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Profiling Deep Learning Applications with NVIDIA Nsight, June 30, 2022

June 30, 2022

This talk will introduce performance analysis techniques for deep learning applications using the NVIDIA Nsight Systems profiling tool to peek under the covers. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Jun 2022

June 22, 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. Read More »

Crash Course in Supercomputing, June 14, 2022

June 14, 2022

This training as part of the 2022 Berkeley Lab Computational Sciences Summer Student Program. In this course, students will learn to write parallel programs that can be run on a supercomputer, using MPI and OpenMP, the two leading parallel programming libraries. Read More »

Introduction to NERSC Resources, June 9, 2022

June 9, 2022

This training as part of the 2022 Berkeley Lab Computational Sciences Summer Student Program, is also open to NERSC users. This class will provide an informative overview to acquaint students with the basics of NERSC computational systems and its programming environment. Read More »

The LLVM/OpenMP Ecosystem – Optimizations, Features and Outlook, May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022

The LLVM compiler with OpenMP offload support is available on Cori GPU now, and will be available to use on Perlmutter GPU soon. In this talk, we will look at the revolution in the LLVM/OpenMP development and discuss the significance beyond OpenMP. Read More »

ALCF Computational Performance Workshop, May 24-26, 2022

May 24, 2022

The 2022 ALCF Computational Performance Workshop is designed to help you boost application performance and achieve computational readiness on ALCF systems. The performance tools and topics covered at the workshop are transferrable to NERSC systems too.  Read More »

Coding for GPUs Using Standard Fortran, May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022

Join this training offered by Nvidia for the second part of a series that covers how ISO C++ and ISO Fortran can be used as a portable solution to parallel programming targeting both GPUs and CPUs. Read More »

Codee Training Series, Apr 26-27, 2022

April 26, 2022

Appentra's Codee Analyzer (formerly known as Parallelware Analyzer) is a programming development tool for C/C++/Fortran parallel codes on multicore CPUs and GPUs using OpenMP and OpenACC. The Codee training series is an 2-day event with 4 parts, each part combining presentations, demos and hands-on sessions on Perlmutter GPUs. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Apr 2022

April 20, 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. Read More »

Coding for GPUs Using Standard C++, April 7, 2022

April 7, 2022

Join this training offered by Nvidia for the first part of a series that covers how ISO C++ and ISO Fortran can be used as a portable solution to parallel programming targeting both GPUs and CPUs. Read More »

An Introduction to Programming with SYCL on Perlmutter and Beyond, March 1, 2022

March 1, 2022

SYCL is an open standard programming model that allows developers to use standard C++ code to program for a range of GPUs and other accelerator processors. Join engineers from Codeplay for a half day hands-on workshop that will walk through the fundamentals of SYCL programming using practical examples and exercises to help reinforce the learning. Read More »

Nvidia Performance Tools for A100 GPU Systems, Feb 23, 2022

February 23, 2022

NVIDIA Developer Tools are available for detailed performance analysis of HPC applications running on NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, such as ALCF's ThetaGPU and NERSC's Perlmutter. In this session, several use cases of Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute will be presented via a demo with simple HPC benchmarks on ThetaGPU. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Feb 2022

February 16, 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. Read More »

NVIDIA HPC SDK Training: Jan 12-13, 2022

January 12, 2022

NVIDIA will present the 2-day training for NERSC, ALCF, and OLCF users about the various GPU programming models and profiling tools supported by NVIDIA’s HPC SDK compilers. Read More »

Using Perlmutter Training: Jan 5-7, 2022

January 5, 2022

This 3-day training event provided jointly by HPE and NERSC staff is a continuation and extension of the June 2021 Perlmutter Introduction training, now focused more on using Perlmutter with hands-on exercises.  Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Dec 2021

December 1, 2021

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. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Oct 2021

October 14, 2021

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. Read More »

CUDA Graphs, October 13, 2021

October 13, 2021

NVIDIA will present “CUDA Graphs”. This event is a continuation of the CUDA Training Series. Read More »

E4S at DOE Facilities with Deep Dive at NERSC, Oct 4 2021

October 4, 2021

E4S is a collection of ooen source packages for running scientific applications on high performance computing platforms. This training will cover E4S overview and E4S software packages deployed at DOE facilities with a deep dive of E4S at NERSC. Read More »

Introduction to OpenMP Device Offload, Sept 22-23, 2021

September 22, 2021

OLCF and NERSC will offer a (virtual) Introduction to OpenMP GPU Offloading. Day 1 will cover the basics of using OpenMP directives to offload work to GPUs. Day 2 will discuss optimization strategies and show efficient data movement. Read More »

