In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the autumn term. Since last time we have added an Introduction to Python on HPC systems.
An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website.
Overview
NAISS training
- Online workshops: Mondays with Matlab, 23 September
- Online training seminar: Introduction seminar for Alvis users, 1 Oct 2025
- Online seminar: VASP Best Practices, 3 October 2025
- Online course: Introduction to running R, Matlab, and Julia in HPC, 6-8+10 October 2025
- Change of date for online course: Introduction to PDC Systems, 6th and 7th October 2025
- Online training seminar: Debugging of HPC applications, 7 October 2025
- Online training workshop: Basic Singularity/Apptainer workshop, 13 October, 2025
- Online workshop: Intro to Python for HPC, 14 October, 2025
- Online workshop series: Large Language Model Workshop, 19-21 Nov 2025
CodeRefinery event
- CodeRefinery workshop on tools and techniques for reproducible research (online), multiple dates September and October
Online interactive support and discussion forum
- NAISS Zoom-in - a virtual open-house, 9 October from 14:00 until 15:00
LUMI training
- Online/on site workshop: Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI, 8-9 October
Berzelius event
- Online training event: “Practical Machine Learning”, 9 Oct 2025 at 9:00
University events
- Introduction to Linux and UPPMAX, Uppsala, 15-17 October, 2025
ENCCS events
- Webinar: Quantum-Accelerated Supercomputing for Materials Science, 18 September
- Change of date for webinar: HPC Workloads in the Cloud – a practical intro webinar, 9 October
- Workshop: Quantum Autumn School 2025. 3-7 November
NAISS training
Online workshops: Mondays with Matlab, 23 September
This is a collaboration with MathWorks, DTU Denmark, CSC Finland, NRIS Norway, IHPC Iceland and RTU HPC, Latvia. We will bring you a series of three workshop on parallel computing and AI using large compute resources. This includes hands-on exercises where you will learn how to effectively use MATLAB and MATLAB Parallel Server to speed up your computations.
The remaining workshop datee aimed at Swedish researchers is:
- Workshop 3 (23 September) will be a hands-on session that will guide you through building end-to-end AI workflows with MATLAB, from no-code machine learning to HPC-scaled deep learning and system-level deployment. You will explore real-world demos and see how MATLAB simplifies and accelerates AI research.
For more information and access to registration, please visit the Mondays with Matlab page (MathWorks).
Online training seminar: Introduction seminar for Alvis users, 1 Oct 2025
Description: This seminar is for new and prospective users of the NAISS cluster for AI/ML, Alvis. You will learn all that you need to know to get started on the system.
Time: 1 October 13:15-15:00
Registration: Alvis introduction 1 October event page (Chalmers)
The next running of this seminar will be on 3rd December.
Online seminar: VASP Best Practices, 3 October 2025
This seminar considers how to run VASP (Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package) efficiently on supercomputers. It is of interest for beginners at different stages and includes: basic theory (briefly), general introduction to VASP, essential files and parameters, running VASP at HPC centers, performance analysis, common issues and post-processing tools. At the end there is a Q&A session.
Time: Fri 3 October, 10:00 - 14:00
Location: online, register to get zoom link before event
Registration is via the VASP seminar registration form (GLE)
For more information, see the VASP seminar page (NSC).
Online course: Introduction to PDC Systems, 6 and 7 October 2025
Date changed from earlier announcement
This course focuses on utilising the Dardel high-performance computing (HPC) system provided by PDC. Throughout the course, we will cover fundamental information about Dardel and its usage, including an overview of the infrastructure, account management, logging in procedures, job execution, data storage, and code compilation.
Date: 29th September, 09-12 & 30th September, 09-12
Location: Online
Webpage: Introduction to PDC systems course page (PDC)
Online course: Introduction to running R, Matlab, and Julia in HPC, 6-8+10 October 2025
Given by NAISS by staff at HPC2N, LUNARC and UPPMAX
Learn how to run R, Matlab, and Julia at Swedish HPC centres, mainly using Tetralith on NSC as an example. We will show you how to find and load the needed modules, how to write a batch script for R, Matlab, and Julia, submitting jobs from inside Matlab, as well as how to install and use your own packages, and more. The course will consist of lectures interspersed with hands-on sessions where you get to try out what you have just learned.
