HPC, including use cases, distributed computing, architectures and interconnects, operating systems, parallel programming and algorithms, file systems, debugging, performance scaling, accelerator technologies, benchmarking and visualization will be considered.
This session will focus on the unique challenges facing academics in South Africa and Africa, either integrating HPC topics into existing courses and curricula or developing and implementing new courses and specializations, and the ways in which these challenges can be addressed. The provision of access to high-end HPC compute infrastructure for student practical assignments and projects, along with teaching resources and course content, will be discussed with the goal of significantly lowering the barrier to entry for academics wishing to teach HPC topics. The alignment of the HPC education and human capital development mandates of the CHPC with other strategist initiatives such as the HPC Ecosystems Project (which has placed, and is continuing to place, donated HPC infrastructure at universities throughout Africa), will be investigated, along with other ways in which the CHPC can support academics in this critical endeavor.
