The CHPC Student Cluster Competition gives undergraduate students at South African universities exposure to the High Performance Computing (HPC) Industry. At the CHPC's 2021 National Meeting teams build small HPC clusters on the exhibition floor from hardware provided by the CHPC and our industrial partners. The winning team is entered into the ISC Student Cluster Competition hosted at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.

For more information or to register for the competition you can apply here.

This course is offered by the CHPC to employees of the Council for Geosciences in order to assist them in making full use of the computational resources available to them via the CHPC. The course will begin with a basic introduction to the command-line Linux environment, bash and bash scripting. The underlying principles of HPC and parallel computing will then be explained, as well as such HPC-related concepts as the job-scheduler. Practical use of of the CHPC's cluster will then be explained through examples, tutorials and exercises.

This online course will introduce African HPC users to the systems at the CHPC and help you develop practical skills in using the cluster for your scientific work. Attendees will learn the basics of using the CHPC Lengau cluster along with how to convert the computational intensive parts of their scientific workflow into a job script suitable for the CHPC. The Practical HPC course is 10 weeks long and will need about 2~3 hours per week.

For more information and to enrol in this course apply here.