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Preliminary schedule

This is a very preliminary schedule. Presenters and exact times of the lectures may still change.

DAY 1 - Wednesday 25/11/2026
09:00 EET
08:00 CET
Welcome and Introduction
Presenters: Gregor Decristoforo (LUST)
09:15 EET
08:15 CET
Introduction to LUMI
Presenter: Henk Dreuning (LUST)
09:45 EET
08:45 CET
Using the LUMI web interface
Presenters: Mats Sjöberg (CSC) and Marlon Tobaben (CSC)
10:05 EET
09:05 CET
Hands-on: Run a simple PyTorch example notebook
Presenters: Marlon Tobaben (CSC) and Mats Sjöberg (CSC)
10:35 EET
09:35 CET
Break (15 minutes)
10:50 EET
09:50 CET
Your first AI training job on LUMI
Presenters: Mats Sjöberg (CSC) and Marlon Tobaben (CSC)
11:20 EET
10:20 CET
Hands-on: Run a simple single-GPU PyTorch AI training job
Presenters: Marlon Tobaben (CSC) and Mats Sjöberg (CSC)
12:05 EET
11:05 CET
Lunch break (60 minutes)
13:05 EET
12:05 CET
Understanding GPU activity & checking jobs
Presenters: Paul Bauer (AMD) and Samuel Antão (AMD)
13:25 EET
12:25 CET
Hands-on: Checking GPU usage interactively using rocm-smi
Presenter: Samuel Antão and Paul Bauer (AMD)
13:45 EET
12:45 CET
Running containers on LUMI
Presenter: Julius Roeder (DeiC)
14:05 EET
13:05 CET
Hands-on: Pull and run a container
Presenter: Julius Roeder (DeiC)
14:25 EET
13:25 CET
Break (15 minutes)
14:40 EET
13:40 CET
Building containers from conda/pip environments
Presenter: Julius Roeder (DeiC)
15:00 EET
14:00 CET
Hands-on: Creating a conda environment file and building a container using cotainr
Presenter: Julius Roeder (DeiC)
15:20 EET
14:20 CET
Extending containers with virtual environments for faster testing
Presenter: Henk Dreuning (LUST)
15:40 EET
16:40 CET
Hands-on: Getting started with your own project
Bring your own AI code, you want to run on LUMI, and spent some time applying what you have learned during the workshop - with on-site support from LUST/AMD.
17:00 EET
17:00 CET
End of the course day
DAY 2 - Thursday 26/11/2026
09:00 EET
08:00 CET
Scaling AI training to multiple GPUs
Presenters: Mats Sjöberg (CSC) and Marlon Tobaben (CSC)
09:40 EET
08:40 CET
Hands-on: Converting the PyTorch single GPU AI training job to use all GPUs in a single node via DDP
Presenters: Marlon Tobaben (CSC) and Mats Sjöberg (CSC)
10:20 EET
09:20 CET
Break (15 minutes)
10:35 EET
09:35 CET
Extreme scale AI
Presenter: Samuel Antão and Paul Bauer (AMD)
11:20 EET
10:20 CET
Hands-on: Extreme scale AI
11:35 EET
10:35 CET
Loading training data on LUMI
Presenter: Harvey Richardson (HPE)
12:00 EET
11:00 CET
Lunch break (60 minutes)
13:00 EET
12:00 CET
Coupling machine learning with HPC simulation
Presenter: Harvey Richardson (HPE)
13:30 EET
12:30 CET
Hands-on: Advancing your own project and Q&A
Bring your own AI code, you want to run on LUMI, and spent some time applying what you have learned during the workshop - with on-site support from LUST/AMD.
(Coffee with snack at 14:00 EET.)
16:30 EET
15:30 CET
End of the course day