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CSC is touring on campuses! Do you need fast computing performance, a secure storage platform or services for data life cycle management? Would you like a handy platform for your students' exercises, coursework and theses? Come and learn more about the free ICT services CSC offers for researchers.
Annual Computational Chemistry Days 2019 gathers researchers from all aspects in the field of computational chemistry together and provides contemporary insights from the drug design, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics and other chemistry related computational methods. This year there will be plenty of opportunities for Postdocs and PhD Students to present their research and opinions.
In this online course we teach various ways to optimise and parallelise Python programs. Among the topics are performance analysis, efficient use of NumPy arrays, extending Python with more efficient languages (Cython), and parallel computing with message passing (mpi4py) approach.
The focus of the workshop is to facilitate users to port and optimize codes for Puhti. The workshop enables users to get the best possible performance from Puhti.
This is the second webinar of the Big Data series - Apache Spark. Details and materials of the first webinar : https://www.csc.fi/fi/web/training/-/webinar-big-data-spark-2019 This webinar is ideal for people who want to learn more about analysing massive amounts of data. Spark, a popular, high-performance distributed computing framework, allows us to tackle big-data problems by distributing the workload across a cluster of machines, making large scale data analysis rapid and quick! In this webinar, we will discuss briefly about Spark and learn about the basics of Spark programming in Python!
This course gives a practical introduction to deep learning, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, GPU computing, and tools to train and apply deep neural networks for natural language processing, images, and other applications.
Metax is the metadata repository for all research datasets and additional metadata stored in the Fairdata.fi services. In this webinar you will hear how the End User API can be used for example to add, edit and delete datasets.
Qvain on työkalu, jolla luot tutkimusaineistosi metadatan. Qvain pyrkii tekemään tutkimusaineistojen kuvailusta mahdollisimman helppoa ja yhdenmukaista. Tässä webinaarissa käymme läpi erityisesti Qvain Light -työkalun ominaisuuksia ja käyttöä, sekä tutustumme lyhyesti Qvain Lightin ja Qvaimen eroihin. Qvain Light (etsin.fairdata.fi/qvain) on yksinkertainen työkalu, jolla aineisto kuvaillaan yhden lomakkeen avulla. Qvaimella (qvain.fairdata.fi) kuvailu tehdään moniosaisen lomakekokonaisuuden avulla koko tietomallia hyödyntäen.
This hands-on course introduces the participants to single-cell RNA-seq data analysis concepts and tools. Basic skills of R and Unix are required.
R is a language and an environment that has become one of the most popular tools for data analysis. There are plenty of online courses and other learning material available but the learning curve can still be rather steep, especially for people with no experience in programming. This course aims to help with this initial difficulty, so that further learning using other sources becomes possible.
This introductory course covers single cell RNA-seq data analysis methods, tools and file formats. The free and user-friendly Chipster software is used in the exercises, and the course is thus suitable for everybody.
The Fortran programming language is still - despite of its long history - one of the standard and most useful languages in scientific computing. Our course will give the participants the basic knowledge on the Fortran programming language.
CSC is touring on campuses! Do you need fast computing performance, a secure storage platform or services for data life cycle management? Would you like a handy platform for your students' exercises, coursework and theses? Come and learn more about the free ICT services CSC offers for researchers.
OpenID Connect -protokollan hyödyntäminen käyttäjätunnistamisessa ja valtuuttamisessa.
Two day intensive workshop is organized as a collaboration with BioExcel, CSC and PRACE. It consists of lectures and hands-on tutorials introducing HADDOCK, pmx and instructions on how to improve Gromacs perfomance on HPC platforms. HADDOCK is a versatile information-driven flexible docking approach for the modelling of biomolecular complexes. PMX is a service for users who need to do free energy calculations.
Pitkäaikaissäilytys (PAS) tarkoittaa digitaalisen informaation säilyttämistä ymmärrettävänä ja käytettävänä useiden kymmenien ja jopa satojen vuosien ajan. Tässä webinaarissa käymme läpi Fairdata PAS-palveluun liittyen PAS-määrittelyt, metadatavaatimukset, hallintaliittymä, siirtotavat ja aineistojen ja niiden metatietojen paketointi pitkäaikaissäilytykseen.
A 3 day hackathon targeting GPUs. Teams of 3-4 persons can participate.
The Plenary brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and from all disciplines under the theme Data Makes the Difference. With this theme, the meeting addresses the extensive potential of research data in improving decision making, tackling grand societal challenges, and engaging citizens in the creation of knowledge and betterment of society. Early bird registration is open until 24th of September!
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.
How to use CSC computing resources for spatial analysis.
This course gives a practical introduction to use machine learning, inc deep learning, methods for spatial data.
Get a hands-on introduction to the Schrödinger Maestro molecular modeling suite and continue to advanced power use on the second day.
The course will provide the necessary information for migrating your bioinformatics analyses from Taito to Puhti and Allas.
Taito.csc.fi will be closed by the end of 2019. All data that needs to preserved from the disk environment of Taito, needs to be moved or copied away from Taito before that. This webinar shows how you can back up your important data sets from Taito to the new Allas object storage service and how you can use this data in the new puhti.csc.fi cluster.
