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MPI Programming XSEDE Monthly Virtual Workshop - September 1-2, 2020

Created by: gbauer 2020-08-11 16:55:00 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. XSEDE with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is presenting their two-day MPI programming virtual workshop September 1-2, 2020. This virtual workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are compact, to accommodate multiple time zones, but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/2072/session/3699.

For interested participants please register at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/2072/session/3699.

Tuesday, September 1
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
12:00 Intro to Parallel Computing
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Introduction to MPI
3:30 Introductory Exercises
4:10 Intro Exercises Review
4:15 Scalable Programming: Laplace code
5:00 Adjourn/Laplace Exercises

Wednesday, September 2
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Advanced MPI
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Laplace Review
2:30 Outro to Parallel Computing
3:15 Parallel Debugging and Profiling Tools
3:30 Exercises
4:30 Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. XSEDE with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is presenting their two-day MPI programming virtual workshop September 1-2, 2020. This virtual workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are...
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Blue Waters announcement: XSEDE OpenMP training site at NCSA Tuesday, January 21

Created by: gbauer 2020-01-15 13:42:14 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

Welcome back Illinois Blue Waters users;

XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, January 21st from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP. This event will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform in NCSA 1030.

For interested Illinois participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1903/session/3345 /register. Walk-ons are welcome if space is available.

All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:30 It’s a Multi-core World
12:00 Intro to OpenMP
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Intro Cont.
4:15 OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
5:00 Adjourn

This is a good opportunity to learn the basics of OpenMP.

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Welcome back Illinois Blue Waters users; XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, January 21st from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working...
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Blue Waters announcement: Four webinars for October and November

Created by: gbauer 2019-10-10 12:28:35 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

We would like to bring to your attention four webinars for October and November

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications' (NCSA) Blue Waters project offers a webinar series that addresses Data Analytics, Petascale Computing, Scientific Software Ecosystems, Scientific Visualization, Scientific Workflows, Software Engineering and Workforce Development and Inclusion.

Over the next two months, we will offer the following four new webinars:

October 16, 2019: Making Containers Easier with HPC Container Maker
October 23, 2019: E4S: Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack
October 30, 2019: Spack: A package manager for HPC
November 6, 2019: Introduction to NVIDIA Nsight Compute - A CUDA Kernel Profile

The webinars are free to attend and open to the public. Registration is required to receive reminders of webinar dates and invitations to join the Slack channel to pose questions to the presenters. Abstracts for each webinar are below.

Making Containers Easier with HPC Container Maker (Scott McMillan, NVIDIA)

Containers make it possible for scientists and engineers to easily use portable and reproducible software environments. However, if the desired application is not already available from a container registry, generating a custom container image from scratch can be challenging for users accustomed to a bare metal software environment. HPC Container Maker (HPCCM) is an open source project to address these challenges. HPCCM provides a high level, configurable Python recipe format for deploying HPC components into container images according to best practices. HPCCM recipes are more portable and powerful than native container specification formats, easier to create, and produce smaller, well-constructed container images.

E4S: Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (Sameer Shende, University of Oregon)

The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Software Technology focus area is developing an HPC software ecosystem that will enable the efficient and performant execution of exascale applications. Through the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) [https://e4s.io], it is developing a comprehensive and coherent software stack that will enable application developers to productively write highly parallel applications that can portably target diverse exascale architectures. E4S provides both source builds through the Spack platform and a set of containers that feature a broad collection of HPC software packages. E4S exists to accelerate the development, deployment, and use of HPC software, lowering the barriers for HPC users. It provides container images, build manifests, and turn-key, from-source builds of popular HPC software packages developed as Software Development Kits (SDKs). This effort includes a broad range of areas including programming models and runtimes (MPICH, Kokkos, RAJA, OpenMPI), development tools (TAU, HPCToolkit, PAPI), math libraries (PETSc, Trilinos), data and visualization tools (Adios, HDF5, Paraview), and compilers (LLVM), all available through the Spack package manager. It will describe the community engagements and interactions that led to the many artifacts produced by E4S. It will introduce the E4S containers is installed on Blue Waters (NCSA) using Shifter and this talk will demonstrate its usage.

Spack: A package manager for HPC (Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Spack is an open-source package manager for HPC. Its simple, templated Python DSL allows the same package to be built in many configurations, with different compilers, flags, dependencies, and dependency versions. Spack allows HPC end users to automatically build any of over 3,000 community-maintained packages, software developers to easily manage large applications with hundreds of dependencies, and HPC facility administrators to deploy software stacks for all of their users.

