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Meetings & Workshops
  – 2021 CUDA Training Series (Sep 14 & Oct 13)
  – Facility Testing of E4S via E4S Testsuite, Spack Test, and Buildtest (Sep 14)
  – HPC Best Practices Webinar (Sep 15)
  – Introduction to OpenMP GPU Offloading (Sep 22-23)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – All OLCF Systems (Sep 14)

Meetings & Workshops

2021 CUDA Training Series (Sep 14 & Oct 13)
NVIDIA will continue their CUDA Training Series with the webinars listed below. Each webinar will include a presentation and hands-on exercises. Webinars will be held from 1 PM to 3 PM (Eastern Time). More information about these sessions and recordings of previous sessions can be found at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/cuda-training-series/.

  – CUDA Debugging (Tuesday, September 14) Register here
  – CUDA Graphs (Wednesday, October 13) Register here

Facility Testing of E4S via E4S Testsuite, Spack Test, and Buildtest (Sep 14)
The presentation will provide a brief overview of buildtest commands and how to write tests in buildspecs, followed by a demo. The presentation will include an overview of Cori testsuite, which is a repository that contains sanity test for the Cori system including E4S tests using E4S Testsuite. Gitlab is used to help automate execution of tests which are pushed to CDASH for post-processing. The presentation will end with a summary of E4S tests that are run on Cori, as well as current challenges.

For more information or to register, visit https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/facility-testing-of-e4s-via-e4s-testsuite-spack-test-and-buildtest/.

HPC Best Practices Webinar (Sep 15)
The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) run a webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers. The September webinar will be presented by Wolfgang Bangerth and is titled What I Learned from 20 Years of Leading Open Source Projects. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 2:00 pm ET. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required and is available at https://exascaleproject.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsd-qprjgpEv1GMg5MlnUUhVIJir2ocas.

Introduction to OpenMP GPU Offloading (Sep 22-23)
On September 22-23 from 1-3:30 PM (ET), OLCF and NERSC will offer a (virtual) Introduction to OpenMP GPU Offloading. This training is meant for OLCF and NERSC users who are already familiar with the basic ideas of GPU programming but who want to learn about the core GPU offloading capabilities of OpenMP.

For details and registration please see https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/introduction-to-openmp-gpu-offloading/.

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

  • All OLCF systems will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 11:59 PM on Tuesday, September 14.