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Newsletter March 2021

ENCCS continues to offer training and support to academia, industry, and public administration. During the first three months of 2021, we have organized 5 events with partners such as NVIDIA, CodeRefinery, CSC, BioExcel and more.

Want to work with us, or know someone that would? Learn more about our open position for a Machine Learning/Material Science expert.

Upcoming Training Events

We have planned a busy schedule of training events for the second quarter of 2021. The selected training topics correspond well with the areas identified by our training survey and continuous feedback from users from both academia and industry. We hope these events will provide much-needed training in key HPC and AI topics.

31 March: A.I. as a Tool for Change (Given in Swedish) (ENCCS/RISE)
16 April: HIP101 Workshop (ENCCS/CSC)

For the events below detailed information is pending, but feel free to save the dates.

27 April: UAP modeling (ENCCS/HiDALGO)
4-5 May: OpenACC/CUDA training for beginners
6-7 May: VeloxChem Course
20 May: Ophidia training with CMCC
26 May: SME training: AI for beginners by ENCCS/RISE
1, 8-9 June: OpenMP hackathon (ENCCS/Intel)
15-16 June: OpenMP training (GPU aspects)
18 June: SME Training - A.I. for Beginners (ENCCS/RISE)
28-29 June: Advanced OpenACC/CUDA training

Further Events

The Next LUMI Roadshow is on the 8th of April at 09:00.

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Open Calls

Past Events

Learn more about the structure and topics of our past events by following the links below.

A.I. Bootcamp (ENCCS/NVIDIA)
GROMACS Workshop (ENCCS/BioExcel)
CMake Workshop (ENCCS)
Practical Deep Learning Workshop (ENCCS/CSC)
Workshop and hackathon on Software Testing (ENCCS/CodeRefinery)

All events

LUMI and Sweden

The online LUMI Roadshow attracted 67 participants from different disciplines in academia as well as public administration and private enterprises. Learn more on how LUMI is going to work with the Swedish HPC infrastructure and details on this transnational endeavor here.

Successful Preparatory Access Applications

Our industrial partner Airinnova AB has recently been awarded 50,000 core hours for a Prace Preparatory Type A project on the Hawk system at HLRS in Germany. Learn more about it here.

Latest successful applications

Dr. Qiang Li - Preparatory access PRACE allocation for ICON.
Dr. Mark Abraham - PRACE Shape application for Voxo.
Rickard Armiento - Preparatory access PRACE allocation for work on VASP.

Crash Course in Molecular Biophysics

Professor of Biophysics and ENCCS steering board member Erik Lindahl goes through important concepts in a series of online lectures on Molecular Biophysics.

Supported Software

GROMACS, VeloxChem, NEK5000, and Climate Science applications have had significant updates in the past months. See them below.