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#1347 Computational Science skills change request accepted

The Australian SFIA user community suggests some new skills related to scientific computing: Scientific Modelling, Numerical Analysis and High Performance Computing.

The following skills and a new sub-category related to scientific computing are suggested for SFIA 8:

Category

Subcategory

Skill

Skill Code

Levels

Development and implementation

Computational Science

Scientific Modelling

SCMD

4,5,6,7

Numerical Analysis

NUMA

4,5,6,7

High Performance Computing

HPCC

4,5,6,7

Full details are contained in the uploaded document, including some real-life role profiles that show how these skills would be put into practice.

Download: Proposed SFIA8 Computational Science Skills.docx (62.1KB)

Proposed change applies to Skills

Current status of this request: accepted

What we decided

New skill descriptions have been prototyped for SFIA 8. Category and sub-categories to be confirmed.

Ian Seward (General Manager)
Dec 31, 2020 10:20 PM

Support this. It brings a specialist area into the community that can be served by SFIA. Essentially, this specialist area can define their roles using existing SFIA skills along with these new ones.