The HPC community has always considered the training of new and existing HPC practitioners to be of high importance to its growth. The significance of training will increase even further in the era of Exascale when HPC encompasses even more scientic disciplines. This diversification of HPC practitioners challenges the traditional training approaches, which are not able to satisfy the specific needs of users, often coming from non-traditionally HPC disciplines and only interested in learning a particular set of skills. HPC centres are struggling to identify and overcome the gaps in users' knowledge. How should we support prospective and existing users who are not aware of their own knowledge gaps? We are working towards the establishment of an International HPC Certification program that would clearly categorize, define and examine them similarly to a school curriculum. Ultimately, we aim for the certificates to be recognized and respected by the HPC community and industry.

International HPC Certification Program, International Supercomputing Conference, Frankfurt, June, 2018

Julian Kunkel (University of Reading), Kai Himstedt (Universität Hamburg), Weronika Filinger (University of Edinburgh), Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN), William Jalby (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin), Lev Lafayette (University of Melbourne)