Welcome to the new SNIC training newsletter.  Due to high infection risks we are no longer offering face-to-face training events.  We are currently moving to remote training.  In this newsletter we promote training provided by SNIC and PRACE

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Training suitable for new users of SNIC:

Online interactive support:

PRACE online HPC training:

Training overview:

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Training suitable for new users of SNIC:

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Training event: “C3SE Introductory Seminar” in Gothenburg, 15 May 2020, 10:00

The event describes how to work on the systems and introduces the provided toolset.  Work management and best practices are also discussed.  The training is intended for all new users, to get a comprehensive overview on the systems and how to get started with using them.  

It is still under consideration, whether the introductory seminar is offered as an online event or as a face-to-face seminar.  Updated information will be announced on the C3SE website, see below.

For more information and registration see: https://www.c3se.chalmers.se/

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Online interactive support:

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Online PDC Cafe, Tuesday 21 April, 10-12:00, Zoom meeting room 

PDC welcomes users to an informal “online PDC Cafe". You can drop by in the Zoom meeting room, have (home-made) fika, meet HPC experts, discuss problems one-on-one in breakout rooms and get useful advice. If there's anything that you think could be improved either in your own scripts, workflows or codes, or in the services that PDC provides, please drop by and discuss it with us, we would love to help! 

Suggestions for issues you can discuss:

• How to improve your run scripts

• Help with scripting

• Help with programming and software management

• Help with project organization and data management

• Help with Linux stuff

• How to improve performance of your calculations

• “Papercuts”: things that annoy you and how we can fix that

• How to improve services

• Project ideas

• Learn about cool services that you may not know yet

Registration is mandatory since information about how to connect to the online Cafe will be sent by email.

Further information and registration can be found at https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/events/pdc-cafe-online-on-21-april-1.975532

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PRACE online HPC training:

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MPI: A Short Introduction to One-sided Communication

Learn the details of one-sided communication in MPI programming.

Discover the advantages to one-sided communication in parallel programming.

Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a key standard for parallel computing

architectures. On this course, you’ll learn the essential concepts of

one-sided communication in MPI, as well as the advantages of the MPI

communication model.

You’ll learn the details of how exactly MPI works, as well how to use

Remote Memory Access (RMA) routines. Examples, exercises, and tests will

be used to help you learn and explore.

Register now for the run starting on 20th April 2020 at

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/mpi-one-sided

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Python in High Performance Computing

The Python programming language is popular in scientific computing

because of the benefits it offers for fast code development. The

performance of pure Python programs is often suboptimal, but there are

ways to make them faster and more efficient.

On this course, you’ll find out how to identify performance bottlenecks,

perform numerical computations efficiently, and extend Python with

compiled code. You’ll learn various ways to optimise and parallelise

Python programs, particularly in the context of scientific and high

performance computing.

Register now for the run starting on 27th April 2020 at

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/python-in-hpc

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SNIC training webpage

In addition to these news letters we also provide a SNIC training webpage: http://docs.snic.se/wiki/Training 

This webpage currently gives an overview on all courses currently planed.  It provides links to more information and the actual registration.  The webpage also includes training which is expected to be mostly of interest to individual SNIC centres.  Information will be added to this page as it becomes available.