Training and Events

From hands-on workshops to interactive webinars, we host a variety of events designed to educate our users on the tools, systems, and frameworks that are available to accelerate their scientific computing projects.

Training

ALCF Training Events

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Getting Started on Aurora and Polaris Bootcamp Videos

Bootcamp
Watch this bootcamp for an introduction to using Aurora, Argonne's exascale machine, and Polaris. The videos cover hardware overview, best practices for running, compiling (env variables, like JIT, check pointing), AI frameworks, setting up Python, and a Q&A portion.
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Training Videos for Cerebras CS-2 system

AI Testbed Training
These training videos introduce the Cerebras CS-2 system and how to get started at the ALCF.
Cerebras training

Training Videos for Graphcore IPU Bow 64

AI Testbed Training
These training videos introduce the Graphcore IPU Bow 64 system and how to get started at the ALCF.
graphcore training

Training Videos for Groq

AI Testbed Training
These training videos introduce the GroqRoq system architecture and how to get started using the system at the ALCF.
Groq training

Training Videos for SambaNova

AI Testbed Training
These training videos introduce the SambaNova DataScale SN30 system architecture and how to get started using the system at the ALCF.
SambaNova ALCF AI Testbed Training

ALCF Developer Sessions

This monthly series is aimed at increasing the dialogue between ALCF users and the developers of leadership-class systems and software.
ALCF Dev Sessions

ATPESC

ATPESC provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems and the leadership-class computing systems of the future.
ATPESC

Videos: Getting Started on Polaris

This set of videos will help you get started using our Polaris supercomputer.
Getting Started on Polaris
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07/24/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Hybrid
Bldg. 240, TCS Conference Room 1404 & 1405

Type Seminar

Type-Safe Functional Programming for Data Science

  • Dr. George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University Chicago
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07/22/2025, 1 – 2pm CT

Hybrid
Bldg. 240/4301 & Zoom

Type Seminar

Generalizing the Scaling Laws for Dense and Sparse Large Language Models

  • Md Arafat Hossain, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Iowa State University
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07/17/2025, 11am – 1pm CT

Virtual

Type Bootcamp

Getting Started on Aurora and Polaris Bootcamp

  • Marieme Ngom, ALCF
  • Solomon Bekele, ANL
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07/17/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Hybrid
Building 240 Room 4301

Type Seminar

Who are They and What are They Doing? Evidence of Bird Responses to Solar Farms Using Video Recordings and Machine Learning Model

  • Yuki Hamada, Biophysical Scientist, Remote Sensing
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07/10/2025, 2:30 – 3:30pm CT

Hybrid
Bldg. 240, Conference Room 4301

Type Seminar

Heavy-Tailed Large Deviations and Sharp Characterization of Global Dynamics of SGDs in Deep Learning

  • Chang-Han Rhee, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
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07/10/2025, 2 – 3pm CT

Virtual

Type Seminar

Towards Energy-Efficiency for Heterogeneous Systems

  • Dipayan Mukherjee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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06/25/2025, 11am – 12pm CT

Virtual

Type Webinar

Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) on Aurora

  • Johann Lombardi, HPE
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06/19/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Hybrid
Building 240 Room 4301

Type Seminar

Who are They and What are They Doing? Evidence of Bird Responses to Solar Farms Using Video Recordings and Machine Learning Model

  • Yuki Hamada, Biophysical Scientist, Remote Sensing
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06/18/2025, 2 – 3pm CT

Hybrid
Building 240 Room 4301

Type Seminar

Leveraging AI and Edge Computing for Improving Atmospheric Data Collection and Processing

  • Bobby Jackson, Atmospheric Scientist
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06/17/2025, 1 – 2pm CT

Hybrid
Bldg. 240, Room 4301

Type Seminar

Pushing the Frontiers of Computing through Co-Design

  • Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp, Argonne National Laboratory
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06/17/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Virtual

Type Seminar

Declarative Analytics on Heterogeneous Exascale Systems

  • Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, University of Chicago Illinois
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06/12/2025, 11:15am – 12:15pm CT

Hybrid
Bldg. #446 Auditorium

Type Seminar

Chromosomal Gene Amplification in a Soil Bacterium, Acinetobacter Baylyi ADP1: Understanding, Altering, and Predicting Metabolism

  • Dr. Ellen L. Neidle, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
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06/12/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Hybrid
Building 240 Room 4301

Type Seminar

Using Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) to Track Pathogens in Illinois

  • Sarah Owens, Sequencing Laboratory Manager
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06/05/2025, 2:30 – 3:30pm CT

Hybrid
Bldg. 240, Conference Room 4301

Type Seminar

Scientific Machine Learning for Modeling and Understanding Complex Systems

  • Peter Y. Lu, Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
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06/04/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Virtual

Type Webinar

Practical Software Citation for Research Software Developers, Maintainers and Users

  • Stephan Druskat, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Software Technology
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06/04/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Hybrid
Bldg. 240, TCS Conference Room 1404 & 1405

Type Seminar

Designing and Defending AI-Driven Systems: From Semantic Requirements to Predictive Cybersecurity

  • Dr. Mona Rahimi, Northern Illinois University
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06/03/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Hybrid
Building 240 Room 4301

Type Seminar

Investigations of Cloud properties over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean and the Amazon Rainforest

  • Sid Gupta, Atmospheric Scientist Data Analyst
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05/28/2025, 11am – 12pm CT

Virtual

Type Webinar

Accelerating AI Training and Inference for Science on Aurora: Frameworks, Tools, and Best Practices

may dev session

05/20 – 22/2025 CT

Argonne National Laboratory
Building 240

Type Hackathon/Dungeon
Level Intermediate
Level Advanced

ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon

  • ALCF Staff Experts
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05/13/2025, 10 – 11am CT

Virtual

Type Seminar

Intelligent Job Scheduling on HPC Systems

  • Yuping Fan, Ph.D., llinois Institute of Technology
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