Training & Education

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

We want our users to be able to optimally use our HPC systems. Therefore, the MPCDF provides training and educational events for the MPG and its partners. From the basic introduction of how to use our systems to focused advanced workshops and lectures, we give our users the means to master their work on our systems.

Upcoming Events (RSS)

AMD AI Days

Online Workshop

Start: Oct 5, 2026
End: Oct 6, 2026
Speaker: AMD, MPCDF
Location: online via Zoom
Host: MPCDF
Contact: ai-training@mpcdf.mpg.de

An online hands-on workshop on AI and machine learning on AMD GPUs, delivered by AMD experts. Sessions are tailored to Viper, MPCDF's AMD-based HPC system, and cover topics from container workflows and PyTorch training to LLM optimization, profiling, and inference benchmarking. [more]

Agentic AI for Science

On-site Workshop

Start: Oct 7, 2026
End: Oct 8, 2026
Location: Garching Campus Building D2
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: MPCDF
Contact: ai-training@mpcdf.mpg.de

A 2-day on-site workshop exploring how AI agents are reshaping scientific workflows, combining hands-on training and experiences from MPG institutes with perspectives from leading industry partners (Microsoft, AWS, AMD, NVIDIA). [more]

Introduction to MPCDF Services

How to start with the MPCDF systems and services

Date: Oct 15, 2026
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Members of the MPCDF Application group
Location: online via Zoom
Host: MPCDF
Contact: training@mpcdf.mpg.de

The Introductory User Tutorial is designed to familiarize you with MPCDF's compute and data services. In the first part, we provide an overview of MPCDF's mission and highlight its key services, along with a step-by-step guide on how to obtain a user account. Moving on, the second talk delves into MPCDF's supercomputers, covering their hardware specifications, software environment, filesystems, and file transfer and archiving workflows. The final part offers a comprehensive introduction to using the Slurm batch system, demonstrating its functionalities through practical examples and job scripts drawn from MPCDF's supercomputers. Throughout the talks, feel free to ask questions via chat. Plus, we offer a dedicated Q&A session afterwards. This tutorial aims to simplify the initial experience for newcomers to MPCDF's services. We conduct it twice a year, typically in spring and autumn, and past presentation slides are available for reference. [more]

Introduction to OpenMP Offloading with AMD GPUs

Start: Oct 27, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Oct 28, 2026 01:00 PM
Speaker: AMD
Location: online via Zoom
Host: HLRS
Contact: training@mpcdf.mpg.de

This workshop will be organized by HLRS together with AMD to teach the usage of OpenMP for GPU programming with a focus on the AMD MI300A APU which is employed in our VIPER-GPU supercomputer. [more]

MPCDF seminar series & training events

Training programmes of other institutions

There are many regularly offered courses, both fundamental and advanced ones, in different topics of scientific computing. Consider e.g. the following:

Gauss: https://www.gauss-centre.eu/trainingsworkshops
EuroHPC: https://www.eurocc-access.eu/services/training/
NHR https://www.nhr-verein.de/en/courses-and-workshops
Courses at the HLRS Stuttgart (partly held at the LRZ Garching)
Courses at the LRZ Garching
International High Performance Computing Summer School (organized by an international consortium including MPCDF)