Winter Classic Hands-On with Summit

Winter Classic Hands-On with Summit
March 15, 2022
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (ET)
Deadline to apply: March 14, 2022

In support of the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) will hold a hands-on training with the Summit supercomputer. Participants  will learn about the Summit architecture, learn how research teams write programs for and run workloads on Summit, and get to work through fun small challenge problems on their own on the Ascent training system (basically 1 cabinet of Summit).

Prerequisites

• Laptop/desktop with ssh client (to log in to remote system)
• Basic familiarity with UNIX/Linux (e.g., to navigate the file system)
• Familiarity with a command line text editor (e.g., vim, emacs, nano)

Review

If you want to review Unix, Vim, C programming or Python programming  here are a set of videos and DIY exercises to help you prepare. This review is not required.

• Git repo with exercise and slides for each: https://github.com/olcf/foundational_hpc_skills.git

Accompanying Videos

• Introduction to Unix/Linux : https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/678379526
• Introduction to Vim: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/683027889
• Introduction to C Programming: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/678368119
• Introduction to Python: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/683037584

If you would like to participate, please register below by March 14, 2020. You will use the same Ascent accounts that you have already applied for to use for the Winter Classic.

If you have any questions, please contact Suzanne Parete-Koon (paretekoonst@ornl.gov)