UW School of Computing is hosting an event in collaboration with Argonne National Labs on November 6th. Additional information is available in the attached flyer and referenced on our wiki. Those interested may sign up for admission including open sessions throughout the morning and catered lunch here.
Workshops are available in the afternoon for registrants to gain hands-on experience using Argonne's Polaris HPC cluster (currently #30 on the Top500 list). Seats are limited for the afternoon workshops. Please only sign up if you are able to confirm your attendance.
You can learn more about the ALCF Lighthouse Initiative and Argonne's Polaris computing resource at the following links:
ALCF's Lighthouse Initiative: https://alcf.anl.gov/lighthouse
Argonne National Lab's Polaris system: https://alcf.anl.gov/polaris
Polaris Hardware Overview: https://docs.alcf.anl.gov/polaris/hardware-overview/machine-overview/
Argonne National Labs/ALCF Lighthouse Initiative Training
Hosted by UW and School of Computing
November 6, 2024 from 9am-4pm @ Wyoming Union
See this flyer for more information:
Agenda:
Time
Presenter
Title
Registration Info
Description
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Kristy Streu
Intro to Lighthouse and ALCF
General Admission
Learn about the Lighthouse Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory, which aims to broaden the ALCF user community through partnerships with academic institutions. We will introduce the ALCF systems available to users and highlight some ongoing research projects at the facility.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
David Martin & Paige Kinsley
Virtual Tour of ALCF Data Center
General Admission
The ALCF is a national scientific user facility that provides supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation in a broad range of disciplines. Come see the Data Center in action.
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Ye Luo
Using GPUs for Research
General Admission
Argonne researcher Ye Luo will discuss his research and how scaling with GPUs has enabled scientific breakthroughs. Specifically, he will share his work developing QMCPACK, an open-source Quantum
Monte Carlo code that enables chemists to parallelize atomistic and quantum-based simulations.12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch
Registration - General Admission
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Kristy Streu & Wilbur Ouma
Hands-On Getting Started on Polaris
Workshop Registration Required
20 Seat Limit -- Add Workshop Registration during checkoutThis session will introduce users with coding experience on HPC clusters and/or supercomputers to the specifics of using Polaris at the ALCF. Polaris is the main production machine at the ALCF, featuring 560 nodes, each equipped with 4 NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Filippo Simini
Hands-On Running Apps on Polaris
Workshop Registration Required
20 Seat Limit -- Add Workshop Registration during checkoutThis session will demonstrate how to effectively train and run a PyTorch model on Polaris using parallel computing and multiple GPUs.