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[VSC Training News] Training events March - April 2025
by VSC Training Newsletter 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Dear VSC users and friends, the training events for March and April 2025 are online and open for registration. And welcome on board - our new subscribers can find a little note about this mailing list in the last paragraph. As always we try to cater for a broad variety of needs: * from the very first steps on the Linux command line to using HPC systems efficiently * from an introduction into deep learning to a continuation of our foundations of LLM mastery series * from modern C++ software design, to parallel programming with MPI, to different ways of GPU programming For some of the events registration or application closes soon and many events tend to fill up quickly - so hurry up and reserve your spot! Linux Command Line 10.03.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Linux-2025-03 _Registration is possible until 6 March 2025._ Datenanalyse mit KI - Vom Laptop zum Supercomputer 11.03.2025, 10:00 -13:00 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Datenanalyse-2025-03 _Course in German._ Priority for participants from industry and public administration. _Registration is possible until 3 March 2025._ Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters 13.03.2025, 09:00 - 17:00 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Intro-2025-03 Registration is possible until 10 March 2025. Next re-run will be in June 2025. Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced) 24.-27.03.2025, 09:00-16:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CppA-2025-03 _Free of charge only for VSC users and students and members of Austrian universities and public research institutes. For all other participants, course fees apply._ Registration is possible until 17 March 2025. Foundations of LLM Mastery: Prompt Engineering Essentials 26.03.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/promptengineering-2025-01 Priority for participants from industry and public administration. Fully booked, but please register for the waiting list, we might offer a re-run. _Registration is possible until 22 March 2025._ Introduction to Deep Learning 02.-03.04.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2025-04 _Registration is possible until 26 March 2025._ N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp 08.-09.04.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/N-Ways-GPU-2025-04 _Bootcamp together with NVIDIA._ _Application is possible until 10 March 2025._ _(Notification of acceptance by 24 March 2025.)_ Parallelization with MPI (Beginner) 28.-29.04.2025, 09:30 - 14:00 CEST https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPI-2025-04 _Registration is possible until 22 April 2025._ Foundations of LLM Mastery: Retrieval Augmented Generation 30.04.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/RAG-2025-04 Priority for participants from industry and public administration. _Fully booked, but please register for the waiting list, we might offer a re-run._ _Registration is possible until 23 April 2025._ Parallelization with MPI (Intermediate - Advanced) 05.-06.05.2025, 09:30 - 14:00 CEST https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPI-2025-05 _Registration is possible until 29 April 2025._ Python for HPC 12.+14.+16.05.2025, 09:00-16:30 CEST https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Python4HPC-2025-05 _Registration is possible until 05 May 202_5. Info about more training events will be available soon (you can check the webpage or wait until we inform you with another newsletter) https://events.vsc.ac.at/category/4/ Welcome to / about the [VSC Training News] mailing list You are subscribed to this mailing list because you are or have been a VSC user, subscribed yourself, or attended a training course in the past few months. VSC users are subscribed automatically to the training-news and news mailing lists when their user is created, but will not be unsubscribed when their user or project becomes inactive. Other interested parties can manually subscribe to these newsletters as well. Participants in one of our training events are automatically subscribed to the training-news mailing list (but not automatically subscribed to the news mailing list). Please do not mark our newsletter as spam, if you do not want to get it any more please unsubscribe. Subscribe: https://service.vsc.ac.at/public/mailing-lists/subscribe Unsubscribe: https://service.vsc.ac.at/public/mailing-lists/unsubscribe Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] Training events January - February 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

Dear VSC users and friends, welcome to the new training year and welcome to our new subscribers! We would like to draw your attention to the International HPC Summer School and to our upcoming VSC training events and clarify the scope of this mailing list. When it comes to expanding your skills, we have you covered - during the next few weeks there is something for everyone: * from novice to expert * from classical training courses to nighttime hacking * for participants from all backgrounds to focusing on participants from industry and public administration. Please note that for some of the events the registration deadline is already in the next few days! Here is an outline, with more information and links following further below: * Application for the International HPC Summer School * Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters * Hybrid Programming in HPC - MPI+X * Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on one GPU * Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on