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2022 ALCF Simulation, Data, and Learning Workshop, October 4-6
AbstractThe ALCF's Simulation, Data, and Learning Workshop is designed to help researchers improve the performance and productivity of simulation, data science, and machine learning applications on ALCF systems. The attendees will get access to ALCF's new Polaris system, an HPE Apollo Gen10+ machine equipped with NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and AMD EPYC processors. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to: Use Polaris to get a head start on preparing codes for exascale systems Work… Read More »
Totalview Tutorial, September 29, 2022
Note: Due to uncertainty regarding Perlmutter system's availability, we move this training to Thursday, September 29 from September 15.NERSC is hosting a training event on TotalView on Thursday, September 29, 2022. TotalView from Perforce Software is a parallel debugger for complex C, C++, Fortran, and CUDA applications. Perlmutter, NERSC's new supercomputer, is a heterogeneous system comprising both CPUs and GPUs. This makes it challenging to find and fix coding errors in user codes that… Read More »
New User Training: September 28, 2022
NERSC is hosting a one-day training event for new users on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. The goal is to provide users new to NERSC with the basics on our computational systems; accounts and allocations; programming environment, running jobs, tools, and best practices; and data ecosystem. The training will be focused on Perlmutter. Current Cori users who have not started migrating your applications to Perlmutter are encouraged to attend selected presentations on using Perlmutter. This event… Read More »
VASP User Hands-On Training on September 27, 2022
NERSC will host an online, hands-on user training for VASP users on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm (Pacific Time).The training is to help VASP users to use Perlmutter and Cori systems efficiently. The training will begin with a 40-minute presentation, followed by a 80-minute hands-on session. The presentation slides and recording will be posted in this website after the training. Agenda September 27, 2022Time (PDT)TopicPresenters 10:00 am Running VASP jobs on… Read More »
Using Perftools and Reveal to Convert Applications to Run on GPUs, September 22, 2022
IntroductionThis online training event hosted by NERSC will be presented by Senior Distinguished Technologist John Levesque from HPE, and open to NERSC, OLCF, and ALCF users. Perftools (Performance Measurement and Analysis Tools) and Reveal are available to collect CPU and GPU Performance on HPE systems, such as NERSC Perlmutter and ALCF Polaris with Nvidia A100 GPUs, and OLCF Frontier with AMD M250 GPUs. Date and Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am (Pacific time), September 22… Read More »
ALCF Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers: A Student Training Series, Sept-Nov 2022
AbstractALCF is hosting an undergraduate training series in Sept to Nov 2022 introducing the fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI) and teaching students how leading-edge supercomputers can be used to develop and apply AI solutions to the world’s most challenging science problems. This training is open to NERSC users. The ability for artificial intelligence (AI) to successfully learn from large datasets has transformed science and engineering as we know it. AI can accelerate… Read More »
Paraview at OLCF, Sep 15, 2022
IntroductionThis tutorial, presented by OLCF and open to NERSC users, targets ParaView beginners who want to gain a new data and visualization tool to use on HPC systems.Date and TimeSeptember 15, 2022, 10:00am-12:00pm PDT AbstractParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that allows users to quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or… Read More »
NSight Systems and NSight Compute Profiling Workshop, Aug 31, 2022
IntroductionThis online workshop hosted by OLCF will be presented by Jackson Marusarz and Robert Searles from Nvidia. ALCF, NERSC, and OLCF users are encouraged to join the lectures and demonstration and will be given access to the hands-on repo to work on each center's compute resources: ALCF Polaris, NERSC Perlmutter, and OLCF Summit.If you do not have an account at one of those user facilities, you are welcome to register and watch the lectures, but we will not be able to provide a… Read More »
HDF5 Workshop, Aug 31, 2022
IntroductionThis workshop, presented by ALCF and open to NERSC users, is geared towards achieving HDF5 Performance on the ALCF Polaris system, with similar architecture to NERSC Perlmutter.Date and TimeAugust 31, 2022, 8:00am-1:00pm PDTAbstractHDF5 is a data model, file format, and I/O library that has become a de-facto standard for HPC applications to achieve scalable I/O and the storage and management of big data from computer modeling. This workshop will be geared toward the ALCF Polaris… Read More »
NERSC AI for Science Bootcamp, August 25-26, 2022
This online event, hosted by NERSC in partnership with Nvidia, will consist of a 2-day Bootcamp designed to teach users fundamental concepts and practices in deep learning, and how to effectively apply them to scientific problems. Participants will learn how to implement the primary components of deep learning workflows, including hands-on exercises training and evaluating custom deep learning models on scientific datasets.We will be utilizing the NVIDIA Curiosity Cluster for this… Read More »
