Workshop at the CC-IN2P3

On 27 and 28 November 2025, the CC-IN2P3 welcomed users of the Huma-Num Research Infrastructure (IR on ‘Humanities and Social Sciences’) for a training course on GPU computing. The aim of these two days was to provide participants with the essential information they need to use the H100 GPU resources, accessible via the SLURM job submission platform, as well as the L40S GPUs, available on the Jupyter notebook platform.

This training course focused on the following topics:

• General presentation of IN2P3 and the Computing Centre.
• Presentation of the services offered by the Computing Centre, in particular the data storage and scientific computing platforms.
• Focus on the use of CC-IN2P3 resources: user documentation, the identity management portal, CC-IN2P3 account management activities and the user portal.
• Presentation of the Jupyter notebook platform provided by CC-IN2P3.
• Presentation of the SLURM computing farm, which can be used for both High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC).
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its use in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

AI enables the humanities and social sciences to analyse massive corpora (texts, archives, social data) on a scale and with a level of detail that would be impossible manually, while revealing structures, trends and biases that are invisible to the human eye. It does not explain social phenomena in place of the researcher, but increases their capacity for exploration, comparison and critical perspective.

Several staff members from the Computing Centre were mobilised to lead and supervise these two days of training.