HPC Community at the University of Bonn
Meet with the HPC community at the University of Bonn, take part in events or participate in one of several courses related to HPC. See below how you can engage with the HPC community at the University of Bonn as well as HPC in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and beyond.
Keep in Touch with HPC
Mailing Lists
Keep informed and stay in touch with news and developments around all high performance computing and data analytics activies in and around the University of Bonn.
Monthly HPC-Admin Meeting
Meet with admins and power users to discuss current topics of interest and HPC developments in a relaxed setting. We usually get together once a month. Sign up to join us!
HPC.NRW
The University of Bonn is part of the HPC.NRW competence network aiming to improve available software, support, courses, and workshops for scientific and high-performance computing in NRW.
HRZ Training Courses
Beyond HPC, HRZ offers a number of training courses on topics like using Microsoft Office, 3D printing and GIMP.
Registering happens via eCampus and requires only an Uni ID. The courses are open to all members of Uni bonn and free of charge.
HPC Admin Days
Twice a year, the HPC admins from all universities in Northrhine-Westphalia gather to exchange their experiences.
Meetings usually happen in spring and autumn.
Click below to see the meeting dates at the HPC.NRW website
Gauss Alliance Calendar
The Gauss alliance is a nationwide cooperation of all HPC centers.
Many HPC centers offer training courses, including for advanced topics.
The HPC calendar gives an overview of many events throughout Germany and beyond.
PRACE Training Courses
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international cooperation of HPC centers.
It too has an event calendar containing advanced training courses, workshops and conferences.
Further Links
Below you can find links to additional training courses, events and conferences.
- Main HPC conferences:
- ISC (International Supercomputing Conference)10, held every summer in Germany
- SC (Supercomputing Conference)11, held every autumn in the US
- General Offers by the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ) of the University of Bonn6
- Event Calender of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)12
- Event Calender of the Gauß-Allianz13
- PRACE Training Events Calendar14
- Event Calender of the Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS)15
- Event Calender of the Leibniz Computing Center in Garching near Munich (LRZ)16
- Events of the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Wien17
- Offers by the CERN School of Computing18
Links
- https://www.hpc.uni-bonn.de/en/events/python_intro_course_2025-09-01
- https://www.hpc.uni-bonn.de/en/community/foundations-of-machine-learning
- https://www.hpc.uni-bonn.de/en/community/mailing-lists
- https://www.hpc.uni-bonn.de/en/community/monthly-hpc-admin-meeting
- https://www.hpc.uni-bonn.de/en/community/hpc.nrw
- https://www.hrz.uni-bonn.de/en/all-services/further-education/it-courses
- https://hpc.dh.nrw/en/translate-to-englisch-events/translate-to-englisch-for-cluster-admins
- https://hpc-calendar.gauss-allianz.de/en
- https://events.prace-ri.eu/
- https://www.isc-hpc.com/
- https://supercomputing.org/
- https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/news/events
- https://hpc-calendar.gauss-allianz.de/
- https://events.prace-ri.eu/category/1/
- https://www.hlrs.de/training/
- https://app1.edoobox.com/en/LRZ/
- https://vsc.ac.at/training
- https://csc.web.cern.ch/