HeatHub - Building a Sustainable Community for Heat

ScienceServe FZJ Recipient: Claudia Comito, JSC

Led by Forschungszentrum Jülich, HeatHub will transform the Helmholtz Analytics Toolkit (Heat) into a more accessible and sustainable resource for the scientific HPC community. The project addresses a critical gap in user support and documentation. While Heat has strong technical foundations, its diverse user base—from domain scientists new to HPC to advanced users requiring specialized technical content—needs better onboarding and support structures.

HeatHub will focus on two key areas. First, the team will build community through redesigned documentation, a self-paced online course, public knowledge bases, monthly "Heat User Talks," and pathways for scientific publication and contributor recruitment. Second, the project will enhance software accessibility through professional, system-agnostic HPC installation recipes and improve reusability by achieving full REUSE compliance with automated license enforcement.

These efforts will establish sustainable, low-maintenance structures designed to continue growing organically, ensuring Heat becomes a reliable and widely-adopted asset for the scientific HPC ecosystem.