HPC Carpentry Lessons

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The HPC intro lesson is nice. However most Carpentries workshops are about 16 hours long and composed of 4 lessons of about 4 hours each, typically three of these lessons in a carpentries module are compulsory for a carpentries workshop. Having a choice of modules would be great. Some modules could be

• hpc-intro - why you want to use HPC and how to submit a parallel job, the parallel job could be an embarassingly parallel task sweep leaving MPI to the hpc-programming module
• sw-shell/hpc-shell - using the software carpentry shell lesson may save maintenance effort, using ssh can be put into hpc intro
• hpc-programming - this could introduce MPI and other parallel programming models, possibly also GPUs
• big-data/machine learning - tensorflow, hadoop, etc
• Application specific modules, some possible application software include
  1. Molecular dynamics such as GROMACS, NAMD
  2. Finite element modelling OOF, specfem3d, nek 5000, Moose framework, FENICS
  3. Finite Volume Fire Dynamics Simulator, OpenFOAM, Clawpack

[bkmgit]

This is related to issues #29 and #2 and also the outline in https://github.com/hpc-carpentry/coordination/blob/main/lesson-proposals/proposed_lessons_20191016.md