Newsletter April 04, 2025
Date: April 3rd 2025
Dear reader. In this Newsletter for the month of April, we want to inform you about local and national event that might be of interest to you, but first: If you do know somebody who would be interested in signing up for our monthly newsletter, this is how it is done
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HPC GROUP LOCAL EVENTS
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As a test for the coming months; the hpc- and RSE office hours will move into central Breivika campus library. New time (14:00 - 16:00) and different place - room 244. Please pay attention to notifications on uit.no/tavla for details and changes (if any).
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Do you or your group want a visit from the HPC-group? We can visit and give a seminar on how we can help using our services, or other relevant topics. You may book a session by sending us a note at
hpc@uit.no. (We will provide a more elegant booking solution in the future.)
NRIS DIGITAL EVENTS:
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In spring of 2025 The Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS) is offering a best practices and tools course seminar series for users of national infrastructure services. Even though two events in the series already has taken place, recordings are still available on web. See link above for details.
- Next event - on advanced scripting happening April 8th! Note that this is a follow up of episode 2.
- We would also like to emphasize the follow up from the great talk about containers on hpc; apptainers on HPC - part 2 happening April 29th.
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As a part of the NRIS outreach program seminar series NRIS talks we are presenting a webinar on ”A Sneak Peak into Olivia’s Best Practices guide” happening April 29th.(Olivia is Norways next supercomputer, and the webinar aims to provide an exclusive preview of our best practices guide for this machine provided by the editor in chief.)
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING THE NEW SUPERCOMPUTER OLIVIA:
The pilot project selection process begins now!!
Read more here: https://www.sigma2.no/news/2025/pilot-project-selection-process-olivia-begins-now
- And finally - the dessert for this spring; on May 05-08 we will again host our quite popular OnBoarding course for hpc beginners. Registration for the course is now open!
- Mondays with MatLab has for the 2025-season in the Nordics an unexpectadly early start; 12.05.2025.
You are welcome to disseminate these events to your network.
Best regards,
the HPC team at UiT