L'evoluzione dell'offerta formativa del CASPUR per il calcolo scientifico e tecnico ad alte prestazioni

Since 2005, CASPUR has been revamping its activity in the field of High PerformanceComputing (HPC) education. In the beginning, the first edition of a yearly SummerSchool on advanced topics of HPC was organized, during two weeks in the late summer,with the goal to explore subjects like code optimization and code parallelization as wellas to have scientific lectures held by well-known experts in the field. The success ofthe Summer School suggested to us to make an additional effort in education. In 2007four courses on different HPC topics were proposed. Now, having considered the successof the previous years, 11 different courses and a total of more than 15 are planned for2009. About 300 students are expected to follow the 2009 CASPUR HPC education program.For the future, we are working to make CASPUR a valuable centre for high educationon ICT, not only for the typical HPC community but also for all research, servicesand business communities, currently less familiar with HPC. To reach this goal we intendto develop new courses focused on: more technical-scientific integration; security, networkingand other general topics more appealing for the non-scientific users; communitieshaving no straight interest in HPC techniques but that could benefit from them.In addition, we intend to test and implement effective e-learning platforms to extendthe number of possible learners