The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.
The ALCF is accelerating scientific discoveries in many disciplines, ranging from chemistry and engineering to physics and materials science.
The ALCF is committed to providing training and outreach opportunities that prepare researchers to efficiently use its leadership computing systems, while also cultivating a diverse and skilled HPC workforce for the future.
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.
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Access archived presentations and other materials from past ALCF training events below.
Type Slides Published 02/24/2021
Type Slides Published 01/27/2021
Type Video Topic Applications and Libraries System Theta System Sophia Published 01/27/2021
For this installment of the ALCF Developer Sessions webinar series, we'll cover the NVIDIA HPC SDK, a comprehensive, integrated suite of compilers, libraries, and tools for ThetaGPU and other NVIDIA...
Type Slides Published 12/16/2020
Type Video Topic Data Science System Theta System Sophia Published 10/28/2020
Jupyter Notebook is a browser-based tool that has gained a lot of popularity thanks to its support for a variety of workflows and languages. From basic interactive computing to complex data analysis...
Type Video Topic Getting Started Topic Compiling and Linking System Aurora | Sunspot Published 09/30/2020
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 09/30/2020
The presentation begins with a brief overview of the functionality available in oneMKL, the different programming models it supports for CPU- and GPU-based computation (DPC++ and OpenMP offload), and...
Type Slides System Theta Published 08/25/2020
In this talk, we will give a brief introduction to the data analysis and visualization tools available at the ALCF as well as commonly used data formats. We will present examples of scientific...
Type Slides Topic Applications and Libraries Published 08/04/2020
Spack is a package manager that enables and automates the deployment of multiple versions of a software package to a single installation, including builds for different microprocessor architectures...
Type Video Topic Programming Models Topic Performance Tools System Aurora | Sunspot Published 06/24/2020
This talk presents the key capabilities of the C/C++/Fortran compilers in oneAPI, especially those to exploit the Intel Xe GPUs to be in Aurora, the ALCF's forthcoming exascale system.
Type Video Published 05/27/2020
UPC++ is a C++ library providing classes and functions that support Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming. The UPC++ API offers low-overhead one-sided RMA communication and Remote...
Type Slides Published 05/27/2020
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 05/07/2020
This talk provides an overview of software and hardware architecture of Argonne's upcoming exascale machine, Aurora.
Type Slides Topic Data Science System Theta Published 05/07/2020
This talk describes how Balsam can be used to manage a project consisting of high-throughput application runs and workflows. After following the command line tutorial in the second half of the talk...
Type Slides System Cooley Published 05/07/2020
Type Slides Topic Performance Tools System Theta Published 05/07/2020
This talk will provide an overview of the TAU Performance System. TAU is a mature performance evaluation tool that supports both profiling and tracing for applications written in C++, C, Fortran, and...
Type Slides Published 05/07/2020
This is an introduction to Intel VTune Profiler and Intel Advisor performance tools and their use on the Theta XC40 system. There is also a brief overview of profiling Python applications.