one GPU * Extrae and Paraver: Profiling Weather and Climate Applications * Hackathon: Watt's Up? Hack for Energy Efficiency - Synthetic Data for Buildings * Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on multi GPUs * Datenanalyse mit KI - Vom Laptop zum Supercomputer * Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced) * Foundations of LLM Mastery: Prompt Engineering Essentials * Foundations of LLM Mastery: Retrieval Augmented Generation * Info about more training events from March onwards will be available soon * Welcome to / about the [VSC Training News] mailing list International HPC Summer School _Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to apply for the International HPC Summer School, to be held 6-11 July 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. This is an expense-paid program to benefit scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the U.S., the application deadline is already on 31 January 2025, 23:59 AOE__. _ _For all further information please go to:_ https://ss25.ihpcss.org/ Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters 16.01.2025, 09:00 - 17:00 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Intro-2025-01 Registration is possible until 15 January 2025. Next re-run will be in March 2025. Hybrid Programming in HPC - MPI+X 21.-23.01.2025, 09:00 - 16:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPIX-2025-01 _Hybrid course at HLRS, Stuttgart and online._ Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on one GPU 22.01.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/finetuning1-2025-01 _Priority for participants from industry and public administration._ _Fully booked, but there is a re-run 2 days later open for everyone. _ Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on one GPU 24.01.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/finetuning1-rerun-2025-01 _Registration is possible until 17 January 2025._ Extrae and Paraver: Profiling Weather and Climate Applications 27.01.2025, 09:00 - 16:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/ESiWACE-2025-01 The examples are from weather and climate applications, but the course is suitable for participants from other backgrounds as well. _Registration is possible until 20 January 2025._ Hackathon: Watt's Up? Hack for Energy Efficiency - Synthetic Data for Buildings 22.02.2025, 10:00 CET - 23.02.2025, 15:00 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Hackathon-2025-02 Join us for an exciting weekend hackathon - two days including nighttime hacking. _In-person only! At TU Wien, Vienna, Austria._ _Registration is possible until 9 February 2025._ Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on multi GPUs 26.02.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/finetuningmulti-2025-02 Priority registration until 11 February 2025 for participants from industry and public administration. _Registration is possible until 19 February 2025._ Datenanalyse mit KI - Vom Laptop zum Supercomputer 11.03.2025, 10:00 -13:00 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Datenanalyse-2025-03 Course in German. Priority for participants from industry and public administration. _Registration is possible until 3 March 2025._ Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced) 24.-27.03.2025, 09:00-15:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CppA-2025-03 Free of charge only for VSC users and students and members of Austrian universities and public research institutes. For all other participants, course fees apply. Registration is possible until 17 March 2025. Foundations of LLM Mastery: Prompt Engineering Essentials 26.03.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/promptengineering-2025-01 Registration will open on 22 January 2025. Priority registration until 11 March 2025 for participants from industry and public administration. _Registration is possible until 22 March 2025._ Foundations of LLM Mastery: Retrieval Augmented Generation 30.04.2025, 09:00 - 12:30 CET https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/RAG-2025-04 Registration will open on 22 January 2025. Priority registration until 9 April 2025 for participants from industry and public administration. _Registration is possible until 23 April 2025._ Info about more training events from March onwards will be available soon (and we'll inform you with another newsletter) https://events.vsc.ac.at/category/4/ Welcome to / about the [VSC Training News] mailing list You are subscribed to this mailing list because you are or have been a VSC user, subscribed yourself, or attended a training course in the past few months. VSC users are subscribed automatically to the training-news and news mailing lists when their user is created, but will not be unsubscribed when their user or project becomes inactive. Other interested parties can manually subscribe to these newsletters as well. Participants in one of our training events are automatically subscribed to the training-news mailing list (but not automatically subscribed to the news mailing list). Please do not mark our newsletter as spam, if you do not want to get it any more please unsubscribe. Subscribe: https://service.vsc.ac.at/public/mailing-lists/subscribe Unsubscribe: https://service.vsc.ac.at/public/mailing-lists/unsubscribe Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] Python for HPC, 09+11+13 December 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