CUDA Debugging, September 14, 2021

September 14, 2021

NVIDIA will present “CUDA Debugging”. This event is a continuation of the CUDA Training Series. Read More »

Facility Testing of E4S via E4S Testsuite, Spack Test, and buildtest, Sep 14 2021

September 14, 2021

Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) is a collection of open-source software packages for running scientific application typically run on HPC systems. Buildtest is a HPC testing framework designed to help facilities develop and run tests to validate their system and software stack. The presentation will provide a brief overview of buildtest commands and how to write tests in buildspecs, followed by a demo. Read More »

Introduction to Kernel Performance Analysis with NVIDIA Nsight Compute, Aug 26, 2021

August 26, 2021

This webinar session will present the use of Nsight Compute for analyzing the performance of individual GPU kernels on the NVIDIA GPUs that power ALCF's ThetaGPU and NERSC's Perlmutter. Read More »

NERSC AI for Science Bootcamp, August 25-26, 2022

August 25, 2021

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. Read More »

ECP CMake Training, Aug 23-26, 2021

August 23, 2021

ECP is partnering with Kitware, ALCF, NERSC and OLCF to offer a 4-day CMake Training class. CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Aug 2021

August 19, 2021

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. Read More »

CUDA Multi Process Service, August 17, 2021

August 17, 2021

NVIDIA will present “CUDA Multi Process Service”. This event is a continuation of the CUDA Training Series.

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Inside ThetaGPU and Perlmutter's NVidia Ampere A100 GPU

July 28, 2021

The NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU, which powers the ALCF's ThetaGPU system and NERSC's Perlmutter system, builds on the excellent performance of the NVIDIA V100 GPU and includes several new features for both HPC and deep learning. This talk will describe these (and other) aspects of A100 so that computational scientists can get a better idea of what is possible on this architecture.  Read More »

CUDA Multithreading with Streams, July 16, 2021

July 16, 2021

NVIDIA will present “CUDA Multithreading with Streams” to OLCF and NERSC users. This event is a continuation of the CUDA Training Series. Read More »

Introduction to CI at NERSC, July 7, 2021

July 7, 2021

Continuous Integration (CI) is an increasingly popular best-practice in the field of scientific code development. Incorporating CI into the workflow allows multiple developers to work on the same project code base with minimal conflict. In this session, we will cover the basics of GitLab and CI, we will then use hands-on-examples to cover a few important CI workflows as it pertains to CI@NERSC. Read More »

Lmod User Training, June 22, 2021

June 22, 2021

Lmod is a Lua based module system that is a new implementation of environment-modules that supports both TCL and Lua modules. This training will walk through the new features and usage with Lmod to help users with the transition as Perlmutter comes online for general use. Read More »

Crash Course in Supercomputing, June 11, 2021

June 11, 2021

This training as part of the 2021 Berkeley Lab Computational Sciences Summer Student Program, is also open to NERSC users. In this two-part course, students will learn to write parallel programs that can be run on a supercomputer, using MPI and OpenMP, the two leading parallel programming libraries. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Jun 2021

June 10, 2021

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. Read More »

Parallelware Office Hours, June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021

arallelware Trainer and Parallelware Analyzer are novel tools for the development of C/C++/Fortran parallel code for multicore CPUs and GPUs using OpenMP and OpenACC. Appentra will hold office hours for users who want to get started with Parallelware tools, or who have already begun using the tools and have questions. 

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Introduction to NERSC Resources, June 3, 2021

June 3, 2021

This training as part of the 2021 Berkeley Lab Computational Sciences Summer Student Program, is also open to NERSC users. This class will provide an informative overview to acquaint students with the basics of NERSC computational systems and its programming environment. Read More »

Perlmutter Introduction, June 2, 2021

June 2, 2021

This half-day introductory session provided by HPE is intended to familiarize NERSC users with updates to the Cray Programming Environment(CPE) utilized on HPE Cray EX (formerly Shasta) systems. Read More »

User Training on Checkpointing and Restarting VASP Jobs Using MANA on May 25, 2021

May 25, 2021

NERSC will host an online hands-on user training for VASP users. The training is to help VASP users to checkpoint/restart VASP jobs using MANA, a transparent checkpointing tool. Read More »

User training on MANA, a transparent checkpointing tool, on May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021

NERSC will host an online hands-on user training on MANA, a transparent checkpointing tool. MANA is an MPI-Agnostic and Network-Agnostic transparent checkpointing tool, requiring no modifications to user codes. Read More »

