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Report from the AiiDA coding week – Dec 2021

Last week (6-10 Dec 2021) we had a coding week for AiiDA, in Leysin. About 10 people participated on-site and a few people participated online. Not only do had active participation by core AiiDA developers, but also by other developers who were interested in contributing to the platform. In addition, members from the Swiss supercomputing centre CSCS were present, and an outstanding presentation was contributed from Microsoft, introducing their use and extensions to the AiiDA ecosystem.

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Report on the 2021 AiiDA virtual tutorial

Last month we held our annual AiiDA’s introductory tutorial (from the 5th to the 9th of July 2021), an event in which the AiiDA developers teach students and researchers from the field of computational materials science how to get started with running and writing reproducible workflows with our code. This year the event lasted for 5 days and was organized in a fully virtual format, which allowed us to support over 100 participant from 30 different countries around the world!

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Report on the 2020 AiiDA virtual tutorial

Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s edition of the AiiDA tutorial was organised in an entirely virtual format, which gave us the opportunity to expand our admittance to a truly global audience. In total, we accepted 85 participants from 30 countries and 13 different time zones. Incorporating this wide range of time zones presented an interesting challenge, and so we decided to split participants into two groups, running duplicate hands-on sessions for each group at different times of the day.

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Report on the AiiDA tutorial held at CINECA, 30 May-1 June 2018

Another AiiDA tutorial, sponsored by PRACE and the H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence, was organized in collaboration with the Italian CINECA supercomputer centre, who hosted the event.

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Photos from the PRACE-MaX AiiDA tutorial (CINECA, May 2018)

You can see some photos from the recent PRACE-MaX Tutorial on high-throughput computations: general methods and applications using AiiDA, held in CINECA on 30 May-1 June 2018, on our Facebook page!

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Outcome of the AiiDA coding week - video

A lot of nice things happened during the second AiiDA coding week - watch this video by the participants if you want to know more!

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Summary report of the AiiDA tutorial

We have published a summary report of the AiiDA tutorial held at the end of the past month on the Psi-k website. Read the full story there!

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Report on AiiDA tutorial: 24-25 January 2017 at ICTP in Trieste, Italy.

The end of January of 2017 saw the eighth hands-on tutorial for AiiDA within the “Advanced Workshop on High-Performance & High-Throughput Materials Simulations using Quantum ESPRESSO” organised at and by ICTP in Trieste. The tutorial was kicked off by an introductory lecture by Giovanni Pizzi (EPFL), explaining the philosophy and architecture behind AiiDA, and how the ADES model facilitates and simplifies performing and sharing calculations, under the umbrella of complete data provenance. After the scene was set, the approximately 75 participants went to their workstations to start with the first of the hands-on sessions. A completely configured virtual machine was provided for each individual participant, to which they only had to login and they were on their way. The first session served to familiarize the users with Verdi, a command line interface which acts as the user’s tool to interact with AiiDA. With the tools in hand to put AiiDA to good use, the participants learned by example how a Quantum Espresso calculation can be easily launched as AiiDA takes care of a lot of the repetitive work behind the scenes.

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Photos from the AiiDA tutorial at ICTP (Jan 2017)

We’ve published some pictures from the AiiDA tutorial we just held at ICTP on our Facebook page. Check it out!

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Report of the AiiDA tutorial of last year (June 2016) in Lausanne

We’ve published the report on the psi-k website: you can read the full text there!

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Report from the AiiDA coding week - Dec 2016

Last week (5-9 Dec 2016) we had a coding week for AiiDA, to which 15 people participated (roughly half of them core developers from the AiiDA, and the other half were developers who were interested in contributing to the platform).

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News from the AiiDA tutorial (Lausanne, June 2016)

The tutorial is ongoing, with over 40 participants, very excited to learn AiiDA and discover its most recent features. Updates, photos and more on Facebook and Twitter!

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Photos of the AiiDA tutorial in Kyoto (March 2016)

You can find some photos of the recent AiiDA tutorial held in Kyoto on our Facebook page. Thanks to our colleagues in Japan for inviting us and making the tutorial very exciting!

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AiiDA tutorial in November 2015

The AiiDA tutorial for users and developers (followed by three coding days for plugin developers), held in Lausanne from Nov 2nd, 2015 to Nov 6th, is now ended. Thanks to all the 42 participants that have made it a big success!

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