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Flash Info No. 2026-05: Technical Downtime, New Kokkos Training at IDRIS, Autumn Training List

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Contents:

  • Technical Downtime around Tuesday, 15 September 2026
  • New Training at IDRIS: Introduction to Kokkos
  • IDRIS Training Courses

  • Technical Downtime around Tuesday, 15 September

A technical downtime is scheduled for Tuesday, 15 September 2026 to carry out the annual maintenance, as well as part of the preparatory work related to the expansion of the centre's electrical and cooling capacities. Throughout this day, production will be completely suspended, and access to your data stored at IDRIS will be closed. This downtime may be extended to Monday, 14 September in the afternoon and/or Wednesday, 16 September in the morning. Further details on these dates will be provided later.

  • New Training at IDRIS: Introduction to Kokkos

An introductory training course on the Kokkos library is now available at IDRIS: http://www.idris.fr/docs/formations/hpc/formation-kokkos/. The first edition will take place from 28 to 30 September 2026. This training is free for all.

  • IDRIS Training Courses

Remember to register now for the IDRIS training courses scheduled for next autumn:

  • MPI, from 22/09/2026 to 25/09/2026.
  • Introduction to Kokkos, from 28/09/2026 to 30/09/2026.
  • Jean Zay Workshop, from 01/10/2026 to 2/10/2026.
  • OpenMP, from 14/10/2026 to 16/10/2026.
  • Practical Introduction to Deep Learning, from 02/11/2026 to 03/11/2026.
  • Deep Learning Architectures, from 04/11/2026 to 05/11/2026.
  • Deep Learning Kick-off Workshop, on 06/11/2026.
  • HPC Debugging, on 19/11/2026.
  • Introduction to OpenACC and OpenMP GPU, from 25/11/2026 to 27/11/2026.
  • Introduction to ScaLAPACK and MAGMA Libraries, from 02/12/2026 to 03/12/2026.
  • Introduction to the PETSc Library, from 03/12/2026 to 04/12/2026.

For more information on the IDRIS training catalogue and registration procedures: http://www.idris.fr/formations/catalogue.html