Dear VSC users and friends, the year and also the training year 2024 is coming to an end, but in December we still do have 2 courses for you: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python for HPC 09.+11.+13.12.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Python4HPC-2024-12 During the past ten years, Python has seen a meteoric rise in both popularity and demand not only in general purpose programming but also in scientific computing. Data science and machine learning further contributed to this trend. Despite Python's architectural shortcomings, even the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC), with its highly specific demands, profited from recent developments with various libraries and optimizations. This course shows the interested participant how to put Python to use on an HPC cluster as the VSC, how to optimize the code to increase performance, how to parallelize code for single and multi-node deployment as well as GPU offloading. Participants will be introduced to the most practical tools and various indispensable libraries for HPC use cases. After completion of this three-day course, participants are able to create the environment they need on an HPC cluster, optimize and parallelize their Python use-cases and submit their jobs for batch processing on a supercomputer. The content is delivered online over a three-day period with a day off after each course day. This should enable participants to have enough time to revisit the covered topics and come up with questions on the next course day. Registration deadline is Monday, 2 December 2024. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Deep Learning 16.-17.12.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-12 Deep Learning (DL) has enjoyed a surge in popularity during the last decade. This is mainly owed to the fact that DL is computationally quite expensive and needs vast amounts of data to train useful models. Both, computational resources and large datasets have become more readily available in recent years, leading to breakthroughs in DL applications. This course aims at interested participants from all domains, who have not yet jumped on the bandwagon of the DL trend. The course will cover the basic principles of fully connected neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer vision, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text or speech recognition, transfer learning to leverage pre-trained models, and touch on large language models (LLMs) which have become all the rage in the past year. This course is fully booked, but you can still sign up for the waiting list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are currently setting up the course program for the first months of 2025, please stay tuned and find the up to date information about all VSC training events here: https://vsc.ac.at/training Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] Upcoming VSC training events
by VSC Training Newsletter 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Dear VSC users and friends, we would like to draw your attention to our upcoming VSC training events and highlight a few of them that will take place in the next two weeks: * Parallelization with MPI * Navigating the AI Journey - Taking the Plunge * Webinar: AI for Weather and Climate: How Machine Learning Boosts Forecasting * All other upcoming training events -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parallelization with MPI 18.-21.11.2024, 09:30 - 14:00 CET, TU Wien and online https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPI-2024-11 Parallel programming never gets out of style and a basic understanding of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is essential for most users of HPC systems, especially for those who write or contribute to scientific software. We'll start from beginners level and hands-on labs will allow to immediately test and understand the basic MPI constructs, participants can choose between C, Fortran, and Python. Students (of TU Wien and of other Austrian universities via a co-registration) can earn ECTS for VSC-School I. Grab one of the last seats for in-person participation and there are enough places for online participation to accommodate everyone. Registration deadline is 11 November 2024. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Navigating the AI Journey - Taking the Plunge 11.11.2024, 09:30 - 12:30 CET, INiTS (for CEOs and CTOs) https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/AI_journey-2024-11 Want to turn your AI ideas into reality? Not sure where to start or how to scale? We're inviting founders and entrepreneurs to a dedicated workshop on 11 November where we'll share knowledge bits, best practices, and reports from the trenches to help you navigate the AI journey - from ideation to development, launch, and maintenance of a product. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webinar: AI for Weather and Climate: How ML Boosts Forecasting 13.11.2024, 10:00 - 12:00 CET, online https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/ai-weather-climate You will hear from experts on the following topics: * the latest advancements and potential of Machine Learning for weather and climate * how VSC helped to accurately predict maritime wave height for better ship routing systems * the data-driven forecasting system AIFS from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Deep Learning 27.-28.11.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-11 Fully booked, waiting list only, next run in December. Python for HPC 09.+11.+13.12.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Python4HPC-2024-12 Introduction to Deep Learning 16.-17.12.