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Pegasus: Conferences, Extensive manual (w/ tutorial), Mailing lists, have VM images that go with the tutorial to make it easy for new users to try the software
USC has a CS MS degree in High Performance Computing and Simulation that some PhD students in other departments (chemistry, physics, biology, engineering) take in order to acquire computation skills for their research. http://www.cs.usc.edu/academics/mshighperform.html
-Try to document questions and solutions that arise
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