Course: Introduction to Python and Using Python in an HPC environment, 27 Nov, 28 Nov, Dec 1, Dec 2

Course: Introduction to Python and Using Python in an HPC environment, 27 Nov, 28 Nov, Dec 1, Dec 2

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.

If you are a complete beginner, perhaps the first day(s) is sufficient for you, but you may follow the other days as well for inspiration. If you already are a Python programmer you could still benefit from attending the login session the first day.

The goals of the different days are

Day 1:

• Log in to a cluster
• Load the Python module
• Use variables, expressions and statements in Python

Day 2

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

Day 3-4

• More about compute resources, including parallelism and GPUs
• Use Pandas and Seaborn,
• Big data and Python
• Use Python for ML/DL
• Guest lecture by Anders Hast and InfraVis introduction

Time and date: 27-28 November & 1-2 December, 9-17 each day.

More information and registration: https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/events/courses/2025/fall/hpc-python