Introduction to HPC

18 Sep 2026 10:00 - 17:00

Introductory training to kickstart new researchers to work on the supercomputing infrastructure of Ghent University.

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Practical information:

18 Sep 2026 10:00 - 17:00

7 hours

Ghent

English

Target audience: New researchers

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10:00 - 12:00: Introduction to HPC-UGent presentation + Q&A
- Overview of available hardware, getting an account, using the systems, getting support, demos and examples, ...
- Live stream via Microsoft Teams
12:00 - 13:00: sandwich lunch
13:00 - 14:00: tour of UGent datacenter (S10), incl. visit to HPC-UGent Tier-2 clusters and VSC Tier-1 Hortense
14:00 - 17:00: hands-on session: Getting started with HPC-UGent
- Login + submitting example jobs
- Getting started with your own workloads