Timemory Software Monitoring Tutorial

April 19, 2021

The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is hosting a tutorial on NERSC's timemory toolkit for software monitoring. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Apr 2021

April 15, 2021

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. Read More »

Using HPCToolkit to Measure and Analyze the Performance of GPU-accelerated Applications Tutorial, Mar-Apr 2021

March 29, 2021

The developers of HPCToolkit from Rice University will present a 2-part training series for NERSC and OLCF users about using HPCToolkit to measure and analyze the performance of GPU-accelerated applications. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Feb 2021

February 4, 2021

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. Read More »

7th BerkeleyGW Tutorial Workshop

January 4, 2021

The BerkeleyGW developer team is hosting the 7th BerkeleyGW Tutorial Workshop and 2nd Berkeley Excited States Conference (BESC2021). Read More »

Totalview Tutorial, December 9, 2020

December 9, 2020

NERSC is hosting a training event on TotalView. The training will teach and demonstrate users how to use the tool for debugging parallel codes on CPUs and GPUs.

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NVIDIA HPC SDK - OpenMP Target Offload Training, December 2020

December 8, 2020

NVIDIA will present a 2-part training series for NERSC and OLCF users about using OpenMP target offload with NVIDIA’s HPC SDK compilers. The training will introduce OpenMP target offload, the NVIDIA compilers, and best practices for achieving high performance with OpenMP target offload on NVIDIA GPUs.
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SpinUp Workshop: Dec 2020

December 4, 2020

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. Read More »

Parallelware Training Series: Motif-guided Parallelization of ZPIC with OpenMP and OpenACC, Oct-Nov 2020

October 27, 2020

Parallelware Trainer and Parallelware Analyzer are novel tools for the development of C/C++/Fortran parallel code for multicore CPUs and GPUs using OpenMP and OpenACC. Appentra will present a 3-part Parallelware training series intended to help new and existing programmers understand best practices for GPU programming with OpenMP and OpenACC. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Oct 2020

October 2, 2020

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.

Read More »

Cooperative Groups -- Part 9 of 9 CUDA Training Series, September 17, 2020

September 17, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

GPU Performance Analysis -- Part 8 of 9 CUDA Training Series, August 18, 2020

August 18, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

VASP User Training on July 23, 2020

July 23, 2020

NERSC will host a 1-hour online user training for VASP users. The training will focus on higher-order methods and will be instructed by Dr. Martijn Marsman at VASP Software GmbH. Read More »

CUDA Concurrency -- Part 7 of 9 CUDA Training Series, July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: July 2020

July 17, 2020

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. Read More »

Arm debugging and profiling tools tutorial, July 16, 2020

July 16, 2020

NERSC is hosting a half-day training event for debugging and profiling parallel codes with Arm (previously Allinea) tools. Read More »

Roofline on NVIDIA GPUs Hackathon, July 8, 2020

July 8, 2020

The Roofline performance model provides an intuitive and insightful way to understand application performance, identify bottlenecks and perform optimization for HPC applications. In preparation for the upcoming supercomputer Perlmutter at NERSC, this hackathon invites all NERSC users to join us in some informative talks, lively discussions and engaging hands-on sessions, all related to Roofline analysis on NVIDIA GPUs! Read More »

GPUs for Science 2020, June 30 - July 1, 2020

June 30, 2020

To help facilitate the transition to GPU systems, NERSC is hosting GPUs for Science. The event, which takes place June 30 - July 1, 2020, is designed to offer scientists the motivation, tools, and expertise they need to make this change possible. Read More »

VASP Hands-on Training, June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

NERSC will host a 2-hour online hands-on training for VASP users. The training will focus on running VASP using the variable-time job scripts,  which will greatly improve the queue turnaround by automatically utilizing the backfill opportunity in the system. Read More »

Loop Optimizations with OpenACC -- Part 3 of 3 OpenACC Training Series, June 23, 2020

June 23, 2020

NVIDIA presents a 3-part OpenACC training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers learn to use the OpenACC API. Each part includes a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. Read More »

Managed Memory -- Part 6 of 9 CUDA Training Series, June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

New User Training: June 16, 2020

June 16, 2020

NERSC is hosting a one-day training event for new users. The goal is to provide users new to NERSC with the basics of our computational systems; accounts and allocations; programming environment, tools, and best practices; and data ecosystem.  Read More »

OpenACC Data Management -- Part 2 of 3 OpenACC Training Series, May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020

