EUMaster4HPC Summer School 2024 will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic from 18 to 24 August 2024. The Summer School is organised in collaboration with IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, which is part of the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, TU Wien (TUW), and MathWorks. These entities will contribute expertise and resources to enrich the experience for all participants.
Registration is open now until 31 May 2024.
To register for the event, please use the registration link based on your affiliation. The participation conditions and respective fees are below.
The Summer School will offer students practical insights into HPC and data analytics, addressing the growing demand for expertise in these areas. Participants will gain competencies in various tools and techniques, empowering them to tackle real-world challenges effectively.
In this summer school, students will learn how to prepare data and understand its characteristics to create meaningful machine learning models on an HPC architecture. For this purpose, we will use open-source programming languages, such as R and Python. The supercomputing infrastructure of IT4Innovations will be used for hands-on exercises, which will be an integral part of all lectures. At the end of the summer school, the student will gain competencies in the following:
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Introduction of the school programme, practical information
14:00 - 15:00 Introduction of the organisers
15:00 - 15:30. Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Guided tours around IT4I’s Infrastructure
16:30 - 18:00 Teambuilding activities
18:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception
9:00 Accessing and using IT4I clusters
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Introduction to Data Science
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Coding Challenge Part 1
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Coding Challenge Part 2
9:00 Introduction to R
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Exploratory Data Analysis with R
12:15 Lunch Break
13:15 Modelling with R
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Parallelisation in R
09:00 Challenge Reports: 1st cohort of EUMaster4HPC students
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Dask, Numba, Ray: Parallelise the lazy way
11:30 Fast, faster, NumPy: Why is the popular library hard to beat?
12:00 Numerical computations on a GPU: Which tool does the best job?
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Data analysis in Python: Pandas, Polars and the rest of the zoo.
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Data visualisation: Insightful and pretty?!
16:30 Quiz & Recap
17:30 Leaving from the hotel to the Planetarium
18:00 Social event at planetarium
09:00 ML intro: Welcome to weight watching.
09:30 Scikit-Learn: Get to know a living fossil.
09:45 Regression vs Classification: What’s your problem?
10:00 Data pre-processing: Visualise, clean, transform.
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Prominent ML algorithms: SVMs, Decision Trees, K-nearest neighbors & ensemble methods.
11:00 Evaluation: Which model performed best?
11:30 Hyperparameters: Twiddle the knobs and dials.
12:00 Scaling Scikit-Learn: Dask and RAPIDS to the rescue.
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Neural Networks: Dive in at the deep (learning) end.
14:15 Tensorflow & Keras: The easy way to become an architect.
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Convolutional Neural Networks: Give your computer a vision.
16:15 Distributed Training: Sharing the burden.
16:45 Outlook on Transformers: Welcome to the future.
9:00 Data Analysis with MATLAB
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Harnessing AI with MATLAB
12:15 Lunch Break
13:15 Speeding up your MATLAB code
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 From coding to cluster – scaling up MATLAB on HPC
Eligible EUMaster4HPC programme students need to cover their travel costs to Ostrava and back. Their accommodation and attendance at the summer school are arranged and fully covered directly by the organisers. It includes attendance at the lessons, access to the HPC infrastructure, catering during the lessons (coffee breaks and lunches), two social events, and a field trip to Pustevny.
External students must cover all expenses related to travel, accommodation, and attendance at the summer school. In case of a higher demand than available spots for external students, the applications will be reviewed, and selected students will be informed by the end of June about their acceptance.
The attendance fee is 250 €
It includes attendance at the lessons, access to the HPC infrastructure, catering during the lessons (coffee breaks and lunches), two social events, and a field trip to Pustevny.
External students need to arrange for their travel to Ostrava.
Organizers can help book accommodation at the same hotel as the EUMaster4HPC students and tutors, but the external students must pay for their stay. The prices vary based on occupancy and room standards and will be communicated to accepted students.
Summer School 2024 will be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Below, you can find detailed information about the different venues, hotel, and a guide for travel to Ostrava. The venues are within walkable distance from the hotel, except for the Pustevny. For the field trip, a bus transport will be organized.
The welcome reception on Sunday will be held at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Studentská 6231/1B, Ostrava—Poruba, Czech Republic. View Map
The venue of the school is VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, New Auditorium, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava – Poruba. View Map
The social event venue is Planetarium Ostrava, K Planetáriu 502, 725 26 Ostrava 26. View Map
The field trip is organized to Pustevny in the Beskydy Mountains. View Map
The accommodation for EUMaster4HPC students and tutors is booked in Hotel Garni at the university dormitories. View Map
Travel guide including options of flights to Ostrava is available here.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at training@it4i.cz
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