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Building a Community of Practice to Prepare the HPC Workforce

Author(s) -

Katharine J. Cahill,

Scott Lathrop,

Steven I. Gordon

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

procedia computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334

H-Index - 76

ISSN - 1877-0509

DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.059

Subject(s) - workforce , computer science , work (physics) , workforce planning , engineering management , workforce development , knowledge management , mechanical engineering , engineering , economics , economic growth

It has been well documented for more than 30 years, that significantly more effort is needed to prepare the HPC workforce needed today and well into the future. The Blue Waters Virtual School of Computational Science (VSCSE) provides an innovative model for addressing this critical need. The VSCSE uses a Small Private Online Course (SPOC) approach to providing graduate level credit courses to students at multiple institutions. In this paper, we describe the rationale for this approach, a description of the implementation, findings from external evaluations, and lessons learned. The paper concludes with recommendations for future strategies to build on this work to address the workforce needs of our global society.

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