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-12 Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters 16.01.2025, 09:00 - 17:00 https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Intro-2025-01 All VSC training events: https://vsc.ac.at/training -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] CUDA 4 Dummies, 29-30 October 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Dear VSC users and friends, Compute Units Driving Acceleration? Cores Unleashed for Data Analysis? Complex Unification of Distributed Algorithms? If you don't know what CUDA is about then this course is for you: CUDA 4 Dummies 29.-30.10.2024, 09:00-17:00 CET (Zoom) https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CUDA-2024-10 CUDA is the standard API for code development targeting NVIDIA GPUs and a number of impressive examples have already been given in diverse areas from particle physics to computational biology. CUDA allows simple extensions of standard C/C++/Fortran code with GPU-specific functions. In this way thousands of cores available on the GPU can be leveraged to work in parallel and thus carry out significant fractions of the computational workload on the device rather than the CPU. There is also a vast set of auxiliary tools available to the developer including libraries, code templates, building blocks, analysis tools, developmental frameworks, and in general a vivid community making up the CUDA Developer Zone. It is often for this multifaceted support environment that the interested beginner is feeling overwhelmed and unsettled about which particular first steps should best be taken to gain a straightforward introduction into the subject. For exactly this reason the present course is offering a systematic step-by-step introduction into GPU computing from the perspective of the newcomer. Basic design principles will be established, central programming techniques acquired and a number of state-of-the-art workflows examined that efficiently employ the GPU and are frequently used in scientific computing. This course provides lectures, demos, and hands-on labs. Course description and registration: https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CUDA-2024-10 Hurry up to grab your seat, registration closes on Friday, 25 October. All VSC training events: https://vsc.ac.at/training Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] Introduction to Deep Learning, 21-22 October 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Dear VSC users and friends, just this week it was announced that the founding fathers of neural networks & deep learning have been awarded this year's Nobel prize in physics, since the methods they developed are absolutely relevant in furthering science and innovation. In today's academic and technology driven world it has become essential to understand the basic concepts of deep learning. We are giving anyone who is interested (and quick enough to register) the chance to do so for free: Introduction to Deep Learning 21.-22.10.2024, 09:00-16:30 CEST (Zoom) https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10 Deep Learning (DL) has enjoyed a surge in popularity during the last decade. This is mainly owed to the fact that DL is computationally quite expensive and needs vast amounts of data to train useful models. Both, computational resources and large datasets have become more readily available in recent years, leading to breakthroughs in DL applications. This course aims at interested participants from all domains, who have not yet jumped on the bandwagon of the DL trend. The course will cover the basic principles of fully connected neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer vision, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text or speech recognition, transfer learning to leverage pretrained models, and touch on large language models (LLMs) which have become all the rage in the past year. Course description and registration: https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10 Hurry up to grab your seat, registration closes on Wednesday, 16 October. All VSC training events: https://vsc.ac.at/training Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] Training events October - November 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Dear VSC users and friends, the new semester is about to start and we would like to draw your attention to our training and education offer in high-performance computing and related topics. 1. Introduction to EESSI - European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (04.10.2024) 2. VSC-School I - Parallelization with MPI (18.-21.11.2024) 3. Introductory courses: VSC-Linux (9.10.2024) and VSC-Intro (24.10.2023) 4. All (other) upcoming training events (C++, CUDA, DL, LLMs) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Are you tired of dealing with complicated software setups, incompatible libraries, and version conflicts across platforms? We understand the struggle, but here's good news: The European HPC community has developed EESSI, a common stack of scientific software that works like a streaming service. It provides instant access to the software you need, whether you're using an HPC system, cloud, or laptop. Join our online course to get to know the stack and make your life a bit EESSIER. Introduction to EESSI - European Environment for Scientific Software Installations 04.10.2024, 09:00 - 11:00 CEST https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/EESSI-2024-10 Registration ends today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. We would like to especially highlight the lecture "VSC-School I" during the upcoming winter semester which allows students of TU Wien and of other Austrian universities via a co-registration https://www.tuwien.at/studium/zulassung/mitbelegung to earn credits (ECTS). Therefore, we do offer priority registration for VSC users and students and members of Austrian universities and public research institute until 28 October 2024 for the "MPI course" which is the core part of the lecture: Parallelization with MPI 18.