MAX_824143 D8.3 Second report on Training and Education

Deliverable 8.3 reports on the education and training activities organised by MAX during the period 01/06/2020-30/09/2022, including data on user participation and involvement. In D8.1 we proposed our structured Training and Education plan, offering a domain-specific program at pan-European level aimed at fostering a new generation of both developers and code users. In D8.2 we reported about the activities carried out in the first 18 months. Here, we report about the last 28 months (M19-M46). During this period, some of the events planned in the first 18 months that had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak were carried out, reshaped with on-line formats. This plan is being effectively implemented through different actions, which included: ● Organisation of 11 schools (plus 3 already planned for the near future) dedicated to MAX flagship code users, with emphasis on their usage on pre-exascale machines. In all the schools, a relevant part of the training was in the form of hands-on sessions. ● Organisation of 5 Hackathons and workshops (plus 1 already planned for the near future) devoted to the training of a new generation of code developers. ● MAX contributed to 9 Master programmes providing introductory courses to undergraduate students on computational materials science, hands-on sessions on usage of MAX flagship codes and best practice in their usage in HPC facilities. ● MAX hosted numerous researchers in its labs, providing both basic and specialised training on MAX codes and libraries. ● MAX actively contributed to schools and training events organised by other institutions. These initiatives have resulted in the production of training material in the form of tutorials and video lectures, that are published in a dedicated section of the MAX website and MaX YouTube channel and are available to the broader community. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, most of the schools were organised fully on-line due to pandemic constraints, while starting from April 2022 we were able to organise three schools in hybrid format. On-line events were organised according to the strategy conceived during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak, described in D8.2. Moreover, MAX contributed to several on-line webinars to ensure its audience proper training during the lockdown. In order to disseminate and valorize the great amount of training materials collected during this period, MAX together with other institutions has started to develop a web-based archive for the training and dissemination material for simulations and materials modelling. The partners in charge of this WP are CNR, SISSA, ICN2, CEA, EPFL, Juelich, ICTP, UGE