HPC Introduction@VUB
Fri, 14 Nov
|Campus Etterbeek, room LIC.5.14
Kickstart your HPC journey! Hands-on introduction to supercomputing with VSC: learn job submission, software modules & best practices on the Hydra cluster. No prior experience needed!
Time & Location
14 Nov 2025, 09:00 – 15:00 CET
Campus Etterbeek, room LIC.5.14, Bd de la Plaine 2, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium
About the Event
This on-site training session is a hands-on introductory course focusing on young and/or early stage researchers (Doctoral students, Master thesis students) with practical sessions on HPC job preparation, submission and monitoring. The Hydra cluster as well as the VSC organisation will be described.
Program
General introduction to high-performance computing (HPC, supercomputing)
Using the module system for software packages
Submitting, monitoring, managing simple jobs on the HPC cluster (Hydra)
Various examples covering common and more specialized use cases