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The SNIC training team wishes everyone a successful year 2020

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Training suitable for new users of SNIC:

Face to face support session

Training opportunities in Sweden, recommended by SNIC

Training overview:

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Training course: "Introduction to HPC2N" in Umeå, 22 January 2020

HPC2N is offering an introduction course to our systems.

We begin with a short (optional) introduction to Linux, then continue with a walkthrough of Kebnekaise, including the GPUs and the KNLs.  In the afternoon we look at the module system and loading the software you need, and how to submit jobs through the batch system.

There will be a hands-on part of the course, where the participants get the opportunity to load modules, compile programs, and submit jobs to the Kebnekaise system.

For more information and registration, see: https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/events/courses/intro-spring-2020

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Training workshop: "Awk Workshop" in Stockholm, 31 January, 2020

The celebrated Uppsala awk workshop is coming to Stockholm!

This workshop aims to promote the awk tool for use in everyday research work and urges you to find solutions yourself rather than expecting ready-made ones. Thus, the material given during the seminar will not be a complete guide or manual. The purpose of the workshop is to give an overview of the capabilities of the awk language and to underline some of its particular strengths as well as its disadvantages.

When: Friday January 31, 2020, 09:00 - 16:00

Where: Gunnar Höglund room, Berzelius väg 3, Karolinska Institute, Solna (Map: https://medarbetare.ki.se/gunnar-hoglund)

For more information and registration, please visit:

https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/events/awk-workshop-1.946918 

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Training course: “Introduction to PDC" in Stockholm, 5 February 2020, 13:00-17:00

This is an afternoon 4-hour hands-on course centered on how to use the systems that PDC is providing, and is a good starting point for people that want to get started with high performance computing (HPC) using PDC clusters.

The course will focus on basic and advanced methods for using PDC systems. It will cover some background, what clusters are available, applying for PDC resources, how to login to PDC, running software on different nodes,  storing data on different file systems, compiling code, etc... 

Location: room 304, Teknikringen 14.

Time: 5 February 2020, 13:00-17:00

To register for this event, please visit: https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/events/training/introduction-to-pdc-systems-course-february-2020-1.948839 

Note that if you wish to participate in the course, you need to have a PDC account. If you do not yet have a PDC account, please request an account at least one week before the course starts according to the instructions at 

https://www.pdc.kth.se/support/documents/getting_access/get_access.html#applying-for-an-account 

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Training seminar: “C3SE Introductory Seminar” in Gothenburg, 18 February 2020, 15:15 - 17:00

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

This seminar will also be offered on 10 April and 15 May.

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

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Face to face support session

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PDC Cafe, Wednesday 22 January, 10-12:00, SeRC room, 5th floor Teknikringen 14

PDC welcomes users to an informal "PDC Cafe". You can drop by, have fika, meet HPC experts, discuss problems 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! This is the place to get stuff done, so bring a laptop.

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

Please register if you wish to attend: https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/events/general/pdc-cafe-on-22-january-1.948844

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Training opportunities in Sweden, recommended by SNIC

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CodeRefinery Training workshop: "Writing Reproducible and Sustainable Research Code”, Uppsala, 1-3 April  2020

A three-day CodeRefinery workshop on best practices for writing research code will be held at Uppsala University, on 1-3 April. The workshop is for students and researchers who write code in any programming or scripting language, at any level of complexity, but it does not teach specific languages nor how to use the Linux/Unix terminal shell. Instead the focus is on using modern tools and workflows to make coding easier and more structured, reproducible and collaborative. 

Further information and registration details can be found on the course website:  

https://coderefinery.org/workshops/2020-04-01-uppsala/ 

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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.