Center Announcements
  – User Assistance Center Schedule
  – Exascale Computing Project Community BOF Days (Mar 30-Apr 1)

Meetings & Workshops
  – OLCF User Conference Call
  – HPCToolkit Training (Mar 29 & Apr 2)
  – 2021 GPU Hackathons

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – None through Apr 2

Center Announcements

User Assistance Center Schedule
The User Assistance Center will be closed on Friday, April 2 due to an ORNL-observed holiday. The normal support schedule will resume on Monday, April 5. The ORNL Computer Operations Staff will remain available for limited troubleshooting 24 hours a day.

Exascale Computing Project Community BOF Days (Mar 30-Apr 1)
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is hosting Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days from March 30 – April 1. These community BOFs will provide an opportunity for the HPC community to engage with ECP teams to discuss their latest development efforts. Each of the 13 BOFs will be a 90-minute session, with a brief overview followed by Q&A. For more information please visit https://www.exascaleproject.org/event/ecp-community-bof-days-2021/.

Meetings & Workshops

OLCF User Conference Call (Mar 31)
The March call is scheduled for Wednesday, March 31 and will include an overview of the NVIDIA RAPIDS ecosystem. Details of that call will be available at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/userconcall-mar2021/.

HPCToolkit Training (Mar 29 & Apr 2)
The developers of HPCToolkit from Rice University will present a 2-part training series for NERSC and OLCF users about using HPCToolkit to measure and analyze the performance of GPU-accelerated applications. The training will be from 1-3 PM (Eastern Time) on March 29 and April 2. See https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/hpctoolkit to register.

2021 GPU Hackathons
The 2021 NVIDIA GPU Hackathon series is now open. Events that will be supported by the OLCF (computing resources, mentors, etc.) are marked with the OLCF logo at https://www.gpuhackathons.org/events. The next two OLCF-supported (virtual) hackathons will be:

  – NERSC on July 19, 26-28 (deadline to apply is May 19)
  – OLCF on October 18, 25-27 (deadline to apply is August 18)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

There are no outages scheduled through Friday, April 2.