EuroCC@Greece announced the 21st Course of HPC Training Series with the subject “HPC for Beginners: SLURM, MPI and OpenMP”, which took place online on March 20th, 2026.
Presentation language: Greek
Audience: Suitable for all users, with a focus on:
- Engineers
- Developers
- IT Professionals
- Students
- Researchers
This course was ideal for those looking to understand the basics of how parallel computing technologies, such as MPI and OpenMP, can improve code performance.
Course Description: This was an introductory course designed for engineers, developers, IT professionals, students, and researchers looking to enhance code performance using parallel computing. Participants learned fundamental concepts of High-Performance Computing (HPC), with a focus on shared and distributed memory parallelism. The course covered the open-source workload manager and job scheduler SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), OpenMP for shared memory parallelism, and MPI for distributed memory computing, introducing both single-node and multi-node parallel techniques, respectively. Additionally, participants gained insights into accessing Greek and European supercomputers for research and development. No prior HPC experience was required, but basic programming knowledge (C, C++, or Fortran) was recommended.
The course’s agenda and presentation material can be found here.
Watch the event’s recordings in the dedicated playlist here.
