This course is a follow-up to our introductory Blender course. We assume you are familiar with working with Blender and have some experience with topics such as the Blender UI, 3D meshes, materials, lighting and cameras. Course Setup In this course you will learn a number of advanced Blender topics: * The basics of the...

This two-day hybrid course serves as an introduction to the LUMI architecture and setup. It will include lessons about the hardware architecture, compiling, using software and running jobs efficiently. After the course you will be able to work effectively on both the CPU (LUMI-C) as well as GPU partition (LUMI-G). What will you learn in...

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! What will you learn in this training? In this training you will: • understand what...

Are you interested in using the High Performance Computing Cluster (HPC) but lack the basic Linux knowledge? Join the free 5 hours course on the basics of Linux for working on the HPC. You will learn the Linux commands and skills needed to create repetitive tasks. The course is organized by FB-IT and SRF with...

This basic course is focused on introducing parallel programming using the most widely used approaches: Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP). Each session includes hands-on exercises to facilitate the understanding of the different constructs. As a participant, you have already some familiarities with C, Fortran, or Python programming, and in these two days...

This advanced course describes different everyday challenges that developers of parallel code must face in everyday work and provides working solutions for them. Each of these sessions includes hands-on exercises to facilitate the understanding of the different constructs. Moreover, you will also obtain some insight on useful parallel libraries and routines for scientific code development,...

This training explains cloud computing in general. The accompanying hands-on approach introduces you to (some of) the many features of SURF Research Cloud. You will learn how to create and manage your own virtual computing environment(s). For whom? Anyone who wants to use a flexible and customized environment to run powerful applications.The language of instruction...