Dear VSC users and friends,

welcome to the new training year and welcome to our new subscribers!

We would like to draw your attention to the International HPC Summer School and to our upcoming VSC training events and clarify the scope of this mailing list.

When it comes to expanding your skills, we have you covered - during the next few weeks there is something for everyone:

Please note that for some of the events the registration deadline is already in the next few days!

Here is an outline, with more information and links following further below:

 

International HPC Summer School
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to apply for the International HPC Summer School, to be held 6-11 July 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. This is an expense-paid program to benefit scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the U.S., the application deadline is already on 31 January 2025, 23:59 AOE.
For all further information please go to:
https://ss25.ihpcss.org/

 

Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters
16.01.2025, 09:00 - 17:00 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Intro-2025-01
Registration is possible until 15 January 2025.
Next re-run will be in March 2025.

Hybrid Programming in HPC – MPI+X
21.-23.01.2025, 09:00 - 16:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPIX-2025-01
Hybrid course at HLRS, Stuttgart and online.

Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on one GPU
22.01.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/finetuning1-2025-01
Priority for participants from industry and public administration.
Fully booked, but there is a re-run 2 days later open for everyone. 

Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on one GPU
24.01.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/finetuning1-rerun-2025-01
Registration is possible until 17 January 2025.

Extrae and Paraver: Profiling Weather and Climate Applications
27.01.2025, 09:00 - 16:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/ESiWACE-2025-01
The examples are from weather and climate applications,
but the course is suitable for participants from other backgrounds as well.
Registration is possible until 20 January 2025.

Hackathon: Watt’s Up? Hack for Energy Efficiency – Synthetic Data for Buildings
22.02.2025, 10:00 CET - 23.02.2025, 15:00 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Hackathon-2025-02
Join us for an exciting weekend hackathon – two days including nighttime hacking.
In-person only! At TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Registration is possible until 9 February 2025.

Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on multi GPUs
26.02.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/finetuningmulti-2025-02
Priority registration until 11 February 2025 for participants from industry and public administration.
Registration is possible until 19 February 2025.

Datenanalyse mit KI – Vom Laptop zum Supercomputer
11.03.2025, 10:00 -13:00 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Datenanalyse-2025-03
Course in German.
Priority for participants from industry and public administration.
Registration is possible until 3 March 2025.

Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced)
24.-27.03.2025, 09:00-15:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CppA-2025-03
Free of charge only for VSC users and students and members of Austrian universities and public research institutes. For all other participants, course fees apply.
Registration is possible until 17 March 2025.

Foundations of LLM Mastery: Prompt Engineering Essentials
26.03.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/promptengineering-2025-01
Registration will open on 22 January 2025.
Priority registration until 11 March 2025 for participants from industry and public administration.
Registration is possible until 22 March 2025.

Foundations of LLM Mastery: Retrieval Augmented Generation
30.04.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/RAG-2025-04
Registration will open on 22 January 2025.
Priority registration until 9 April 2025 for participants from industry and public administration.
Registration is possible until 23 April 2025.


Info about more training events from March onwards will be available soon
(and we'll inform you with another newsletter)
https://events.vsc.ac.at/category/4/


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