Dear VSC users and friends, the year and also the training year 2024 is coming to an end, but in December we still do have 2 courses for you: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python for HPC 09.+11.+13.12.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Python4HPC-2024-12 During the past ten years, Python has seen a meteoric rise in both popularity and demand not only in general purpose programming but also in scientific computing. Data science and machine learning further contributed to this trend. Despite Python's architectural shortcomings, even the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC), with its highly specific demands, profited from recent developments with various libraries and optimizations. This course shows the interested participant how to put Python to use on an HPC cluster as the VSC, how to optimize the code to increase performance, how to parallelize code for single and multi-node deployment as well as GPU offloading. Participants will be introduced to the most practical tools and various indispensable libraries for HPC use cases. After completion of this three-day course, participants are able to create the environment they need on an HPC cluster, optimize and parallelize their Python use-cases and submit their jobs for batch processing on a supercomputer. The content is delivered online over a three-day period with a day off after each course day. This should enable participants to have enough time to revisit the covered topics and come up with questions on the next course day. Registration deadline is Monday, 2 December 2024. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Deep Learning 16.-17.12.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-12 Deep Learning (DL) has enjoyed a surge in popularity during the last decade. This is mainly owed to the fact that DL is computationally quite expensive and needs vast amounts of data to train useful models. Both, computational resources and large datasets have become more readily available in recent years, leading to breakthroughs in DL applications. This course aims at interested participants from all domains, who have not yet jumped on the bandwagon of the DL trend. The course will cover the basic principles of fully connected neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer vision, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text or speech recognition, transfer learning to leverage pre-trained models, and touch on large language models (LLMs) which have become all the rage in the past year. This course is fully booked, but you can still sign up for the waiting list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are currently setting up the course program for the first months of 2025, please stay tuned and find the up to date information about all VSC training events here: https://vsc.ac.at/training Best regards, VSC training team