Towards building an HPC workforce in Africa
Channel: The Virtual Institute for I/O
Date: 2020-05-18

Presented by Bryan Johnston (CHPC)

South Africa’s Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) supports the country’s academic community through the provision of leading HPC resources and expertise. The CHPC recognises the importance of developing a competent HPC workforce and to this end the CHPC hosts annual Summer and Winter schools, as well as an annual Student Cluster Competition for undergraduate students. In addition to the user competence development, the CHPC also leads the HPC Ecosystems Project, which focuses on developing the HPC System Administration workforce in Africa. This talk will provide a brief overview of the CHPC’s primary activities in this space, including identified challenges and lessons learned, concluding with a summary of the CHPC’s needs for a universal HPC certification.