Location: Ankara, Türkiye (Online)
Date: 31/03/2026
Time: 10:00-14:30 (Istanbul)
Teaching Language: Turkish
Organizing Institution: TÜBİTAK
Level: Intermediate
Format: Webinar
Industrial domains: All
Course description:
This one-day online course provides a practical introduction to container technologies tailored for High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Participants will learn how to effectively run, customize, and manage containerized applications using HPC-compatible tools such as Apptainer. The course includes live demonstrations conducted on the TRUBA HPC infrastructure as a representative production environment.
Learning Outcomes:
• Understand the role of containers in HPC environments
• Distinguish between Docker and HPC-oriented container solutions
• Run and manage containerized workloads on HPC systems
• Integrate containers with GPU resources and job schedulers
• Apply debugging and lifecycle management techniques
Agenda: One-Day, Four Sessions
10:00-10:45h Session 1 – HPC Architecture & Containers
• Fundamentals of HPC architecture
• Why containers in HPC?
• Docker vs HPC-oriented solutions
• Security considerations in shared environments
10:45-11:00h Break
11:00-11:45h Session 2 – Working with Apptainer
• Container image formats
• Pulling and building container images
• Running containers in HPC
• Bind mounts and filesystem integration
11:45-12:45h Lunch
12:45-13:30h Session 3 – GPU & Scheduler Integration
• GPU passthrough in containers
• Multi-GPU execution
• Slurm integration
• Running batch jobs with containers
13:30-13:45h Break
13:45-14:30h Session 4 – Customization & Debugging
• Installing packages inside containers
• Writable overlays and persistent storage
• Common runtime errors and debugging strategies
• Best practices for reproducible HPC workflows
Instructor Name: Dr. İsmail Güzel - Senior Researcher, TRUBA HPC Centre, TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM
Dr. İsmail Güzel is a Senior Researcher at the TRUBA HPC Centre of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, specializing in GPU-accelerated artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, with research focused on Topological Data Analysis and Machine Learning. At TRUBA, he provides expert-level support for large-scale, multi-node, multi-GPU AI workloads, including LLM training and computer vision systems. He teaches GPU computing within the National Technology Initiative – Artificial Intelligence Specialization Programme and contributes as a researcher to the BSC AI Factory project. He holds multiple NVIDIA certifications in deep learning and GPU programming.
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Disclaimer
Only participants who live and/or work in EuroHPC JU participating countries can take part in the event (https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/about/discover-eurohpc-ju_en).
For registration purposes, only official email addresses will be accepted. Personal or generic email addresses (e.g., Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo) are strictly not permitted.
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Acknowledgements
This event was supported by the BSC AI Factory project, which received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101234399 and Spain, Portugal, Romania and Türkiye. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme.
