NERSC Training Events
Also see the NERSC Events Calendar.
Tapia 2017 HPC Workshop
Material for the Tapia 2017 HPC workshop will be posted here for participants. Hands-on materials can be accessed on Cori with: $ module load training/tapia-2017$ cd $TRAINING Morning session The sessions are organised around a series of hands-on exercises, which can be found in our github repository for training material. Introduction to Cori/KNL Burst Buffer introduction and slides for the hands-on session. Afternoon session Code Optimisation Into to OpenMP Generally useful information… Read More »
Debugging and Profiling Party with Allinea Tools, June 28, 2017
NERSC will be hosting an in-person and remote training for all users on Cori KNL nodes. Read More »
Scaling to Petascale Institute, June 26-30, 2017
NERSC is co-organizing the Scaling to Petascale Institute, June 26-30, 2017. Location This event will be presented online. Attendees can register to attend in person at many sites across the US, Costa Rica, and Brazil, including attending at LBL's Shyh Wang Hall (Building 59, CRT) in Room 3104. Please see the Scaling to Petascale Institute website for more information. Registration Please register at the Scaling to Petascale Institute website. You must use (or create a new) XSEDE account to… Read More »
Cori KNL Training (Spring 2017)
NERSC will be hosting an in-person and remote training for all users on Cori KNL nodes. Read More »
Intel Compilers, Tools, and Libraries Training, Mar 9-10, 2017
NERSC will host a two-day training event for users about Intel compilers, tools, and libraries from Thursday, March 9 to Friday, March 10. The main presenters will be from Intel. Topics and Agenda (all time Pacific Standard Time) Thursday 3/9/2017, Day 1 Time (PDT)TopicPresenter9:00 am - 9:10 am Inttroduction and Logistics Helen He, NERSC 9:10 am - 9:25 am Intel Developers Products Overview Jeff Rodgers, Intel 9:25 am - 10:30 am Intel Compilers (Composer XE) Optimization and Vectorization… Read More »
CSGF 2017 HPC Workshop
Hands-on materials can be accessed on Cori with: $ module load training/csgf-2017$ cd $TRAINING Optimizing for Intel's Knights Landing – Memory Hierarchy For the Memory hierarchy exercise: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimizing-memory-bandwidth-in-knights-landing-on-stream-triad And for the STREAM benchmark: https://github.com/jeffhammond/STREAM For the Burst Buffer tutorial materials, please see this page. OpenMP quick reference card (Fortran) NX in the Web… Read More »
New User Training: February 23-24, 2017
NERSC will present a two-day training for new users on Thursday and Friday, February 23-24, 2017. This event is targeted to new users of NERSC and will help them navigate the center and its systems. Location This event will be presented online using Zoom technology and in person at LBL's Shyh Wang Hall (Building 59, CRT) in Room 3101. Please see below for remote connection information. Registration Please register at the following URL: https://goo.gl/forms/JrevsKz4t4lM17Pf2 Agenda… Read More »
Roofline Training 2/16/2017 - 2/17/2017
NERSC will host a Roofline Training at the CRT building (Bld 59, room 4102) on the LBNL campus from February 16 to 17. The meeting is intended for advanced users who are interested in learning about new optimization tools and techniques. We will focus on the roofline model and new roofline features in the Intel Advisor. The training will be mostly hands-on with roofline experts from Intel available on-site for advice and personal 1-1 assistance on your application. There will be one or two… Read More »
Cori KNL: Programming and Optimization, Feb 14-16, 2017
NERSC will host a three-day training event for users on Cori KNL Programming Environment, Debugging and Optimization from Tuesday, February 14 to Thursday, February 16. The main presenters will be from Cray. Cray XC Series Programming and Optimization Description This course is intended for people who work in applications support or development of Cray XC Series computer systems. It familiarizes students with the hardware and software architecture, Cray’s performance analysis tools, and… Read More »
VASP KNL training webinar on 1/19/2017 at 10:00 am PST
NERSC will host a 45 minute online training session for VASP users to help them get started with the MPI+OpenMP hybrid VASP code on Cori KNL nodes. The event will be at 10:00am, Thursday on 1/19/2017 via a Zoom Webinar. A NERSC consultant, Zhengji Zhao, will give a talk on how to get started with the hybrid VASP on Cori KNL nodes. Remote Connection Information Topic: Using Hybrid VASP on KNL Nodes Time: Jan 19, 2017 9:30 AM (GMT-8:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join from a PC, Mac,… Read More »
