The NCC Netherlands

Introduction to Portable GPU Programming
2023-03-30 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join AMD for an interactive live webinar!
Experience the power and adaptability of AMD Instinct™ GPUs and ROCm™ software. Discover the ease of porting CUDA code to HIP with our easy to use ‘hipify’ tools that allow you to make your already written code effortlessly portable across AMD Instinct™ accelerators and other GPUs.
During this 60-minute event, attendees will receive an overview of the AMD Instinct™ M100 and MI200 series accelerators and the ROCm™ compilers, libraries, and tools. Attendees will then learn how to hipify existing code and program AMD GPUs with HIP and OpenMP 4.5. Stick around after the presentation for a live Q&A with our ROCm expert, Joe Schoonover. Sounds like something you would like to be a part of?

Thursday, March 30th, 2023, 1PM CT
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Digital Competence Centre projects 2022 presentation (II)
2023-03-27 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Webinar
The 10 initiatives taken up through the Digital Competence Centres in 2022 include interesting projects on virtual data assistance, Yoda, SRAM and textmining. SURF is organising three online information sessions to share the results.

In an interactive manner, each online session will cover three projects/pilots of pathways completed by 2022. Registration in advance is not necessary, you are cordially invited to join one or more sessions online!
Presentations 27 March

1. Textmining in Dutch-language medical text
UMC Utrecht, Erasmus MC, Radboud UMC and UMC Groningen

2. Building Containerised Workflow for FAIR Data Cube
Radboud UMC

3. Collaborative Oral History Research Environment (CORE)
University of Amsterdam

* Note: the presentations are in English
Background
The digitisation of science is noticeable in all fields and disciplines. The implementation plan “Investments in digital research infrastructure” describes how Digital Competence Centres (DCCs) are to play a role in pooling and sharing knowledge and expertise in the field of digitisation. SURF has an important role in technically facilitating and coordinating the secure, federated system to interconnect the DCCs and in supporting the DCCs in knowledge sharing. SURF supports the DCCs, including by issuing calls for proposals, organising a SURF Research Bootcamp and facilitating the DCC-IN network.
For whom?
All those interested in DCCs. Institutions not affiliated to SURF and other interested parties are also welcome to join!
Participate
Registration in advance is not necessary: you can join one or more online sessions. See the MS Teams link for the second session on 27 March on this page.
Contact
More background information? Email dcc-support@surf.nl.

Developer Conference: NVIDIA GTC - Addressing the AI Skills Gap
2023-03-22 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Demand for AI and HPC programming skills is booming. As demand grows, a skill gap is forming.
Bring your questions to the panel “Addressing the AI Skills Gap” on March 22 at 2pm CET with DIGITALEUROPE, TechUK, MinnaLearn, BME and EuroCC at #GTC23 as we discuss the most in-demand skills in the market, and options for bridging the skills gap.

Demand for AI, accelerated computing, and HPC programming skills is booming. And as this demand grows, a notable skill gap is forming. If you’re a business leader who’s facing these issues or a developer planning next career steps, join this…
Speakers
Kevin McFall, Master Instructor, NVIDIA
Viivi Pitkanen, Co-founder & Head of Growth, MinnaLearn
Martina Blazkova, PhD, Senior Education and Training Officer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
Bálint Gyires-Tóth, PhD, Associate Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Helena Lovegrove, Director of Operations and Projects, DIGITALEUROPE
Nimmi Patel, Head of Skills, Talent and Diversity, techUK
Industry: All Industries
Topic: Deep Learning – Frameworks
Wednesday, Mar 22 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CET

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Your secrets are safe with us: Tooling for research with sensitive data
2023-03-21 00:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 3, Utrecht, Netherlands
Many areas of research deal with sensitive data that cannot be shared widely. They have to be protected due to privacy, intellectual property, or other reasons. In this event, we will discuss several projects, tools and techniques to work with sensitive data in research.
In the context of open science, research data are increasingly shared for reuse. When working with sensitive data, however, such sharing is often hampered due to privacy, intellectual property or other limitations due to the sensitive nature of the data. This limits the degree of reuse in research tremendously. More and more, however, solutions and strategies are being developed to circumvent these limitations.

