Training Webinar  

Python on the HPCC

Michigan State University’s Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER) is excited to announce the Summer-2026 Python on the High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC) webinar. This non-credit, training webinar is designed to provide a hands-on introduction to the tools for using Python for research computing on ICER’s HPCC.*

Summer 2026

July 30th, 2026, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

* Participants need an active HPCC account to access the HPCC. If you do NOT have an active account, please see our documentation page Obtain HPCC Access.

The prerequisites for meaningful participation in the hands-on exercises are listed below.

• Active ICER HPCC account
• Basic understanding of the HPCC resource environment and the SLURM scheduler
• Basic competency with Python and GNU/Linux Operating Systems

The learning objectives for this training are listed below.

• Understand Python modules on the HPCC
• Understand Python user environments on the HPCC
• Use the OnDemand web portal to launch a Jupyter Notebook on the HPCC
• Perform basic profiling of Python code
• Understand basic vectorization in numpy
• Use Numba to parallelize a loop

Questions? Contact the ICER Training Coordinator Mahmoud Parvizi at parvizim@msu.edu