2025 ALCF Hands-on HPC Workshop
Join us for the 2025 ALCF Hands-on HPC Workshop, a two-part event designed to advance ALCF users’ skills in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.
The virtual week (Sept 23-25) covers the fundamentals of building, compiling, and running applications on ALCF systems, and will include overviews for getting started on Aurora and Polaris. This virtual segment is strongly recommended for new users.
The in-person week at Argonne (October 7-9) offers in-depth sessions and dedicated hands-on time with ALCF staff and industry experts.
Workshop sessions will focus on four key themes:
- ALCF Resources (Aurora and Polaris)
- AI and Machine Learning
- Data Management
- Performance Tools and Debuggers
Participants will gain practical experience on Aurora and Polaris, focusing on porting applications to heterogeneous architectures, optimizing code performance, and developing AI/ML workflows. Participants will also have the opportunity to tour Argonne's facilities, including the Aurora supercomputer.
Important Dates:
- September 19: Registration Deadline
- September 23-25: Virtual Week
- October 7-9: In-Person Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory
Who is eligible?
Registrants will be reviewed for experience level and will be asked to provide both a research summary and goals for attending.
FOREIGN NATIONALS: ELIGIBILITY
The following restrictions apply to foreign nationals:
- Foreign nationals from countries that appear on a restricted foreign country listing in section 15 CFR 740.7 License Exceptions for Computers (namely, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) require a very lengthy approval process for access to DOE supercomputers, which will not complete in time for the workshop. Therefore, citizens of these countries are not eligible to apply for participation.
- Foreign nationals from countries other than those listed above will need a valid passport, visa, and supporting documents with an expiration date beyond the end of the training program. Department of Energy policy now requires a CV/resume including educational and employment history.
If you have any questions, please contact us at alcfevents@alcf.anl.gov.
Agenda
Virtual: Sept. 23 - Sept. 25
Tuesday, Sept. 23
On Boarding on Aurora and Polaris |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
Welcome Remarks |
15 min |
10:00-10:15 AM |
JaeHyuk Kwack, ANL |
Hardware Overview, Building,Compiling and Running |
90 min |
10:15-11:45 AM |
Kris Rowe, ANL |
Affinity on Aurora |
30 min |
11:45 - 12:15 PM |
Victor Anisimov, ANL |
Break |
30 min |
12:15-12:45 PM |
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Programming Models |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
SYCL |
60 min |
12:45 - 1:45 PM |
Abhishek Baguestty, ANL |
OpenMP |
60 min |
1:45 - 2:45 PM |
Colleen Bertoni, Ye Luo, ANL |
Break |
15 min |
2:45 - 3:00 PM |
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KOKKOS |
60 min |
3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Brian Homerding, ANL |
Wednesday, Sept. 24
Overview of AI |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
Intel Python |
30 min |
10:00 - 10:30AM |
Riccardo Balin, ANL |
Torch |
50 min |
10:30 - 11:20AM |
Filippo Simini, Khalid Hossain, ANL |
TensorFlow |
10 min |
11:20 - 11:30AM |
Filippo Simini, Khalid Hossain, ANL |
JAX |
30 min |
11:30 - 12:00AM |
Filippo Simini, Khalid Hossain, ANL |
Break |
30 min |
12:00 - 12:30PM |
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Foundation Models |
45 min |
12:30 -1:15 PM |
Sam Foreman, ANL |
WorkFlows and Data Management |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
Workflows |
60 min |
1:15 - 2:15 PM |
Christine Simpson, ANL |
Inference Service |
60 min |
2:15 -3:15 PM |
Benoit Cote, Aditya Tanikanti, ANL |
Agentic Workflows |
30 min |
3:15 - 3:45 PM |
Riccardo Balin, ANL |
Thursday, Sept. 25
Tools Overview |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
Linaro Tools |
90 min |
10:00 - 11:30 AM |
Rudy Shand |
iprof |
30 min |
11:30 - 12:00 PM |
Thomas Applencourt, ANL |
Break |
30 min |
12:00 - 12:30 PM |
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Intel Tools |
90 min |
12:30 - 2:00 PM |
JaeHyuk Kwack, ANL |
Overview of Visualization |
30 min |
2:00 - 2:30 PM |
Joe Insley, ANL |
In-Person: Oct. 7 - Oct. 9
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Tools and Extended Hands-on Time |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
Welcome |
20 min |
9:00 - 9:20 AM |
Yasaman Ghadar, ANL |
HPCToolkit + Hands-On |
90 min |
9:20 - 10:50 AM |
John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University |
AM Break |
10 min |
10:50 -11:00 AM |
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Hands-On Time |
60 min |
11:00 - 12:00 PM |
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Working Lunch; AI and HPC Applications on Leadership Computing Platforms: Performance and Scalability |
60 min |
12:00 - 1:00 PM |
JaeHyuk Kwack, ANL |
TAU + Hands-On |
90 min |
1:00 - 2:30 PM |
Sameer Shende, University of Oregon |
PM Break |
15 min |
2:30 - 2:45 PM |
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Hands-On Time |
75 min |
2:45 -4:00 PM |
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Argonne Tour |
60 min |
4:00 - 5:00 PM |
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Wednesday, Oct. 8
AI and Extended Hands-on Time |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
Profiling AI/ML |
60 min |
9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Khalid Hossain, ANL |
Data Pipelines |
60 min |
10:00 - 11:00 AM |
Huihuo Zheng, ANL |
AM Break |
10 min |
11:00 -11:10 AM |
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Hands-On Time |
50 min |
11:10 - 12:00 PM |
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Group Photo |
10 min |
12:00 - 1:00PM |
Everyone |
Working Lunch |
60 min |
12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Sam Foreman, ANL |
AI Testbeds |
60 min |
1:00 - 2:00 PM |
Varuni Sastry, ANL |
PM Break |
15 min |
2:00 - 2:15 PM |
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Hands-On Time |
175 min |
2:15 -4:00 PM |
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Argonne Tour |
60 min |
4:00 - 5:00 PM |
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Thursday, Oct. 9
Data Management, I/O and Extended Hands-on Time |
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Topic |
Duration |
Time |
Speakers |
I/O Libraries (HDF5) |
60 min |
9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Rob Latham, ANL |
DAOS and Checkpointing |
60 min |
10:00 - 11:00 AM |
Kaushik Velusamy, ANL |
AM Break |
10 min |
11:00 -11:10 AM |
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Hands-On Time |
50 min |
11:00 - 12:00 PM |
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Working Lunch, HACC I/O at Scale on Aurora: Early Experiences on Leveraging DAOS |
60 min |
12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Steve Rangel, ANL |
Advanced DAOS |
60 min |
1:00 - 2:00 PM |
Kaushik Velusamy, ANL |
PM Break |
15 min |
2:00 - 2:15 PM |
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Hands-On Time |
45 min |
2:15 -3:00 PM |
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Feedback and Adjourn |
15 min |
3:00 - 3:15 PM |
Yasaman Ghadar, ANL |