This course gives you a practical introduction for using CSC's Pouta cloud services. The Pouta cloud services are meant for all fields of science & research. It allows users to solve computational challenges which have not previously been possible to run on CSC's other computing systems.
In this course the fundamental concepts of Kubernetes based container orchestrators are illustrated using the Rahti platform from a practical viewpoint. We shall focus on the users point of view for using rahti and aspects important for running and maintaining containerized workloads are emphasized.
The second webinar in the 2-part series on data migration from Taito to Allas
This course gives a practical introduction to machine learning, including basic approaches to classification, regression, dimensionality reduction and unsupervised learning. We will cover, among other things, linear classification and regression, nearest neighbor methods, support vector machines, decision trees and neural networks.
Taito.csc.fi will be closed by the end of 2019 and users need to move their workloads to the our new supercomputer Puhti. In this webinar we discuss the most important differences in using Puhti compared Taito.
Spark is a high-performance distributed computing framework, which allows us to tackle big-data problems by distributing the workload across a cluster of machines. This two day course addresses the technical architecture and use cases of Spark, writing Spark code using Python, using Spark's machine learning library to perform ML based tasks, as well as the methods for running a Spark cluster on CSC's container cloud Rahti.
The open e-IRG Workshop in Helsinki focuses on EU Skills Agenda and lifelong learning, EU cyber security activities, AI, EuroHPC as well as upcoming Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes. The event brings together e-infrastructure experts and state officials from all over Europe.
Blender is free and open source 3D creation suite, that supports the entire 3D pipeline. This course is an introduction to Blender 2.8, focusing on features useful for scientists. Hands-on exercises and demos cover the basic features of Blender.
This course gives a practical introduction to deep learning, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, GPU computing, and tools to train and apply deep neural networks for natural language processing, images, and other applications.
Webinaarissa käydään läpi, miten data järjestellään ja tallennetaan, kuvaillaan ja avataan Fairdata-palveluiden avulla. Tutkimusaineisto saa pysyvän tunnisteen, joka vie kuvailutietoon. Kaikilla tutkimusaineistoilla, jotka avataan tai joiden kuvailutiedot julkaistaan tutkimustuloksen julkaisemisen yhteydessä, on ainutkertainen, pysyvä tunniste, mieluiten DOI tai URN.
Taito.csc.fi general availability ended on 31.12.2019 and users need to move their workloads to our new supercomputer Puhti. In this webinar we discuss the most important differences in using Puhti compared Taito.
Korkeakoulujen IAM-verkosto sparraa korkeakoulujen identiteetinhallinnan (IdM/IAM) kehittämistä vertaistukiperiaatteella.
IAM-verkosto sparraa korkeakoulujen identiteetinhallinnan (IdM/IAM) kehittämistä vertaistukiperiaatteella.
Iltapäivä käynnistyy johdatuksella korkeakoulutuksen ja tutkimuksen ajankohtaisiin asioihin, jonka jälkeen jakaudumme rinnakkaisiin työpajoihin.Tarkastelemme Oppijan ja Tutkijan polkuja ja pohdimme minkälaisia palveluita polkujen varrelta jo löytyy, mitä vielä tulisi kehittää tai minkälaiset polut ovat tulevaisuudessa.
Get a hands-on introduction to the Schrödinger Maestro Materials Modelling Suite and learn how to simulate ALD chemistry and similar systems using its builders and quantum chemistry tools.
Using a modern HPC environment efficiently requires not only a good understanding of your scientific problem, but also some familiarity with the technical aspects of the system. On this course we will take a look at some of the most essential ones: Using modern storage services, running jobs through a batch job system and some solutions for getting your analysis environment running on a HPC platform.
R is a language that has become one of the most popular tools for data manipulation, visualization and statistics. While there are many R courses, learning these skills can involve a steep learning curve, especially for people with no experience in programming or data analysis. This two-day course aims to help with this initial difficulty by equipping learners with essential skills in data wrangling, plotting and running commonly used statistical tests in R.
Learn the basic steps of RNA-seq data analysis using command line tools and R. This course is part of the Bioweek 2020.
Analyzing vector and raster data with R and its spatial packages.
This hands-on course introduces the participants to RNA-seq data analysis methods, tools and file formats. It covers the whole workflow from quality control and alignment to quantification and differential expression analysis. The free and user-friendly Chipster software is used in the exercises, so no previous knowledge of Unix or R is required.
Containers are a way to package software with its dependencies in a way that is isolated from the host system. They offer a way to install and run complex or otherwise hard to install software in a HPC environment. They are also becoming a popular way for developers to distribute their software. In this webinar we give a basic introduction to containers in general and look at running Singulariry containers in Puhti. We also discuss how to convert and run Docker containers with Singularity.
This event 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.
CSC has been upgrading its ICT infrastructure to keep up with the pace of changing research environment. With its modern HPC and cloud environment, CSC has prepared to meet the growing demands of Finnish research. While CSC offers broad spectrum of services, this webinar will focus mainly on different services for research, keeping mainly bio-field in mind although similar services are applicable for other research areas as well
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.
This course gives a practical introduction to use machine learning, inc deep learning, methods for spatial data.
This webinar gives a brief introduction to CSC's services for data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data computing. We will focus on our services for research, but also discuss wider activities in these areas.
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