E4S at NERSC 2022, Aug 25, 2022
IntroductionNERSC and ECP Training are co-hosting a one-day E4S at NERSC training event on August 25, 2022. This session will provide users with an overview of E4S and how one can use the E4S stack at NERSC. We will have a hands-on component on how to deploy your own software stack using Spack, along with an E4S tutorial. There will be numerous talks from ECP leadership on the different focus efforts pertaining to E4S and how it aligns with the ECP project. This session is a continuation of E4S… Read More »
Using R on HPC Clusters Webinar - Aug 17 & 19, 2022
IntroductionThis OLCF hosted Webinar tutorial helps users learn a basic workflow for how to use R on an HPC cluster. The tutorial will focus on parallel computing as a means to speed up R scripts on a cluster computer. Many packages in R offer some form of parallel computing yet they rely on a much smaller set of underlying approaches: multithreading in compiled code, the unix fork, and MPI. The tutorial will take a narrow path to focus on packages that directly engage the underlying… Read More »
Introduction to OpenMP Offload, Aug-Sep 2022
IntroductionThis two-part OpenMP Offload training, offered by OLCF and NERSC, will enable application teams and developers to accelerate their codes with the use of GPUs as well as exploiting the latest OpenMP functionality to program multi-core platforms like Summit and Perlmutter. This training is also part of the OLCF’s Preparing for Frontier training series and will cover discussions about what you need to prepare for using OpenMP on Frontier. Part 1: Basics of OpenMP Offload, 10 am -… Read More »
SpinUp Workshop: Aug 2022
Spin is a container-based platform at NERSC designed for you to deploy your own science gateways, workflow managers, databases, API endpoints, and other network services to support your scientific projects. Services in Spin are built with Docker containers and can easily access NERSC systems and storage. Introduction and more information about spin can be found here.Users must apply for and complete the SpinUp instructional workshop to gain access to Spin. See this for more information about… Read More »
Introduction to HDF5 for HPC Data Models, Analysis, and Performance: July 27, 2022
IntroductionThis webinar presented by M. Scot Breitenfeld from the HDF Group is part of the ALCF Developer sessions, and is also open to NERSC users. Date and Time: July 27, 2022, 9 -10 am PTTo register for this webinar or to learn more about the speaker, please see the ALCF Developer Sessions event page. AbstractHDF5 is a data model, file format, and I/O library that became a de facto standard for HPC applications for achieving scalable I/O and storing and managing big data from… Read More »
HIP for CUDA Programmers, July 21, 2022
IntroductionThis session is part of the OLCF’s Preparing for Frontier training series, and is open to NERSC users. OverviewHIP is a C++ runtime API that allows developers to write portable code to run on AMD (such as OLCF Frontier) and NVIDIA GPUs (such as NERSC Perlmutter). It is essentially a portability layer (or wrapper) that uses the underlying ROCm or CUDA platform that is installed on a system, and it is meant to have little or no performance impact over coding directly for ROCm or… Read More »
ALCF DeepHyper Automated Machine Learning Workshop, July 15, 2022
IntroductionThe Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a hands-on training session on DeepHyper (https://github.com/deephyper/deephyper), a distributed automated machine learning (AutoML) software package for automating the design and development of deep neural networks for scientific and engineering applications.DeepHyper seeks to bring a scientifically rigorous automated approach to neural network model development by reducing the manually intensive, cumbersome, ad hoc,… Read More »
Introduction to HIP Programming, July 14, 2022
IntroductionThis session is part of the OLCF’s Preparing for Frontier training series, and is open to NERSC users. OverviewHIP is a C++ runtime API that allows developers to write portable code to run on AMD (such as OLCF Frontier) and NVIDIA GPUs (such as NERSC Perlmutter). It is essentially a portability layer (or wrapper) that uses the underlying ROCm or CUDA platform that is installed on a system, and it is meant to have little or no performance impact over coding directly for ROCm or… Read More »
Profiling Deep Learning Applications with NVIDIA Nsight, June 30, 2022
IntroductionThis webinar presented by Daniel Horowitz and Tod Courtney from Nvidia is part of the ALCF Developer Sessions, and is also open to NERSC users. Date and Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific time), June 30 (Thursday) AbstractThis talk will introduce performance analysis techniques for deep learning applications using the NVIDIA Nsight Systems profiling tool to peek under the covers. We will cover how to collect performance information for the neural network layers to relate GPU work… Read More »
SpinUp Workshop: Jun 2022
Spin is a container-based platform at NERSC designed for you to deploy your own science gateways, workflow managers, databases, API endpoints, and other network services to support your scientific projects. Services in Spin are built with Docker containers and can easily access NERSC systems and storage. Introduction and more information about spin can be found here.Users must apply for and complete the SpinUp instructional workshop to gain access to Spin. See this for more information about… Read More »
