Welcome to the latest edition of the SNIC training newsletter.

• Training aimed at new users of the SNIC infrastructure
• Online introduction seminar for the Vera cluster at C3SE, 14 September 2021, 13:00-15:00
• Online introduction seminar for the Alvis system at C3SE, 21 September 2021, 13:00-15:00
• Online training seminar: An introduction to the UNIX/LINUX command-line, 29 September at 13:30
• Online interactive support and discussion forum
• SNIC zoom-in - a virtual open-house: 23 September 2021 from 14:00 until 15:00
• Training events from ENCCS, recommended by SNIC
• ENCCS CUDA Workshop, 7 - 8 October 2021
• ENCCS & NSC Megatron Bootcamp, 25 - 27 October 2021
• ENCCS SYCL Workshop in collaboration with CSC and IZUM, 8 - 9 November 2021
• ENCCS/NVIDIA GPU Hackathon, 6th, 13 - 15 December 2021

Training aimed at new users of the SNIC infrastructure

Online introduction seminar for the Vera cluster at C3SE, 14 September 2021, 13:00-15:00

In this online event is intended for all new users providing a comprehensive overview on the Vera system and how to get started with using them. No registration required.

For more information and zoom link, see under "Current and upcoming events" on the C3SE home page.

Online introduction seminar for the Alvis system at C3SE, 21 September 2021, 13:00-15:00

In this online event will show you how to specifically use Alvis, the module system, containers and Jupyter notebooks. No registration required.

For more information and zoom link, see under "Current and upcoming events" on the C3SE home page.

Online training seminar: An introduction to the UNIX/LINUX command-line, 29 September at 13:30

This training seminar provides a first introduction to the UNIX/LINUX environment. It is aimed at new users of UNIX and will discuss UNIX skills required to work on a typical HPC cluster, such as provided by SNIC and LUNARC. Topics include manipulating files and directories, editing file contents and the development of simple scripts, such as required for job submission.

Time: 29 September at 13:30

For more information and registration, visit the Lunarc event page.

Online interactive support and discussion forum

SNIC zoom-in - a virtual open-house: 23 September 2021 from 14:00 until 15:00

You are invited to a virtual meeting room. Inside the meeting room we like to discuss services offered by the SNIC centres 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.

Next zoom-in session: 23 September from 14:00 until 15:00

For more information and details on access, please visit the LUNARC zoom-in page.

Training events from ENCCS, recommended by SNIC

ENCCS CUDA Workshop, 7 - 8 October 2021

These course materials are developed for those who wants to leark GPU programming with CUDA from the beginning. The course consists of lectures, type-along and hands-on sessions.

During the first day, we will cover the architecture of the GPU accelerators, basic usage of CUDA, and how to control data movement between CPUs and GPUs. The second day focuses on more advanced topics, such as how to optimize computational kernels for efficient execution on GPU hardware and how to explore the task-based parallelism using streams and events. We will also briefly go through profiling tools that can help one to identify the computational bottleneck of the applications.

For more inforation and registration, please visit the CUDA workshop page at ENCCS.

ENCCS & NSC Megatron Bootcamp, 25 - 27 October 2021

The ENCCS & NSC Megatron Bootcamp provides exciting opportunities for participants to train GPT models with NVIDIA Megatron-LM under the guidance of expert mentors from National Labs, Universities, and Industry leaders in a collaborative environment.

This 3-day Bootcamp is designed to give NLP researchers a step-wised overview of the fundamentals of NVIDIA Megatron-LM ( NVIDIA open-source framework for training very large language models). The event will have many hands-on exercises complemented by tutorials, code snippets, and presentations to help you kick-start training your GPT Megatron models for your own language.

For more inforation and registration, please visit the Megatron Bootcamp page at ENCCS.

ENCCS SYCL Workshop in collaboration with CSC and IZUM, 8 - 9 November 2021

SYCL is a C++ abstraction layer for programming heterogeneous hardware with a single-source approach. SYCL is high-level, cross-platform, and extends standard ISO C++17. You will learn to:

• Use the hipSYCL compiler to generate executable for multiple hardware targets
• Write hardware-agnostic code to express parallelism using the queue, command group, and kernel abstractions
• Use buffer and accessors to handle memory across devices
• Evaluate drawbacks and advantages of unified shared memory.

For more inforation and registration, please visit the SYCL workshop page at ENCCS.

ENCCS/NVIDIA GPU Hackathon: 6th, 13th - 15th December 2021

Together with NVIDIA and NSC, ENCCS orgnises GPU Hackathons to provide exciting opportunities for scientists to accelerate their AI research or HPC codes under the guidance of expert mentors from National Labs, Universities and Industry leaders in a collaborative environment. Teams of researchers are paired with experienced GPU mentors to learn and apply the accelerated and parallel computing skills needed by the scientific community. Both current or prospective users of large hybrid CPU/GPU HPC clusters who develop HPC and AI applications that could benefit from GPU acceleration are encouraged to participate!

The ENCCS hackathon will be designed for teams to work in productive sprint sessions with expert mentors for a full week. A wide variety of different projects are possible, for example:

• Accelerating applications written in common languages – C/C++, Fortran, Python
• Using OpenACC to gradually offload work to GPUs and incrementally improving the performance
• Identifying expensive kernels and porting them to CUDA
• Profiling already GPU accelerated applications to find hotspots for further acceleration

The event is supported by WASP and NSC through the access to BerzeLiUs system.

Please register at the ENCCS/NVIDIA GPU Hackathon page at ENCCS.

Training overview

SNIC training webpage

In addition to these news letters we also provide a SNIC training webpage.

This webpage currently gives an overview on all courses currently planned. 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.