SimOps Practitioner
The free SimOps Practitioner online course is the next level of the SimOps training course program. It is designed for experienced engineers and data center experts, like for example HPC sysadmins, IT Operations, HPC infrastructure experts, simulation engineers, and their managers, in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) and Compute and Data Infrastructures. After you successfully completed the SimOps Fundamentals training and received your certification, this Practitioner course is tailored to challenge, validate, and enhance your skills in the operation and use of HPC and HPC Cloud infrastructures for engineering simulations. And it serves as a preparation for your next training level of SimOps Expert. The SimOps Practitioner certification provides a formal recognition of your expertise and supports your professional development and resume.
The scope of the SimOps Practitioner training is to equip you with important expertise in engineering simulations infrastructure use and operation, and to be able to help your company:
- to bring simulation engineers and HPC experts closer together to optimize engineering simulation and HPC infrastructure processes
- to increase simulation engineers' productivity and the quality of products they design
- to make your company more innovative and to strengthen its competitiveness.
Duration: 2 hours
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the SimOps Fundamentals training and certification
SimOps Practitioner Certification: Demonstrate your expertise by completing this SimOps Practitioner course and passing a 35-question exam to earn your SimOps Practitioner Certificate.

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Matti Virtanen,
HPC IT Specialist,
Tampere University, Finland
As HPC evolves beyond traditional supercomputing centers, bridging the accessibility gap is essential. SimOps Fundamentals empowers more teams across various fields to unlock HPC's full potential, making advanced computing accessible, scalable, and transformative. This democratization enables anyone, regardless of their starting point, to leverage high-performance computing to drive innovation and efficiency.
Hilal Zitouni Korkut,
Development Team Leader
at Simr
The SimOPS training covers the basics of cloud computing and provides a concise yet informative overview of how to set up a complex HPC infrastructure. Additionally, it includes a quick summary of CAE applications, demonstrating how HPC can assist engineers in enhancing the performance of their workflow while reducing the cost.
Eric Day,
Research & Development
Engineer at Ansys
As an R&D engineer developing and optimizing simulation code with regard to the underlying HPC infrastructure for our customers, I found the SimOps Fundamentals training of great help to better understand the needs of our customers, simulation engineers and HPC operations experts alike, and to successfully apply SimOps best practices to my R&D work.
Bharat Dash,
Staff Technical Program Manager
at Kforce Inc.
I took the opportunity to complete the SimOps course which focuses on automating simulation processes to significantly enhance engineers’ productivity. And, I completed the SimOps Fundamentals certification. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to elevate their practices to successfully drive simulation processes on HPC infrastructures.