Welcome to the latest edition of the SNIC training newsletter.

• Training aimed at new users of the SNIC infrastructure
  • Last minute reminder: online training course: "Introduction to Kebnekaise" Umeå, 8th September 2021
• Training events from ENCCS, recommended by SNIC
  • 3rd LUMI/EuroHPC JU Systems Roadshow 8th - 9th September 2021
  • ENCCS/NVIDIA GPU Hackathon: 6th, 13th - 15th December 2021

Training aimed at new users of the SNIC infrastructure

Last minute reminder: online training course: "Introduction to Kebnekaise" Umeå, 8 September 2021

HPC2N is offering an introduction course to HPC and our systems. The course will be ONLINE.

We begin with a short (optional) introduction to Linux, then continue with an introduction to HPC and a walk-through of Kebnekaise, including the GPUs and the KNLs. In the afternoon we look at the module system and loading the software you need, and how to submit jobs through the batch system.

There will be a hands-on part of the course, where the participants get the opportunity to load modules, compile programs, and submit jobs to the Kebnekaise system.

Deadline for signing up: 2021-08-31

Date and time: 2021-09-08, 9:00-17:00

For more information and registration, see the course page at HPC2N.

Training events from ENCCS, recommended by SNIC

3rd LUMI/EuroHPC JU Systems Roadshow 8 - 9 September 2021

ENCCS organises the 3rd LUMI and other EuroHPC JU systems roadshow. Similar to the past events we will update you about the LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure) and the other six pan-European (pre)exa-scale supercomputers. In addition we will detail on newly accepted access policies valid for all the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) systems and their usage. We will then continue to present you possibilities of further support towards these systems both as applicants from academia as well as from industry and the public sector.

Focus will be given to the porting of popular software to LUMI.

For more information and registration, see the LUMI/EuroHPC JU Systems Roadshow page at ENCCS.

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

Together with NVIDIA and NSC, ENCCS organises 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.