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Ten days of learning and good company in nice surroundings, under the midnight sun. In the 5th CSC Summer School you will get familiarised with the key ingredients of high-performance computing and learn the essential skills needed to utilize supercomputers to solve your scientific challenges. And to top it all of, you will have a good time, too!
Introduction to Fortran 95/2003 is an introduction to one of the most used programming languages in HPC. It provides the basic knowledge of modern Fortran programming and a solid base for further considerations.
This course will introduce multivariate data analysis methods (clustering and ordination) using the R language. These methods are often applied during the analysis of biological data, e.g., in community ecology. The emphasis of this course is on marker gene studies, but the same R principles will apply to other fields of research, also.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) was opened for the users on 9.09.2014, the 2nd phase of the supercluster (Taito) is expected to be available for the researchers in January 2015. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold. During the seminar the new systems will be presented to researchers, helping to benefit from them from day 1, and getting the feedback in order to have the systems configured according to your needs.
An introduction to Intel Xeon Phi and related software stack, programming models, debugging, and application tuning. To meet future scientific and commercial computing demands, systems today and even more in the future support very high numbers of processor cores and extended SIMD computing capability. Future performance gains will come through parallelism, and modernizing key applications will help us make the next leap in discovery. Code modernization is expected to enable large performance increases while maintaining the code portability users expect. In this training you will get an introduction to Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors to support you in modernizing your applications.
This course will introduce programming with the R language. The emphasis is strongly on programming, and statistical topics will only be glanced. The basics of R language are covered on the first day, and the second day will shortly introduce visualizations, statistical tools and data technologies using R.
Avoin tiede ja tutkimus -hankkeen järjestämä seminaari tutkimusdatan metadatasta ja tutkimusdatan avoimuudesta. Seminaarissa julkaistaan tutkijoille uusi palvelu: Etsin - tutkimuksen tietoaineistojen hakupalvelu.
Introductory course for Discovery Studio protein modeling program. Discovery Studio is a versatile program for analyzing, modeling and visualizing protein structures. The course provides an introduction to the usage of Discovery Studio. Instead of giving comprehensive and detailed information about just one of the many modeling tools available in Discovery Studio, the course will give an overview of the possibilities and options that this program has.
This course provides a tutorial-style, practical introduction computational tools for physics research, with a focus on the infrastructure provided by CSC. The topics will include, e.g., managing your datasets, running analyses on a grid or a computer cluster and Unix power use. The workshop provides a comprehensive overview on the computational physics's tools, without forgetting the important aspect of network building.
This course gives an introduction to more modern features of the Fortran 2008 standard. Among subjects are more flexible handling of dynamically allocated objects, operator overloading, object oriented features and language interoperability. Thereafter an introduction to Co-Array Fortran (CAF) extensions is given as way to express distributed memory parallelism
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) was opened for the users on 9.09.2014, the 2nd phase of the supercluster (Taito) is expected to be available for the researchers in January 2015. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold. During the seminar the new systems will be presented to researchers, helping to benefit from them from day 1, and getting the feedback in order to have the systems configured according to your needs.
Overall presentation and hands-on exercises on using the Reaxys interface to chemical facts and references database.
Overall presentation and hands-on exercises on using the Reaxys interface to chemical facts and references database.
Open Science and Research Forum brings open science community together. The seminar offers participants a great opportunity to be inspired by experts from all over the world and share knowledge about how open science is fostered in different countries and in different organisations. Open Science and Research Forum is organized by the Open Science and Research Initiative.
Overall presentation and hands-on exercises on using the Reaxys interface to chemical facts and references database.
FIN-CLARIN järjestää syksyllä 2014 jälleen kurssin Kieliaineistojen käsittely yhteistyössä CSC:n kanssa. Kurssi soveltuu mm. kieliaineiden ja puhetieteiden jatko-opiskelijoille ja tutkijoille.
Tilaisuus on tarkoitettu ATT-työryhmien jäsenille. ATT-työryhmien tiedonvaihto- ja keskustelufoorumi, jossa työryhmien jäsenet ja selvitysten tekijät kertovat toimintansa edistymisestä sekä ajankohtaisista asioista toiminta-alueellaan. Ryhmät keskustelevat yhteisistä intresseistään sekä pyrkivät määrittelemään mahdollisia tulevia yhteistyöalueita.
This workshop goes to more advanced topics and techniques in high-performance computing. Parallel algorithms, more advanced topics in message-passing interface (MPI), parallel tools and numerical libraries, parallel I/O, as well as shared-memory parallelization techniques along (with OpenMP) and combined with MPI are discussed and exemplified.
Learn how to squeeze the most out of a Cray supercomputer! This three day workshop will give attendees the knowledge required to understand the most optimal way to port, optimize and execute applications on Cray XC30 systems, such as CSC's "Sisu". The workshop is a mixture of lectures and practical hands-on sessions. Some example exercises will be provided, but attendees are encouraged to bring along their own applications to the workshop. Although the workshop specifically targets the Cray architecture and programming environment, many of the topics covered are generally useful also on other architectures.
Lakiasioissa on tapahtunut edellisen kurssin jälkeen muutoksia ja on tullut uutta oikeuskäytäntöäkin . Tällä kurssilla käydään läpi yleisimmät tietotyypit ja niiden oikea käsittely.
KUTSU korkeakoulujen IT-johtajien verkostojen AAPA ja FUCIO kokouksiin.
This course will give a short introduction to NVidia GPUs and Intel Xeon Phis, which are currently the two most popular accelerator architectures. After a short hardware overview we will present two simple pragma-based programming models for accelerators: offloading for Xeon Phi systems and OpenACC for GPUs. Some basic performance considerations and limitations due to the memory traffic between the host and accelerator will be discussed. Last part of the course will give a short one-day introduction to the lower level approach for GPU programming using CUDA.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) is already available and second phase of the supercluster (Taito) is expected to be available for the researchers in late 2014 or early 2015. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold.
