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SNIC Training News Letter

No 132, 3 June 2021

– Published 3 June 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of the SNIC training newsletter. In this newsletter we newly advertise the PCC Summer School in HPC, the next SNIC zoom in and ENCCS’ OpenACC/CUDA workshop

  • Summer School in HPC
    • PDC Summer School 2021: Introduction to High Performance Computing, 23 August - 3 September 2021
  • Online interactive support and discussion forum
    • SNIC zoom-in - a virtual open-house: 24 June, 2021 from 14:00 until 15:00
  • Training events from ENCCS, recommended by SNIC
    • ENCCS Workshop on Intermediate OpenACC/CUDA, 28-29 June, 9:00-12:30

Summer School in HPC

PDC Summer School 2021: Introduction to High Performance Computing, 23 August - 3 September 2021

The PDC Center for High Performance Computing (PDC) and the KTH School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) welcome you to our "Introduction to High Performance Computing" summer school.

Interested students and researchers (with academic or industrial/commercial backgrounds) from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply to attend the course.

This course provides the skills needed to utilize high-performance computing (HPC) resources, and includes an introduction to a range of important topics, such as:

  • Parallel algorithms,
  • Parallel programming,
  • Modern HPC architectures,
  • Performance analysis and engineering, and
  • Software engineering.

More information about the school, including a link to the application form, is available on the 2021 PDC Summer School webpage

The closing date for applications is 30 June.

Online interactive support and discussion forum

SNIC zoom-in - a virtual open-house: 24 June, 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: 24 June from 14:00 until 15:00 through the zoom-in session link

Please use the zoom-in Google document for asking questions during the event.

Training events from ENCCS, recommended by SNIC

ENCCS Workshop on Intermediate OpenACC/CUDA, 28-29 June, 9:00-12:30

This workshop targets researchers and developers who already know the basics of OpenACC and/or CUDA but would like to expand their knowledge. It will build on the ENCCS workshop “Introduction to OpenACC/CUDA” given on 4-5 May. Novice OpenACC/CUDA users are also invited to attend but are strongly recommended to first study and do exercises from the lesson material of the introductory workshop.

The workshop will consist of lectures, type-alongs, and hands-on sessions.

  • OpenACC lectures will present the OpenACC framework with three key steps in porting to high-performance accelerated codes: analysis, parallelization, and optimization.
  • CUDA lectures will cover two main topics: how to optimize computational kernels for efficient execution on GPU hardware, and how to explore task-based parallelism using streams and events.
  • We will also briefly go through profiling tools that can help one to identify the computational bottlenecks of a program.

Links

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.

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