HPC Training Series - Course 22 "HPC Fundamentals, Slurm, Open OnDemand & XDMoD"

Monday 13 Jul 2026, 12:00 → 14:40 Europe/Athens

EuroCC@Greece announces the 22nd Course of HPC Training Series with the subject "HPC Fundamentals, Slurm, Open OnDemand & XDMoD".

Date: July 13th, 2026, at 12:00 EEST 

Location: Online via Zoom  

Presentation Language: Greek

Audience: This course is ideal for HPC Engineers and Academic Researchers.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the seminar, participants will be able to:

• Explain the role of High Performance Computing in AI, science, and engineering workloads.
• Identify key HPC components, including nodes, CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, and networking.
• Understand parallel computing concepts such as tasks, threads, cores, speedup, and scaling.
• Use basic Slurm concepts to request resources, submit jobs, and monitor workloads.
• Access HPC resources through Open OnDemand for interactive sessions, file management, and job submission.
• Recognize when to use CPUs, GPUs, OpenMP, MPI, or CUDA for different computational tasks.

Prerequisites: Basic programming knowledge (preferably in C, C++, or Fortran).

Instructors’ Short Bios:

• Alexandra Charalambidou is an HPC engineer at the Digital Governance Unit of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She supports users of the University's HPC infrastructure, and moreover designs and maintains HPC related services. She has several years of experience in creating user workflows, porting, profiling, benchmarking and optimising scientific applications on HPC resources.
• Anastasia Makri is an HPC team member at the Digital Governance Unit of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and senior student at the the Department of Informatics of Aristotle University, supporting users of the University's HPC infrastructure and contributing to the improvement of the overall user experience. Her work focuses on user support, troubleshooting, software deployment and maintenance, as well as scripting for the automation of administrative and operational workflows in HPC environments.
• Paschalis Korosoglou is an HPC engineer at the Digital Governance Unit of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has participated in major national and European projects, such as EGI, HP-SEE, PRACE and HellasHPC, mainly in user services provisioning and application support activities. In this respect he holds a solid background on scientific applications porting, profiling, optimisation and benchmarking activities and has developed under several occasions code optimisation improvements related to hybrid parallel implementations (MPI/OpenMP) and parallel I/O best practices.
• Vassilis Asteriou is an HPC and DevOps engineer at the Digital Governance Unit of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD candidate in communications networks at the Department of Informatics of Aristotle University. He received the B.S. degree in Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2020. His professional experience includes HPC and Cloud infrastructure and services deployment and management, installation, distribution and troubleshooting of scientific software and HPC user support. He has participated in EuroCC 2.
• Dr. Nikos Bakas is a Senior Data Scientist at GRNET with a broad background in Artificial Intelligence. He has authored numerous publications across AI thematic areas including Machine Learning, Numerical Methods, Optimization, and Large Language Models. He has served as principal investigator, researcher, and coordinator in multiple projects at research centers and universities. Dr. Bakas holds a Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens and has long-standing teaching experience. He also brings extensive programming expertise in a wide range of languages and frameworks, and the training seminars he has organized have reached a broad community of engineers.

 

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