Applied Parallel Programming
TACC's HPC training includes parallel computing, CUDA programming, MPI (beginner and intermediate), and other HPC tools
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Upcoming Training
TACC Institute | Information-Integrated Decision Support
Master systematic approaches for building end-to-end decision support systems that integrate multiple information sources — scientific research, sensor data, physics-based models, and stakeholder knowledge — to tackle wicked problems with no clear solutions.
TACC Institute | Curating Large Scale Research Data: Concepts and Action
Learn about curation of large scale complex data—from geospatial and imaging to simulations and AI outputs. Through hands-on activities, tours of HPC storage systems, and real-world case studies, you’ll learn data modeling, quality control, semantic search, AI-ready metadata, and impact measurement to make datasets discoverable, reusable, and future-proof.
CU Bolder | AI Unlocked: Empowering Higher Education through Research and Discovery
A unique opportunity for researchers, educators, and students to learn how to integrate AI tools in research and classroom settings. Registration is free for the two-day-long event, which is sponsored by ACCESS, NAIRR Pilot, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
TACC Institute | Practical Machine Learning for Life Science Research
An immersive dive into machine learning best practices and applications in life sciences. This week-long in-person workshop guides participants through machine learning fundamentals up to cutting edge deep learning tools and methodologies for implementation in life sciences research.
TACC Institute | Applied Parallel Programming
Spend a week with TACC HPC experts learning how to effectively use supercomputing for research and code development. The course introduces core parallel programming paradigms used in HPC, including CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, and OpenMP offloading, along with essential HPC tools.
TACC Training Highlights — Watch Now!
Introduction to PETSc with Victor Eijkhout
PETSc provides a framework for the development of computational science codes. Its focus is on solving linear and nonlinear systems, but it is more than a collection of algorithms: it is a complete toolkit supporting parallel data structures, linear algebra, PDEs, meshes.
Intro to the PyLauncher with Victor Eijkhout
The PyLauncher is a python-based parametric job launcher, that is, a utility for executing many small jobs in parallel.
How to Submit and Cancel Jobs with Jack Gaither
Watch a demonstration of the proper use of the Slurm Workload Manager on TACC systems in this quick tutorial.
How to SSH with Remy Scott
TACCster Remy Scott demonstrates how to SSH.
Previous Training
Machine Learning Institute
At TACC ML Institute, we will walk you through the basics, state-the-of-art methods, modern tools, and hands-on exercises of machine learning and deep learning at supercomputer scale.
BootUp/ReBoot @ TACC Institute
A dual boot camp focused on immersing you into the research life cycle, where you'll solve a computational scientific model, iteratively. Generate data, verify and validate the data, update the model, revisit the data... repeat until the model accurately predicts a real-life phenomenon. This is the research life cycle. Part training, part code-a-thon, part hackathon.
Machine Learning @ TACC
The tutorial will help new users to get started with data-driven analysis on supercomputers.
TACC Institute Series
The TACC Institute series is designed to help researchers further their science through applied computational techniques. Our goal is to broaden the number of people who use advanced computing; whether it’s for research, industry, or as a facilitator, there is an institute designed with you in mind.
Institutes are held on site at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and are in-person only. Meals provided. Detailed agendas will be posted when registration opens.
Information-Integrated Decision Support
Attend In-Person
Master systematic approaches for building end-to-end decision support systems that integrate multiple information sources — scientific research, sensor data, physics-based models, and stakeholder knowledge — to tackle wicked problems with no clear solutions. Led by TACC's Decision Support Office team of interdisciplinary researchers specializing in stakeholder-engaged computational modeling and intelligent decision support systems, this hands-on institute teaches the complete pipeline from problem framing through solution deployment.
Curating Large Scale Research Data: Concepts and Action
Attend In-Person
Learn about curation of large-scale complex data-from geospatial and imaging to simulations and AI outputs. Through hands-on activities, tours of HPC storage systems, and real-world case studies, you'll learn data modeling, quality control, semantic search, AI-ready metadata, and impact measurement to make datasets discoverable, reusable, and future-proof. Participants need to have data curation experience, as this program touches on advanced curation topics.
Practical Machine Learning for Life Science Research
Attend In-Person
An immersive dive into machine learning best practices and applications in life sciences. This week-long in-person workshop guides participants through machine learning fundamentals up to cutting edge deep learning tools and methodologies for implementation in life sciences research. Attendees will also gain hands-on experience utilizing TACC's high performance computing (HPC) systems, learn effective techniques to prepare and manage preprocessing of datasets, and learn how to train their own models efficiently and accurately.
Applied Parallel Programming
Attend In-Person
Spend a week with TACC HPC experts learning how to effectively use supercomputing for research and code development. The course introduces core parallel programming paradigms used in HPC, including CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, and OpenMP offloading, along with essential HPC tools. Participants complete hands-on labs using TACC systems and can attend additional sessions on Julia, modern C++, and the CMake ecosystem for scientific software development.
Scientific Visualization Workshop
Attend In-Person
Spend a week with TACC's visualization experts learning how to generate rich, informative visualizations with the power of GPU driven HPC.
Machine Learning Institute
Attend In-Person
Join us to explore machine learning! Start with fundamentals, then dive into modern tools, state-of-the-art methods & hands-on exercises.
HPC Leadership
Attend In-Person
The High Performance Computing (HPC) Leadership Institute is specifically tailored to managers and decision makers who are using, or considering using, HPC within their organizations. It is also applicable to those with a real opportunity to make this career step in the near future. Topics covered will include procurement considerations, pricing and capital expenditures, operating expenditures, and cost/benefit analysis of adding HPC to a company's or institution's R&D portfolio. A broad scope of HPC is covered from department scale clusters to the largest supercomputers, modeling and simulation to non-traditional use cases, and more. We encourage attendees from all backgrounds, including non-technical, to attend.
What to Expect
Instruction on the latest tools, topics, and trends in advanced computing.
Hands-on experiences and guided exercises.
Presentations on the application of advanced computing technologies from TACC researchers, users, and partners.
Opportunities to network with TACC research staff and other attendees.
Certificate of Attendance
Attendees to TACC Institutes will receive a certificate of attendance with their name, the title of the institute and the dates of the program.
Cost
The cost of Institutes includes the use of TACC resources, in-person access to experts, and lunch/snacks. Pricing varies for Academic, STAR, and Industry partners.