One goal of HPCCF is supporting a vibrant ecosystem around the HPC competence standard. On this page, we describe current and prospective tools that support practitioners/trainers.

Standalone tools are available in GitHub.

Accessing the Competence Standard

There are various means to access the standard.

RESTful Services

The REST API provides read-only access to the

• Description of the skill as JSON (from the GitHub Markdown)
• Teaching material available (imported from an extra GitHub repository)
• Certificates a skill is part of
• List of available skill (e.g., IDs) or full data

API description

• The API endpoint is https://www.hpc-certification.org/api/
• The URL consists of endpoint and the hierarchy of the relevant subskill as defined in the certification standard and the skill level, e.g., https://www.hpc-certification.org/api/use/1/1/b
• Additional arguments are:
  • fields, i.e., which parts of the Markdown are available
  • version, i.e., the certification standard, e.g., latest
  • list, which generates only the list of subskills in the tree
• Examples
  • Retrieve the particular skill: https://www.hpc-certification.org/api/use/1/1/b?fields=all&version=latest
  • Retrieve the list of skills for a subtree: https://www.hpc-certification.org/api/use/1/?list
  • Retrieve all skills for a full subtree (except the extra training field): https://www.hpc-certification.org/api/use/1/