Training

NERSC offers a wide range of learning opportunities to its users and the wider scientific computing community. We post recordings of most past training events on the NERSC YouTube channel. You can access past events (2024 and earlier) in the training archive.

Get started

Whether you are brand new to high performance computing, know just a little, or know a bit, but are new to NERSC, we have learning resources for you.

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Absolute beginner's guide

Don’t know a job queue from a file system? The “Absolute Beginner’s Guide,” takes you step-by-step through the concepts of a high performance computing environment before you begin.

Read the absolute beginner's guide to NERSC
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Welcome! Ready to jump in?

New to both HPC and to NERSC? If you are more of a learn-by-doing person, our welcome packet offers some information about NERSC, then tells you how to dive right in with some common commands. 

Read the welcome packet
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Need a hand right now?

Watch our short videos on how to perform basic tasks like logging in from the command line, logging in from Jupyter Notebooks, and submitting your first GPU job. 

Watch getting started shorts on YouTube

Upcoming Training Events

View a full list of training events.

NERSC Open Hackathon, July 2025

July 2 - 18, 2025
Hybrid
Together with NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization, NERSC is hosting an Open Hackathon from July 16 to 18, 2025, with introduction and…
Perlmutter Office Hours

Thursday, July 3

July 3, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.

International HPC Summer School

July 6 - 11, 2025
In-person
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, or the United States are invited to apply…
Perlmutter Office Hours

Friday, July 11

July 11, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.
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Wednesday, July 16

July 16, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.
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Tuesday, July 22

July 22, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.

ATPESC 2025

July 27 - August 8, 2025
In-person
The annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to…
Perlmutter Office Hours

Monday, July 28

July 28, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.

Codee for Beginners: Automatic Code Optimization with Codee

July 29, 2025
9 - 10:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Codee is a developer tool that helps produce high-quality, optimized code.

Using trame-Jupyter + Pan3D on Perlmutter

July 31 - August 1, 2025
Remote
NERSC users: Learn how to work with, analyze, and visualize large, complex 3D datasets from various scientific domains using integrated…
Perlmutter Office Hours

Friday, August 1

August 1, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.
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Thursday, August 7

August 7, 2025
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Remote
Join us to get your workflows up and running on Perlmutter.

Training Events Archive

Looking for an oldie, but goodie? NERSC training materials from 2018-2023 and 2024 are available from the Internet Archive. 

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