From Zero to Hero in HPC

by Conrad Ostertag, Dirk Baker (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)), Kushal Ramakrishna (HZDR), Mani Lokamani (HZDR), Varun Sudharshnam (HZDR)

Thursday 21 Aug 2025, 09:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Blue Saloon (PC Pool) (UFZ, Building 2.0)

From Zero to Hero in HPC

High performance computing is a cornerstone of modern science. Why? Because you can pour water on the ground but you cannot watch it flow through the soil. To really know what is going on in cases where you cannot measure to the full extend of the space, or the experiment is too expensive, or you just want to find out what the optimal solution is, you need to calculate the problem.

But if the problem is big, your small notebook will struggle. You might have 4-16 CPU cores in your PC, and perhaps 32GB of main memory - which is already a lot, compared to how computers used to perform. But the cluster has hundreds of cores and hundreds of GBs of memory. If we moved off our own centre, and our own EVE cluster, there are even larger clusters with thousands of cores. These systems might just be able to handle all the problems you would like to have the answer to.

This course teaches you to work with the HPC cluster EVE, right at our Helmholtz Centre!

We got help for this - experts of the HPC group of the Helmholtz-Centre Dresden Rossendorf (our Helmholtz neighbors) will join us for this course. Together, we will teach you everything that you might want to know!

Not convinced yet? It is free.