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CSCS User Lab Day 2025

CSCS is delighted to invite you to the “2025 CSCS User Lab Day Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre”, which will take place on Friday, August 29, 2025, at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Social Work.

This year the User Lab Day will be covering what is new on the Alps infrastructure.

Please find the agenda below:

  • 10:00 – 10:25 Registration and Coffee
  • 10:25 – 10:30 Welcome and Agenda
  • 10:30 – 11:15 Scientific keynote: “Nanoscale Device Simulation at the Exascale”, Professor Mathieu Luisier, ETH Zurich
  • 11:15 – 11:45 Plenary Session: “Engineering the User experience on Alps”, Dr. .Jonathan Coles
  • 11:45 – 12:45 Morning Parallel Sessions: “How to use and build HPC software at CSCS: a practical introduction”, Dr. Ben Cumming, CSCS // “Interactive Computing on Alps”, Dr. Tim Robinson, Prashant Kanduri, Juan Dorsch, CSCS
  • 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 – 14:30 Plenary Session: “General Information for Users on Alps”, Dr. Luca Marsella, CSCS
  • 14:30 – 15:30 Afternoon Parallel Sessions: “Containers on AlpsAlberto Madonna”, Dr. Theo Manitaras, Dr. Nicholas Browning, CSCS // “Running and developing on Grace Hopper”, Dr. Sebastian Keller, Dr. Fabian Bösch, Dr. Jean Favre, CSCS
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Plenary Session: “STORAGE: A story about the lifecycle of a projects”, Dr. Fawzi Roberto Mohamed, Dr. Matthias Kraushaar, CSCS
  • 16:00 – 16:30 Q&A User Community to CSCS
  • 16:30 Final Remarks & Farewell Coffee Apero

More details are available on the event page >

Registration is mandatory but without charge and is now open! Please register here >

Deadline for registration: Sunday, August 17, 2025.

We look forward to seeing you in Lucerne!