Introduction to Supercomputing, part I

Wednesday 11 Feb 2026, 13:00 → 16:30 Europe/Berlin

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If you need to perform many calculations, or analyses that are too big for your own system, clusters and supercomputers will provide the computing power you need. In this course, you will learn how to work with these large computing systems!

 

 

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What will you learn in this training?

In this training course you will:

• understand what high-performance computing (HPC) is;
• learn basic details about clusters and supercomputers;
• effectively perform practical exercises on the national supercomputer Snellius;
• apply essential best practices on how to work effectively with large HPC systems.

For whom

Anyone who wants to know how to perform very large computing tasks.

Requirements

• Personal computer and terminal with SSH
• Basic knowledge of Unix shell is useful.

The training course is in English.