| Start date: | 9 December 2025, 10:00 (CET) | Entry level: | Basic | |
| End date: | 9 December 2025, 12:00 (CET) | Subject area: | HPC literacy | |
| Location: | ONLINE (Zoom) | Topics: | MUSICA for OeAW | |
| Language: | English | Target audience: | Academia, industry, public admin | |
| Price: | Free | Organizer: | ASC |
MUSICA – Multi-Site Computer Austria – the largest and fastest supercomputer available in Austria (currently rank 60 in the TOP500 list of the fastest systems world-wide) is currently in an open test phase for all users from academia and research institutions in Austria, especially including users from all institutions of OeAW.
During this session that is dedicated to users from the OeAW, we will walk you through a general use-case scenario for MUSICA and introduce the basic concepts needed to begin working with the system effectively.
During the open test phase, access to MUSICA is free of charge for OeAW users (or more generally speaking, it's free of charge for all academic and research institutions users from Austria). We will also briefly outline how and under which conditions MUSICA can be accessed by OeAW researchers once the open test phase has concluded and MUSICA is in regular user operation.
Please note that this webinar will not cover building software, JupyterHub, or NoMachine access, although you are welcome to ask questions about these in the Q & A. A separate webinar focusing on software building with EESSI/Easybuild will be announced later on that is open to all Austrian academic and research institutions users.
Agenda & Content
| 09:45 | Join in |
| 10:00 | Welcome & Introduction Bernd Wachmann (OeAW) |
| 10:05 | MUSICA and ASC – joined forces in the Austrian initiative on HPC & AI Claudia Blaas-Schenner (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:10 | Projects and admin basics Florian Goldenberg (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:20 | OeAW – open test phase and regular user operation Claudia Blaas-Schenner (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:25 | Logging in Katrin Muck (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:35 | Filesystems Markus Hickel(ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:40 | Modules Adam Mc Cartney (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:45 | Conda Adam Mc Cartney (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:50 | Containers Adam Mc Cartney (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 10:55 | Submitting Slurm jobs Jan Zabloudil (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 11:05 | Support / writing tickets Jan Zabloudil (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 11:10 | Support and training offers in HPC & AI, embedding in and services offered by international projects Claudia Blaas-Schenner (ASC Research Center, TU Wien) |
| 11:25 | Q & A |
| 12:00 | End of course |
Entry level
Basic
Prerequisites
No prerequisites needed.
For using MUSICA during the open test phase, it would be great if you'd know how to work on the Linux command line, know how to login to a remote Linux machine, and have some basic skills in using Slurm.
No problem if you do not have all prerequisites. We offer dedicated introductory sessions on a regular basis.
Target audience
Course for academia, industry, and public administration.
Course format
This course will be delivered as a LIVE ONLINE COURSE (using Zoom).
Hands-on labs
There are no hands-on labs during this session.
But you might file a project application and get support from the ASC team.
Lecturers
Claudia Blaas-Schenner (ASC Research Center, TU Wien)
Florian Goldenberg (ASC Research Center, TU Wien)
Markus Hickel(ASC Research Center, TU Wien)
Adam Mc Cartney (ASC Research Center, TU Wien)
Katrin Muck (ASC Research Center, TU Wien)
Jan Zabloudil (ASC Research Center, TU Wien)
Language
English
Date, time, and location
09.10.2025, 10:00 – 12:00 CET, LIVE ONLINE COURSE (using Zoom)
Prices and eligibility
This training is free of charge and open for users (or soon to be users) of the ASC and/or MUSICA clusters only.
Registration
The registration form and deadlines are available from the left menu. The registration form might close even before the deadline if the number of registrations has reached its maximum (and will open again if there are cancelations).
Please register with your official institutional email address to prove your affiliation.
You will get an automatic confirmation via email (subject starting with "[Indico] Registration"), please check your Spam/Junk folders.
Following your successful registration, you will receive further information the day / evening before the course.
Waitinglist
After the number of registrations has reached its maximum or the registration form has been closed, you may want to send us an email stating that you are interested to be put on the waiting list (vacancies may occur due to cancelations, etc.).
To be able to do the hands-on labs on the ASC systems please provide your full international mobile-phone number for the two-factor authentication required to login to the ASC systems.
Modification, withdrawal & no-show policy
Your registration is binding. Please only register for the course if you are really going to attend.
You can update your registration data or withdraw your registration anytime before the registration form has been closed via the link "Manage my registration" which you can find at the bottom of your automatic email confirmation (subject starting with "[Indico] Registration").
Alternatively, or after the registration form has been closed, please inform us about your cancelation or any change in your registration data (especially your mobile-phone number) via email (training@asc.ac.at).
No-show policy: If you do not cancel and do not show up at the course you will be blacklisted and excluded from future training events.
Organizers
This course is organized by ASC – Austrian Scientific Computing (aka ASC Research Center, TU Wien).
