HPC On-boarding October 13-15 2026

The Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS) is offering an on-boarding hands-on course for new users of high performance computing (HPC) systems.

Targeted Audience: The course is aimed at students, researchers and employees of any background, and is highly recommended for all new users of the national HPC systems (Saga, Betzy, Olivia). We assume no prior knowledge of what an HPC is or how to use it. For those with little experience using UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux or working on the command line of a terminal, the first day of the course is designed specifically for you.

The course is open to all and free of charge.

Registration

Registration will open soon

Practical Information

This is an online course via Zoom. Participants require access to a computer (not provided by the course organisers) with internet connectivity and pre-installed programs to participate in the video meeting of the course (Zoom) and to access the HPC systems (e.g. ssh).

Time, date (all times CEST)

Date	Time	Topic
Mon 12.10	09:00 - 10:00	Login check session (for all)
Tue 13.10	09:00 - 12:30	Day 0 Linux for HPC (for UNIX-novices)
Wed 14.10	09:00 - 12:30	HPC On-boarding Day 1 (for all)
Thu 15.10	09:00 - 12:30	HPC On-boarding Day 2 (for all)

Note that there might be changes in the time schedule For now, have a look at the HPC On-boarding April 14-16 2026 for approximate details about the individual day schedules.

You can always contact our support team.

User Account and connection verification: For all course participants, we want to make sure that you are able to log in an follow the practical parts of the course - thus we organise a login help session on October 12th 09:00-10:00. Note that this is compulsory in the sense that if you later experience access challenges, you are low on the assistance priority list. We use the same Zoom link as for the rest of the course for this login help session.

Course material

Course material will be mostly based on our training tutorial:

• Unix for HPC

• HPC-Intro

Code of Conduct

All participants in our course are expected to show respect and courtesy to others. We follow carpentry code of conduct. If you believe someone is violating the Code of Conduct, we ask that you either report to the zoom host right away or write to the training team.

Instructors

• TBA

Coordinator

• Eirik Skjerve