mention HPC as a possible and important partner

closes: #33

Author: knarrff

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 This is comparable to commercial/industry R\&D departments, where key software architects and developers establish a knowledge hub and consult with as many projects as necessary [REF].
 Subject matter experts like software architects, database administrators and other tooling specialists are organized centrally and share their knowledge by consulting with decentralized projects.
 It makes economically sense to organise such personel as cost-effective as possible since not every project can afford or needs such RSE FTEs.
-Most academic research organizations have established centralized tooling, e.g.\ storage or HPC, but only a few consider software development and consultancy a relevant service yet.
+Most academic research organizations have established centralized tooling, e.g.\ storage or High-Performance-Computing\ (HPC), but only a few consider software development and consultancy a relevant service yet.
 RSE units act as knowledge hubs in a network of academic developers within an organisation~\autocite{Elsholz2006}.
 This enables the embedded experts to maintain in-depth knowledge and to assess current trends and developments, both in research as well as technology.
 
@@ -368,26 +368,32 @@ \subsection{Module 5: Create a Network of Institutional Partners}%
 However, note that as research organizations can differ widely from one another, so can the tasks and even existence of the entities below.
 Arguments and conclusions below have to be adapted to specific circumstances when applying them to specific environments.
 
-All research institutions in Germany do have a computing center of one form or another.
+All research institutions in Germany do have a \textbf{computing center} of one form or another.
 At the very least, these are the persons that deal with the every-day IT-need of the institution:
 Internet access, Email, Web, central administration of computers (at least that of administrative staff), etc.
 Typically, the assigned tasks of the computing center are not research-driven, or also the staff does not have a research background.
 However, research software often has to work within the environment provided by the computing center.
 A central RSE unit can help to either adapt the research software or even the environment such that the needs of researchers can be met.
 It is not unusual that this requires a level of engagement and understanding of the underlying research concepts that the staff of the computing center cannot provide alone.
 
-A second important partner is the local library, which has already gained tasks much beyond the preservation and organisation of publications on physical paper for quite some time.
+A second important partner is the local \textbf{library}, which has already gained tasks much beyond the preservation and organisation of publications on physical paper for quite some time.
 Besides digital forms of rather traditional publications, these more and more include digital data and recently also software publications, their discovery and citation.
 With the dedicated help of RSEs, research software can be enabled to be added to the organisational bibliography, facilitating internal reporting.
 At the same time, through collaboration with the library, the RSE group can address the first two letters of FAIR:\@ Findability and Accessibility.
 
 Topics of RSE and RDM do have noticeable similarities.
-While software often does require different solutions than data, collaboration between an RSE unit and an FDM unit will in practice be really close.
+While software often does require different solutions than data, collaboration between an RSE unit and an \textbf{RDM unit} will in practice be really close.
 The main reasons for that are that both provide services that are inherently research-oriented and that both deal with the digital side of research.
 Requests by researchers in that direction often touch both aspects, RSE and RDM\@.
-Thus, often a close collaboration between RSE and FDM groups helps everyone: both RSE and RDM groups by being able to offer a more comprehensive service than when working alone, as well as the researcher, who benefits from receiving this single coordinated service, instead of dealing with two independent entities.
+Thus, often a close collaboration between RSE and RDM groups helps everyone: both RSE and RDM groups by being able to offer a more comprehensive service than when working alone, as well as the researcher, who benefits from receiving this single coordinated service, instead of dealing with two independent entities.
 The question whether RSE and RDM should be located in two separate groups or should be combined in one common group is intentionally left open, as the answer depends on local, pre-existing circumstances.
 
+Some research institutions might host a dedicated \textbf{HPC group}, maybe even independent of the computing center.
+HPC is an RSE-related field, so HPC groups might already provide training, consulting and funding opportunities in this area.
+At the same time, HPC by nature focuses on highly efficient, many-core, if possible parallel computations.
+The challenges of an average researchers often start a long way before reaching that level, and they never might need to.
+There are obvious reasons to closely collaborate on both consulting and training, yet at the same time a central RSE unit has to provide a much broader portfolio.
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 \subsection{Module 6: RSE Infrastructure Provisioning}%
 \label{sec:infrastructure}