NCSA Training and Seminars

Monday, September 29, 2025

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Central Time

    NCSA is offering a 2-hour workshop for campus researchers to introduce the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC) and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. A user account on the ICC will be provided for the hands-on exercises. Register by Sept 25, 2025.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

    • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm   Central Time

    This course for experienced programmers introduces the basic algorithm-oriented and object-oriented programming styles of the Python programming language. Participants will conduct exercises using Jupyter Notebooks running in the ACES cluster's Open OnDemand portal.

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:30 am   Central Time

    Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.

    • 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

    This short course (2.5 hours) will allow users to work through a hands-on tutorial covering how to run AlphaFold utilizing NVIDIA GPUs on the ACES cluster, a composable accelerator testbed at Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm

    NCSA is offering a 2-hour workshop to introduce the DeltaAI cluster and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. Attendees will be added to a training allocation for the workshop, if they do not already have DeltaAI allocations. Register by October 2.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:30 am   Central Time

    Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm

    This workshop is a 2-hour session that will introduce interactive Jupyter notebooks, particularly the web-hosted version provided by Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN) service.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering Room: 2017 - 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

    The seminar will be taught by Priyam Mazumdar, a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.

Thursday, October 9, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:30 am   Central Time

    Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

    • 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.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

    • 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

    • 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.