The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has resumed the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which began in 2016.

As part of this series, we offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. The next webinar is titled Testing: Strategies When Learning Programming Models and Using High-Performance Libraries, and will be presented by Balint Joo (Jefferson Lab). The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET.

Abstract:

Software testing is an invaluable practice, albeit the level of testing in scientific applications can vary widely, from no testing at all to full continuous integration (as discussed in earlier webinars of the HPC-BP series). In this webinar I will consider a specific case: the use of unit-testing when developing a mini-app as an approach to learn about new programming models such as Kokkos and SYCL, or when using (or contributing to) high-performance libraries. I will illustrate with an example from Lattice QCD, focusing on the integration of the QUDA optimized library with the Chroma application. The webinar will focus on lessons learned and generally applicable strategies.