Overview

Across 21 courses delivered between early 2024 and March 2026, the EuroCC@Greece HPC Training Series demonstrates a coherent set of best practices that other National Competence Centres could exploit. The format relies on a repeatable, scalable model for national HPC training. It uses a standardized announcement template and predictable hosting workflow to ensure discoverability and consistency, while the curriculum  supports both the onboarding of new audiences as well as the skill building of long-time training participants. Strong institutional and international partnerships supply expertise and diverse use cases. All materials and recordings are preserved as open resources, creating a durable, reusable national HPC knowledge base.

Objectives

Internal objectives

• Standardize course production: enforce the announcement template, session programme format, and hosting checklist for every course.
• Maintain a modular curriculum library: keep reusable slides, code, exercises, and deployment recipes versioned and easily reusable.
• Institutionalize partnerships and delivery roles: define co‑delivery responsibilities, quality checks, and handover procedures for instructors and NCC staff.

External objectives

• Improve discoverability and uptake: make courses easy to find, register for, and cite via consistent pages, graphics, and regular communications.
• Reduce onboarding time for learners: provide repeated foundational offerings and clear prerequisites so SMEs and researchers can join easily.
• Maximize long‑term impact: ensure public access to materials and recordings so learners can reproduce and build on training independently.

Strategy

The EuroCC@Greece HPC Training Series was born out of the need to support national competence building by offering Greek language, high-quality training material on cutting-edge as well as well-established technologies and HPC frameworks. 

The vision is to establish a national‑scale, sustainable HPC training ecosystem that continuously onboards new learners, accelerates skill development, and preserves institutional knowledge.

The NCC’s strategic objective is to scale high‑quality, relevant training by combining standardized production and discovery processes, a progressive curriculum model, durable open resources, and broad partnerships to maximize reach, reuse, and measurable impact.

Our approach rests on the following pillars:

1. Standardized production and discovery: At the core of our approach lies a standardised announcement template, which harmonises the presentation of every webinar by specifying essential elements such as date, presentation language, location, course description, learning objectives, prerequisites and target audience, complemented by a detailed session programme and, after the event, links to the full training material and recordings. 
2. Progressive curriculum design:  The curriculum is planned as a progression rather than a set of one-offs: foundational courses on SLURM, MPI, OpenMP and GPU/CUDA (Courses 1, 2, 11, 12, 18, 19, 21) are deliberately repeated roughly once a year to onboard new cohorts, while advanced and thematic modules build on top — LLMs and RAG systems (Courses 3, 9, 15, 17), CFD and OpenFOAM (Courses 5, 10, 6, 20), computational chemistry (Course 8), weather forecasting with WRF (Course 13), biosciences (Course 14), and compute-at-scale for AI/IoT/simulations (Course 16).
3. Partnership‑based delivery:  Strong institutional and international partnerships anchor quality and relevance: individual courses are co-delivered with NTUA, AUTH, NKUA, FORTH, Demokritos and other domain experts, while Mediterranean-wide collaborations with the NCCs of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain (notably Courses 15 and 17) broaden the pool of use cases and instructors.
4. Standardized hosting and workflow: Every course follows the same predictable announcement and hosting pattern — a GRNET news post, a public Indico event page (events.grnet.gr) with date, agenda, and registration form, a matching landing page on eurocc-greece.gr, and a coordinated social-media push on the EuroCC@Greece LinkedIn (@EuroCC-Greece) and X/Twitter (@EuroCC_Greece) accounts using a dedicated per-course graphic template, complemented by a monthly EuroCC@Greece newsletter — which makes the series discoverable, searchable, citable and easy to navigate. 
5. Durable open resources: Perhaps most importantly, the series treats training material as a durable public good: slides, code, exercises and agendas remain available through Indico after the event, and full video recordings of every course are published on a dedicated YouTube playlist, so the 21 courses together now form an open, reusable HPC knowledge base rather than disappearing once the live session ends. Taken as a whole, the recipe, partnerships that span academia, industry and peer NCCs, and persistent open-access materials, is a strong template for sustained HPC skills development at national scale. 

Target audience

• SME technical staff (developers, data scientists, HPC/DevOps engineers) seeking to run workloads on HPC.
• Researchers and academic users needing scalable compute for simulations, analytics, or ML.
• R&D managers and decision‑makers evaluating HPC for product development or piloting.
• IT administrators and system integrators responsible for deployment, data transfer, and user support.
• Domain experts from industry (CFD, chemistry, biosciences, weather, AI) wanting applied, tool‑specific training.
• Educators and trainers who will reuse or adapt materials for local curricula.

Outcomes

• Faster onboarding: easy and beginner-friendly participation process for SMEs and new users; predictable and familiar workflow for repeating audiences. 
• Increased HPC awareness / adoption: more SMEs and research groups finding out about HPC-related technologies, but also, about EuroHPC resources for production workloads and pilots.
• Improved user competence: participants are provided targeted material on how to run, tune, and troubleshoot MPI/OpenMP/GPU jobs and domain‑specific workflows.
• Reproducible workflows: occasional demo sections of the trainings offer standardized runbooks, environment configurations, and useful entry points into the presented frameworks.
• Stronger collaborations: sustained partnerships between NCC, universities, and industry leading to co‑developed use cases and shared expertise.
• Durable knowledge base: an open repository of slides, code, exercises, and recordings that supports continued learning and teaching.

Roles

Each installment of the Training Series is created through the interaction of the following roles:

Resources