• Learn about High-Performance Computing with Free Online Training

    High‑performance computing (HPC) plays a vital role across research disciplines, empowering scientists, engineers, scholars, and researchers to tackle grand challenges that advance science and society. Build and strengthen your HPC skills through our free, self‑paced courses and by exploring recordings from past training sessions available on this site. For opportunities to learn live, visit the NCSA Training Calendar to discover scheduled workshops, training sessions, and webinars.


    We also recommend the training offered by our ACCESS-CI collaborators and Illinois's CITL Data Analytics Group.

    • Featured Courses

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      Getting Started on the Illinois Campus Cluster

      Learn how to use the Illinois Campus Cluster from getting access, managing and editing files, setting up your software environment, transferring files, and running applications.

      Customizing Your Computing Environment

      Learn how to customize your computing environment using Unix commands and a utility called Environment Modules, or Modules, which simplifies environment setup.

      Using a HPC Cluster for Scientific Applications

      Learn the basic components of an HPC Cluster, the types of file systems available and common policies for using them, and the steps that are commonly taken to run an application.

      Getting Started on NCSA Delta

      Learn how to access Delta, manage and edit files, set up your software environment, and transfer files. The tutorial includes a hands-on exercise where you'll run an example application. Finally, you'll explore how to use Open OnDemand on Delta.

      Webinar: Getting Started on DeltaAI

      This 2-hour virtual workshop introduced DeltaAI’s GPU-accelerated architecture and guided participants through accessing the system, managing environments, and running jobs.

      CI Pathways

      CI Pathways is a training program that helps researchers use advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) tools essential for modern research tasks like large-scale data collection, analysis, and sharing. You may view the archived materials from the program.