High-Performance Computing (HPC) drives scientific and technological innovation, requiring a workforce capable of adapting to rapidly evolving tools and methodologies. While formal education provides foundational knowledge, informal learning-through workshops, hackathons, and targeted training-offers handson experience that accelerates skill development and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Cross-national collaboration plays a critical role in amplifying the effectiveness of informal education. Partnerships between institutions, National Competence Centers (NCCs), and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) foster knowledge exchange, resource sharing, and coordinated efforts to address complex challenges such as climate modeling and artificial intelligence. In particular, cooperation has significantly strengthened Slovenia's HPC ecosystem by broadening training access and enriching expertise. This paper explores how informal education and international collaboration support the development of HPC competencies, with a focus on NCC Slovenia's role within the EuroHPC framework. It presents data from 2023-2024 showing substantial growth in training activities, participation, and repeated attendance. The findings underscore the importance of collaborative, flexible learning models in building a skilled and resilient European HPC workforce.
High Performance Computing (HPC) has penetrated various computing environments, ranging from supercomputers and server farms equipped with multicore CPUs and GPUs, to individual PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. Today, even personal computer users rely on parallel and distributed capabilities embedded in their smartphones, tablets, and laptops, most of them without being aware of. In todays digital skillset the HPC usage has been gaining attraction, and with it the need for sufficient training. Inclusion of HPC is challenging, as the implementation is spanning multiple application fields. Various initiatives, including training, skill development, technology transfer, and collaborations with industry, aim to support and expand HPC usage in scientific, academic, and industrial settings. This paper outlines the strategy for training in HPC and reports on the outcomes of activities conducted during the first year of EuroCC 2 project in Slovenia.
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One of the main accelerators of modern science and a prospective field of future business professionals present the usage of High Performance Computing (HPC). A great deal of software tools that is being used by researchers today is not developed to exploit the possibilities of shared architecture. Researchers must raise their competences by learning the appropriate programming tools before they start using HPCs. To support and expand scientific, academic and industrial deployments of HPC usage, several different activities, ranging from training and skill development, technology transfer, collaboration with industry to facilitation of access to scientific and technical expertise and knowledge pools have been deployed. This paper focuses on presenting the developed strategy of raising competences for HPC and reports on its outcome through conducted activities under the framework of Slovenia National Competence Center (NCC) in its first year of operation.
