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How to get involved with RCC

Become an Officer:

RCC is run by students like you! We are looking for new officers on a rolling basis. If you are interested, please send an email to hpcc@uw.edu describing your interest and background in computing (beginners welcome). If you have questions about what it is like to be an RCC officer, reach out to the RCC officers on Slack to learn about the commitment.

Information interview:

Set up a recorded, short information interview to briefly discuss your project, share insights on supercomputing, and highlight how Hyak has supported your work. There is a chance that a part of the interview will be featured on the homepage of Hyak website as a spotlight! If you are interested in this option, please send an email to help@uw.edu with "Hyak student interview" in the subject line.

Office hours:

As an experienced user, you can co-lead the data science office hour on HPC to provide specialized support to the community. In person office hours are held weekly. See the UWIT Research Computing Calendar to find upcoming office hours. You can select "HPC Office Hours - In Person" or "Research Computing Club Office Hour - In person." Let us know if you plan to attend.

Tutorial on Hyak documentation:

Contribute to a short tutorial or write a blog post about a specific topic of your expertise. The link for the Hyak website can be found here The Hyak team has prepared a Contributions Guide and GitHub Codespace for the documentation website that make preparing a pull request simple. If you would like to speak to someone on the Hyak team about your tutorial idea before getting started, email help@uw.edu with "Hyak tutorial idea" in the subject line.

Contribute script and container definition files with the Hyak community:

Share your unique tricks, aliases, container recipes, or run-script templates that could benefit other Hyak users!

  • Submit-it - A community-driven collection of Slurm job submission scripts for all kinds of computing tasks.
  • Apptainer-images - Collection of Apptainer recipes (.def files) created for and by the UW Hyak user community.