Course will give a practical guide on how to use released 14.04.2014 CSC Cloud service called Pouta. The Pouta cloud service is meant for all fields of science. It allows users to solve computational challenges which have not previously been possible to run on CSC's other systems. Some examples where the Pouta cloud service is especially suitable are research projects in requiring complex application stacks, or applications with a browser-based user interfaces. Course will consist of extended hands-on exercises.
The first day of the workshop will cover the very basics of Unix/Linux use. No previous Linux skills are needed. The second day describes accessing and using CSC's services efficiently. The first day serves as an introduction to those who are new to Linux. Both days have extended hands-on exercises.
Join us for this seminar to see how you can get access to the resources already available to you as a member of the Finnish national research community and an academic CSC customer, and speed up your computations in MATLAB on your computer and on large clusters. We will go through how to get access to these systems and how to write MATLAB code to run on them.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) was opened for the users on 9.09.2014, the 2nd phase of the supercluster (Taito) is expected to be available for the researchers in Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold.
The workshop will familiarise the participants to the Cambridge Structural Database System via presentations and hands-on excercises with additional emphasis on the "Discovery Chemistry" for life science applications.
This mini-workshop is targeted for experienced users ("power users") of CSC's Cray XC30 service Sisu. During the workshop, the best practices on compiling and running applications on the Sisu system will be introduced, with a focus on what's new on the system after the major upgrade. The remaining time will be spent on benchmarking and optimizing users' applications onto the system with consultancy and tips from the instructor.
Korkeakoulujen IAM-verkosto sparraa korkeakoulujen identiteetinhallinnan (IdM/IAM) kehittämistä. Tapaamisessa mm: - IdM-projektien ja järjestelmien esittelyä - Salasanapolitiikka, Identiteetinhallinnan käsitemalli - Mobiilitunnistus
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) was opened for the users on 9.09.2014, the 2nd phase of the supercluster (Taito) is expected to be available for the researchers in Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold. During the seminar the new systems will be presented to researchers, helping to benefit from them from day 1, and getting the feedback in order to have the systems configured according to your needs.
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 on parallel programming.
The 3rd EUDAT Conference "Bringing data infrastructures to Horizon2020" takes place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 24 – 25 September 2014. Participation in the conference is free of charge but subject to online registration.
The fourth RDA (Research Data Alliance) Plenary "Reaping the Fruits" takes place on 22 – 24 September 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Data practitioners, computer scientists, researchers, policy makers are just some of the people who will be present at the meeting. The first concrete results of RDA will be presented at the Plenary.
Modern sequencing technologies enable efficient genome-wide investigation of regulatory regions. This international workshop covers several aspects of ChIP- and DNase-seq data analysis, ranging from alignment and peak calling to motif detection and annotation. The program consists of a lecture day and several hands-on modules that participants can choose from. The workshop is suitable for people with different backgrounds, ranging from biology to computer science, and for junior and senior researchers alike.
Tavoitteena on tutustua lakiasioihin, jotka on huomioitava sosiaalisen median palveluita käyttöön otettaessa.
This workshop is part of GN3plus Campus Best Practice events. The program of the workshop consists of the following themes: Green datacenter technologies, Cloud service provisioning, Joint procurement, Costs and agreements, Security & standards and Network.
Korkeakoulujen tietoturvapäälliköiden valmisteluryhmälle erikseen suunnattu työpaja valtionhallinnon tietoturvatasoista. Aiheena m.m. hallintajärjestelmän luominen ja päivittäminen, auditoinnit sekä yhteiset ohjeet. Valtorin tietoturva-asiantuntija alustaa tilaisuuden alussa.
A workshop on cell membranes. Topics: - Membrane-Protein Interactions - Modeling techniques (free energy, HPC, CG) - Elasticity, Undulations - Sterols (structure, phase behavior) - Diffusion and transport in bilayers and membranes Membrane-Protein Interactions - Modeling techniques (free energy, HPC, CG) - Elasticity, Undulations - Sterols (structure, phase behavior) - Diffusion and transport in bilayers and membranes
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) and supercluster (Taito) expected to be available for the researchers in Summer/Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) was opened for the users on 9.09.2014, the 2nd phase of the supercluster (Taito) is expected to be available for the researchers in Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold. During the seminar the new systems will be presented to researchers, helping to benefit from them from day 1, and getting the feedback in order to have the systems configured according to your needs.
This is an opportunity for administration staff dealing with doctoral training to learn more about open science, to present comments to the ministry on improvements to the existing open science services and possibly create ideas for new ones. Closed door morning session (invited only) is targeted to the doctoral school and programme directors and coordinators, and other admin staff dealing with doctoral training.
An instructed day of coding for those developing their own Elmer FEM functions or solvers.
Elmer FEM Course presents the basics of the open source finite element software for multiphysical problems.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) and supercluster (Taito) expected to be available for the researchers in Summer/Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold.
AAPA-kesäseminaari, Vaasassa 9-10.6.2014
A training mainly directed to CSC service administrators and service owners on how to secure WWW services against intrusions and other attacks. Some external attendants will be invited by CSC Head of Security.
Annual get-together event of Finnish OpenFOAM users.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) and supercluster (Taito) expected to be available for the researchers in Summer/Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold.
The 2nd phase of the CSC's supercomputer (Sisu) and supercluster (Taito) expected to be available for the researchers in Summer/Autumn 2014. 2nd phase of Sisu and Taito will open new possibilities for Finnish researchers - they increase the available computing capacity 5-fold.
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