Building Expertise for Sustainable Scientific Software in High-Performance Computing: Bridging Training Gaps in the Research Community

The aim of this minisymposium is to explore how training initiatives in sustainable open-source scientific software development foster collaboration among researchers and developers. Scientific software development requires motivated, multi-talented individuals capable of balancing technical excellence with scientific rigor. However, the absence of standard curricula for scientists developing software, undefined career paths, and scarce resources for onboarding and maintaining sustainable software make recruiting and nurturing new talent particularly challenging. The scope and complexity of software skills required are growing rapidly, with software increasingly interdependent on evolving hardware. Traditional academic education often fails to adequately equip researchers for developing sustainable, efficient scientific software. In response, multiple initiatives have emerged over recent years to bridge this gap and provide advanced training to researchers from varied career stages and disciplines. We have invited representatives from some of these initiatives to talk about the topic from their perspective and discuss how we can foster collaborations between the training, researcher and developer communities. We welcome researchers of all scientific domains, and representatives of all training and scientific software developer communities to join us.