In This Message

Center Announcements
  – Brief Globus Outage (Sep 18)
  – Summit High-Memory Nodes

Meetings & Workshops
  – CUDA Graphs Webinar (Oct 13)
  – Introduction to OpenMP GPU Offloading (Sep 22-23)
  – September OLCF User Conference Call (Sep 29)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – None through Sep 24

Center Announcements

Brief Globus Outage (Sep 18)
Due to planned maintenance at Globus, Globus Auth and Transfer services will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes beginning at 10:00 am US Central on Saturday, September 18, 2021. More details can be found at https://www.globus.org/blog/maintenance-downtime-database-upgrades-september-18-2021. If this maintenance window causes a significant problem for you, please contact support@globus.org as soon as possible.

Summit High-Memory Nodes
The high-memory nodes on Summit (accessible via the batch-hm queue) which were temporarily unavailable following the RHEL8 upgrade have been returned to service. For more information on the high-memory nodes & the batch-hm queue, see https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/summit_user_guide.html#batch-hm-queue-policy.

Meetings & Workshops

CUDA Graphs Webinar (Oct 13)
NVIDIA will present “CUDA Graphs” on Wednesday, October 13 from 1 PM to 3 PM (Eastern Time). This event is a continuation of the CUDA Training Series (https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/cuda-training-series/) and will be presented by Matt Stack from NVIDIA. This presentation will demonstrate how to use CUDA Graphs in an application and discuss in what circumstances an application speedup may be obtained using them, followed by hands-on exercises. For more information or to register, visit https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/cuda-graphs/.

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/.

September OLCF User Conference Call (Sep 29)
The September OLCF User Conference Call will be held at noon (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, September 29. During the call, OLCF’s Jamie Finney will provide an overview of OLCF’s User Managed Software (UMS) Program. Details of the call are available at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/userconcall-sep2021.

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

  • There are no outages scheduled through Friday, September 24.