CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing 2026

The CSC Summer School brings together students and researchers in different disciplines of scientific computing from all over the world. The school consist of lectures and hands-on training on parallel programming, code performance, and other necessary skills for the development of scientific software for supercomputers.

The school is aimed for graduate students working in various fields of science, e.g., chemistry, physics, life sciences, engineering, or economics as well as industrial R&D professionals. Also undergraduates as well as post-docs are expected to find the school very useful.

Experience ten exciting days of coding and social activities, creating unforgettable memories with new friends under the Nordic summer’s midnight sun, right next to breathtaking wilderness!

The following topics will be covered:

• Programming at supercomputer scale using message-passing interface (MPI)
• Using threading (OpenMP) for programming CPU nodes
• Programming GPUs with HIP/CUDA and OpenMP
• Hybrid parallel programming combining MPI with OpenMP and HIP/CUDA (multi-GPU programming)
• Principles of efficient parallel input/output in supercomputers
• Applying learned concepts in HPC and AI applications

The participants will get a certificate containing a recommendation to your home university to grant you 5 ECTS credits for the school.

You may also want to read CSC’s training stories article with positive experiences from 2025 and 2024.