This course will consist of four days. Each day starts at 9:00 and closes 16:00. One day for each language, and the fourth day for more advanced material (GPUs, parallelism, and ML).
Participation is free and open to all current and prospective users of NAISS.
Time and date: 09:00 - 16:00, 6-8+10 October 2025
Location: online via Zoom
For more information and registration, see the R, Matlab, and Julia course page (HPC2N)
Online training seminar: Debugging of HPC applications, 7 October 2025
This seminar we will provide an introduction to the Linaro DDT (formerly known as ARM DDT and Allinea DDT) debugger, which is part of the Linaro FORGE tools suite. Linaro DDT is particular useful when working on parallel applications utilising MPI and/or OpenMP. There is a NAISS license for Linaro FORGE.
The seminar will focus on serial and parallel C, C++ and Fortran applications. The seminar also shows how to start DDT on Python applications. There will be lectures and live demos of the development tool.
Date: 7th October 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Location: Online via zoom
For more information and access to registration, visit the debugging seminar page (LUNARC).
Online training workshop: Basic Singularity/Apptainer workshop, 13 October, 2025
The online workshop is an introduction to the basic concepts of containerized software environment solutions within the Singularity framework (Sylabs).
During the workshop you will have the opportunity to follow the interactive guide on
- how to run Singularity containers
- how to build your own
- good (and bad) practices on designing and building Singularity recipes
- build and/or host container remotely and what are the limitations
To fully benefit from the workshop, basic Linux system administration experience is highly desirable i.e. knowledge of package management and common tools for building and/or managing software: git, pip, conda, wget, curl …
When: 13 October, 2025, 9:15-12:00, 13:15-16:00
Where: online via Zoom
Web page: Singularity workshop page (UPPMAX)
Online workshop: Intro to Python for HPC, 14 October, 2025
This 1-day course helps you get started with Python, by working ourselves through an online and free book. Although the focus is on learning Python, we do work in an HPC environment and you will be taught the bare minimum to run Python on an UPPMAX HPC cluster. The pace of this highly interactive course is set by the majority of learners, ensuring that any complete beginner has enough time for exercises. At the end of the day, you should feel comfortable with the basics of Python and feel familiar to a book on Python to help you on your next steps.
When: Tuesday October 14th 2025, 9:00 - 16:00
Where: Online via Zoom
Course information and registration at the Python workshop page (UPPMAX)
Online workshop series: LLM Workshop, 19-21 Nov 2025
This 3-day online interactive workshop will focus on the use of Large Language Models on NAISS resources. We will cover how to get started and what performance considerations to make. Participants are expected to have basic familiarity with Python, SLURM, containers and transferring data to/from clusters.
Note that an active account on the NAISS system Alvis is preferred to get the most out of some of the exercises. A limited number of accounts may be provided for the workshop on a first come first serve basis.
Time and date: 19-21 November, 10:00-16:00
More information: LLM workshop page (GitHub)
Registration: LLM workshop page (Chalmers)
CodeRefinery training
CodeRefinery workshop on tools and techniques for reproducible research (online), multiple dates in September and October
Are you writing code for your research? Do you struggle to reproduce results of your own or others computations?
Join the online CodeRefinery workshops:
The topics Social coding, Software documentation, Jupyter notebooks, Automated testing and Modular coding are spread over five Wednesdays: September 24, October 1, 8, 15, and 22 at 12:30-14:00 each day.
The CodeRefinery workshop aims to support researchers of all domains, levels and preferred programming languages to write more reproducible research code.
The workshop is held online (streamed on Twitch) with hands-on sessions. Interaction with the participants and live help is guaranteed by a variety of means.
More info and registration on the CodeRefinery workshop website (GitHub).
Online interactive support and discussion forum
NAISS Zoom-in - a virtual open-house, 9 October from 14:00 until 15:00
You are invited to a virtual meeting room. Inside the meeting room we like to discuss services offered by NAISS and how they can be used for your computational needs, help you process your data and visualise your results. Participants are highly encouraged to pose their own questions.
