CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing 2025

This is the material repository for the High-Performance Computing Summer School organized by CSC - IT Center for Science.

Practical information

The practical information is in the wiki.

Presentation slides

The slides are available here.

Exercises

• Feel free to fork this repository to work through the exercises.
• General exercise instructions
• Session-specific material linked in the schedule below

Schedule

Day 1, Tue 24.6.

Time	Topic
09:00	Transport from Helsinki city
10:00	Welcome to Nuuksio
10:30	Introduction to HPC
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Introduction to HPC
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	Introduction to HPC
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Exercises
19:00	Get together & Lightning talks

Day 2, Wed 25.6.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	MPI
12:00	Lunch
13:00	MPI
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	MPI
15:45	Sports: Nuuksio Olympic Games
17:15	Dinner
18:15	Exercises
19:30	Snack & Saunas at the lake

Day 3, Thu 26.6.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	MPI
12:00	Lunch
13:00	MPI
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	MPI
16:00	Sports
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Exercises
19:30	Free time
20:00	Snack available at the hotel restaurant until 21:30

Day 4, Fri 27.6.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	OpenMP
12:00	Lunch
13:00	OpenMP
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	MPI + OpenMP
16:00	Sports
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Exercises
19:30	Snack & Saunas at the lake

Day 5, Sat 28.6.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	Parallel I/O
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Free time
14:00	Coffee available until 16:00 next to the lecture room
14:00	Free time
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Free time
20:00	Snack available at the hotel restaurant until 21:30

Day 6, Sun 29.6.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	GPU programming
12:00	Lunch
13:00	GPU programming
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	GPU programming
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Free time / Trekking in Nuuksio (Packed snack available at the hotel restaurant)

Day 7, Mon 30.6.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	GPU programming
12:00	Lunch
13:00	GPU programming
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	GPU programming
16:00	Sports
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Exercises
19:30	Snack & Saunas at the lake

Day 8, Tue 1.7.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	GPU programming
12:00	Lunch
13:00	GPU programming
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	MPI + GPUs
16:00	Sports
17:00	Dinner
18:00	Exercises
19:30	Free time
20:00	Snack available at the hotel restaurant until 21:30

Day 9, Wed 2.7.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	HPC in AI
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Exercises
14:00	Coffee break (Coffee remains available until 16:00)
14:25	Exercises
16:00	Sports: Boating at the lake
19:00	Farewell party and dinner

Day 10, Thu 3.7.

Time	Topic
08:00	Breakfast
09:00	Application design
10:00	Application performance
11:30	Closing
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Transport to Helsinki city

Previous years

Material from previous years can be found in releases.