TRAINING

ARC provides training sessions throughout the year to help researchers become familiar with high-performance computing services, along with links to tutorials and national resources.

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View the full list of upcoming ARC and campus-wide HPC training sessions, including workshops, tutorials, and office hours.

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Upcoming workshops

Workshop MPI

Pittsburgh Supercomputing: MPI

This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are compact, to accommodate multiple time zones, but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.

Dates: August 3-4, 2026
Location: Available Upon Registration
Time: 11:00am – 5:00pm

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Training materials & tutorials

Getting started Introductory ARC and HPC concepts.
Job scheduling Using Slurm and managing workflows.
Parallel programming MPI, OpenMP, and scaling basics.
Data management Storage, transfers, and best practices.
Containers Portable and reproducible HPC environments.
Best practices Debugging, optimization, and efficiency.

Additional help

ARC + ISR Office Hours

Weekly office hours offering help with research computing, data science, statistics, and programming.

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National resources

ACCESS

NSF-supported advanced cyberinfrastructure for researchers and educators.

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PRACE

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

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TACC

Texas Advanced Computing Center, provides access to high compute resources

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