Using Python in an HPC environment

24-25 and 28-29 April 2025

This online 4-day workshop aims to give a brief, but comprehensive introduction to using Python in a Swedish academic High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. It covers a wide range of levels in using Python and you can decide which days to follow.

The goals of the different days are:

Day 1:

• Log in to a cluster and load python interpreter
• Use variables, expressions and statements with Python

Day 2:

• Load and use site-installed Python modules
• Use and install python packages with pip and/or Conda
• Use virtual environments
• Ask for compute resources, write batch scripts
• Do basic analysis with Matplotlib in Jupyter

Day 3-4:

• Use compute resources and batch jobs, including parallelism, GPUs and big data
• Use Pandas and Seaborn
• Use Python for ML

Date: 24-25 April and 28-29 April
Time: 9-17 each day

Where: online via Zoom

For more info and registration, please visit: https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/events/courses/2025/spring/hpc-python