In This Message

Upcoming Downtimes
– Andes, HPSS and DTN (Nov 01 – Nov 03)
– Andes, Alpine, HPSS, Summit, and Jupyter (Nov 07)
Center Announcements
– OLCF Alpine filesystem will be decommissioned in 10 weeks.
– The annual OLCF User Survey is now available
– ALCC Pre-Proposals due Nov 13
Meetings & Workshops
– Vampir and Score-P Training (Nov 6, Nov 8)
Community Events
– Kokkos User Group Meeting 2023 (Dec 12-15)

Upcoming Downtimes

  • Andes, HPSS, and DTN will be unavailable from Nov 01, 7:00 AM to Nov 03, 5:00 PM. Slate, including Jupyter, will not have access to the GPU nodes during the Andes/DTN outage
  • Andes, Alpine, HPSS, Summit, and Jupyter will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, November 07.

Center Announcements

Alpine Filesystem Decommission in 10-Weeks (Dec 31)

The Alpine filesystem will be decommissioned in 10 weeks.  Data remaining on Alpine will be permanently deleted on January 01, 2024.  We strongly urge you to begin migrating any needed data now.

More details on the Alpine decommission timeline can be found at https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/2023_olcf_system_changes.html

The annual OLCF User Survey is now available

The annual OLCF User Survey is now open. The survey is conducted on behalf of the OLCF by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. We truly value your feedback and encourage all users to complete this important survey to help us know how to better serve our user community. The survey closes on November 20, 2023.

To take the survey, please visit https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/2023OLCFUserSurvey.aspx

ALCC Pre-Proposals due Nov. 13

The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to the DOE, with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff scientific campaigns enabled by HPC.  The ALCC is currently soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2024-2025 allocation year.  For more information please see: https://science.osti.gov/ascr/Facilities/Accessing-ASCR-Facilities/ALCC

Meetings & Workshops

Vampir and Score-P Training
Monday, November 6, 2023
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)

Vampir is an established performance tool for visualizing and analyzing the behavior of highly parallel HPC applications. It is supported by the Score-P tool, which can be used to fully record the runtime behavior of HPC applications. Especially when using several parallel programming paradigms or shared HPC resources (I/O), this offers a detailed insight into the application. This workshop introduces the use of Vampir and Score-P for the interactive and visual analysis of the runtime behavior of HPC applications. Day one will feature lessons and hands-on exercises. The second day will give users an opportunity to bring their own codes and instrument them for performance analysis with help from Score-P and Vampir developers. To take advantage of this you must have a code that is already compiled and working on Frontier.
For details and to register see: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/vampir-and-score-p-training/

Community Events

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2023
December 12-15, 2023

The Kokkos User Group Meeting  2023 will be held on the 12th through 15th of December 2023 in Albuqerque, NM. This meeting is an opportunity for the growing Kokkos community to come together to present progress in adopting Kokkos, exchange experiences, discuss challenges, and help set priorities for the future roadmap of Kokkos They are inviting submissions for 20-minute presentations and/or 5min lightning talks that focus on the following topic areas: Kokkos use-case,
For registration and more details visit https://kokkos.github.io/community/kug-2023.