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NordicHPC

Thor Wikfeldt, PDC

NordicHPC ( nordichpc.github.io ) is a loose collaboration of Nordic computing facility staff and friends with a special focus on usability and reimagining high-performance computing (HPC) for the modern age. Most members fall somewhere between being application experts or system administrators of clusters – they are largely the people who are the front line supporting research and who deal with all of the daily mess.

The goals of NordicHPC are to

  • share problems and suitable solutions across HPC and scientific computing centres and across countries, and collaboratively maintain these solutions,

  • improve the usability of HPC and large research computing systems for the modern world, and

  • meet once or twice per year in an informal setting to share recipes and issues with the hope of improving the user experience and also the “sysadmin experience”.

NordicHPC has a GitHub organization at github.com/NordicHPC  that is meant for sharing and collaborating on clever solutions or hacks to everyday computing and administration tasks. Are you sitting on a nice tool that needs a home? Consider sharing it via NordicHPC! It can give your work more visibility, and shared maintenance can produce better software for all of us. See the repository information at nordichpc.github.io/repo  for more details.