Programme

The school has four days covering different subject areas of modern supercomputing, including hands-on experience and special lectures by invited speakers.

This is the preliminary programme:

Day 1: Basics of Modern Supercomputing and Quantum Computing

• Introduction to High-Performance Computing
• Getting to Know a First HPC System with Hands-On Exercises (Submitting a Computing Job, etc.)
• HPC and AI System Concepts at IT4I, LRZ and Elsewhere
• Introduction to Quantum Compuiting

Day 2: Real-life Applications & Workflows across Heterogeneous Systems

• Hands-on Exercises: Running a Complex HPC Appication and Cloud Virtual Machines
• Supercomputing with Optimum Data Backends - EXA4MIND
• LEXIS Distributed Computing Platform and its use cases
• Hands-On Exercise: Automatizing Data-Heavy Workflows

Day 3: AI and Running Multiple Parallel Jobs

• Basics of Artificial Intelligence - Training and Inference
• Running Parallel Workloads with HyperQueue
• Hands-on Exercise: HyperQueue and AI Workloads
• Outing

Day 4: AI and Extension Topics

• AI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Hands-On Components
• Resume on the Complex HPC Application (Day 2) with Hands-On Parts and FAIR Research Data Management in Supercomputing
• Summary, Announcements and Farewell