NCSA Training and Seminars

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

  • HPC Monthly Workshop: Machine Learning and Big Data
    Recurring

    10:00 am - 4:30 pm
    NCSA 3100

    NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

  • NCSA Lunchtime Seminar: Exploring Cursor & AI CLI Tools

    12:00 - 1:00 pm
    NCSA room 1030

    Join us for an engaging lunchtime seminar hosted by the Center for AI Innovation at the University of Illinois, where Rohan Marwaha and colleagues will demonstrate how to use Cursor and other powerful AI command-line tools to boost productivity and innovation in your workflows.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

  • CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research

    1:30 - 2:00 pm

    The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching a new series of CCC Community Chats, designed to spark broad discussion on key issues in computing research. The first event, CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research, will feature David Jensen (UMass Amherst), lead author of the CCC whitepaper Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research.

Thursday, October 23, 2025

  • COMPLECS: Linux Shell Scripting

    1:00 - 2:30 pm

    Shell scripting is an effective tool for boosting productivity and reducing errors in HPC workflows. Shell scripts can be used to streamline pre- and post-processing tasks, automate repetitive tasks, backups, and system monitoring. In this session, we assume participants have experience with basic Linux operations on command-line tools.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

  • 2025 ASHBY PRIZE IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Hackathon

    8:30 am - 4:00 pm
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Room 1104 - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

  • 2025 ASHBY PRIZE IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Hackathon

    8:30 am - 4:00 pm
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Room 1104 - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Monday, November 10, 2025

  • Geospatial Deep Learning with TorchGeo

    1:00 - 3:00 pm

    This workshop will give you hands-on experience using TorchGeo for geospatial deep learning. TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to geospatial data.

Thursday, November 13, 2025

  • Using NVIDIA GPUs with Python

    1:00 - 3:00 pm

    This workshop, presented by Zoe Ryan from NVIDIA, will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. The workshop will focus on CuPy, NVIDIA RAPIDS, and NVIDIA Warp.