Weekly Update: May 9, 2018
IN THIS MESSAGE
- Center Announcements
- 2019 INCITE Call for Proposals
- 2019 INCITE Call for Proposals Webinar
- OLCF User Group Executive Board Election
- Meetings & Workshops
- No OLCF User Conference Call in May
- Introduction to Summit Webinar (Jun 1)
- Intro to HPC Workshop (Jun 26-28)
- Performance Portability with Kokkos (Jul 24-27)
- Scheduled Outages Through May 18 (none)
CENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS
2019 INCITE CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The INCITE program is now accepting proposals of computer time on Summit and Titan through June 22, 2018 for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. For more information or to submit a proposal, visit https://proposals.doeleadershipcomputing.org.
2019 INCITE CALL FOR PROPOSALS WEBINAR
To help you prepare your INCITE proposal for submission, the INCITE program is offering an instructional webinar June 7. To register, visit visit the event page.
OLCF USER GROUP EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION
The election to select 3 individuals to replace outgoing members of the OLCF User Group (OUG) Executive Board will be held during the OLCF User Meeting next week. The election will open at 8:00 AM (Eastern Time) on Monday, May 14 and will remain open until 9:00 AM (Eastern Time) on Thursday, May 17. Information on the candidates is available at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/05/09/new-oug-executive-board-members-to-be-elected-at-user-meeting/. The ballot will be distributed to users via email. You will be able to vote for 3 of the candidates.
MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS
NO OLCF USER CONFERENCE CALL IN MAY
The OLCF User Meeting will take the place of our May OLCF User Conference Call. The June Conference Call is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20. Watch for more information in future Weekly Update messages.
INTRODUCTION TO SUMMIT WEBINAR (JUN 1)
The OLCF will present an Introduction to Summit webinar from 1:00 PM until 4:30 PM (Eastern Time) on Friday, June 1. In this webinar, we will cover the basic topics new users will need to get up and running on Summit. We will give a broad overview of available features and the details necessary to submit and run jobs. For more information, please see the event page.
INTRO TO HPC WORKSHOP (JUN 26-28)
The OLCF will host an Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) workshop on June 26-28, 2018. This training will start by covering basic skills, such as UNIX, vim text editor, and C/Fortran programming, which will be necessary for the topics to follow. We will then move on to cover basic parallel programming (using MPI and OpenMP) and GPU computing (CUDA and OpenACC). Hands-on sessions will be included with many of the topics to give participants the opportunity to practice new skills. For more information about this event or to register, visit the event page on the OLCF website.
PERFORMANCE PORTABILITY WITH KOKKOS (JUL 24-27)
The OLCF will host an on-site Kokkos training event organized by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) on July 24-27, 2018. This training will cover the minimum required topics to get your application started on using Kokkos. Please see the event page for more details.
SCHEDULED OUTAGES THROUGH MAY 18
There are no outages scheduled through May 18.