Maastricht Autumn HPC School

Content:

During this Maastricht Autumn HPC School, experts from SURF and Maastricht University (UM) offer a wide range of sessions spread over two days.

The HPC Autumn School will take place from Monday 27 October till Tuesday 28 October at UM; all sessions are in-person events.

This training expects some prerequisites knowledge about:

• Bash
• Git

You can only attend day 2, if you attended day 1.

Learning objectives:

During day 1 you will:

• understand what is high-performance computing (HPC)
• learn basic details on clusters and supercomputers
• do practical exercises on the national supercomputer Snellius effectively
• apply the essential best practices on how to work effectively with large HPC systems

Program of day 2:

Using a high-performance computing system in the most effective and efficient way is not an easy task. Therefore, this course brings a follow-up to the first introductory Supercomputing course (part 1), where you can take a deeper dive into the use of supercomputers with a special focus on efficiency and good practices and a very practical approach.

Target audience: Anyone who wants to learn how to use

Language: English.

Course format: This will be an interactive training and lecture with opportunity to ask questions.

Prerequisites:

This training expects some prerequisites knowledge about:

• Bash
• Git

You can only attend day 2, if you attended day 1.

Location: This workshop is organised on location to be determined (inner city or Randwyck).