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). 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