-21.11.2024, 09:30 - 14:00 CET, TU Wien & ONLINE (Hybrid format) On clusters and distributed memory architectures, parallel programming with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the dominating programming model. This 4 half-days course teaches parallel programming with MPI starting from a beginners level. Hands-on sessions (in C, Fortran, and Python) allow to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPI-2024-11 Priority registration for VSC users and students until 28 October 2024. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. For all newbies we offer two introductory courses: Linux command line 09.10.2024, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST This course is targeted for our new users who might not have worked on the Linux command line before. You will learn how to login to VSC and step-by-step we will show you how to work on the Linux command line and a few basic things that will help you to organize your workflows on the cluster. Focusing on hands-on teaching throughout the course, you will immediately try out what you've heard and adapt it to your own needs. https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Linux-2024-10 Registration deadline 7 October 2024. Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters 24.10.2024, 09:00 - 17:00 CEST In this course we will help you getting started on the VSC clusters, Austria's most powerful supercomputers. We'll focus on using the VSC clusters and especially their queuing system efficiently. It is from beginners level (the first steps on a supercomputer) to intermediate level (some experience on VSC or any other compute cluster) and equally relevant to those who will merely be running existing software as to those who will develop scientific codes . https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Intro-2024-10 Registration deadline 21 October 2024. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. All upcoming training events: Registration for all our courses in October and November 2024 is currently open. All our courses are free of charge for VSC users and students and members of Austrian universities and public research institutes, and most courses are free of charge for anyone from Europe. It is recommended to register early to secure your spot! Please feel free to pass this announcement to other persons who might not get this information directly. 04.10.2024, 09:00 - 11:00 CEST Introduction to EESSI - European Environment for Scientific Software Installations https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/EESSI-2024-10 Registration ends today! 07.-10.10.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 Modern C++ Software Design (Intermediate) https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CppI-2024-10 Registration ends today! 09.10.2024, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST Linux Command Line https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Linux-2024-10 Registration deadline 7 October 2024. 15.-16.10.2024, 09:00 - 17:00 CEST CUDA 4 Dummies https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CUDA-2024-10 Registration deadline 10 October 2024. 21.-22.10.2024, 09:00 - 16:30 CEST Introduction to Deep Learning https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10 Registration deadline 14 October 2024. 24.10.2024, 09:00 - 17:00 CEST Introduction to Working on the VSC Clusters https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/VSC-Intro-2024-10 Registration deadline 21 October 2024. 4.-5.11.2024, 09:00 - 13:00 CET Large Language Models on Supercomputers https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/LLMs-2024-11 Registration deadline 28 October 2024. 18.-21.11.2024, 09:30 - 14:00 CET, TU Wien & ONLINE (Hybrid format) Parallelization with MPI https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/MPI-2024-11 Priority registration for VSC users and students until 28 October 2024. All VSC training events: https://events.vsc.ac.at/category/4/ Best regards, VSC training team

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[VSC Training News] Training events September 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Dear VSC users and friends, welcome to the new VSC Training Newsletter! The training program for September 2024 is available: https://vsc.ac.at/training We still do have places available for two courses: GPU Optimization with Kernel Tuner (12-13 Sep) [1] Shared-Memory Parallelization with OpenMP (16-18 Sep) [2] For the other courses in September (POP, MPI, LLMs) you can only sign up for the waiting list. The first trainings in October 2024 (EESSI, C++) are already visible and open for registration, please stay tuned there are much more courses to come (from VSC-Linux and VSC-Intro to MPI, CUDA, Python4HPC, and more AI-focused content, we'll cover it all in the upcoming winter semester - and for students there will be again VSC-School I to earn ECTS). We have reshaped how we send mails to our users and other interested parties. VSC users are subscribed automatically to the training-news and news mailing lists when their user is created, but will not be unsubscribed when their user or project becomes inactive. Other interested parties can manually subscribe and unsubscribe as well. Links to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to our optional mailing lists are in the footer. Best regards, VSC training team Links: ------ [1] https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/Kernel-Tuner-2024-09 [2] https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/OpenMP-2024-09

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