Education and Outreach Strategy Design for High-Performance Computing Centers: Lessons from Florida State University's Research Computing Center

To enhance accessibility and early exposure of its High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources to students, faculty, and staff, Florida State University's Research Computing Center (RCC) started several educational and outreach initiatives from 2022 to 2024 that we will present in this paper. The key initiatives are the Interdisciplinary Data Humanities Initiative (IDHI) and the HPC Driver's Ed course. IDHI focuses on supporting users in humanities, social sciences, and the arts (HSSA) with the following services: project consultation resources, software installation, and the development of discipline-specific educational materials. IDHI has supported a range of HSSA departments within the last two years utilizing all service components that previously facilitated HPC research in STEM and furthered HPC education. The HPC Driver's Ed course aims to expand asynchronous instructional materials through the development of video-based lectures and examinations to facilitate beginner users' onboarding process. As the HPC Driver's Ed program was initially released in April 2024, we lack statistical data of uptake by our user community.