This talk will give a technical overview of Spack, as well as a brief rundown of recent developments, the longer-term Spack road map, and activities within the U.S. Exascale Computing Project (ECP).

Introduction to NVIDIA Nsight Compute - A CUDA Kernel Profiler (Magnus Strengert, NVIDIA)

Understanding and optimizing the runtime behavior of your code can be a challenging effort but is often rewarded with significant performance gains. NVIDIA Nsight Compute is a CUDA kernel profiler that provides detailed performance data and offers guidance for optimizing your CUDA kernels. You'll learn about how to collect a wide range of performance data for your CUDA kernels, how automatic rules help in detecting common performance pitfalls and offering guidance through the profile reports, how to quickly compare profiling results to evaluate the effects of your code changes, and how to customize the tool to fit best to your optimization workflow.

About the Blue Waters Webinars

To foster productive discussions during the live webcasts, participants are encouraged to use dedicated channels within the ncsa-bw Slack team to pose questions to the presenters as well as share information with other participants.

The video recordings of each webinar are made publicly available on YouTube, and PDFs of the slides are made available for download. Links to the YouTube videos and slides are posted at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/webinars.

We welcome offers to present additional topics, as well as suggestions for additional topics. Please email your comments to bw-eot@ncsa.illinois.edu.

This seminar series is organized and supported by the Blue Waters project funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Blue Waters announcement: XSEDE OpenMP training site at NCSA November 5

Created by: gbauer 2019-10-09 11:25:36 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

Illinois Blue Waters users;

XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, November 5th from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP. This event will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform in NCSA 1030.

For interested Illinois participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1903/session/3345 /register. Walk-ons are welcome if space is available.

All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:30 It’s a Multi-core World
12:00 Intro to OpenMP
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Intro Cont.
4:15 OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
5:00 Adjourn

This is a good opportunity to learn the basics of OpenMP.

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Illinois Blue Waters users; XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, November 5th from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge...
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MPI Programming XSEDE training; satellite site at NCSA May 6-7, 2019

Created by: gbauer 2019-04-30 08:37:14 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. NCSA will be hosting a local site for the XSEDE / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center MPI programming workshop on May 6-7, 2019. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are compact, to accommodate multiple time zones, but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1375/session/2747.

For interested UIUC area participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1375/session/2747/register. Walk-ins are welcome. The local site will be in Room 1030 in the NCSA building.

Monday, May 6
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
12:00 Intro to Parallel Computing
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Introduction to MPI
3:30 Introductory Exercises
4:10 Intro Exercises Review
4:15 Scalable Programming: Laplace code
5:00 Adjourn/Laplace Exercises

Tuesday, May 7
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Advanced MPI
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Laplace Review
2:00 Outro to Parallel Computing
2:45 Parallel Debugging and Profiling Tools
3:00 Exercises
4:30 Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. NCSA will be hosting a local site for the XSEDE / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center MPI programming workshop on May 6-7, 2019. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI...
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XSEDE MPI Programming training opportunity satellite site at NCSA, May 6-7

Created by: gbauer 2019-04-16 11:55:34 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a MPI programming workshop on May 6-7, 2019. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1375.

For interested UIUC and regional participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1375/session/2747.

This two-day workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are compact, to accommodate multiple time zones, but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.

Monday, May 6
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
12:00 Intro to Parallel Computing
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Introduction to MPI
3:30 Introductory Exercises
4:10 Intro Exercises Review
4:15 Scalable Programming: Laplace code
5:00 Adjourn/Laplace Exercises

Tuesday, May 7
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Advanced MPI
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Laplace Review
2:00 Outro to Parallel Computing
2:45 Parallel Debugging and Profiling Tools
3:00 Exercises
4:30 Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a MPI programming workshop on May 6-7, 2019. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1375. For interested UIUC and regional participants please register for the NCSA location at...
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OpenACC GPU Programming XSEDE training; satellite site at NCSA March 5th

Created by: gbauer 2019-02-25 12:24:27 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. NCSA will be hosting a local site for the XSEDE / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center OpenACC GPU programming workshop on March 5, 2019. For course details please see https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1144.

For interested UIUC area participants please register for the NCSA location at https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1144/session/2421. Walk-ins are welcome. The local site will be in Room 1030 in the NCSA building.

