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2017

25.9. - 26.9.

Linux 1 - Introduction to Linux

September 2017

This two day course will cover the very basics of Unix/Linux. It serves as an introduction to those who are completely new to Linux. Both days have extended hands-on exercises.

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Methods & Software
Programming
Courses and workshops
2017
security unix linux shell
28.9. - 29.9.

Single cell RNA-seq data analysis

September 2017

This one day hands-on course introduces the participants to single-cell RNA-seq data analysis concepts and tools. Depending on your background, choose EITHER: 1) RNA-seq data analysis with Chipster (Friday, no prerequisites) OR 2) Single cell RNA-se data analysis with R (Thursday, previous experience with R and command line tools required). On Friday, the free and user-friendly Chipster software is used in the exercises, and teaching is provided by Eija Korpelainen and Maria Lehtivaara, CSC. On Thursday the teaching is provided by external lecturers working in the field and tool development. This course is organized in collaboration with the Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine (DPBM) of University of Helsinki (http://www.helsinki.fi/dpbm/).

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2017
bioinformatics chipster rna-seq
29.9. - 30.9.

Single cell RNA-seq data analysis

September 2017

This hands-on course introduces the participants to single-cell RNA-seq data analysis concepts and tools. It consists of two alternative days, please select based on your computational background EITHER 1) 28.9 Single cell RNA-seq data analysis with R (previous experience with R required), OR 2) 29.9 Single cell RNA-seq data analysis with Chipster (suitable for everybody)

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Methods & Software
2017
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics chipster rna-seq tess
2.10. - 3.10.

Geocomputing using CSC resources

October 2017

How to use CSC computing resources for spatial analysis.

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Methods & Software
High-Performance Computing
Computing Platforms
2017
Courses and workshops
python r taito pouta gis spatial data analysis
9.10. - 11.10.

Introduction to Parallel Programming

October 2017

The course introduces the basics of parallel programming with the message-passing interface (MPI) and OpenMP paradigms. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises.

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Programming
High-Performance Computing
2017
Courses and workshops
mpi openmp
10.10.

RDA Finland Autumn 2017 Meeting

October 2017

You are warmly welcome to hear an update on RDA and its latest outputs after the 10th RDA Plenary in Montreal, and to discuss and share your thoughts about the future of RDA.

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Seminars and conferences
2017
rda eosc
17.10.

Webinar: Using Octave and SageMath on Taito

October 2017

This webinar presents the basics for getting into using open source mathematics software GNU Octave and SageMath on CSC's Taito cluster. The webinar contains a short introduction and a couple of example cases. No prerequisite knowledge about the software are assumed.

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Webinars
2017
taito webinar
17.10.

Pouta Cloud Course

October 2017

This course will give a practical introduction to using CSC's Pouta cloud services.

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Computing Platforms
2017
Courses and workshops
cloud
29.10.

Using CSC Environment Efficiently

October 2017

This one day course focuses on using the CSC environment which has been tailored for researchers to be easy and efficient for scientific use.

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Computing Platforms
2017
Courses and workshops
taito sisu unix linux shell ssh sui
31.10. - 1.11.

Programming the D-Wave Quantum Computer

October 2017

This training course addresses the fundamentals and programming of the D-Wave 2X. A combination of lectures and hands-on practical labs will guide the students through the quantum phenomena harnessed in quantum computers, to examples in constructing their own quantum algorithm. It concludes with a hands-on laboratory in which students will formulate and execute programs on a live quantum computer in Canada.

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Methods & Software
Programming
Courses and workshops
2017
quantum computing programming
1.11. - 2.11.

Structural Simulation with ANSYS Mechanical Software

November 2017

Foundation course for working with structural mechanics simulations in ANSYS Workbench.

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2017
Methods & Software
Courses and workshops
computational engineering software ansys structural mechanics
6.11.

Webinar: Notebooks.csc.fi : Customized course environments on CSC's cloud infrastructure

November 2017

In the webinar we introduce basic usage of Notebooks, demonstrate how lecturers can use power user features to create customised course environments and host QA to answer your questions about the service. The introduction part takes about 20 minutes.

