Event Calendar
Introduction to High Performance Computing
This two-day block course takes place on Friday, June 12 and 19, 2026 at Campus South.
SCC operates the high-performance computer systems Hochleistungsrechner Karlsruhe (HoreKa) and bwUniCluster 2.0. This introductory course will give you a theoretical overview of the following topics (block #1-2) and includes a practical workshop and a visit at the HoreKa facility (block #3).
Block #1:
- Supercomputer hardware design and architecture
- CPUs, Accelerators and High-Performance Interconnects
- Infrastructure, (Power) Efficiency and cooling concepts
- Operating models and user services
Block #2:
- Software stacks and job scheduling
- Programming models
- IT Security
Block #3 (date will be determined with participants):
- Practical workshop
- Visit at the HoreKa facility
Registration
The course "Intro to High Performance Computing" is organized jointly by graduate schools KCDS and ENZo and it is open to all interested doctoral researchers at KIT.
Please register via ILIAS until May 20, 2026.
Dr.-Ing. Samuel Braun, Dr. René Caspart
KIT
Scientific Computing Centre
Angela Hühnerfuß
KIT Graduate School Computational and Data Science (KCDS)
KIT-Center MathSEE
Karlsruhe
Mail: kcds ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
https://www.kcds.kit.edu
Doctoral researchers from HGS MathComp (Heidelberg) and KCDS have joined forces to bring you a smooth introduction to a challenging, yet highly relevant topic: Stochastic partial differential equations in applied mathematics.
Registration is now open and poster contributions are very welcome!
Info and registration
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A worthwhile journey to KIT Institute of Statistics: Talks by Sebastian Engelke, Linda Mhalla, Gabriele Messori, Petra Friederichs gave insights into state-of-the-art research in statistics and data science for climate and weather extremes. The workshop took place on November 20, 2025 at the Campus South outpost in Blücherstraße.
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A friendly place in the Black Forest, sunny autumn weather, good food, lively (scientific) discussions, board games and activities ranging from powerpoint karaoke to trampoline jumping were the ingredients of a lovely KCDS Retreat this year! It took place from November 10-12, 2025.
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Short courses and an interactive tutorial on Neural Operators and Gaussian Processes, along with a poster session and lots of opportunities for networking with other researchers - that was the KCDS Summer School 2025! It took place from August 27-29, 2025 at KIT Campus South.
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KIT International Excellence Fellow Prof. Victoria Stodden invited the KIT community, especially early career researchers, to create ideas and proposals for facilitating research that is data-, compute-, or AI-enabled - taking reproducibility to action! The workshop took place on January 21, 2025 at Triangel Studio.
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From Computational and Data Science to Industry and Academia - four KIT Alumni gave insights into their jobs during a lively panel discussion on October 11, 2024 at Triangel Space.
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The hackathon on precipitation estimation with weather radar and rain gauge data took place from October 8-11, 2024 at Triangel Studio.
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