Tuesday, March 5
All times given are Eastern time
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:45 Parallel Computing and Accelerators
12:15 Introduction to OpenACC
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Introduction to OpenACC, con’t
3:45 Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries
4:00 Advanced OpenACC
4:30 OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
5:00 Final Notes and Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. NCSA will be hosting a local site for the XSEDE / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center OpenACC GPU programming workshop on March 5, 2019. For course details please see https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1144. For interested UIUC area participants please register for the...
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New Blue Waters Webinars Announced

Created by: gbauer 2019-01-18 09:52:03 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

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New Blue Waters Webinars Announced

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications' (NCSA) Blue Waters project is pleased to announce three new webinar topics to launch 2019, focused on the cloud, open-source software, and scientific 3D visualization.

Over the next month, we will offer the following webinars:

January 23, 2019: Cloud Resource Federation for Galaxy
February 6, 2019: Teaching Computational Scientists to Build and Package Open-Source Software
February 13, 2019: 3D Scientific Visualization with Blender

The webinars are free to attend and open to the public. Registration is recommended to receive reminders of webinar dates and to receive invitations to join the Slack channel to pose questions to the presenters.

Cloud Resource Federation for Galaxy - Jan. 23, 2019

Enis Afgan, Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University

The popularity of Galaxy is calling for extensive compute and storage capacity to be made available. The Galaxy Project and the community at large have been making strides in this effort by creating a variety of resources available. These include free public servers, virtual machines, cloud instances, usegalaxy.* federation, container images, etc. However, such dedicated installations of Galaxy instances is gradually leading to many silos of data, shared objects, tools, and expertise. In order to further strengthen the community and help build on each other's contributions, we are actively working on the notion of resource federation for Galaxy. This means that it will be possible to bring together disparate data and compute resources to effectively handle large data and long computations. In this talk, we will present the motivation for the above problem, the ongoing efforts, and present a method for dynamically linking external compute resources from a variety of cloud resources to a Galaxy server. Much of the presented software stack and services are not specific to Galaxy and can also be used by other science gateways.

Teaching Computational Scientists to Build and Package Open-Source Software - Feb. 6, 2019

Prentice Bisbal, Lead Software Engineer, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

High-performance computing training and education typically emphasize the first-principles of scientific programming, such as numerical algorithms and parallel programming techniques. However, many computational scientists need to know how to compile and link to applications built by others. Likewise, those who create the libraries and applications need to understand how to package their code it so that it is straightforward for others to use. These topics are not currently addressed by the current HPC education or training curriculum and users are left to learn these skills on their own. In this webinar, Bisbal will summarize observations on the most common difficulties computational scientists encounter when trying to build and install open-source software themselves, and provide a curriculum designed to address these issues. Common deficiencies found in the packaging of open-source scientific packages will also be discussed, along with some suggestions for correcting them.

3D Scientific Visualization with Blender - Feb. 13, 2019

Brian R. Kent, Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Scientific data can take on many forms—catalogs, data cubes, images, and simulations. The software program Blender gives scientists a useful tool for displaying data in a manner used by three-dimensional (3D) graphics specialists and animators. The interface to this popular software package is introduced with attention to features of interest in a researcher's data.

About NCSA

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides supercomputing and advanced digital resources for the nation's science enterprise. At NCSA, University of Illinois faculty, staff, students, and collaborators from around the globe use advanced digital resources to address research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society. NCSA has been advancing one third of the Fortune 50® for more than 30 years by bringing industry, researchers, and students together to solve grand challenges at rapid speed and scale.

About the Blue Waters Webinars

To foster productive discussions during the live webcasts, participants are encouraged to use dedicated channels within the ncsa-bw Slack teamand via YouTube to pose questions to the presenters as well as share information with other participants.

We welcome offers to present additional topics, as well as suggestions for additional topics. Please email your comments to help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu.

This seminar series is organized and supported by the Blue Waters project.

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Blue Waters announcement: XSEDE OpenMP training site at NCSA January 16

Created by: gbauer 2019-01-08 12:03:17 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

Illinois Blue Waters users; XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, January 16 from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge...
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Blue Waters Announcement: GLCPC accepting Blue Waters proposals through November 30th

Created by: gbauer 2018-11-16 10:50:16 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

Proposals for GLCPC allocations on Blue Waters are due November 30th.

The NSF has approved an extension for the Blue Waters to continue operating until December 19, 2019. This extension provides an additional nine months of operation and the NCSA Blue Waters team has allocated to the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) an additional 2.7 million node hours—equivalent to approximately 86 million core hours as part of the Blue Waters project.

This allocation provides the GLCPC member institutions with an opportunity to advance their programs in computation, data, and visualization intensive research and education. This Call For Proposals (CFP) describes the process for submitting a proposal to the GLCPC Allocations Committee for allocations on the Blue Waters system. Details on the Blue Waters system can be found at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/blue-waters.

