Dear users of LRZ,

we are pleased to announce that the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will offer a full day "CNTK Workshop" at LRZ, Garching near Munich, on Tuesday, 30 October 2018 in cooperation with Microsoft.

The workshop will introduce CNTK, a machine learning toolkit developed by Microsoft. CNTK empowers you to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing scaling, speed, and accuracy with commercial grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms you already use.  The workshop will also cover Microsoft Azure, a collection of cloud services for building, deploying and managing intelligent applications through a network of datacentres.

For details and registration see:

https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2018-10-30_hmsc1w18/

Please bring your own laptop for the workshop’s hands-on session in the afternoon!

Preliminary agenda:

09:00-12:00 in main lecture hall, presentations only:

• Introduction to Azure
  • Datacentres
  • Network
  • Offerings
• Introduction to CNTK
  • Your first DNN in CNTK
  • Programming concepts (Python, C++, C#)
  • CNTK examples at Microsoft

13:00-17:00 in Seminarraum 1, Workshop hands-on:

• Azure development environment
• CNN's, RNN's
• MPI
• Current & future AI offerings at LRZ
• DGX-1 examples

Please also pass this course announcement to other interested colleagues.

Further upcoming courses at LRZ:

High Performance Computing for AI
Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, 09:00-17:00

Introduction to the LRZ Supercomputing & Machine Learning Infrastructure
Monday, October 08, 2018, 9:00-18:00

C Language for Beginners
Tuesday, October 9 - Thursday, October 11, 2018, 9:00 - 17:00

Using Python at LRZ
Tuesday, October 09, 2018, 14:00-18:00

Using R at LRZ
Tuesday, October 09, 2018, 9:00-13:00

Molecular Modeling with Schrödinger-Suite Workshop @ LRZ
Wednesday, October 17- Thursday, October 18, 2018

Advanced C++ with Focus on Software Engineering
Tuesday, October 23 - Thursday, October 25, 2018, 9:00 - 17:00

C++ Language for Beginners
Tuesday, November 6 - Friday, November 9, 2018, 9:00 - 17:00

Workshop - HPC mit COMSOL Multiphysics am LRZ
Thursday, November 15, 2018, 9:30 - 16:00

Machine Learning with R at LRZ
Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 9:00 - 18:00

Programming with Fortran
Wednesday, March 06 - Friday, March 08, 2019, 9:00-18:00

Information on further HPC courses:

• by LRZ: http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/
• by the Gauss Centre of Supercomputing (GCS): http://www.gauss-centre.eu/training
• by German Centres (collected by the Gauß-Allianz): https://hpc-calendar.gauss-allianz.de/
• by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE): http://www.training.prace-ri.eu/

Kind regards,

David Brayford
Volker Weinberg

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Dr. Volker Weinberg
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- HPC Systems and Services –

email:   weinberg@lrz.de
address: Boltzmannstr. 1 - D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen            
room:    E.1.016
phone:   +49 (89) 35831-8863