The 11th High Performance Computing (HPC) School of the University will take place from 12 to 19 November 2021 on a hybrid format.
Programme
During this 6-half days event, the University HPC team together with leading computational scientists of the University and HPC experts will offer instructions, hands-on and guided sessions (including several new ones) on a variety of topics representative of research activities and domains present at the university, including:
- Access to and interaction with the University HPC infrastructures
- Monitoring, Debugging & Profiling, Performance Engineering
- HPC workflow management (for sequential and parallel tasks)
- HPC programming and usage of the main software available on the platform, with dedicated sessions directed towards Scalable Science (OpenMP/MPI), GPU trainings (CUDA programming, Neural Networks), R, Python, Big Data analytics, Deep and Machine learning etc.
- Virtualisation with Singularity containers on the clusters
- (new) Introduction for novice to UNIX/Linux Shell as preliminary session scheduled on Friday, Nov 12, 2021.
The aim is to cover basic as well as advanced usage of the platform. Whether you have no HPC experience or are an advanced user, don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn more about the efficient usage of the system.
You are also encouraged you to attend the inaugural keynote (scheduled on Monday, Nov 15th 2021, 09h00), where a general update of the HPC and Big Data developments at the University, national and European levels will be provided. Another keynote is also scheduled on Friday, Nov 19th 2021 (10h15), addressing HPC challenges tied to storage data management.
Registration
Pre-Registration is mandatory before Friday, Nov 10th, 2021 via this link
The number of seats is limited (for both the physical and remote seats).
Participation to this edition is free of charge and opened for ALL partners (incl. externals).
More information: https://hpc.uni.lu/education/hpcschool