The GLCPC is seeking proposals that focus on the systems scale and unique capabilities. Thus, projects that could be completed on one of the other NSF sponsored systems as part of the current XSEDE program are not encouraged for GLCPC Blue Waters allocations.

The GLCPC is seeking innovative proposals that fall into four categories:

Scaling studies: The scaling of codes which will operate efficiently on large numbers of parallel processors presents a number of challenges. Therefore, projects of particular interest include those that optimize and/or scale community codes to very large scales. Examples include scaling of multilevel parallel applications (MPI+OpenMP), accelerators (CUDA, OpenACC or OpenCL), I/O and data-intensive applications, or novel communication topologies.
Multi-GLCPC-institutional projects addressing focused scientific projects. An example might be a Great Lakes Ecosystems Modeling initiative (Digital Great Lakes).
Proposals for applications well-suited for the Blue Waters system architecture.
Proposals from non-traditional and underserved communities.

The GLCPC Allocations Committee anticipates 3-8 projects/allocations; consequently, the smallest project is expected to be approximately 320,000 node hours (~5 million core hours), which is roughly the same as dedicated use of a 4-core, 1,280-node cluster. The GLCPC notes that applications at this scale will require development efforts as well as different phases, such as: tuning and development; some smaller runs; large "production runs"; and then post processing; but, all will be at scales beyond other available large resources.

GLCPC allocation proposals will be accepted through midnight EST November 30, 2018. The proposal review process is expected to be complete by December 15, 2018. Allocations awarded through GLCPC will be available for use beginning December 2018 and will expire on December 19, 2019. Users will have to transfer their data from Blue Waters back to their campuses by December 19, 2019. A data management plan describing data transfer off of Blue Waters is required.

To find out how to make an allocation request, and all other information, visit the GLCPC webpage.

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OpenACC GPU Programming XSEDE training opportunity satellite site at NCSA, November 6th

Created by: gbauer 2018-10-26 11:03:07 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. NCSA will be hosting a local site for the XSEDE / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center OpenACC GPU programming workshop on November 6, 2018. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/814.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/814/session/2047. Walk-ins are welcome. The local site will be in Room 1030 in the NCSA building.

Tuesday, November 6
All times given are Eastern time
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:45 Parallel Computing and Accelerators
12:15 Introduction to OpenACC
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Introduction to OpenACC, con’t
3:45 Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries
4:00 Advanced OpenACC
4:30 OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
5:00 Final Notes and Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of an upcoming training opportunity. NCSA will be hosting a local site for the XSEDE / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center OpenACC GPU programming workshop on November 6, 2018. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/814. For interested UIUC participants please register for the Read More
XSEDE MPI Programming training opportunity satellite site at NCSA, October 2-3

Created by: gbauer 2018-10-01 09:53:33 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

There is still space available for this trainging event. Walk-ins are welcome at Room 1030 in the NCSA building.

We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a MPI programming workshop on October 2-3, 2018. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/593.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/748/session/1959.

This two-day workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are compact, to accommodate multiple time zones, but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.

Tuesday, October 2
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
12:00 Intro to Parallel Computing
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Introduction to MPI
3:30 Introductory Exercises
4:10 Intro Exercises Review
4:15 Scalable Programming: Laplace code
5:00 Adjourn/Laplace Exercises

Wednesday, October 3
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Advanced MPI
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Laplace Review
2:00 Outro to Parallel Computing
2:45 Parallel Debugging and Profiling Tools
3:00 Exercises
4:30 Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; There is still space available for this trainging event. Walk-ins are welcome at Room 1030 in the NCSA building. We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a MPI programming workshop on October 2-3, 2018. For course details...
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XSEDE Big Data training opportunity: satellite site at NCSA, September 5-6

Created by: gbauer 2018-08-27 12:39:12 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a two-day Big Data workshop, to be held September 5-6, 2018. This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/682/session/1719.

See https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/682 and https://www.psc.edu/hpc-workshop-series/big-data-may-2018 for more information.

Agenda

Wednesday, September 5
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:25 Intro to Big Data
12:00 Hadoop
12:30 Intro to Spark
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Spark
3:30 Spark Exercises
4:30 Spark
5:00 Adjourn

Thursday, September 6
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Deep Learning with Tensorflow
4:30 Bridges: A Big Data Platform
5:00 Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a two-day Big Data workshop, to be held September 5-6, 2018. This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using...
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Blue Waters announcement: XSEDE OpenMP training site at NCSA August 7

Created by: gbauer 2018-08-01 15:45:00 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

Illinois Blue Waters users;

XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, August 7 from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP. This event will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform in NCSA 1040.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/616/session/1629.

