The NCC Netherlands

Introduction To Supercomputing, Part I
2025-02-04 13:00 - 16:30 UTC | Amsterdam Science Park, Science Park 904, Amsterdam, 1098XH, Netherlands
If you need to perform many calculations or analyses that are too big for your own system, clusters and supercomputers offer the computing power you need. In this course, you will learn how to work with these large computer systems!
Sign upWhat 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.
Basic knowledge of Unix shell is useful.
The training course is in English.

Advanced User of SURF Research Cloud
2025-02-19 13:00 - 17:00
Do you want to automate your SURF Research Cloud workflows using the API? Join this training to learn how to use the API to prepare environments for a group of users, control workspaces, and connect services. This is a follow-up to the Introduction to SURF Research Cloud training.

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For whom?
This course is designed for researchers and IT professionals who are interested in automating their workflows and exploring the capabilities of SURF Research Cloud through API-driven solutions. The programming language used in the training is Python. The language of instruction is English.
Requirements

Bring your own laptop.
A browser (Chrome or Firefox is good enough).
Experience in using SURF Research Cloud (preferably knowledge from Introduction to SURF Research Cloud training).
Prior knowledge of basic programming, command line tools, cloud computing concepts, and an API would be beneficial.

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