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Intro to Scientific Computing and HPC 3-5 June 2025

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Are you starting your summer internship and you are unsure about the computational resources available for you? Are you a doctoral researcher who has recently started working on their research? Would you like to have more resources for your data science tasks? Join our hands-on course for data science workflows with high performance computing.
Introduction to Scientific Computing summer 2025

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June 2025 / Intro to Scientific Computing and HPC

Part of Scientific Computing in Practice lecture series at Aalto University.

Audience: Everyone doing computational work, special focus for summer workers who are just starting.

About the course: Summer Kickstart is a 2.5 days course for researchers to get started with the available computational resources at Aalto and CSC (the Finnish national computing center) and any other HPC system that you might have access to. 

This year we are trying a new format so that we can also cover other important tools in computational research to ensure reproducibility of your computations.

By the end of the course you get the hints, ready solutions and copy/paste examples on how to find, run and monitor your applications, and manage your data. In addition to how to optimize your workflow in terms of filesystem traffic, memory usage etc.

The course is done in collaboration with CSC, University of Helsinki, University of Oulu. Please read the full description and prerequisites at this link: https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/kickstart-2025/

NOTE: It is important to register even if you cannot attend all days, because you will get access to the recordings and to the Q&A document.

Time, date: 3,4,5.Jun, 9:55-15:00 (with lunch break in between)

Detailed schedule:

  • 3/June/2025 - 9:55-15:00 (with lunch break): Day 1 focuses on the basics of HPC through practical examples. You will learn how to connect to a supercomputer, how storage choices affect your workflow, how to transfer data, and run your first jobs with slurm.
  • 4/June/2025 - 9:55-15:00 (with lunch break): Day 2 introduces tools and practices for efficient and responsible data science. Topics include Conda environments, batch and array jobs, job monitoring, software modules, parallel computing
  • 5/June/2025 - 9:55-12:00: Day 3 covers more advanced topics: GPU usage, working with real examples: local open-weights LLMs (large language models).

Place: online on TwitchTV

Registration: https://link.webropol.com/ep/scicompsummer2025

Cost: free

Course prerequisite requirements and other details: Please read the prerequisites at the course page https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/kickstart-2025/ 

Additional course info at: scip -at- aalto.fi

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