01-supercomputing-intro

SCC Training 01 - Basics of supercomputing and compiling of applications

Date 19.1.2026
At CSC - Keilaniemi

• Arrival instructions: https://csc.fi/en/about-us/contact-information/#espoo-directions-and-accessibility

Slides: https://kannu.csc.fi/s/zbgGj6kHqi5ySjb?dir=/01-supercomputing-intro

Agenda

Time	Topic
13:00	Training and competition schedule
13:15	Background for supercomputing, compiling
14:30	Coffee break
15:00	Machine hall visit
15:30	Hands-on exercises

Hands-on exercises

Before you get started, walk through the general_instructions.md file.

See e.g. CSC User Documentation for examples of Slurm batch job scripts. For this particular training a set of nodes has been reserved, the reservation can be used with --reservation=scc option in Slurm:

sbatch --reservation=scc my_job_script.sh

• Parallel hello world
• Heat equation

Homework

• Attend the Aalto HPC winter school 28.1.
• Look through the competition applications and discuss with your teammates on what the preliminary task division could be