The aim of this afternoon is to give an overview of current projects, tools and techniques to work safely with sensitive data. The afternoon will consist of short presentations and demos, with ample room for questions, and drinks afterwards.

Programme Tuesday March 21
Chair: Annette Langedijk

13:00-13:30 Doors open
13:30-13:40: Welcome (Matthijs van Otegem, Director University Library Utrecht)
Presentations and demo’s:

13:40-13:55 The Data Privacy Project (Dorien Huijser, Utrecht University)
13:55-14:20 Tools-to-Data (Joris van Zundert, Huygens Institute)
14:20-14:45 Federated learning (Esther Bron, Erasmus Medical Center, Health-RI)
14:45-15:15 Break
15:15-15:40 D3I – A platform for digital trace data donation (Laura van Boeschoten, Utrecht University)
15:40-16:05 Synthetic data (Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Utrecht University, ODISSEI SODA team)
16:05-16:30 Overview of privacy-preserving techniques (Freek Dijkstra, SURF)

16:30-17:00: Closing with drinks

For whom
The event is intended for research data support staff and researchers with an interest in working with sensitive research data. It will provide an opportunity to learn about existing initiatives and connect with similarly interested colleagues.
Organisation
SURF and Utrecht University.

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Digital Competence Centre projects 2022 presentation (I)
2023-02-28 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Webinar
The 10 initiatives taken up through the Digital Competence Centres in 2022 include interesting projects in the areas of virtual data assistance, Yoda, SRAM and textmining. SURF is organising three online information sessions in February, March and April to share the results.

In an interactive manner, each online session will cover three projects/pilots of pathways completed by 2022. Registration in advance is not necessary, you are cordially invited to join one or more sessions online!
Presentations 28 February

1. Research Cloud Community Engagement
Utrecht University, TU Eindhoven and Wageningen University

2. Research Software Directory: software in the shop window
Amsterdam UMC, Leiden University, Utrecht University and Netherlands eScience Center

3. Bootcamps: Towards Circular Science
Maastricht University

Background
The digitisation of science is noticeable in all fields and disciplines. The implementation plan “Investments in digital research infrastructure” describes how Digital Competence Centres (DCCs) are to play a role in pooling and sharing knowledge and expertise in the field of digitisation. SURF has an important role in technically facilitating and coordinating the secure, federated system to interconnect the DCCs and in supporting the DCCs in knowledge sharing. SURF supports the DCCs, including by issuing calls for proposals, organising a SURF Research Bootcamp and facilitating the DCC-IN network.
For whom?
All those interested in DCCs. Institutions not affiliated to SURF and other interested parties are also welcome to join!
Participation
Registration in advance is not necessary: you can join one or more online sessions. The MS Teams link for the first session on 28 February can be found on this page.
Follow the session via this link, Registration in advance is not necessary.
The second and third sessions will take place on 27 March and 26 April.
Contact
More background information? Email dcc-support@surf.nl.

Training: Introduction to supercomputing
2023-02-07 09:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
When you need to perform many calculations, or analyses that are too large for your own system, clusters and supercomputers provide the computing power you need. In this course, you will learn to work with the national supercomputer Snellius and the national computing cluster Lisa.
When you need to perform many calculations, or analyses that are too large for your own system, clusters and supercomputers provide the computing power you need. In this course, you will learn to work with the national supercomputer Snellius and the national computing cluster Lisa.
What will you learn in this training?
In this training you will do practical exercises to learn how to effectively use the national computing cluster Lisa and the national supercomputer Snellius and how to complete your tasks with minimal effort in the shortest possible time.
For whom?
Anyone who wants to know how to perform massive computing tasks.
The language of instruction is English.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Unix shell is helpful.
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