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Introduction to PDC Systems courses

PDC holds short “Introduction to PDC Systems” courses twice per year (usually in spring and in autumn).

Who can attend

All academic and business/industry researchers, as well as students, who are interested in using the Dardel system at PDC are welcome to attend these courses. There is no fee and the course is suitable for beginners to high-performance computing (HPC) and for people with HPC experience who want to learn about using Dardel (especially the GPU partition).

Topics covered

The “Introduction to PDC Systems” courses focus on basic and advanced methods for using the Dardel system at PDC. Amongst other things, they cover:

  • necessary background information about high-performance computing,
  • the supercomputing system or systems that are available at PDC (currently Dardel),
  • how to apply to use PDC resources,
  • how to get an account at PDC,
  • how to log in to systems at PDC,
  • how to run software on different nodes,
  • how to store your data for easy access, 
  • how to compile code on the Dardel CPU and GPU partitions,
  • scientific research areas where application experts can provide assistance to researchers, and
  • flagship software for research developed at KTH.

Registration and more information

To enroll in one of the “Introduction to PDC systems” courses, watch for the next course on the PDC Events calendar , follow PDC on Facebook  or LinkedIn , or join the PDC general announcements mailling list .

For information about the "Introduction to PDC Systems" courses, contact: