Upcoming SDSC webinars: Building a validated Digital Twin for Fusion, Parallel Computing Concepts, and many more...

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Jan 5, 2026, 1:20:08 PMJan 5

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Dear WHPC@SDSC Community,

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break.

As the new year begins, I wanted to share with you a lineup of training webinars covering essential supercomputing skills—parallel computing, Linux tools, batch computing, and data management—and on emerging areas such as AI, machine learning, and performance analysis, among others, that focus on current and future systems at SDSC and nationwide.

Please share these webinar details with your faculty, staff, students, and any interested communities.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out.

Thank you,

Cindy

Events Specialist

SDSC, UC San Diego

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Building a validated Digital Twin for Fusion

Speaker: Dr. Raffi Nazikian, Senior Director for Data Science at General Atomics

Date: Tuesday, January 13, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific Time) – next week

Brief Summary: In this talk, we will describe an AI-enabled digital twin of the DIII-D National Fusion Facility that transforms fusion energy research by reducing plasma simulation times from weeks to seconds. This effort is a collaboration between NVIDIA, General Atomics, and research partners including San Diego Supercomputer Center, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, and NERSC. The project addresses fusion's critical challenge of controlling plasma at hundreds of millions of degrees while predicting its behavior rapidly enough to maintain reactor stability.

Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/digital-twin-fusion-01-13-26

COMPLECS: Parallel Computing Concepts

Speaker: Robert Sinkovits, Expanse co-PI and Project Manager at SDSC

Date: Thursday, January 15, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Pacific Time) – next week

Brief Summary: A brief introduction to fundamental concepts in parallel computing. Topics include threads, processes, Amdahl’s Law, benchmarking, and factors that limit scalability. No programming experience needed.

Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/parallel-computing-concepts-01-15-26

COMPLECS: Intermediate Linux

Speaker: Mary Thomas, Computational Data Scientist, HPC Trainer at SDSC

Date: Thursday, January 29, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Pacific Time)

Brief Summary: Linux command line interface (CLI) skills are essential for advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI). This session covers filesystem hierarchy, permissions, links, wildcards, finding files, environment variables, modules, config files, aliases, history & Bash scripting tips.

Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/intermediate-linux-01-29-26

Co-Designing Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computing Continuum: Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE

Speaker: Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University

Date: Tuesday, February 10, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific Time)

Brief Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every sector of society. However, there is a massive and ever-growing gap between available AI techniques and their availability to end users across a range of application domains. This talk will start with an overview of the ICICLE (Intelligent CyberInfrastructure (CI) with Computational Learning in the Environment), an NSF-AI Institute, to address these challenges. We will demonstrate how ICICLE seeks to be the first and foremost edge-to-center AI-as-a-service enterprise for the emerging computing continuum, advancing foundational AI research by fostering next-gen CI for AI to support the wholesome democratization of AI through responsible plug-and-play, and extending the usability and usefulness of AI to the wider population.

Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/overview-nsf-ai-icicle-02-10-26

See full list of upcoming SDSC training and events: https://www.sdsc.edu/events/index.html