Dear ASC users and friends,
the ASC training events for February and March 2026 are available and open for registration. There are a lot of different topics in AI and HPC and some brand-new courses are offered for the very first time. Hands-on labs will be done on the vsc5 and Leonardo supercomputers.
- Hands-on Explainable AI (XAI): From Data Understanding to Model Interpretation
20 February 2026, 13:00–16:30 CET – register until 17 February (tomorrow)!
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/XAI-2026-02
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly woven into our daily lives, the need to understand how and why these systems make decisions has never been more important. This is a hands-on training, participants will work directly with data and models to explore how explainability can support data understanding, model development, and result interpretation in realistic workflows.
- Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced)
02–05 March 2026, 09:00–16:30 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/CppA-2026-03
Elevate your C++ expertise with this advanced software design course. Explore modern development principles, proven idioms, and best practices that empower you to craft robust, efficient, and maintainable code.
- Introduction to Deep Learning
03–04 March 2026, 09:00–16:00 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/DL-2026-03
This course covers the essentials of neural networks, from ANNs to CNNs for computer vision, RNNs for sequence processing and transfer learning. Participants will gain hands-on experience using PyTorch to build and train models on high-end GPUs on an HPC cluster.
- Modern Computer Vision & Model Distillation
03–04 March 2026, 16:00–18:00 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/CV-2026-03
The Computer Vision (CV) landscape has transformed dramatically. What once required weeks of manual annotation can now be accomplished in hours, or skipped entirely with open-vocabulary models. Learn about the newest toolkits and gain hands-on experience using them on a High-Performance Computing (HPC) system.
- Sovereign Agentic Systems: Europe-Centric Agentic Workflows for Sensitive Documents
17–18 March 2026, 16:00–18:00 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/AI-agentic-workflows-2026-03
European organizations handle sensitive documents daily, e.g., contracts, financial reports, research data, patient records. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now read, extract, and process these documents automatically. But where does that data go? Who trains their model with that data? Learn how to build agentic AI solutions to handle documents without compromising security, compliance, or control.
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation with GROMACS
25–26 March 2026, 09:00–13:00 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/MD-2026-03
Dive into the world of Molecular Dynamics (MD) with this two-half-day online course on GROMACS for High-Performance Computing (HPC). Learn how to build, run, and analyze simulations from start to finish – from energy minimization and equilibration to trajectory visualization with VMD. With hands-on insights into force fields, GPU optimization, and scalable multi-node workflows, you’ll gain the practical skills needed to launch scientifically sound MD simulations for your own biomolecular research.
- ASC Introductory Courses – for our new users
- Linux Command Line
02 March 2026, 09:00–16:00 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/ASC-Linux-2026-03
For working on High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems knowing basic Linux command line commands is essential to navigate files, launch and monitor jobs, control the powerful computational resources, and automate complex workflows efficiently – and this is exactly what this course provides.
- Introduction to Working on the ASC Clusters
23 March 2026, 09:00–17:00 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/ASC-Intro-2026-03
Discover how to harness Austria’s most powerful supercomputers! This hands-on course guides you from your first steps on the ASC clusters to efficiently running software using their queuing system – perfect for beginners and intermediate users alike.
- Foundations of LLM Mastery – select what you need or book all four
- Prompt Engineering Essentials
17 March 2026, 09:00–12:30 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-pee-2026-03
This course teaches practical strategies of prompt engineering – from role prompting to chain-of-thought techniques – that maximize accuracy and relevance of the output. Participants get to know LangChain, an open source framework that simplifies building AI-driven applications.
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
19 March 2026, 09:00–12:30 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-rag-2026-03
This course teaches you how to architect Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, create knowledge bases, and optimize retrieval for highly accurate, context-aware applications. You learn to build AI systems that don't just generate text, but actively retrieve relevant data.
- Fine-tuning on one GPU
24 March 2026, 09:00–12:30 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-ft1-2026-03
This course teaches you how to fine-tune powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently on a single GPU. We explore quantization and parameter-efficient techniques like LoRA, enabling you to customize massive models for specific tasks without needing a supercomputer.
- Fine-tuning on multi GPUs
26 March 2026, 09:00–12:30 CET
https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-ftm-2026-03
This course takes your model training to the next level by scaling across multiple GPUs. We cover distributed training strategies – including DDP, ZeRO, and FSDP – to help you handle larger datasets and more complex models with speed and efficiency.
- AI:AT webinars – short 1 hour sessions, no labs
Registration will be open until the webinars, you'll get the Zoom link in the automatic confirmation.
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