Topics of this issue:

Training opportunities in Sweden, recommended by SNIC training:

Attend training in the Nordics:

Training overview:

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Training Seminar: “VASP best practices”, PDC, Stockholm, 29 May 2019

Weine Olovsson from NSC will be visiting PDC on the 29th of May and will give a training seminar about how to run VASP efficiently on supercomputers. Case studies will be shown with examples from Beskow and Tetralith. The seminar will consider parallel efficiency and memory usage for different calculations, including influential settings such as NPAR, NCORE, NSIM and KPAR.

The last part of the seminar will be for questions, problems and general discussion. You will have the chance to log in to Beskow to run jobs and practice what you have learned (but note that for this you will need to have a PDC account before the seminar starts). Weine is the main expert on VASP within SNIC so if you use VASP for research, be sure to make the most of this opportunity!  

Time: Wed 2019-05-29 13.00 - 15.00

Lecturer: Weine Olovsson, NSC

Location: Room 304, PDC, Teknikringen 14, KTH, Stockholm

Registration is required to attend the training seminar. Please see the event webpage for registration information: https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/calendar/training/vasp-training-seminar-1.895602.

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Training course: “UPPMAX Introductory Course”, Uppsala, 24 - 29 August  

Dates: 24-29 August

Place:  Uppsala (EBC)

Description: A modular 4-day seminar/workshop series with a lot of hands-on activity. Topics range from introductory Linux to Bash and Python scripting.

Webpage: http://www.uppmax.uu.se/support/courses-and-workshops/introductory-course-summer-2019/

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Training workshop: “Awk Workshop”, Uppsala, 30 August

Dates: 30 August 

Place:  Uppsala (EBC)

Description: 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.

Webpage: http://www.uppmax.uu.se/support/courses-and-workshops/awk-workshop-summer-2019/

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Seasonal School: “HPC for Life Sciences”, 10 - 13 June 2019, Stockholm

Molecular modelling and simulations are integral part of biomolecular research. Yet, there is insufficient expertise on efficient usage of HPC resources among the user community.  We are bringing the core developers of GROMACS, NAMD, AMBER and VMD - some of the most popular and well-known applications in the field. Over the 4 days of the event, the school program will allow participants to get a comprehensive understanding of the  usage of the different codes; their scalability and performance, as well as ways to avoid potential issues; and learn the best practices about using them on HPC systems. Extensive hands-on sessions will cover more than half of time during the school. 

The school is jointly organised by PRACE and BioExcel and supported by SNIC.

For more information and registration see: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/868/   

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Training seminar: “C3SE Introductory Seminar” in Gothenburg, 8 May 2019, 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. 

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

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Training opportunities in Sweden, recommended by SNIC training

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Registration opened: PDC summer school 2019: “Introduction to High Performance Computing”, Stockholm, 19-30 August 2019

The PDC summer school provides the skills needed to use high-performance computing (HPC) resources, and includes an introduction to a range of topics, such as: 

- HPC programming languages, libraries and tools 

- modern computer architectures 

- parallel algorithms, and 

- optimising serial and parallel programs. 

Case studies in various scientific disciplines will be used to help illustrate these topics. The course consists of both lectures and guided hands-on lab sessions. 

For more information about the PDC summer school 2019, please visit

https://agenda.albanova.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=6743. 

Please note that there are a limited number of places available in the summer school, so be sure to register early! Registration had just been opened and closes on May 31, 2019.

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Attend training in the Nordics:

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CodeRefinery Training workshop: "Writing Reproducible and Sustainable Research Code”, Aalborg, Denmark, 11-13 June 2019

A three-day CodeRefinery workshop on best practices for writing research code will be held in Aalborg, Denmark, on 11-13 June. 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/2019-06-11-aalborg/ 

There is a limited number of seats available for the workshop, so make sure to register early!

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NeIC Nordic Training Calendar:

The NeIC Nordic Training Calendar gives an overview on eScience related training throughout the Nordics.  Have a look at https://neic.no/training/#neic-training-calendar for an overview on training in Nordic partner countries that is typically accessible to Swedish academic research.  The page also provides direct links to training portals of the national e-Science provides in the Nordics.

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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.