MaX (MAterials design at the eXascale) is a European Centre of Excellence which enables materials modelling, simulations, discovery and design at the frontiers of the current and future High Performance Computing (HPC), High Throughput Computing (HTC) and data analytics technologies. MaX is a coordinated effort of  14 European leaders in the materials domain. Cnr Nano, as coordinator of the MaX European Centre of Excellence, is proud to present the brand new booklet collecting all the online training activities performed.

As explained by Daniele Varsano from Cnr Nano, in charge of the “Training and user uptake” workpakage of the MaX Centre of Excellence (WP8), “The MaX Centre of Excellence, since its inception, has placed the training of the new generation of code developers and of code users at the core of its activities. Thus, a great effort has been put in this direction as shown by the large number of schools organized in the last years. Starting from February 2020, due to the limitations related to the COVID19 pandemic, the modalities of the training offer have profoundly changed: consequently the entire training activity of MaX has been reshaped in order to organize schools and hackathons only on online digital platforms”.

Both teachers and students had to work hard in this new scenario, learning new ways of delivering training on one hand, and giving up all the benefits of in-person learning on the other. Nevertheless, two positive aspects in this frame have emerged: the fact that online training activities remove travel barriers, overcome logistical limitations, and expand the audience of students; then the need for preparation of online training material that remains available beyond the time of schools, conveniently available for all interested.

In this booklet, the readers will find the collection of all the online events organized by MaX in 2021, mainly focused on the theory, implementations, and use of the most used MaX flagship codes (Quantum ESPRESSO, Siesta, Yambo, Fleur, AiiDA) in the HPC environment.

For each school, a dedicated section describes the organization and the main objectives of the event; then users will find all the links to the available material prepared by the MaX trainers, such as the complete recording of the lectures, the slides, and online tutorials that students can follow at their own pace.

Please find here the browsable and downloadable versions.