Center Announcements
  – RHEL8 Upgrade on Summit
  – E4S Software Stack @ OLCF
  – 2022 INCITE Call for Proposals
  – GPU/Capability Usage Reports on myOLCF

Meetings & Workshops
  – OLCF User Meeting (Jun 22-24)
  – CUDA Multithreading with Streams (Jun 16)
  – 2021 GPU Hackathons

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – Summit (Jun 8-10)

Center Announcements

RHEL 8 Upgrade on Summit (Jun 8-10)
Summit will be unavailable from 8:00 AM on Tuesday, June 8 until 8:00 AM on Thursday, June 10. During this time the OS will be upgraded to RHEL 8. Software changes related to this upgrade (both the available modules and the default versions) are noted on the Software News page. Following the outage, you will likely need to recompile before running on the upgraded system. If you have any questions or concerns about this upgrade, contact the User Assistance Center at help@olcf.ornl.gov.

E4S Software Stack @ OLCF
The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) is now available on Summit. The E4S project, supported by the US Department of Energy Exascale Computing Project (ECP), provides from-source builds and containers of a large collection of HPC software packages. Details about the software packages included in the E4S project, can be found at https://e4s-project.github.io/Resources/ProductInfo.html. For information on accessing E4S packages at the OLCF, please see https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/software/e4s.html.

2022 INCITE Call for Proposals
The 2022 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Call for Proposals is now open and closes June 18.

The INCITE program seeks proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering, and computer science domains. The program promotes transformational advances in science and technology through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities operated by the DOE Office of Science. INCITE is open to researchers from all institutions, including academia, industry, and government agencies.

INCITE is also devoting 10% of its allocatable compute time to a new Early Career Track, which aims to encourage the next generation of HPC researchers by focusing on principal investigators who are within 10 years of earning their doctorate degrees (on or after December 31, 2011).

For more information, visit http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/.

GPU/Capability Usage Reports on myOLCF
Did you know you can easily access a report of your project’s GPU-enabled usage and capability usage? These reports are available in the myOLCF application (my.olcf.ornl.gov). Log into myOLCF, then click on “Analytics” and then “Usage” in the column on the left side of the page.

Meetings & Workshops

OLCF User Meeting (Jun 22-24)
The OLCF will hold its annual User Meeting remotely from June 22-24, 2021, and you can now register and view the full agenda at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/2021-olcf-user-meeting/. Join us to learn about new initiatives, hear from other users, and get the latest updates on the new OLCF system, Frontier. Please note the last day to register for the User Meeting is June 12, 2021.

CUDA Multithreading with Streams (Jun 16)
NVIDIA will present “CUDA Multithreading with Streams” as a webinar from 1 PM – 3 PM (Eastern Time) on Friday, June 16. The webinar will include a presentation and hands-on exercises. For more information or to register, visit https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/cuda-multithreading/.

2021 GPU Hackathons
The 2021 NVIDIA GPU Hackathon series is now open. Events that will be supported by the OLCF (computing resources, mentors, etc.) are marked with the OLCF logo at https://www.gpuhackathons.org/events. The final OLCF-supported (virtual) hackathons will be the OLCF Hackathon which will be held on October 18 & 25-27. The deadline to apply is August 18.

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

  • Summit will be unavailable from 8:00 AM on Tuesday, June 8 until 8:00 AM on Thursday, June 10.