The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.
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Access archived presentations and other materials from past ALCF training events below.
Type Video System Aurora Published 01/26/2022
In this webinar, we will cover three main topics to help researchers get started with ThetaGPU: (1) compiling and running, (2) profiling and performance analysis, and (3) AI and frameworks.Topic 1...
Type Slides System Aurora Published 01/12/2022
In this session, we will introduce you to Data Parallel C++ and the importance of performance, portability, and productivity for HPC development. We will set up a Jupyter Lab environment for training...
Type Video System Aurora Published 01/12/2022
In this session, we will introduce you to Data Parallel C++ and the importance of performance, portability, and productivity for HPC development. We will set up a Jupyter Lab environment for...
Type Video System Aurora Published 12/17/2021
The Intel oneAPI DPC++ Library (oneDPL) is a C++ library for creating heterogeneous applications and solutions. It provides high-productivity, portable standard-based APIs implemented on top of perfor...
Type Slides System Theta System ThetaGPU Published 10/07/2021
Ray Loy discusses the next steps following the SDL Workshop.
ALCF's Sid Raskar provides an overview of Argonne's AI testbeds.
Riccardo Balin and Filippo Simini discuss Online Learning with SmartSim.
Type Slides Topic Data Science System Theta System ThetaGPU Published 10/07/2021
ALCF's Bethany Lusch and Riccardo Balin lead a session on integrating AI and simulations.
Katherine Riley discusses Applying for ALCF Allocation Programs.
ALCF's Romain Egele and Prasanna Balaprakash discuss Neural Architecture Search (NAS) and Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) with DeepHyper.
Type Slides System Theta System ThetaGPU Published 10/06/2021
ALCF's Denis Boyda and Murali Emani discuss Profiling Deep Learning.
Romain Egele, Prasanna Balaprakash, Misha Salim, and Sam Foreman discuss Distributing Hyperparameter Search (HPS) with DeepHyper.
Type Slides System Theta System ThetaGPU Published 10/05/2021
Zhen Xie discusses deploying and testing DeepSpeed on ThetaGPU.
Introduction to ALCF Simulation, Data, and Learning Workshop.
Type Video Published 10/05/2021
Type Slides Published 09/29/2021
In this session, we will present an OpenACC to OpenMP migration tool that can be used to prepare applications for ALCF’s upcoming Aurora supercomputer. OpenACC and OpenMP are two language programming...
Type Slides System Aurora Published 08/26/2021
This session will present the use of NsightCompute for analyzing the performance of individual GPU kernels on NVIDIA GPUs. We will walk through some simple compute kernels which are compute-bound and...
Type Slides Published 07/28/2021
The NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU, which powers the ALCF's ThetaGPU system and NERSC's Perlmutter system, builds on the excellent performance of the NVIDIA V100 GPU and includes several new features for both...
Type Slides System Aurora Published 07/28/2021
The NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU builds on the excellent performance of the NVIDIA V100 GPU and includes several new features for both HPC and deep learning. Particularly, tensor cores have been improved...
Type Slides System Theta System ThetaGPU Published 05/21/2021