HPC

Support and exercise files for HPC, including the books and the course designed to help you learn and practice high-performance computing concepts. Exercises are provided to be run in an HPC cluster, and some can also be executed in Google Colab.

Structure of the Repository

• Assignments: Practical assignments for each module of the course.
• Chapter Examples: Example notebooks to help you practice the concepts covered in the lessons.
• Cluster guide: Reusable SciTech HPC cluster access and Slurm instructions.
• Session demos: Small reproducible examples used during live sessions.

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SciTech HPC cluster

Reusable cluster access guide

Session 9 GPU demo

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Loading Notebooks from GitHub in JupyterHub

You can load the following notebooks directly from GitHub into JupyterHub by using the "File -> Open from URL" option in Jupyter.

Assignments

M1.P1. Intro to Slurm

M1.P2. Simple Parallel Codes

M2.P1. OpenMP

M2.P2. MPI

M3.P1. Performance Tuning

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Chapter Examples (Lessons)

1.M1.S1. Evolution and Fundamentals of HPC (1.1)

2.M1.S2. Architectural Overview of HPC Systems (1.2)

3.M1.S3. Resource Management & Performance Metrics in Parallel

4.M1.S4. Cloud-based HPC and Virtualization Containers in HPC

5.M1.S5. HPC in Health & Neurosciences (1.5)

7.M2.S2. OpenMP (2.2)

8.M2.S3. Deep Dive MPI (2.3)

9.M2.S4. GPU Computing, OpenACC, CUDA Basics (2.4)

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How to Use

1. HPC Cluster: These notebooks are meant to be executed on an HPC cluster, but some can also run on platforms like Google Colab.
2. Direct URL Loading: Use the provided raw GitHub links to load the notebooks directly into Jupyter or JupyterHub using the "File -> Open from URL" option.

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Contributions

Feel free to contribute to the course materials by creating pull requests, adding additional exercises, or reporting issues.

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2026 Interactive Session Notebooks

Current teaching notebooks are organized by Module → Session using the canonical MxSy identifier.

Module 1

• M1.S1 - Fundamentals of HPC: from serial code to a supercomputer

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File -> Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M1S1_fundamentals/M1S1_fundamentals.ipynb

• M1.S2 - Evolution of supercomputing and the modern HPC landscape

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File -> Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M1S2_evolution_landscape/M1S2_evolution_landscape.ipynb

• M1.S3 - Architecture of HPC systems

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File -> Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M1S3_hpc_architecture/M1S3_hpc_architecture.ipynb

• M1.S4 - Resource management and performance metrics

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File -> Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M1S4_resource_management/M1S4_resource_management.ipynb

• M1.S5 - Asynchronous Guided HPC Workflow

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File -> Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M1S5_async_hpc_workflow/M1S5_async_hpc_workflow.ipynb

Module 2

• M2.S1 — Parallel Thinking and Decomposition

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File → Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M2S1_parallel_thinking/M2S1_parallel_thinking.ipynb

• M2.S2 — Shared-memory computing with OpenMP

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File → Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M2S2_openmp/M2S2_openmp.ipynb

• M2.S3 — Distributed-memory computing with MPI

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File → Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M2S3_mpi/M2S3_mpi.ipynb

• M2.S4 — Introduction to GPU and Accelerator Computing

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File → Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M2S4_gpu_accelerators/M2S4_gpu_accelerators.ipynb

• M2.S5 - Asynchronous Guided Lab: One Parallel Application

  • Session folder
  • Notebook
  • Raw URL for JupyterLab File -> Open from URL...: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OscarDiez/hpc_course/main/sessions/M2S5_async_parallel_app/M2S5_async_parallel_app.ipynb

Legacy notebooks remain in chapters_examples/ and x_archive/. New 2026 notebooks use sessions/MxSy_topic/.