Weekly Update, October 26, 2016
2016 OLCF USER SURVEY (NOW AVAILABLE)
The 2016 OLCF User Survey is now open. We truly value your
feedback and encourage all users to complete this important survey.
To take the survey, please visit
https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/OLCFUserSurvey.aspx.
#TitanWeek AN OPPORTUNITY FOR USERS TO PROMOTE RESEARCH
To recognize Titan’s 4 years of operation, the OLCF is staging
#TitanWeek on social media the week of Monday, Oct. 24. Users are
encouraged to participate by posting a message, photo, or short
video to Twitter or Facebook the week of the campaign. This is a
great opportunity for users to promote research conducted on Titan
to a broad audience. More details can be found at
https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2016/09/28/titanweek-to-celebrate-titan-supercomputers-4th-birthday/
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PASC17 CONFERENCE
The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is inviting
submissions for the PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC, which will
be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland, from
June 26 to 28, 2017. The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary
event in high performance computing that brings together domain
science, applied mathematics and computer science – where computer
science is focused on enabling the realization of scientific
computation. The PASC17 papers program is soliciting high-quality
contributions of original research relating to high performance
computing in eight domain-specific tracks: Chemistry and Materials,
Climate and Weather, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
Emerging Domains in HPC, Engineering, Life Sciences, Physics, and
Solid Earth Dynamics. For more information, visit
http://www.pasc17.org/submission/guidelines-for-papers/
*** MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS ***
OLCF USER CONFERENCE CALL (OCT 26)
The October OLCF User Conference Call will be held at noon
(Eastern Time) on Wednesday, October 26. This call will feature
a user experience talk from Dr. Peter Vincent entitled “PyFR on
Titan”. Details of the call, including information on how to join,
can be found at:
https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/training-event/2016-olcf-users-conference-call/
OPENACC WEBINAR FROM NVIDIA (OCT 26, NOV 2, and NOV 9)
NVIDIA will host an online Introduction to OpenACC
course consisting of three sessions, each featuring a
one hour lecture followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. The
course will provide an introduction to using OpenACC on
GPUs and CPUs. For more information or to register,
please visit
https://developer.nvidia.com/intro-to-openacc-course-2016
*** SCHEDULED OUTAGES THROUGH NOV 4 ***
HPSS will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until noon on
Tuesday, November 1.