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Webinars
2017
python r notebooks
6.11. - 10.11.

CWNA® - Certified Wireless Network Administrator

November 2017

Do you have an understanding of the fundamentals of wireless technology? Do you know how WLAN work and how it's managed day-to-day? Do you have the ability to install, configure and troubleshoot and maintain wireless networks within small business or Enterprise deployments?

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Courses and workshops
2017
Data Networks
funet wireless
7.11.

Schrödinger Maestro Hands-on workshop

November 2017

Get an introduction to power usage of the Schrödinger Maestro molecular modeling suite including hands-on training.

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Methods & Software
2017
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics chemistry software
13.11.

Introduction to base R for beginners

November 2017

This course is aimed at people who wish to start learning R programming from scratch. No previous experience with R or other programming languages is expected.

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Methods & Software
Programming
2017
Courses and workshops
16.11. - 17.11.

Analysing large datasets with Apache Spark

November 2017

This two day course addresses the technical architechture and use cases of Spark, setting it up for your work, best practices and programming aspects.

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Methods & Software
Programming
2017
Courses and workshops
data software programming
23.11.

Scientific visualization with Blender

November 2017

Blender is free and open source 3D creation suite, that supports the entire 3D pipeline. Many aspects of Blender will be demoed, depending on the interests of the participants. The focus will be on rendering imported meshes, and creating geometry.

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Methods & Software
2017
Courses and workshops
visualization blender
23.11.

Love your data! Webinar: What kind of support for research data management I get via CSC?

November 2017

Why should you manage your data? What are the good practices managing your research data? How does CSC help you and provide tools for your data management in the different phases of your research? This is the first webinar of the series "Love your data! CSC´s research data management webinars"

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Webinars
Data & Storage
2017
data sharing open data storage metadata
27.11. - 28.11.

Introduction to Biopython

November 2017

This course provides a short introduction to python programming and Biopython tool library

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Programming
Courses and workshops
2017
bioinformatics python tess programming biopython
28.11.

Love your data! Webinar: What tools are available for discovering research data?

November 2017

You can find datasets for your purposes with a help of discovery services as Etsin and B2FIND. Some issues must be taken into consideration when using another researcher's data in your own research. What are they and how can you minimize the risks? This is the second webinar of the series "Love your data! CSC´s research data management webinars".

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Webinars
Data & Storage
2017
data sharing open data storage metadata
30.11.

Love your data! Webinar: Where can I store my research data?

November 2017

Various aspects of the data and its use are to be considered already when planning the research project. This webinar gives an overview to the storage services produced by CSC and how these services can be applied during the lifecycle of your research data. This is the third webinar of the series "Love your data! CSC´s research data management webinars".

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Webinars
Data & Storage
2017
data sharing open data storage metadata
4.12.

Love your data! Webinar: How can I share and publish my research data?

December 2017

CSC recommends sharing research data whenever possible. This webinar tells you about several services that enable you to share data within a project or for a wider audience. From the perspective of making the data freely available, it is important to define the terms and conditions under which persons interested in using the data can know whether there are any restrictions on its use. This is the fourth webinar of the series "Love your data! CSC´s research data management webinars".

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Webinars
Data & Storage
2017
data sharing open data storage metadata
4.12. - 5.12.

GPU Programming with OpenACC

December 2017

This course gives a thorough introduction to programming GPUs using the directive based OpenACC paradigm. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises. Topics of this course include the basic usage of OpenACC, as well as some more advanced issues related to profiling, performance and interoperability with CUDA.

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Programming
High-Performance Computing
Computing Platforms
2017
Courses and workshops
cuda openacc gpu accelerators
7.12. - 8.12.

Linux 2 - Intermediate Linux

December 2017

This is a continuation course to Linux 1 - Introduction to Linux.

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Programming
Computing Platforms
2017
Courses and workshops
unix linux bash
20.1.

