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LUMI Intro Course

20.-21.10.2025
TalTech campus, Tallinn, Estonia

This two-day hybrid course serves as an introduction to the LUMI architecture and setup. It will include lessons about the hardware architecture, compiling, using software and running jobs efficiently. After the course, you will be able to work effectively on both the CPU (LUMI-C) and the GPU partition (LUMI-G).

Location: TalTech University campus, Tallinn, Estonia. Room # update will follow shortly.
Format: 2-day hybrid course (online and onsite)
Cost: Free

Registration deadline: October 14, 16:00 CEST / 17:00 EEST

Requirements: Participants must join the course-specific training project and set up a LUMI account (instructions provided after registration)

Prerequisites

Target Audience

  • Current and future LUMI supercomputer users
  • Support staff from LUMI consortium member organizations

What You’ll Learn

    • Connect to LUMI and transfer data from and to the cluster
    • Understand LUMI hardware and compile software effectively
    • Use module system and EasyBuild for software management
    • Submit and manage Slurm jobs (including job arrays and GPU/CPU binding)
    • Understand and exploit the strengths and weaknesses of both the Lustre parallel file system and the object storage
    • Run containers and manage Python installations

Important

  • This is an introduction to the specifics of LUMI and not a general HPC intro course. AI users are recommended to participate in the training “Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI” workshop (Oct 8-9, 2025), though the Intro training will offer additional insights.
  • Participants arrange their own travel.
  • Waiting list available if oversubscribed.
  • If your plans change, we kindly ask you to cancel your registration as soon as possible to free the seats for the waiting list.