Merge pull request #9 from mcytowski/patch-1

basic information for HPCTESTATHON 2024 event at CUG

events/cug2024workshop.md

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-# CUG 2024 
-## HPC System Testing Workshop  
-### Description
+# 2024 HPCTESTATHON
+## HPC System Testing Workshop (with hands-on)
+
+## Details
+* **When**: 3-4 May, 2024, held in conjunction with [CUG 2024](https://cug.org/cug-2024/).
+* **Where**: Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, 1 Bryce Avenue, Kensington 6151, Western Australia
+
+## Description
+
+This workshop brings together HPC experts and vendors from around the globe to share state-of-the-art HPC system testing methodologies, tools, benchmarks, tests, procedures, and best practices. The increasing complexity of HPC architectures requires a larger number of tests in order to thoroughly evaluate the status of the system after its installation or before a software upgrade is applied to production systems. Therefore, HPC centers and vendors use different methodologies to evaluate their systems during its lifetime, not only at the beginning during the installation and acceptance time, but also regularly during maintenance windows.
+
+### Goal
+
+The overall goal of this event is to establish a common and open HPC system test suite based on recommendations from the participants.
+
+### Focus
+
+The focus of the event will be on hands-on experience with open source tests shared by supercomputing sites (more information in "Data and code sharing" section below). Access to Pawsey's Setonix supercomputer will be made available for the participants to experiment with various tests to review their scope, usefullness and readiness for including in the HPC test suite.
+
+Workshop will be focusing on:
+* Basic scheduler and programming environment tests,
+* Node health tests,
+* Application-based regression tests,
+* Various isolated system components tests, including interconnect, filesystem, memory, CPUs and GPUs.
+
+### Format
+
+#### Friday, November 3, 2024, 9:00am - 5:00pm
+
+In the morning session, participants will be grouped in teams working on selected aspects of the HPC testing environment (based on registration). They will be able to experiment and review available tests and shortlist candidates for the test suite. Each team will be asked to present their work during the summary presentations session in the afternoon.
+
+#### Saturday, November 4, 2024, 9:00am - 1:00pm
+
+Lightning talks from HPC sites about their approaches to HPC testing. The focus will be on frameworks, tools, challenges and solutions rather than on specific tests investigated during the first day of the event.
+
+### Data and code sharing
+Supercomputing centres willing to share their open source tests are encouraged to submit them as part of the registration. Supercomputing centres using closed source testing procedures are welcome to participate in the event to experiment with tests presented by other sites. Providing links to open repositories and their descriptions is optional during registration.
 
-      
 ### Connect with the HPC System Test Community
-To join the HPC System Test working group Slack, please visit:
+This workshop is organised as part of the HPC System Test working group. To join the HPC System Test working group Slack, please visit:
 http://tinyurl.com/hpcsystemtest-slack
+
+## Workshop registration
+
+* Event is in-person only.
+* Participation is limited to 45 individuals.
+* Registration is required, please register [here](https://pawsey.org.au/event/2024-hpc-system-test-workshop-with-hands-on/).
+
+## 2024 HPCTESTATHON General Chairs
+* Verónica G. Melesse Vergara (ORNL, USA)
+* Bilel Hadri (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
+* David Schibeci (Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Australia)
+* Sam Yates (Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Australia)
+* Maciej Cytowski (Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Australia)