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Training in GPU acceleration:

Application specific training:

Training aimed at new users of the SNIC infrastructure:

Online interactive support and discussion forum:

• LUNARC zoom-in - a virtual open-house: 21st September 2020 from 14:00 until 15:00

Training overview:

• SNIC training webpage

HPC2N ONLINE course, "Heterogeneous computing with performance modelling", on 4-5 November 2020

Modern high core count CPUs and accelerators, such as GPUs, have been shown to provide significant performance benefits in many different applications. However, for a novice, or even for a moderately experienced scientist or programmer, it is not always clear which applications could potentially benefit from these resources and which do not. For example, a Nvidia V100 GPU can perform artificial intelligence (AI) related computations in a fraction of the time it takes a regular CPU to perform the same computations but ill-informed OpenACC compiler pragmas can actually make a code run slower. Why is this? When should one invest time in parallelisation and/or GPU-acceleration? How much speedup can be expected with a given application? The main goal of this two-day online course is to start answering these questions. The course also covers the basics of GPU programming and aims to provide the necessary information for avoiding the most common pitfalls.

There will be a hands-on part of the course, where the participants get the opportunity to try and run some examples on the Kebnekaise system.

The course if free to anyone in Swedish academia.  The course lasts two days and is given through Zoom.

November 4th and 5th, 2020, 09:00-17:00 each day.

For more information and registration, see: https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/events/courses/2020/heterogeneous-computing-fall

Online PRACE/SNIC workshop: "VASP Best Practices Workshop", Linköping, 19-20 October 2020

In this online workshop, including seminars and hands-on sessions, we will consider how to run the Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP) efficiently on supercomputers. The workshop is mostly suitable for beginners and the focus will be on best practices for running VASP calculations. The hands-on part will be done at the Tetralith cluster, NSC, LiU. Parts of the presentations (to be made available for download) can also be of interest for advanced users.

Time: Monday 19th October 10:00 - 17:00 and Tuesday 20th October 10:00 - 17:00

For more information and registration, see https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/1066/

Materials for the workshop will be available from https://www.nsc.liu.se/support/Events/VASP_workshop_2020/

Online training event: “C3SE Introductory Seminar” in Gothenburg, 9 October 2020, 15:15

C3SE introductory seminar describing know-hows for working with our systems. This online event is intended for all new users providing a comprehensive overview on our systems and how to get started with using them. 

For more information and registration see: https://www.c3se.chalmers.se/

The training will also be repeated on: 6 November and 4 December 2020

Online interactive support and discussion forum:

LUNARC zoom-in - a virtual open-house: 21st September 2020 from 14:00 until 15:00

LUNARC invites you to a virtual meeting room.  Inside the meeting room we like to discuss LUNARC and SNIC services and how they can be used for your computational needs, help you process your data and visualise your results.  Participants are highly encouraged to pose their own questions. 

Time: 21st September 2020 from 14:00 until 15:00

For more information and details on access, please visit: http://www.lunarc.lu.se/support/lunarc-zoom-in/

Training overview:

SNIC training webpage

In addition to these news letters we also provide a SNIC training webpage: http://docs.snic.se/wiki/Training 

This webpage currently gives an overview on all courses currently planed.  It provides links to more information and the actual registration.  The webpage also includes training which is expected to be mostly of interest to individual SNIC centres.  Information will be added to this page as it becomes available.