NVIDIA will present a 3-part OpenACC training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers learn to use the OpenACC API. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. Read More »

Variable-time Jobs Online Hands-On User Training, May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

NERSC will host a 2-hour online hands-on user training on variable-time jobs. Variable-time jobs can greatly improve your queue turnaround by automatically exploiting opportunities for backfill in Slurm, provided your applications can do checkpoint and restart on their own or via an external checkpointing tool (e.g., DMTCP). Read More »

CUDA Atomics, Reductions, and Warp Shuffle -- Part 5 of 9 CUDA Training Series, May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

SpinUp Workshop: Apr 2020

April 23, 2020

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 »

Introduction to OpenACC -- Part 1 of 3 OpenACC Training Series, April 17, 2020

April 17, 2020

NVIDIA will present a 3-part OpenACC training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers learn to use the OpenACC API. Each part will include a 1-hour presentation and example exercises. Read More »

Fundamental CUDA Optimization (Part 2) -- Part 4 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Apr 16, 2020

April 16, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

Data Analytics in Python on GPUs with NVIDIA RAPIDS Training (ONLINE ONLY), April 14, 2020

April 14, 2020

NERSC and NVIDIA are pleased to announce a one day ONLINE ONLY training event on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 to teach NERSC users about the NVIDIA RAPIDS software ecosystem for GPU-accelerated data analytics and machine learning. The RAPIDS data science framework includes a collection of libraries for executing end-to-end data science pipelines completely in the GPU, and is designed to have a familiar look and feel to data scientists working in Python. We expect RAPIDS to become the most productive way for Python users to do data analytics on Perlmutter's GPUs. Join us online and learn directly from developers how to transition your data analytics workflows to GPUs. Read More »

Fundamental CUDA Optimization (Part 1) -- Part 3 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Mar 18, 2020

March 18, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

Introduction to GPU, February 28, 2020

February 28, 2020

NERSC will host a one-day training event for users on Introduction to GPU. 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 documentation, available compilers, how to compile and run; NVIDIA software stack; Programming for GPU using directives (OpenACC and OpenMP); Debugging and profiling on GPU. Read More »

CUDA Shared Memory -- Part 2 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Feb 19, 2020

February 19, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

SpinUp: Feb 2020

February 11, 2020

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 »

Introduction to CUDA C++: Part 1 of 9 CUDA Training Series, Jan 15, 2020

January 15, 2020

NVIDIA presents a nine-part CUDA training series intended to help new and existing GPU programmers understand the main concepts of the CUDA platform and its programming model. Read More »

SpinUp: Dec 2019

December 5, 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

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

November 1, 2019

In collaboration with ECP, NERSC is hosting a one-day training event on UPC++.

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Parallelware Tool Workshop, October 17, 2019

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

August 27, 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

August 19, 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

July 17, 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

July 2, 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

June 22, 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

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

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

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

May 21, 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

April 24, 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

April 16, 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

March 26, 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

February 12, 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

January 31, 2019

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

January 30, 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

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 »

Edison to KNL User Training: December 12, 2018

December 12, 2018

NERSC is hosting a half-day training event for user who depend primarily on Edison.  The goal is to provide users who have not yet moved their workflows from Edison to the KNL nodes on Cori with the basics on how to compile and run jobs.

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Data Day 2018

September 6, 2018

NERSC held a Data Day in September 2018, featuring science talks and hands-on demos for subjects including machine learning, Python, data management and the Burst Buffer. Read More »

Chemistry and Materials Science Application Training 2018

June 29, 2018

This one-hour online training class is focused on chemistry and materials science applications, Q-Chem and VASP. Read More »

Cray Programming Environment Workshop, June 14, 2018

June 14, 2018

This tutorial will cover a recommended process of using the Cray performance tools to identify key bottlenecks (moles) in a program, and then reduce/remove (whack) them with some innovative optimization techniques. In addition to demonstrating the ease of using perftools-lite experiments, we will discuss how to interpret data from the generated reports.

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Beyond OpenMP Common Core Training, May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

In this hands-on tutorial, you will gain experience working outside the OpenMP Common Core, the 19 items most frequently used in this programming language. Read More »

Debugging and Profiling with Allinea (ARM) Tools and Others, April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018

NERSC is hosting an in-depth one-day training event on debugging and optimizing parallel codes with ARM (previously Allinea) tools. Read More »

Cori KNL Hackathon, March 7, 2018

March 7, 2018

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, March 6, 2018

March 6, 2018

This training event covers Intel compilers, tools, and libraries for NERSC users. Read More »

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