We also expect to have experts available from C3SE, HPC2N, LUNARC and Berzeliusto discuss the University operated HPC services at Chalmers, Umeå and Lund University.
The zoom-link for the session will be announced closer to the event.
The following NAISS Zoom-in is planned for the 13th November
LUMI training
Online/on site workshop: Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI, 8-9 October
Join this two-day workshop to transition your AI projects from smaller computing environments to LUMI's powerful GPU platform. Bring your own AI training scripts for personalized support when adapting them to LUMI. Perfect for users with Python/PyTorch experience looking to scale up their AI workloads across multiple GPUs.
Format: On site in Stockholm and online
More information and registration at the AI training workshop page (LUMI).
Berzelius events
Online training event: “Practical Machine Learning”, 9 Oct 2025 at 9:00
This three hour online webinar is meant to give a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles and practical aspects of ML. It will start from the fundamentals of ML including basic concepts, ML types, and representative applications of ML, and then progress to practical techniques for data preprocessing, model selection, training, evaluation, and assessment. Participants will explore supervised (classification and regression) and unsupervised (clustering and dimensionality reduction) tasks using varied ML algorithms, such as k-nearest neighbors (KNN), linear/logistic regressions, decision tree, random forest, support vector machine (SVM), naive bayes, k-means, and neuron networks.
Feel free to join (and leave) whenever depending on your interest. The online event is open for all present and prospective Berzelius users.
Time: 9 Oct 2025, 9:00 - 12:00
For more info and registration, please visit the Berzelius machine learning event page (NSC).
University events
Introduction to Linux and UPPMAX, 15-17 October, 2025
This 3-day course provides an introduction to the high-performance computing (HPC) environment offered at UPPMAX.
It offers an overview on how the systems work and covers skills from basic Linux usage to more advanced tips and tricks. The lectures covering Linux and bash scripting are cluster-agnostic and may be attended by non-UPPMAX users as well.
When: October 15-17, 2025
For more information and registration, please visit the introduction to Linux and UPPMAX course page (UPPMAX)
ENCCS events
Please visit the ENCCS event page for more information on all ENCCS training events.
Webinar: HPC Workloads in the Cloud – a practical intro webinar, 9 October
Abstract: There is a growing trend of deploying high-performance computing workloads in the cloud, driven in part by significant investments from cloud providers, especially in support of AI and machine learning workloads. However, the tools and software stacks used in traditional on-premise HPC environments often differ from those available in the cloud. This disparity creates unnecessary complexity for users attempting to transition between the two ecosystems, limiting the portability and scalability of HPC applications. In the HPC Workloads in the Cloud webinar, we will explore the cloud ecosystem through the lens of an HPC specialist, examining its advantages and limitations. We will also introduce key concepts and tools that can support the creation and management of cloud-based workflows, including, but not limited to, Apache Airflow.
Detailed information at ENCCS event page, see above.
Time: Oct. 9, 12:00-13:30 (CET) (2025).
Change of date for Webinar: Quantum-Accelerated Supercomputing for Materials Science, 16 October
Abstract: This webinar introduces quantum-accelerated supercomputing approaches that combine traditional HPC resources with quantum computing accelerators for materials science applications. We’ll demonstrate a workflow for studying example problem from material science using hybrid quantum-classical methods, showing how quantum embedding techniques can enable running parts of the atomistic simulations systems using quantum simulators, which then can run on quantum hardware. Participants will learn about the integration of CP2K (classical DFT) with Qiskit-nature (quantum algorithms) through example computational material science workflow.
Detailed information at ENCCS event page, see above.
Time: 16 October, 12:00-13:30 (CET) (2025).
Workshop: Quantum Autumn School 2025. 3-7 November
Abstract: The Quantum Autumn School 2025 (QAS2025) will be a 5-day event full with expert-led sessions. We’re planning a programme that covers a range of topics within quantum computing, from theoretical foundations to practical applications. Expect a blend of lectures, hands-on exercises, and networking opportunities. You’ll also have the chance to interact with stakeholders involved with the EuroHPC JU quantum computers.
Detailed information at ENCCS event page, see above.
Time: Nov. 3-7, 9:00-17:00 (CET) (2025).