IAM-verkoston tapaaminen

January 2017

Korkeakoulujen IAM-verkosto sparraa organisaatioiden identiteetinhallinnan (IdM/IAM) kehittämistä.

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2017
iam-verkosto
21.1.

Haka MFA Workshop

January 2017

Kohti vahvempaa tunnistamista -työpajassa harjoitellaan vahvemman tunnistusmenetelmän käyttöönottoa Hakaan liitetyssä palvelussa (SP) tai tunnistupalvelimella (IdP)

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2017
haka iam
22.2.

Introducing Apache Syncope

February 2017

Introducing Apache Syncope 2.0 for open source identity management in collaboration with Haka IAM network

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2017
iam-verkosto
23.5. - 24.5.

TRANSITS I

May 2017

Kurssi koostuu neljästä eri modulista, joissa harjoitellaan tietoturvapoikkeamien käsittelyyn vaadittavia perustaitoja. Kaikki kouluttajat ovat Funet CERT:n jäseniä. Kurssin materiaali on englanniksi, koulutuskielenä Suomi.

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Courses and workshops
IT Security
Data Networks
2017
26.4. - 27.4.

IAM-verkoston tapaaminen

April 2017

Korkeakoulujen IAM-verkosto sparraa organisaatioiden identiteetinhallinnan (IdM/IAM) kehittämistä.

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2017
iam-verkosto
10.10.

IAM-verkoston tapaaminen

October 2017

Korkeakoulujen IAM-verkosto sparraa organisaatioiden identiteetinhallinnan (IdM/IAM) kehittämistä.

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2017
iam-verkosto
21.11. - 22.11.

Oman verkon haavoittuvuuksien etsiminen

November 2017

Koulutuksessa tutustumme Nessus -haavoittuvuusskannerin peruskäyttöön sekä Funet Tutkain -palvelun hyödyntämiseen oman verkon auditoinnissa. Valinnaisena työpajapäivänä tehdään paljon käytännön harjoituksia liittyen skannausten ja raportoinnin automatisointiin.

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IT Security
2017
Courses and workshops
Methods & Software
27.11. - 1.12.

Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) – Advanced course

November 2017

Did you attend the Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) course and decide you want to learn more? Do you want to take the next step towards becoming a real expert on Wi-Fi? We are now offering a continuing course that covers the major topics of Certified Wireless Design Professional (CWDP) and Certified Wireless Analysis Professional (CWAP).

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2017
Courses and workshops
funet wireless
14.11. - 15.11.

PERUTTU: Johdanto Tosca Structure -ohjelmiston käyttöön

November 2017

Tosca Structure -ohjelmistolla voi ratkoa erilaisia mekaanisten rakenteiden optimointiin liittyviä tehtäviä.

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2017
Methods & Software
Courses and workshops
computational engineering software 2017 tosca

2018

15.1. - 17.1.

Introduction to Python GIS

January 2018

Learn to use Python for spatial analysis and data management.

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Methods & Software
2018
Courses and workshops
python taito spatial data management gis spatial data analysis
16.1.

Webinar: VirusDetect pipeline

January 2018

This webinar introduces the participants to the VirusDetect pipeline that can efficiently analyze large scale small-RNA (sRNA) datasets for both known and novel virus identification. VirusDetect pipeline is available on CSC's Taito server, and in free and user-friendly Chipster software.

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Methods & Software
2018
Computing Platforms
Webinars
bioinformatics chipster tess
30.1.

Webinar: HPC-Europa3 - travel, compute, network

January 2018

HPC-Europa3 funds 3-13 week research visits to nine European countries by providing travel and accommodation expenses, as well as, resources from the target country supercomputing center. HPCE3 facilitates creating new and strengthening existing international scientific collaboration and gives access to resources not accessible at home organization. All levels of researchers can apply, also to and from industry, as long as results can be published and research requires HPC. Programme runs until April 2021 and applications are reviewed four times every year. More info and online application: www.hpc-europa.eu

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Webinars
2018
5.2.

