FP7 Support Action - European Exascale Software Initiative DG Information Society and the unit e-Infrastructures EESI Final Conference Training and education in High Performance Computing Marie-Alice Foujols, IPSL

 Issue pointed by all WG (3 and 4)  Educational programs : to increase HPC literacy (LM) to improve HPC expertise (LMD, PostDoc, professionals)  Training : stronger links between the HPC community and applications domain, between academic and private sectors interdisciplinary expertise : hardware, software, tools, libraries, … new topic : data science Education and training EESI Final Conference, Oct. 2011, Barcelona 2

 Questions for application developers team : How many people are involved? Which kind of expertise is required? How to keep expert expert? How to increase domain of expertise?  Training for trainers Training for experts EESI Final Conference, Oct. 2011, Barcelona 3

 Prace schools supported by Prace1IP : 1 school per trimester 20 to 60 people From 25 different countries Web portal  Other examples : CECAM : HPC Europa : EBI :  All countries in Europe Training at European level EESI Final Conference, Oct. 2011, Barcelona 4

 Next generation of professionals : Do we have enough HPC in courses? Do we have enough students? Do we have enough engagement with private sector? Do we are enough attractive?  Support for training at European level Training for the next generation EESI Final Conference, Oct. 2011, Barcelona 5

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