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HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On 5 February 2026, our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of HPC Carpentry as the fourth official lesson program of The Carpentries, alongside the Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry lesson programs. In this post, our Director of Curriculum and members of the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee reflect on an exciting moment and explore what is involved in operationalising a new lesson program.

HPC Carpentry at LLNL

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is a cross-posting from the HPC Carpentry blog, reporting on a recent workshop.

HPC Carpentry at LLNL

In the first week of June, 2024, Instructors from HPC Carpentry taught our full workflow workshop for the first time. Over a four-day stint at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, we delivered this content not once, but twice!

It was immensely rewarding to see all this material come together in one place. Traveling to teach in person, while not without hiccups, was extremely worthwhile. We believe we served our learners pretty well, and we learned a few lessons relevant to future workshops.

HPC Carpentry Enters Lesson Program Incubation

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that HPC Carpentry has entered Lesson Program Incubation. This is another big step towards the project joining Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry and Software Carpentry as our The Carpentries Lesson Program.

Toby Hodges, The Carpentries Director of Curriculum, said:

I am delighted to see HPC Carpentry move a big step closer to joining The Carpentries. I attended my first HPC Carpentry workshop in Dublin in 2018 – the day before the first ever CarpentryCon! – and have been enthusiastically following them ever since. I know from previous roles how challenging it can be for researchers to get to grips with high-performance computing environments, and the positive impact good-quality training in these skills can have on the scale and reproducibility of their work. So I find the prospect of adding HPC Carpentry workshops to the list of training offered by The Carpentries really exciting. The project is also supported by an inspiring community that shares the values of our own: adopting the project as an official Lesson Program and merging our two communities will strengthen both groups.