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 ### Announcements
 
+*  **November 28, 2019:** Slides and code samples for the "Deep Learning on Supercomputers" talk given
+as part of the [Introduction to the programming and usage of the supercomputer resources at Jülich](https://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Termine/IAS/JSC/EN/courses/2019/supercomputer-2019-11.html?nn=944302) 
+course are now available in the `course_material` directory.
 *  **November 22, 2019:** Samples for Caffe are no longer supported on JURECA due to system-wide
 MVAPICH2 module changes.
 *  **November 18, 2019:** The `horovod_data_distributed` directory has been added that contains code 
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+# Slides and code samples
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+The slides and code samples in the sub-directories correspond to the introductory examples presented during the 
+"Deep Learning on Supercomputers" talk, which is given as
+part of the [Introduction to the programming and usage of the supercomputer resources at Jülich](https://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Termine/IAS/JSC/EN/courses/2019/supercomputer-2019-11.html?nn=944302)
+course.
+
+**Note:** These code samples are NOT designed to work on our supercomputers. To see why, read `datasets/README.md`.
+To run code samples on the supercomputers, please follow the main tutorial.
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