Training

Materials from NCShare training sessions. For a full list of NCShare events, see ncshare.org/events.

NCShare Crash Course

August 19, 2026 · The Power House, 300 Fuller Street, Durham, NC

A free, full-day, hands-on introduction to NCShare and HPC for new users, led by Jonathan Schultz, Ph.D. (North Carolina Central University), Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño, Ph.D. (Wake Forest University), and Uthpala Herath, Ph.D. (Duke University / NCShare). Users familiarized themselves with the NCShare platform, including how to access and use the system, submit jobs, manage data, and run scientific applications for research workflows.

Course materials: ncshare-crash-course.
Event announcement.

HybriD3 Materials Theory Training Workshop

November 21-22, 2025 · Gross Hall, Duke University, Durham, NC

An NSF-funded workshop on atomistic materials simulation, organized by Volker Blum, Ph.D. (Duke University) and Yosuke Kanai, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) together with the HybriD3 project team, and aimed at graduate students and postdocs entering the field. The workshop was attended by ~70 participants from across the state. They ran the hands-on density functional theory (DFT) tutorials on NCShare, using a prebuilt FHI-aims container set up with MPI parallelization, Intel MKL library, a Jupyter notebook interface, CLIMS (Command-line interface for materials simulations), and the FHI-aims code.

Container recipe: Apptainer Recipe for FHI-aims.
Tutorials: Basics of Running FHI-aims, from the FHI-aims tutorial series used for the hands-on sessions.
Workshop program.
NCShare article.