Twelfth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education (BPHTE25)
Twelfth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education (BPHTE25)
November 17, 2025. 9 AM - 5:30 PM CST
| 9:00 AM-9:10 A.M | Twelfth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education Nitin Sukhija, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania |
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| 9:10 AM-9:35 A.M | Advancing HPC skills by developing Large Language Model Retrieval Augmented Generation (LLM-RAG) systems Mullen, Corey, Milechin, Tyagi, Burrill |
| 9:35 AM-10:00 A.M | Expanding the CyberAmbassadors Program to Include Mentoring for Emerging CI Careers . Luchini-Colbry, Colbry, Rojewski |
| 10:00 AM-10:30 A.M | Break |
| 10:30 AM-10:55 A.M | HPC-ED: Testing Automated Agents to Assess the Quality of Training Resource Metadata. Morsy, Dey, Wang, Thomas, Toone, Joiner |
| 10:55 AM-11:20 A.M | Experience and Outcomes Organizing a Hackathon in the Physical Sciences. Jezghani, Fry |
| 11:20 AM-11:45 A.M | Shaping the future workforce: Challenges and lessons learned in HPC education from national labs and computing centers. Diehl, Li, Junghans, Holmen, MacCarthy, Parete-Koon, He, Hartman-Baker, Lively, Gott, Gupta, Streu, Ghadar, Kinsley, Herriman, Draeger, Eijkhout, Mehringer |
| 11:45 AM-12:10 P.M | A Retrospective on South Africa’s Student Cluster Competition and its Model for Inclusive HPC Outreach and Training (2012-2020). Johnston, Thorne, Cawood, de Beste, Macleod |
| 12:10 PM-12:30 P.M | Enhancing HPC Curriculum through Competitions. Carbunaru, Sami |
| 12:30 PM-2:00 P.M | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM-2:25 P.M | Building Scalable and Inclusive Foundations for HPC: Lessons from UC Merced’s Introductory HPC Training Program. Yu |
| 2:25 PM-2:50 P.M | Teaching AI Through Narrative Data: A Practical Framework for Data Science and Retrieval-Augmented Generation . Dey, Lindsey |
| 2:50 PM-3:00 P.M | Q/A and Discussion |
| 3:00 PM-3:30 P.M | Break |
| 3:30 PM-3:55 P.M | Building Expertise, Connections, and Communities for AI and HPC Training and Education: NAIRR Pilot User Experience Group Initiatives.Sukhija, Knuth, Romanella, Brazil |
| 3:55 PM-4:20 P.M | Investigating User Attitudes Towards and Benefits from Integrating AI Assistants into Research Computing Support Rasul, Stuart |
| 4:20 PM-5:20 P.M | PANEL: “Developing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) AI and HPC Training Environments”. Sunita Chandrasekaran, Vassil Alexandrov and Sadaf Alam. |
| 5:20 PM-5:30 P.M | Closing Remarks- “HPC Education and Training: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges”, Nitin Sukhija |
Held in conjunction with SC25: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
https://sc25.supercomputing.org/
Since 2014, the Best Practices for HPC Training workshop series at SC has provided a global forum for addressing common challenges and solutions for enhancing HPC training and education, for sharing information through large and small group discussions, and for fostering collaboration opportunities. The Twelfth workshop (BPHTE25), an ACM SIGHPC Education Chapter coordinated effort, is a full day workshop focusing on extending collaborations among practitioners from traditional and emerging fields, exploring the challenges in developing and deploying HPC training and education, and identifying new challenges and opportunities for the latest HPC platforms. The workshop will provide opportunities for: disseminating results, understanding the recent challenges with effectiveness of HPC education and training materials and promoting collaborations among HPC educators, trainers and users. We are planning for papers, lightning talks and demos to be presented by members of the international community. The workshop papers, extended lightning talks and demo abstracts will be published in a special issue of Journal of Computational Science Education .