BerkeleyGW2017
Schedule and Information https://sites.google.com/site/berkeleygw2017/schedule Description This event is a workshop, with hands-on user sessions, on the GW and GW-BSE approaches using the BerkeleyGW package will be held Jan 4-6 2017, at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's NERSC Facility. The target audience for the workshop are graduate students, postdocs, and researchers who are interested in learning about or sharpening their skills on ab initio calculations of many-electron effects in… Read More »
2016 NESAP Workshop and Hack-a-Thon
NERSC will be hosting an in person workshop and hack-a-thon for NESAP teams (all tiers) on the Cori Phase 2 system - at the CRT building (Bld 59) on the LBNL campus from November 29 to December 1. The agenda is not yet finalized, but it will be roughly 1/3 presentations and 2/3 hand-on performance analysis and optimization work. The event will take place from 9am to 5pm each day. Presentations will include case-studies from optimization efforts on NESAP codes on the Cori system. The hands-on… Read More »
A 3-day VASP Workshop at NERSC
NERSC will host a three-day workshop for the widely used materials science code, VASP, from Wednesday November 9, 2016 to Friday November 11, 2016 at the CRT building, Room 3101, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. The presenter will be Martijn Marsman from University of Vienna, who is one of the main developers of the VASP code. The purpose of this workshop is to help VASP users at NERSC to learn and use VASP more efficiently at NERSC, and also to help them get… Read More »
Cori KNL Training
NERSC will be hosting an in-person and remote training for all users on Cori KNL nodes. Read More »
2016 C++ Summit
2016 LBL C++ Summit is being in organized in collaboration with LBL's computer research division and is being held at NERSC's facility in Berkeley on Monday-Tuesday October 17-18. The two day event will include tutorials and presentations from leaders in the C++ community including standards body members, compiler developers, technology vendors, and developers of C++ extension and programming frameworks like HPX, UPC++, Kokkos and more. Please check out the agenda and register for the event at… Read More »
Paraver and BSC Tools Training - Understanding Application Performance with Paraver
NERSC will host an one-day training event for popular performance analysis tools such as Extrae and Paraver developed at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain, on Friday August 5. The presenter will be Judit Gimenez of BSC. She is currently the Tools Group Manager at the Computer Science department there. Description BSC has developed a suite of performance analysis tools, named CEPBA-Tools, with a goal to make them easily adaptable to new platforms, environments or programs, scalable,… Read More »
Score-P and Scalasca Performance Tools Training
NERSC will host one day training event for popular performance analysis tools Score-P and Scalasca developed at Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany, on Tuesday July 26. The presenters will be Christian Feld of Juelich Supercomputing Centre and David Boehme of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Description This course is intended to give an overview of the VI-HPS programming tools suite explain the functionality of individual tools, in particular Score-P and Scalasca, and how to use them… Read More »
Cori Phase 1 Training: Programming and Optimization
NERSC will host a four-day training event for Cori Phase 1 users on Programming Environment, Debugging and Optimization from Monday June 13 to Thursday June 16. The presenters will be Cray instructor Rick Slick and NERSC staff. Cray XC Series Programming and Optimization Description This course is intended for people who work in applications support or development of Cray XC Series computer systems. It familiarizes students with the hardware and software architecture, Cray’s performance… Read More »
Materials Science Application Training 2016
NERSC will present an one-hour online training class focused on Materials Science applications, VASP and Quantum Espresso on June 10, 2016, Friday, from 10:00-11:00 PDT. This training class will be provided by NERSC staff, Taylor Barnes and Zhengji Zhao. The targeted audience will be new to intermediate NERSC users who use the pre-installed VASP and QE at NERSC. The class will address the frequently asked questions and common problems that users run into when using these applications at… Read More »
