Past NERSC Training Events
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. Read More »
User training on checkpointing and restarting jobs using DMTCP on November 6, 2019
NERSC will host a one-hour user training on checkpoint/restart using DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing). DMTCP is a transparent checkpoint/restart tool, requiring NO modifications to user codes. Read More »
ECP UPC++ Training, November 1
In collaboration with ECP, NERSC is hosting a one-day training event on UPC++.
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Parallelware Tool Workshop, October 17, 2019
NERSC will host a one-day training event for users on using the Parallelware Trainer tool to learn to add OpenMP or OpenACC directives to your code. 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 goal of this 3.5-day hackathon is to port, optimize and evolve applications for energy-efficient processor architectures. The focus of the event will be on optimizing codes for the Intel Xeon-Phi (KNL) partition of Cori. Read More »
Petascale Computing Institute, August 19-23, 2019
NERSC is one of the host sites of the Petascale Computing Institute. 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. 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.
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GPUs for Science 2019
NERSC hosted the GPUs for Science workshop July 2-3, 2019. The agenda links to slides and recordings of presentations given at the event. 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. 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. Read More »
VASP User Hands-on KNL Training: June 18, 2019
NERSC is hosting a 4-hour online VASP hands-on user training. 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. Read More »
Parallelware Tool Workshop, June 6, 2019
NERSC will host a one-day training event for users on using the Parallelware Trainer tool to learn to add OpenMP or OpenACC directives to your code. Read More »
Cori KNL: Intel Tools Training and Hackathon, May 21-22, 2019
NERSC will host a two-day training event for users on Cori KNL Programming and Optimization Using Intel Tools. The first day of the training will be mostly presentations from Intel staff, and the second day will be in the format of a hackathon where users can bring their own application codes and get hands-on help from NERSC and Intel staff on KNL optimization using Intel tools. Read More »
SpinUp: Apr/May 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. Read More »
Cori KNL: Programming and Optimization, Apr 16-18, 2019
NERSC will host a three-day training event for users on Cori KNL Programming and Optimization. The first two days of the training will be half-day presentations and half-day hands-on from Cray and NERSC staff, and the third day will be in the format of a hackathon where users can bring their own application codes and get hands-on help for KNL porting and optimization. Read More »
Performance Portability with Kokkos, March 26-29, 2019
NERSC is hosting a four-day training event on Kokkos. This workshop is intended to teach new Kokkos users how to get started and to help existing Kokkos users improve their codes. The training will cover the minimum required topics to get your application started on using Kokkos, and Kokkos experts will be on hand to help the more advanced users. Read More »
Cori KNL: Programming and Optimization, Feb 12-13, 2019
NERSC will host a two-day training event for users on Cori KNL Programming and Optimization. The first day of the training will be mostly presentations from Cray and NERSC staff, and the second day will be in the format of a hackathon that users can bring your own application codes and get hands-on help for KNL porting and optimization. Read More »
Q-Chem User Training: 1/31/19
NERSC will host a one hour Q-Chem user training to cover the features provided by Q-Chem as well as how to use it on the NERSC systems.
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SpinUp: Jan/Feb 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. Read More »
New User Training: January 25, 2019
NERSC is hosting a one-day training event for new users on Friday, January 25, 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. Read More »