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Meetings & Workshops
  – OLCF User Conference Call: New User Training (Feb 23)
  – An Introduction to Programming with SYCL (Mar 1)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – Summit, Andes, DTNs, Spock, Alpine (Feb 15)

Meetings & Workshops

February OLCF User Conference Call: New User Training (Feb23)
The February OLCF User Conference Call will be held from noon until 1:30 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, February 23. During this call, we will present New User Training. This training will provide tips to more effectively utilize OLCF resources and is intended both for new and existing users of the center. A hands-on session will follow the presentation that covers how to login and run jobs on Summit. To help you get started, we will also cover the New User Quick Start Guide, available here. As with all our user conference calls no registration is required. For the agenda, see the event page.

An Introduction to Programming with SYCL (Mar 1)
NERSC will host an introduction to SYCL given by Codeplay from noon until 4:00 PM (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, March 1. ALCF and OLCF users are invited to join. This training will feature half day hands-on workshop that will walk through the fundamentals of SYCL programming using practical examples and exercises. 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. OLCF users will need to request a NERSC training account. To resister see the event page.

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

  • The Data Transfer Nodes will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM on Tuesday, February 8. This outage will affect direct logins to dtn.ccs.ornl.gov, hsi commands from Summit and Andes login nodes, and Globus transfers using the “OLCF HPSS” endpoint.
  • Summit, Andes, the Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs), Spock, and the Alpine Filesystem will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 11:59 PM on Tuesday, February 15.