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Center Announcements
  – 2021 OLCF User Survey

Meetings & Workshops
  – OLCF User Conference Call (Oct 27)
  – Deep Learning at Scale (Oct 28)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – Summit, Andes, DTNs, Alpine Filesystem (Nov 9)

Center Announcements

2021 OLCF User Survey
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 15, 2021.

To take the survey, please visit https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/2021OLCFUserSurvey.aspx.

Meetings & Workshops

OLCF User Conference Call (Oct 27)
The October OLCF User Conference Call will be held at noon (Eastern Time) today (Wednesday, October 27). During the call, OLCF’s Chris Zimmer will present Common Uses of Node-Local Storage on Summit and Some Tools to Help. Details of the call are available at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/userconcall-oct2021.

Deep Learning at Scale (Oct 28)
OLCF will present Deep Learning at Scale from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Time) on Thursday, October 28. In this tutorial, an overview of deep learning communication libraries will be given. Discussions will cover the practice and performance of distributed deep learning on Summit. A hands-on session will cover examples of parallelizing serial training codes, and profiling and optimizing the performance. Participants must have an account on Summit to participate in the hands-on part of the tutorial. For more information or to register, please visit https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/deep-learning-at-scale/.

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

  • Summit, Andes, the Data Transfer Nodes, and the Alpine Filesystem will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 11:59 PM on Tuesday, November 9.