The CÉCI presents, each year during Fall, a full-fledge offer in training sessions for researchers using, or planning to use, the CÉCI clusters. The whole offer goes from “baby steps into the Linux world” to parallel MPI programming and GPU computing. Training sessions are organised mainly in Louvain-la-Neuve and delivered in English.
The slides of previous sessions are available on the Indico event management system. The videos of previous sessions are also available on the CISM/CECI Youtube channel.
Organisation and Prerequisites
The sessions are organised in classrooms and participants are expected to use their own laptops. The sessions are not organised online to ensure a good training experience for the participants as we work hard to make sessions as interactive as possible with hands on exercices. People who cannot attend are invited to reach out their support team for alternatives.
Every participant will receive a certificate of attendance listing the sessions they followed around mid-December.
Every session has a set of prerequisites listed in the description. They are very important in order to fuitfully follow the session. If you do not meet some of the requirements, make sure to attend the corresponding sessions. For instance, after the SSH session, we will assume everyone is able to connect to the clusters and we will not have time anymore to help with that aspect in subsequent sessions.
Please make sure that:
- you have a requested a CÉCI account ;
- you are able to connect your laptop to Eduroam;
prior to attending the sessions.
Topics - Schedule - Registration
The sessions cover many concepts related to high-performance computing and scientific computing. Topics include:
- How to use HPC infrastructure (SSH, lmod, Slurm)
- Programming on HPC cluster (Python, Julia, C, Fortran, …)
- Parallel computing (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenACC, …)
- Data management (filesystems, data versioning, …)
Registration is free but mandatory. The schedule, the list of topics, and the session details are available in the Indico event management system of the CISM. Click on the current year for the current offering.
Participants are expected to attend full days and to register (via the above link) to every session they plan to attend. If you register but are unable to attend, you are requested to withdraw as soon as possible. The little calendar tool allows exporting an iCal event for all sessions, or subscribing to the calendar.
Venue
The sessions are organised in Louvain-la-Neuve and Namur. The specific room is announced on the page of each session in the Indico event management system.
Click on a venue below to see directions:
Louvain-la-Neuve
The CYCL rooms are in the Marc de Hemptine building (Cyclotron): Chemin du Cyclotron 2, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.
- CYCL E349: Floor 3, E tower. Enter the main door, go straight, pass the door, take stairs to floor 3. Turn left, then left again; the room is in front of you.
- CYCL01: Ground floor. Enter main door, turn left, follow corridor, immediately turn right. Room is on your left.
- CYCL02: Ground floor. Enter main door, turn left, follow corridor to the door, open it and turn right. Room is on your left at the end (before the door in front).
- CYCL09b: Ground floor. Enter main door, turn left, follow corridor to the door, turn left. At corridor end, turn right then immediately right again. First room on your right.
From the train station, go through the station to the opposite entrance. Turn left and follow the road to Place des Sciences. Go past the “Salmigondis” or “Pythagore” building. After this octogonal building turn right. You’ll arrive at a parking lot. Take slightly left and aim at a gray chimney. Go through the pedestrian tunnel under Boulevard Baudouin Premier. You’ll arrive in front of the Cyclotron building.
Use the Parking Baudouin 1er (free). Exit by the entrance that does not lead to the main boulevard and walk along the boulevard until you reach the front end of the building at your right. Enter through the main door.
Namur
When you exit the station (‘centre ville exit’), cross the street and go right, follow the road to the main intersection with ‘Rue de Bruxelles’. Cross ‘Rue de Bruxelles’ and go left. The second road at the right is ‘Rue Joseph Grafé’. Continue for a few meters; the entrance will be on your right.
Coming by car to Namur is strongly discouraged.
Contact
You can direct all your questions to egs-cism@listes.uclouvain.be. Be sure to include ‘[Training]’ in the subject of your email for faster processing.
The training sessions are organised in collaboration with the CISM, ELIC, BIUL, CP3, MODL, PTCI (UNamur), ACE (ULiège) and SISC (ULB).