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Center Announcements

Meetings & Workshops
  – OLCF User Conference Call (Feb 26)
  – NVIDIA Profiling Tools – Nsight Systems (Mar 9)
  – NVIDIA Profiling Tools – Nsight Compute (Mar 10)
  – Kokkos Bootcamp & Training (Apr 21-24)
  – GPU Hackathon Series

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – Summit, Rhea, DTNs, Alpine (Mar 10)
  – Home (Mar 18)

CENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS

OLCF USER CONFERENCE CALL (FEB 26)
The February OLCF User Conference Call will be held at noon (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, February 26. The training topic for this call is “OLCF Overview for New Users” led by OLCF’s Bill Renaud. Details of the call, including information on how to join, can be found on the event page.

NVIDIA PROFILING TOOLS – NSIGHT SYSTEMS (MAR 9)
On March 9, NVIDIA will present a webinar on how to use NVIDIA’s Nsight Systems – a statistical sampling profiler with tracing features – on Summit. Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute are NVIDIA’s next-generation profiling tools for understanding and optimizing the performance of CUDA, OpenACC, or OpenMP applications. NVIDIA recommends transitioning to these new tools since nvprof and Visual profiler will be deprecated in a future CUDA release. The presentation will be delivered remotely but there will be an in-person viewing of the webinar for participants with current ORNL badges. For more information or to register, please visit the event page.

NVIDIA PROFILING TOOLS – NSIGHT COMPUTE (MAR 10)
On March 10, NVIDIA will present a webinar on how to use NVIDIA’s Nsight Compute – a kernel-level analysis and performance metric tool – on Summit. Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute are NVIDIA’s next-generation profiling tools for understanding and optimizing the performance of CUDA, OpenACC, or OpenMP applications. NVIDIA recommends transitioning to these new tools since nvprof and Visual profiler will be deprecated in a future CUDA release. The presentation will be delivered remotely but there will be an in-person viewing of the webinar for participants with current ORNL badges. For more information or to register, please visit the event page.

KOKKOS BOOTCAMP & TRAINING (21-24 APR)
The OLCF will host a Kokkos training event organized by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) on April 21-24, 2020. This workshop is intended to teach new Kokkos users how to get started and to help existing Kokkos users to further improve their codes. The training will cover the minimum required topics to get your application started on using Kokkos, and Kokkos experts will be on hand to help the more advanced users. The deadline to apply is March 20, 2020. Please note that ECP application teams will be given priority for the available seats until March 6th. Afterward, all registrations will be given equal priority on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like more information, or to register, please visit the event page.

GPU HACKATHON SERIES
The following organizations, in conjunction with OLCF and NVIDIA, will be hosting GPU Hackathons as part of our annual GPU Hackathon Series. These hackathons are 5-day coding events in which teams of developers prepare their own application(s) to run on GPUs or focus on optimizing their application(s) that currently run on GPUs. Teams typically consist of three or more developers who are intimately familiar with (some part of) their application, and they work alongside two mentors with GPU programming expertise. These hackathons offer a unique opportunity for teams to set aside 5 days, surround themselves with experts in the field, and push toward their development goals. During the event, teams will have access to compute resources provided by OLCF. If you’re interested in more information, or to apply, you can visit the site-specific event pages below. If you have questions, please contact Tom Papatheodore.

San Diego Supercomputer Center
 – https://hpc-training.sdsc.edu/gpuhackathon/
 – Event Dates: May 11-15, 2020
 – Deadline to apply: March 11, 2020

Princeton University
 – https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/events/gpu-hackathon-princeton
 – Event Dates: June 8-12, 2020
 – Deadline to apply: March 2, 2020

NERSC
 – https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/nersc-gpuhackathon
 – Event Dates: July 13-17, 2020
 – Deadline to apply: March 11, 2020

UPCOMING SCHEDULED OUTAGES

Summit, Rhea, the Data Transfer Nodes, and the Alpine filesystem will
be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 11:59 PM on Tuesday, March 10.

The general-purpose login server (home.ccs.ornl.gov) will be rebooted
between 6 PM and 9 PM on Wednesday, March 18. This will be a very
brief outage.