Training events
Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS), has an extensive education and training program to assist existing and future users of our services. The courses are aimed to give the participants an understanding of our services as well as using the resources effectively. All courses are free of charge unless otherwise announced.
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Each of the four NRIS partner sites have local activities and events that might be useful to attend.
users at University of Bergen and affiliated institutes: register to hpcnews@uib.no
users at University of Oslo and affiliated institutes: register on the hpc-users list by sending an email to
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Sigma2 training calendar: https://www.sigma2.no/events
Links to training pages from collaborators:
Past events
2026
From external collaborators:
2025
- NRIS Talks: Webinar on Heterogeneous HPC Architecture: A Fundamental Overview
- NRIS Talks : A Sneak Peek into Olivia’s Best Practices guide
- NumPy and Pandas fundamentals for handling biological datasets (27-28 May 2025)
- HPC On-boarding 05-08 May 2025
- HPC On-boarding
- NRIS GPU Tutorials series: Fine-Tuning LLMs with Multi-GPU Training
- Best Practices and Tools for High Performance Computing
From external collaborators:
2024
- NRIS Talks : Webinar on Exascale Computing
- HPC On-boarding 9-11 April 2024
- Scientific Computing Workshop (11-12 June)
- NRIS Talks : Webinar on Introduction to EESSI
- HPC On-boarding 14-17 October 2024
- Introduction to NIRD Toolkit
- NRIS Talks : How to build on top EESSI using EasyBuild
- Intel oneAPI Workshop (6, 13 and 27 November)
- Best Practices on Clusters Spring Series 2024
From external collaborators:
2023
- Introduction to second generation NIRD
- HPC On-boarding 18-20 April 2023
- NRIS Best Practices Course 9-11 May 2023
- Mondays with MATLAB – Nordic HPC Workshops (September 2023)
- HPC On-boarding 3-5 October 2023
- Introduction to NIRD Toolkit
- Introduction to FORTRAN
- Modern Fortran Workshop Series Spring 2023