NERSC Training Events
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CUDA Atomics, Reductions, and Warp Shuffle -- Part 5 of 9 CUDA Training Series, May 13, 2020
Introduction CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that extends C++ to allow developers to program GPUs with a familiar programming language and simple APIs. NVIDIA will present a 9-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. The exercises are meant to reinforce the material from the… Read More »
Fundamental CUDA Optimization (Part 2) -- Part 4 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Apr 16, 2020
Introduction CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that extends C++ to allow developers to program GPUs with a familiar programming language and simple APIs. NVIDIA will present a 9-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. The exercises are meant to reinforce the material from the… Read More »
Fundamental CUDA Optimization (Part 1) -- Part 3 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Mar 18, 2020
Introduction CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that extends C++ to allow developers to program GPUs with a familiar programming language and simple APIs. NVIDIA will present a 9-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. The exercises are meant to reinforce the material from the… Read More »
Introduction to GPU, February 28, 2020
NERSC will host a one-day training event for users on Introduction to GPU on Friday, February 28, 2020. The topics to cover are: Why GPUs, GPU architecture, DOE roadmap, and what type of applications are likely to benefit from GPU acceleration; How to use Cori GPU, where to find documentations, available compilers, how to compile and run; GPU libraries; Programming for GPU using directives; (OpenACC and OpenMP); Debugging and profiling on GPU. Attendees will be given Cori GPU access to try to… Read More »
CUDA Shared Memory -- Part 2 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Feb 19, 2020
Introduction CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that extends C++ to allow developers to program GPUs with a familiar programming language and simple APIs. NVIDIA will present a 9-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. The exercises are meant to reinforce the material from the… Read More »
Introduction to CUDA C++
Part 1 of 9 in a CUDA Training Series Introduction CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that allows developers to program GPUs with a familiar programming language and simple APIs. NVIDIA will present a 9-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. The exercises are meant to reinforce the… Read More »
SpinUp: Dec 2019
Spin is a new Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform at NERSC based on Docker container technology. It can be used to deploy web sites and science gateways, workflow managers, databases and key-value stores, and all sorts of network services that can access NERSC systems and storage on the back end. Spin is currently in a pilot phase as the NERSC Infrastructure Services Group (ISG) refines the underlying systems and tools. See the videos and other information below to learn more about its… Read More »
User training on checkpointing and restarting jobs using DMTCP on November 6, 2019
(update: the DMTCP training is moved back 1 week to November 6, due to the power outage) NERSC will host a one-hour user training on checkpoint/restart using DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) on November 6, 2019, Wednesday, from 10:00-11:00 PT. DMTCP is a transparent checkpoint/restart tool, requiring NO modifications to user codes. The goal of this training is to help users get started with DMTCP. The benefit of using DMTCP includes an improved job throughput, a 75% charging… Read More »
ECP UPC++ Training, November 1
In collaboration with ECP, NERSC is hosting a one-day training event on UPC++ on November 1, 2019. UPC++ is a C++11 library providing classes and functions that support Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming. UPC++ provides mechanisms for low-overhead one-sided communication, moving computation to data through remote-procedure calls, and expressing dependencies between asynchronous computations and data movement. It is particularly well-suited for implementing elaborate… Read More »
Parallelware Tool Workshop, October 17, 2019
NERSC will host a one-day training event for users on October 17, 2019 on using the Parallelware Trainer tool to learn to add OpenMP or OpenACC directives to your code. With the Parallelware Trainer, instead of learning to parallelize simple toy codes, users can try parallelizing their own kernels and codes with guidance. After the morning tutorial by Manuel Arenaz, the founder of Appentra, attendees will apply what they have learned to their own codes in the afternoon, with guidance from the… Read More »
ECP/NERSC OpenMP Hackathon, August 2019
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), in collaboration with the ECP SOLLVE and Training Projects, are organizing a 3.5-day OpenMP Hackathon at NERSC the week of August 27-30, 2019. We encourage the participation of teams who want to port and optimize their applications for energy-efficient processor architectures. We are especially interested in application teams that are part of ECP or who want to improve the use of OpenMP tasks in their code. Hackathon Goal The… Read More »
Petascale Computing Institute, August 19-23, 2019
NERSC is one of the host sites of the Petascale Computing Institute, August 19-23, 2019. The goal of the one-week institute is to enable computational and data-enabled discovery in all fields of study by teaching the participants to scale their computational codes to leadership-class computing systems. The institute will be broadcast to host sites using full-duplex audio/video connections. Participants will receive training accounts, on-site mentoring, and the ability to ask questions of the… Read More »
SpinUp: July 2019
Spin is a new Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform at NERSC based on Docker container technology. It can be used to deploy web sites and science gateways, workflow managers, databases and key-value stores, and all sorts of network services that can access NERSC systems and storage on the back end. Spin is currently in a pilot phase as the NERSC Infrastructure Services Group (ISG) refines the underlying systems and tools. See the videos and other information below to learn more about its… Read More »
New User Training: June 21, 2019
NERSC is hosting a one-day training event for new users on Friday, June 21, 2019. The goal is to provide users new to NERSC with the basics on our computational systems; accounts and allocations; programming environment, tools, and best practices; and data ecosystem. Location This event will be presented online using Zoom technology and in person at LBL's Shyh Wang Hall (Building 59, CRT). Please see below for remote connection information. Agenda Time (PDT)TopicPresenters9:00 am Welcome… Read More »
Deep Learning at Scale Tutorial at ISC 2019
Staff from NERSC (Thorsten Kurth, Mustafa Mustafa, Steve Farrell) and Cray (Mike Ringenburg) presented a tutorial on Deep Learning at Scale at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. Attendees learned about core concepts of deep learning, about state of the art methods for scaling model training on large computing systems, and heard about a number of success stories in scientific applications of deep learning. They were given training accounts on Cori and ran hands-on examples that implement some of… Read More »
VASP User Hands-on KNL Training: June 18, 2019
NERSC is hosting a 4-hour online VASP hands-on user training on June 18, 2019, Tuesday, from 10:00-14:00 PDT. The goal of this training is to help the VASP users at NERSC to run VASP efficiently on Cori KNL, including using the flex QOS that has a large charging discount (free now, but will be a 75% discount starting June 10, 2019). There will be a Q/A session after the presentation. Bring your questions on using VASP at NERSC to the session, and also bring your VASP jobs to the hands-on… Read More »
