There’s a new online gathering place for the HPC community, and it’s quickly building a following. In this episode of @HPCpodcast , Shaheen and Doug talk with Vanessa Suchat and Alan Seale, creators of HPC.social, as we discuss the broader HPC/AI community and their efforts to digitally connect it through a broad, multi-channel platform. we talk Slack, Discord, Mastodon, GitHub, a job board and a community map.
Even as the HPC community has grown, it has maintained a certain sense that everyone knows everyone else. While ISC, SC and other conferences bring together HPC (and increasingly AI) professionals in person, the digital community is fragmented and evolving. The work led by Sochat and Sill focuses on this digital aspect of HPC community building.
Sochat and Sill discuss how HPC.social came about, the different communities and offerings it offers, and how it has built such a large following.
Suchat is a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is a software engineer working with the converged computing team, mapping the space between cloud and HPC both technologically and culturally. Previously, he worked in research computing at Stanford, where he earned his PhD in biomedical informatics, and he was a research fellow at Duke University, where he earned degrees in psychology and neuroscience.
Seale is the managing director of the Center for High Performance Computing at Texas Tech University, where he is also a professor of physics and has been there for 31 years. He is also co-director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Autonomous and Cloud Computing and president of the Open Grid Association. He has an extensive background in distributed and network computing.
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