Bioweek: Introduction to base R

February 2018

This course is aimed at people who wish to start learning R programming from scratch. No previous experience with R or other programming languages is expected.

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2018
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics r tess bioweek
6.2.

Bioweek: Data visualisation using RStudio and ggplot

February 2018

In this course you will learn how to clean up, manipulate and visualise your data using the efficient workflows available in RStudio and the tidyverse packages. These central data science skills are usually also called data wrangling and exploratory data analysis.

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2018
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics r visualization tess bioweek
7.2.

Bioweek: Computing intensive bioinformatics analysis on Taito

February 2018

The Taito supercluster environment provides a good platform for running computing intensive bioinformatics analysis. However, to be able to utilize Taito effectively, you must understand how the batch job system works in Taito.

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2018
Computing Platforms
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics taito tess bioweek
8.2.

Bioweek: Using cPouta cloud in bioinformatics

February 2018

This course day provides an introduction to the basic features of the cPouta cloud and demonstrates how a virtual bioinformatics server is set up in cPouta.

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2018
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics tess bioweek virtual machine
9.2.

Bioweek: Single cell RNA-seq data analysis using Chipster

February 2018

This one day hands-on course introduces the participants to single-cell RNA-seq data analysis concepts and tools using the free and user-friendly Chipster software. No previous knowledge of Unix or R is required!

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2018
Courses and workshops
bioinformatics chipster tess bioweek
12.2. - 14.2.

Advanced Parallel Programming

February 2018

This course addresses hybrid programming by combining OpenMP and MPI, as well as more advanced topics in MPI. Also, parallel I/O is discussed and exemplified in the course.

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2018
Programming
High-Performance Computing
Courses and workshops
mpi openmp
26.2. - 27.2.

Spatial data analysis with R

February 2018

Analyzing vector and raster data with R and its spatial packages.

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Methods & Software
2018
Courses and workshops
r spatial modelling gis spatial data analysis
13.3. - 16.3.

Spring School in Computational Chemistry 2018

March 2018

This course provides a comprehensive, tutorial-style, hands-on, introductory and intermediate-level treatment to the essential ingredients for molecular modeling and computational chemistry using modern supercomputers. Standard approaches such as classical and ab initio molecular dynamics, electronic structure models as well as several more special topics are explained and exemplified by prominent researchers in the field.

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2018
Methods & Software
Courses and workshops
chemistry gromacs visualization software
20.3. - 22.3.

CodeRefinery workshop in Turku

March 2018

Teaching researchers in sustainable software development

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2018
Methods & Software
Programming
Courses and workshops
21.3.

Linux 3 - Scripting

March 2018

This one day course will introduce you to scripting techniques on Unix/Linux.

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2018
Programming
Courses and workshops
linux bash sed awk scripting regexp
26.3. - 28.3.

Advanced Fortran Programming

March 2018

This course covers the modern features of the Fortran programming language. Topics include object-oriented features, language interoperability and several other enhancements available at the Fortran 2008 standard. In addition, a way to express distributed memory parallelism via Fortran coarrays will be discussed in detail.

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2018
Programming
High-Performance Computing
Courses and workshops
fortran
4.4. - 6.4.

Advanced Threading and Optimization

April 2018

The course includes topics on code optimization for x86 platforms and efficient code parallelisation using OpenMP threading. Advanced aspects of threading and optimization, such as new features in OpenMP 4.5, will be covered during the course. Some performance aspects of hybrid MPI+OpenMP programs will also be discussed.

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2018
Programming
High-Performance Computing
Courses and workshops
openmp tess
10.4.

Webinar: GIS software and spatial data in Taito

April 2018

This webinar introduces the participants to the GIS software and spatial data in Taito. The webinar contains a short introduction and a couple of example cases.

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2018
Webinars
Methods & Software
webinar gis spatial data analysis
16.4.

Introduction to aerial LiDAR data management

April 2018

A one day introductory course presenting how to manage aerial LiDAR datasets using different tools.

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2018
Methods & Software
Programming
Courses and workshops
r spatial data management gis programming open data lastools lidar