The Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS) is hosting a series of free training workshops on high-performance computing (HPC) techniques. These workshops are sponsored by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). The first workshop will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m on Jan.17 in 118 Wagner Building, University Park. HPC involves computers far more powerful than typical desktop machines, with tens of thousands of processors, compared to four or eight in a normal computer. Using HPC techniques, researchers can perform tasks in hours that a desktop computer would take weeks or months to complete. The Jan. 17 workshop will present an introduction to Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP), a programming interface that allows users to execute tasks using multiple processing cores at once, speeding up the rate at which the tasks can be completed. Learn more at https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/penn-states-institute-cyberscience-host-series-hpc-workshops/