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.
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.
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.
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.
Upcoming Training Events
ATPESC 2025
Perlmutter Office Hours
Thursday, August 7
10 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
Accelerating and Scaling Python for HPC
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. PDT
SpinUp Workshops
August 2025 SpinUp Workshop
Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 9 a. m. - 12 p. m.
11th Annual BerkeleyGW Tutorial Workshop and 6th Berkeley Excited States Conference (BESC2025)
The BerkeleyGW Tutorial Workshop (August 18 - 20) includes lectures and hands-on tutorial sessions on the GW and GW Bethe-Salpeter…
NUG Community Calls
NUG Community Call: A Birds-Eye View of Using Cuda with C/C++ on Perlmutter (Part 2)
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PDT
SpinUp Workshops
October 2025 SpinUp Workshop
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 9 a. m. - 12 p. m.
SpinUp Workshops
December 2025 SpinUp Workshop
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 9 a. m. - 12 p. m.
