Frontier Training Workshop (February 2023)
Frontier Training Workshop
Virtual via Zoom
February 15-17, 2023
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (ET)
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) will host a virtual Frontier Training Workshop February 15-17, 2023. This event is meant to help new Frontier users (or those intending to use Frontier) learn how to run on the system. The workshop will feature presentations and demonstrations from vendors and OLCF staff.
If you are new to OLCF or want to do additional research, please see our Preparing for Frontier series. You will find helpful slides, talks, and hands-on exercises that you can do on Summit or Perlmutter linked there.
Who Should Attend?
The target audience for this workshop is OLCF users who have recently obtained access to Frontier or who intend to run on Frontier in the future.
During the Workshop
The presentations for this workshop are meant to deliver relevant information about the system (hardware, job launcher, programming methods, etc.), while the hands-on session is intended to help participants learn how to run jobs on the system. OLCF staff and our vendor partners will be available for questions during and after their sessions.
Agenda and Presentations
Wednesday, February 15
| Time (EST) | Topic | Speaker | Slide,Videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 – 1:15 PM | Welcome Address | Ashley Barker, Section Head, Operations, National Center for Computational Sciences, ORNL |
slides, video |
| 1:15 – 1:45 PM | Frontier Architecture Overview | Joe Glenski, Sr. Distinguished Technologist, HPE | slides, video |
| 1:45 – 2:00 PM | AMD MI250X Overview | Nick Malaya, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Exascale Application Performance, AMD | slides, video |
| 2:00 – 2:15 PM | AMD Optimized 3rd Gen. EPYC CPU | Nick Malaya, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Exascale Application Performance, AMD | slides, video |
| 2:15 – 2:45 PM | Frontier Programming Environment | Wael Elwasif, Computer Scientist, ORNL | slides, video |
| 2:45 – 3:15 PM | Using Frontier’s Programming Environment | Matt Belhorn, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides, video |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Storage Areas & Data Transfers | Suzanne Parete-Koon, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides, video |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Slurm on Frontier | Tom Papatheodore, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides, video |
| 4:30 – 5:00 PM | Job Submission Examples | Tom Papatheodore, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides, video |
Thursday, February 16
| Time (EST) | Topic | Speaker | Slides,Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 – 1:15 PM | Welcome Back | Suzanne Parete-Koon, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides |
| 1:15 – 1:45 PM | GPU Programming Models | Subil Abraham, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides ,video |
| 1:45 – 2:15 PM | HPE Cray MPI | Tim Mattox, HPC Performance Engineer, HPE | sides, video |
| 2:15 – 2:45 PM | Python on Frontier | Michael Sandoval, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides, video |
| 2:45 – 3:15 PM | AI on Frontier | Junqi Yin, Computational Scientist, ORNL | slides, video |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 – 3:45 PM | NVMe Usage | Chris Zimmer, Group Leader, Technology Integration, ORNL | slides, video |
| 3:45 – 4:15 PM | Node Performance | Tom Papatheodore, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides , video |
| 4:15 – 4:45 PM | Orion Lustre and Best Practices | Jesse Hanley, Senior HPC Linux Systems Engineer, ORNL | slides, video |
Friday, February 17
| Time (EST) | Topic | Speaker | Slides,Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 – 1:15 PM | Welcome Back | Suzanne Parete-Koon, HPC Engineer, ORNL | slides |
| 1:15 – 2:00 PM | Application Profiling | Trey White, Master Engineer, HPE | slides, video |
| 2:00 – 2:45 PM | GPU Profiling | Alessandro Fanfarillo, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Exascale Application Performance, AMD | slides , video |
| 2:45 – 3:15 PM | GPU Debugging | Mark Stock, HPC Applications Engineer, HPE | slides, video |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Frontier Tips & Tricks | Balint Joo, Group Leader, Advanced Computing for Nuclear, Particles, & Astrophysics, ORNL | slides , video |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Checkpointing Tips | Scott Atchley, HPC Systems Engineer, Distinguished R&D Staff, ORNL | slides , video |
