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Best Practices for High Performance Computing

The Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS) is offering a best practices and tools hands-on course for users of the national infrastructure services.

The workshop is organised as a series of events - normally within one semester. During these events, each topic will focus on different aspects related to the everyday usage of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and/or storage facilities in order to facilitate a valuable and productive framework to develop your research.

The course is open to all and free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

Targeted Audience: The course is aimed at students, researchers and employees who want to upskill their knowledge of the usage of HPC and storage facilities. This is a follow-up course to the NRIS HPC on-boarding course (although it is not a prerequisite, we expect the participants to have basic HPC knowledge). Being familiar with basic tools used with HPC and remote computing is fundamental for this course. We assume familiarity with the Linux command line. If you need to brush up on your skills, you can for instance watch a recording of our last HPC onboarding training here.

Below you find the list of episodes and how to register. Episodes are self-contained, you can join only for the episodes you find useful.

2026 (09:00-12:00 CET)

Content: Sometimes you need to run many similar calculations. Instead of running them one after the other and managing many job scripts or writing elaborate shell scripts, we will learn how to run them potentially at the same time using a workflow manager without writing many job scripts. We will demonstrate and practice this using Snakemake. If your calculation is a for-loop in Python or R and it takes too long to run, this session is for you.

Course material: https://training.pages.sigma2.no/tutorials/independent-jobs-in-parallel/

Registration: Please register at this link (deadline February 12th 2026)

Instructor: Ole Saastad

Coordinator

Espen Tangen

Practical Information

This is an online course via zoom. Participants require access to a computer (not provided by the course organisers) with internet connectivity.

Note

It is not mandatory to have an account on national HPC clusters to attend the course. Participants can follow the lectures and demos without having an account on national resources since the course content is applicable to all HPC systems. If you are an existing user, kindly provide your username while registering. You will get access to the training project. If you wish to set up a user account, you can apply for one. The application page is available here and and documentation for the application procedure is available here. When applying for an account, please select NN9970K: Training and Outreach as the project, choose Saga under Resources, set the account start date as the date of application, and set the account end date to 2026-05-30.

Code of Conduct

All participants in our course are expected to show respect and courtesy to others. We follow the Carpentries Code of Conduct. If you believe someone is violating the Code of Conduct, we ask that you report it to the training team.

Contact us

You can always contact us by sending an email to support@nris.no.