All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:30 It’s a Multi-core World
12:00 Intro to OpenMP
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Intro Cont.
4:15 OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
5:00 Adjourn

This is a good opportunity to learn the basics of OpenMP.

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Illinois Blue Waters users; XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshop Tuesday, August 7 from 11am to 5pm Eastern. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge...
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NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon: Application Deadline June 18th

Created by: gbauer 2018-06-15 08:50:08 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

This a reminder that the deadline for the NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon is Monday, June 18th.

NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois is pleased to announce that team applications for the NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon are now open. This event will take place September 10-14, 2018 at NCSA. The deadline to apply is June 18, 2018. Prior GPU experience is not required, as those selected will be paired with experienced mentors who will teach them how to leverage accelerated computing in their own applications or further optimize their codes.

The goal of the hackathon is for user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of at least 3 developers along with either (1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU accelerators, or (2) an application running on accelerators that needs optimization for current and future GPU generations.

See https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/bw-hackathon-2018 for more information.

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This a reminder that the deadline for the NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon is Monday, June 18th. NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois is pleased to announce that team applications for the NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon are now open. This event will take place September 10-14, 2018 at NCSA....
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New User Training for Blue Waters on May 16th from 10AM to 3PM CDT locally and via YouTube Live

Created by: gbauer 2018-04-26 12:31:17 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

We would like to announce the next Blue Waters New User Training session to be held May 16 at NCSA (room 1040) and via YouTube Live. It will run from 10 AM to 3 PM Central, with a lunch break at Noon Central.

This session is intended for people with Blue Waters accounts, and most especially to the new Broadening Participation, GLCPC and Illinois allocations, as well as to new members of any other project team with an allocation.

Details for this event are posted at: https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/training#newuser

To attend at NCSA register here: https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/610/session/1585

To view the YouTube webcast register here: https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/610/session/1587

Blue Waters' New User Training is a free online workshop for new users of the Blue Waters system.

This is a hands-on workshop in which participants will gain first-hand experience using the system. While anyone interested may register to attend, only individuals that already have a Blue Waters account will be able to conduct the hands-on activities.

Participants will learn how to log in, transfer data of various sizes to and from the system, manipulate available software stacks and environment, compile small projects, submit "jobs" and check on their status, control the level of parallelism in the jobs, tips and tricks for making jobs run sooner, and more.

The event will be hosted at NCSA and it will be webcast on YouTube Live.

Send questions and comments to bw-eot@ncsa.illinois.edu.

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We would like to announce the next Blue Waters New User Training session to be held May 16 at NCSA (room 1040) and via YouTube Live. It will run from 10 AM to 3 PM Central, with a lunch break at Noon Central. This session is intended for people with Blue Waters accounts, and most...
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XSEDE Big Data training opportunity satellite site at NCSA, May 1-2

Created by: gbauer 2018-04-20 16:28:24 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a two day Big Data workshop, to be held May 1-2, 2018. This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/607/session/1570.

See https://www.psc.edu/hpc-workshop-series/big-data-may-2018 for more information.

Agenda
Tuesday, May 1
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Welcome
11:25 Intro to Big Data
12:00 Hadoop
12:30 Intro to Spark
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Spark
3:30 Spark Exercises
4:30 Spark
5:00 Adjourn

Wednesday, May 2
All times given are Eastern
11:00 Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Deep Learning with Tensorflow
4:30 Bridges: A Big Data Platform
5:00 Adjourn

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a two day Big Data workshop, to be held May 1-2, 2018. This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented...
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XSEDE MPI Programming training opportunity satellite site at NCSA, April 3-4

Created by: gbauer 2018-03-21 11:22:37 (Channels: bestpractices|trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a MPI programming workshop on April 3-4, 2018. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/593.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/593/session/1534.

This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are compact, to accommodate multiple time zones, but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; We would like to inform you of a training opportunity. XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a MPI programming workshop on April 3-4, 2018. For course details please see https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/593. For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/593/session/1534. This workshop...
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XSEDE GPU Programming with OpenACC training opportunity satellite site at NCSA

Created by: gbauer 2018-02-28 15:18:03 (Channels: trainandopportunities)

Illinois Users of Blue Waters;

XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on March 6, 2018. For details please see https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/587.

OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been used with great success to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. This workshop assumes knowledge of either C or Fortran programming. It will have a hands-on component using the Bridges computing platform at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

For interested UIUC participants please register for the NCSA location at https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/587/session/1503.

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Illinois Users of Blue Waters; XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on March 6, 2018. For details please see https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/587. OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been...
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