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Wednesday 15th July 2020

  • Cirrus Phase II - using the new Cirrus system webinar
  • HPC Certification webinar
  • 34th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop
  • Other upcoming ARCHER training

Cirrus Phase II - using the new Cirrus system

Wednesday 15th July 2020 15:00 - 16:00 BST

Kevin Stratford EPCC

Cirrus is a UK Tier 2 service funded by EPSRC and is aimed at users with computational requirements that fall between University-level resources, and the National Service Archer.

An upgraded Cirrus system was returned to service in June with a number of significant changes. The Cirrus service consists of

  • 280 standard compute nodes each with Intel Xeon (Broadwell) 36 cores 256 GB
  • 36 new GPU nodes each housing 4 NVIDIA V100s

This talk will give an overview of the important features of the new system, including

  • How to get access to Cirrus
  • Logging in and the user environment
  • Submitting jobs using the Slurm scheduling system and queue policy
  • Using the GPU nodes

and will be of interest to both new users and existing users wanting to refresh their knowledge of the system.

This online session is open to all. It will use the Blackboard Collaborate platform.

Full details and join link : https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

HPC Certification webinar

Wednesday 22nd July 2020 15:00 - 16:00 BST

Julian Kunkel, University of Reading

The HPC community has always considered the training of new and existing HPC practitioners to be of high importance to its growth. The significance of training will increase even further in the era of Exascale when HPC encompasses even more scientific disciplines. This diversification of HPC practitioners challenges the traditional training approaches, which are not able to satisfy the specific needs of users, often coming from non-traditionally HPC disciplines and only interested in learning a particular set of skills. HPC centres are struggling to identify and overcome the gaps in users' knowledge.

How should we support prospective and existing users who are not aware of their own knowledge gaps?

The goals of the HPC Certification Forum are:

  • Standardizing the HPC knowledge representation into fine-grained competences
  • Establishing international recognized certificates attesting knowledge
  • Supporting an ecosystem around the HPC competences

This talk introduces the HPC Certification Forum and gives an overview of its activities and status.

This online session is open to all.

Join link and full details : https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/courses/200624-openfoam-io/

34th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop

28 - 30 July 2020

This workshop is organised by VI-HPS for the ARCHER2 service and the UK PRACE Advanced Training Centre to:

  • give an overview of the VI-HPS programming tools suite
  • explain the functionality of individual tools, and how to use them effectively
  • offer hands-on experience and expert assistance using the tools

On completion participants should be familiar with common performance analysis and diagnosis techniques and how they can be employed in practice (on a range of HPC systems).

Presentations and hands-on sessions are on the following topics:

  • Paraver/Dimemas (BSC)
  • TAU (UOregon)
  • Score-P/Scalasca/Cube (JSC)
  • MAQAO (UVSQ)
  • ARM Forge (ARM)

A brief overview of the capabilities of these and associated tools is provided in the VI-HPS Tools Guide.

Further details and registration: https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

Other upcoming ARCHER2 Training

  • Cirrus Phase II - using the new Cirrus system, Online, Wednesday 15th July 2020 15:00 - 16:00 BST
  • HPC Certification, Online, Wednesday 22nd July 2020 15:00 - 16:00 BST
  • 34th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop, Online, 28-30 July 2020 09:00-17:00
  • ARCHER2 for software package users, Online, Date to be confirmed
  • Introduction to ARCHER2 for software developers, Online, Date to be confirmed

Further details https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

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