Life and Material Science Bootcamp on SuperMUC-NG Phase 2 (apply via e-mail)
Participation is by application. Mail your project description or questions to [email protected].
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is pleased to announce the Life and Material Science Bootcamp 2026, a program designed to support and train the next generation of high-performance computing (HPC) users on the Intel GPU based SuperMUC-NG Phase 2 system. The initiative aims to help young researchers in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Chemistry and Material Sciences to develop scalable simulation workflows while gaining hands-on experience with modern HPC architectures and large-scale scientific computing. The goal is to produce a successfull proposal for compute time with technical guidance from LRZ.
Who Can Apply?
Master students and PhD candidates can apply, but will require their advisor to act as principle investigator for the compute time application. Postdoctoral researchers can apply independantly, but should not have prior compute time allocations from GCS, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. Applicants must be affiliated with a German university or research institution. Prior experience with HPC systems is beneficial, but not required.
Software
The software must use the Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 on SuperMUC-NG Phase 2.
Applications that are already supported on SuperMUC-NG Phase 2 include AMBER, GROMACS, LAMMPS, VASP and CP2K. If you intend to use other software, please check early for Intel GPU support.
Timeline
Application deadline: 3. August, 2026
Notification of results: 15. August, 2026
Kickoff with project presentation: 17. September, 2026
Project ends 3. December, 2026
Application
Applicants should submit a short project description (max. 2 pages) covering the scientific objectives, computational methods and software to be used, and the expected benefit from access to the SuperMUC-NG Phase 2 system.
Mail your project description or questions to [email protected]
What to expect
- Learn the efficient use of advanced HPC resources
- Development scalable scientific applications
- Train on the SuperMUC-NG Phase 2 system
- Get a test project with up to 5,000 GPU-h
- Produce and present scaling data and estimate required compute time.
- Write a full compute time proposal.
We encourage motivated young researchers to take advantage of this opportunity and explore the capabilities of modern large-scale HPC systems.
| Camp | Life and Material Science Bootcamp on SuperMUC-NG Phase 2 (apply via e-mail) |
| Number | hbcp1w26 |
| Available places | 30 |
| Date | 17.09.2026 – 17.09.2026 |
| Price | EUR 0.00 |
| Location | Leibniz Rechenzentrum Boltzmannstr. 1 85748 Garching b. München |
| Room | |
| Registration deadline | 03.08.2026 23:59 |
| [email protected] |
| No. | Date | Time | Trainer | Location | Room | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17.09.2026 | 09:00 – 17:00 | Leibniz Rechenzentrum | Kickoff with project presentation |