LLNL's 2026 HPC Tutorials

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Reposting from William Kramer:

LLNL’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center is once again putting on a series of Free, Virtual Open Source Software Tutorials.

This July through September, you can hear it straight from the developers of these projects. We’re kicking things off with Spack July 7-8, but hope to see you at all 13 tutorials!

Sign up here: https://hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/2026-hpc-tutorials

Dates:

  • July 7-8: Spack, HPC package manager
  • July 14: BLT, build link and test HPC apps
  • July 21: Flux, HPC scheduler and resource manager
  • July 28: YGM, manage irregular communication
  • Aug 4: Caliper & Thicket: measure and analyze performance data
  • Aug 1: Axom, modeling and simulation infrastructure
  • Aug 18: Jacamar CI: Secure Gitlab runners for HPC centers
  • Aug 25: Ascent, in-situ visualization
  • Sep 1: Benchpark, reproducible continuous benchmarking framework
  • Sep 15: RAJA & Umpire, performance portability and accelerator memory management
  • Sep 22: MFEM, scalable, higher order finite element meshing library

2026 HPC Tutorials | HPC Innovation Center
The 2025 HPC Tutorials offer free hands-on workshops from mid-July to mid-September, covering a modern, open-source HPC software stack for all experience levels. Participants can follow tutorials using provided AWS EC2 instances and explore topics such as application performance, visualization, memory management, workflow optimization, and more.

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Another training opportunity that might be useful to newer graduate students:

Intermediate Linux (COMPLECS)

:spiral_calendar: 07/09/26 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT
:technologist: Remote event hosted on Zoom

Knowledge of Linux is indispensable for using advanced CI. While GUIs are becoming more prevalent, being able to work at the command line interface (CLI) provides the greatest power and flexibility. In this session, we assume that participants are already comfortable with basic Linux operations such as creating, deleting and renaming files, and navigating between directories. Topics covered include the filesystem hierarchy, file permissions, symbolic and hard links, wildcards and file globbing, finding commands and files, environment variables and modules, configuration files, aliases, history and tips for effective Bash shell scripting.

More info here