PDC Summer School 2025

The PDC Center for High Performance Computing (PDC) at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm welcomes you to the “Introduction to High Performance Computing” summer school in August 2025!

The school focuses on the skills needed to utilise high-performance computing (HPC) resources for research. It consists of lectures and guided hands-on lab exercises using the Dardel HPC system at PDC. The school includes an introduction to parallel algorithms, parallel programming, modern HPC architectures, performance analysis and engineering, and software engineering. Case studies in various scientific disciplines will be used to help illustrate practical research applications of the topics.

The PDC summer school focuses on programming and optimizing scientific codes for AMD CPUs and GPUs, as featured on the LUMI supercomputer (and on the Dardel supercomputer at KTH).

Dates

• 14-15 August 2025, online, 9:00-12:00 CEST
• 18-22 August 2025, onsite at KTH, 8:00-18:00 CEST

Location

The lectures and hands-on exercises will be held in auditorium E2, Osquars backe 2, KTH Royal Institute of Technology main campus, Stockholm, Sweden.

Number of places available

The number of places available in the summer school is limited to 40.

Who can attend

Ph.D. students and researchers in scientific and/or high-performance computing (with academic or industrial/commercial backgrounds) from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply to attend the school.

Requirements

Applicants must be able to communicate in English, and have previous programming experience in C/C++ or Fortran. Applicants need to be familiar enough with at least one of these languages to be able to write and execute programs. Basic knowledge of mathematical analysis and linear algebra, and also UNIX/Linux is required.

Applicants who need to refresh their UNIX/Linux skills are recommended to review this introduction to the UNIX shell, which provide an overview of what participants are expected to know before attending the summer school, or this introduction to basic to Linux for new HPC users (link for this will be available here soon).

Participants will need to bring a laptop for participating in the lab exercises.

How to apply

To apply to attend the school, fill in the application form on the PDC website.

Application form opens: 7 March 2025

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025

Notifications of acceptance: 15 May 2025

Deadline for payment of fees: 30 May 2025

Fees

SeSE Ph.D. student: 1,000 SEK
Note that SeSE doctoral students are Ph.D. students belonging to one of the SeRC or eSSENCE partner universities in Sweden (namely LU, LiU, KTH, KI, SU, UU and UmU).

Ph.D. students from other public research institutions (in Sweden or outside Sweden): 5,000 SEK

Postdoctoral researchers and staff from other public research institutions (in Sweden or outside Sweden): 5,000 SEK

Industry/business researcher: 15,000 SEK

Further information:

Expected learning outcome, contact information, schedule and list of speakers are available on the PDC website.

This school is part of the Swedish e-Science Education (SeSE) programme and is supported by the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC).​

Image: PDC/KTH.