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.

Looking for upcoming HPC training?

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

COMSOL Simulation Physics

Introduction of COMSOL Multiphysics®

An in-person event featuring an introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics® Workshop along with an extra session highlighting news in version 6.4

Dates:March 19, 2026
Location: Presentation Room 1180 @ the Duderstadt Center, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm

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Workshop Machine Learning Big Data

Pittsburgh Supercomputing: Machine Learning & Big Data

An in-person workshop focused on Spark-based big data analytics and deep learning techniques.

Dates: April 8 & 9, 2026
Location: Athletic campus, room details given 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

Visit TACC