Blog

Posts Tagged ‘Courses’

HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011  in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 21-23, 2011.

The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education, training (including hands-on) and overview of new developments. The workshop will includes the following four sections per day:

  • GPU computing (session leaders: Sadaf Alam from the Swiss Supercomputer Center, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council)
  • High speed storage (session leaders: Hussein Harake from the Swiss Supercomputer Center, Eric Barton from Whamcloud, Onur Celebioglu from Dell and Mike Anderson from StreamScale)
  • MPI deep dive (session leaders: Prof. Dhabaleswar K. Panda from Ohio State University and Dr. Pavan Balaji from Argonne National Laboratory)
  • Advanced topics/technologies/development (Session leaders: TBD)

The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements. Please make sure to register early to ensure your seat at the workshop.

This is an excellent training and educational opportunity for European-based, HPC and data center IT professionals.

The conference is free. Registration is required. REGISTER TODAY. The 3-day workshop will include coffee breaks and lunch courtesy of the HPC Advisory Council.

Call for speakers and presentations are now open – Click here to sign-up.

The initial agenda is also available now – Click here to view the agenda.

Conference Location:
Lugano Convention Centre
Piazza Indipendenza 4
6900 Lugano, Switzerland

Videos Rosa Introduction Course Summer 2010 Now Online

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

In Summer 2010 CSCS organized a two days introduction course to Rosa and the Cray environment. The videos of the different presentations are now available online on the multimedia portal of CSCS and ETH Zurich. You are invited to have a look to the videos if you want an introduction to parallel computing in general or want to know how to program a Cray XT5.

Chaper 1: An Introduction to Rosa by Neil Stringfellow, CSCS

Chapter 2: Input Output on Rosa by Jason Temple, CSCS

Chapter 3: ompiling and Executing Codes by Tim Robinson, CSCS

Chpter 4: Performance Analysis an a Cray XT5 by Andreas Jocksch, CSCS

Chapter 5: Additional Profiling Tools by Jean-Guillaume Piccinali, CSCS

Chapter 6: Parallel Debuggin on Rosa by Tim Stitt, CSCS

Register to Parallel Programming Workshop at CSCS

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

CSCS invites you to register to a Parallel Programming Workshop to be held in Manno, on 10.-12.08.2010.

Instructors will be Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS) and Neil Stringfellow (CSCS).

(more…)

CSCS Training Course Reminder – May/June 2010

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) will be hosting the following training courses during the months of May and June 2010. We still have some places available in each course so we encourage you to register quickly to benefit from these opportunities.

A “Hands-On” Introduction to PETSc (10–11/05/2010)
This course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the highly-scalable PETSc mathematical library which is ideally suited to the rapid development of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. The course is further complemented by an overview of other public-domain parallel mathematical libraries routinely used within the HPC community. This course will be presented by Jed Brown (ETHZ and official PETSc Developer) and Will Sawyer (CSCS).

Please register here for this course »

The course itself is free of charge, however, attendees must cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. The deadline for this event is rapidly approaching, so please register quickly.

Rosa Introduction Course (14–15/06/2010)
This introduction course will provide both existing and new users with an introduction to the Rosa system including detailed information regarding the Cray XT5 hardware, software architectures and programming environments. Furthermore, users will be gain practical experience with high-level profiling and optimization techniques on the new system, through a series of hands-on exercises.

Please register here for this course »

The deadline for this event is the *17th of May*. We recommend you to register as soon as possible. The course itself is free of charge, however, attendees must cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. You may want to combine your attendance of this course with the course on “Scalable performance analysis of large-scale parallel applications” that will take place at CSCS on June 16th/17th.

Scalable Performance Analysis of Large-Scale Parallel Applications (16–17/06/2010)
An introduction course to the Scalasca performance analysis toolset which will be run in collaboration with our colleagues fromJülich Supercomputer Centre, who are the main developers of this tool.

Scalasca is an open-source toolset that can be used to analyze the performance behavior of parallel applications and to identify opportunities for optimization. It has been specifically designed for use on large-scale systems including IBM Blue Gene and Cray XT, but is also well-suited for small- and medium-scale HPC platforms.

Scalasca integrates runtime summaries with in-depth studies of concurrent behavior via event tracing. A distinctive feature is the ability to identify wait states that occur, for example, as a result of unevenly distributed workloads. This course will provide the unique opportunity to interact directly with experts from the Jülich Research Centre.

Click here to register for this course »

The deadline for registering for this event is the 17th of May.

We look forward to meeting you at these events.