Courses may be run at both the NCI National Facility and any of the Partner sites. If you would like any of the following courses to be held at a Partner site near you, please register your interest via this form.

Upcoming Courses

Introduction to the National Facility Systems

Course given at Monash University April 16 2012

National Facility Course Materials

Details, notes and examples from the courses are available at the links below.

Introduction to the National Facility Systems	The National Facility presents this one day introductory course on using the National Facility Systems as user demand requires.
Programming with MPI	Introductory one day course on programming using the MPI library.
MPI Applications and Optimization	Introductory one day course on performance issues related to parallelising applications particularly using message passing and the MPI library.
Programming with OpenMP	Introductory one day course on programming with OpenMP.
Serial Optimization	A one day course on serial optimization.
Introduction to Fortran programming	A one day introductory course on basic Fortran programming.
Advanced Fortran programming	A one day course on advanced Fortran programming.

Previous Courses

High Performance Computing, Cloud and Data Services at NCI	Introduction to the NCI NF compute, data and cloud machines given by Ben Evans, Rika Kobayashi, Joseph Antony, Muhammad Atif and Jie Cai at Melbourne as part of CSIRO's Computational and Simulation Sciences and eResearch Annual Conference, Mar 23, 2012.
Introduction to the ESG gateway and using the dcc	Powerpoint of talks by Ben Evans, Joseph Antony, Muhammad Atif and Margaret Kahn given at CSIRO Hobart, Sep 19 and Aspendale Sep 20.
Introduction to the NCI NF for GA	Introductory course tailored for GA's interests given by Drs Margaret Kahn, Rika Kobayashi and Joseph Antony at GA, August 16 2011.
SCM Live Webinar: The Amsterdam Density Functional software suite	Drs Stan van Gisbergen and Matt Kundrat of SCM talk about and demonstrate the Amsterdam Density Functional software suite and answer user questions, May 4 2011. PDF of slides and recording (in production).
Introduction to the NCI NF for Monash Weather and Climate	PDF of slides of a course given by Dr Margaret Kahn at Monash University, March 17 2011. Not hands-on but has some more information than the Introductory course.
Introduction to the NCI NF for ARCNESS	ARCNESS introduction, given by Dr Margaret Kahn and Dr Rika Kobayashi at UNSW, September 7 2009
Even more previous Courses	A list of courses previously given by National Facility staff.

Other Web Courses

HPC Courses on the web

A range of courses for different aspects of High Perfomance Computing such as programming in Fortran90, using MPI or OpenMP and general aspects of scientific computing. Some provide full student notes and tutorial exercises, others are just slides from tutorial presentations.

Presentations given by National Facility Staff

Staff at the National Facility have extensive expertise in a wide range of areas concerned with high performance computing and regularly give lectures and presentations. If you are interested in having one of our consultants give a presentation please contact us at our email address

Latest Talk May 2011	Performance Tools @ NCI National Facility Jie Cai, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Talks	A list of talks given by National Facility staff.