The workshop focuses on tackling the HPC talent Gap, which is similar, according to IDC and our latest studies, in EU, USA, Japan as well as in BRICS and Latin America.  On the other hand we observe mathematics led innovation both in EU and USA, with critical demand of Computational Science Research Methods to bridge the above gap.

Thus the focus of the workshop is on the overall environment and how the needed research skills for changing HPC ecosystem can be built into the PG level and professional development.

The aim is to provide forum for discussion highlighting not the single instances on lesson level but rather the means to affect change by increasing Computational Science (CompSci) visibility at curricula and degree level.

Workshop Chair: Nia Alexandrov, BSC, Spain

Abstracts of the accepted papers and talks

There is an open access to the papers in the proceedings:

2014 International Conference on Computational Science, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 29, Pages 1-2520 (2014), Edited by David Abramson, Michael Lees, Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, Jack Dongarra and Peter M.A. Sloot

Review Notes: There have been 47 attendees on the workshop and the talks provoked a lot of questions which were the basis for an interesting discussion. Among the highlighted issues were not only the general points of the HPC skills gap and the position of Computational Science to address some of them (see below talks 2 and 4) but also the local specifics (talk 5); successful experience in working with researchers from natural sciences were shared (talk 1) as well as innovative way of teaching students (talk 5). Methodology for assessing the context factors for design and delivery of successful courses on PG level was presented as well (talk 6).

The response to this first edition of the workshop has encouraged us to continue with further events. See you all next year on ICCS 2015 in Reykjavík.