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HPC & AI on
Norway's supercomputers

Self-paced courses from the people who run Olivia, Betzy and Saga. From your first Slurm job to scaling deep-learning across hundreds of GPUs — with hands-on labs and verifiable certificates.

24courses & labs
4.national systems
1,900+certificates issued
$ sbatch hello.sh
Submitted batch job 184220
$ squeue --me
JOBID PARTITION ST TIME
184220 normal R 0:14
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HPC · Beginner

HPC Scheduling — Slurm Basics

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OliviaAI · GPU flagship
Betzymassively parallel
Sagathroughput
Frammid-range MPI
NIRDstorage & data
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Built and maintained by the NRIS training team. Every course maps to documentation you'll actually use on the clusters.

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HPC fundamentals
AI & Machine Learning
GPU computing
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Beginner
HPC Fundamentals

HPC Scheduling — Slurm Basics

Sigma2 / NRIS Training Team
4.9★★★★★(312)
7 modules~75 min
◆ Certificate
Beginner
HPC Fundamentals

Introduction to HPC & Clusters

Sigma2 / NRIS Training Team
4.8★★★★★(540)
5 modules~60 min
◆ Certificate
Intermediate
AI & Machine Learning

Deep Learning on Olivia GPUs

Sigma2 / NRIS · AI Sandbox
4.9★★★★★(208)
9 modules~3 h
◆ Certificate
Intermediate
Data & Storage

Transferring & Managing Data on NIRD

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4.7★★★★☆(176)
6 modules~90 min
◆ Certificate
Beginner
HPC Fundamentals

Software Modules & Environments

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6 modules~80 min
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All levels
Best Practice

Responsible Use of National Resources

Sigma2 / NRIS Training Team
4.6★★★★★(98)
4 modules~40 min
◆ Certificate
Guided learning path

From zero to your
first production job

A curated sequence that takes a brand-new user from logging in to submitting, monitoring and scaling real workloads — finishing with a downloadable certificate.

◷ ~5 hours total · ✓ no prior HPC experience needed

Get connected

SSH, Feide login, and finding your way around a login node.

Intro to HPC · 60 min

Understand the cluster

Nodes, partitions, the shared filesystem and where your data lives.

Anatomy of a cluster · 45 min
3

Submit your first Slurm job

Write a batch script, sbatch it, and read the output. ← you are here

HPC Scheduling · 75 min
4

Request the right resources

CPUs, memory, GPUs and walltime — without wasting allocation.

Resource requests · 50 min

Earn your certificate

Pass the final assessment (50%) and download a verifiable PDF credential.

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1,900+certificates issued
24courses & hands-on labs
4.8average course rating
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