The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.
The ALCF is accelerating scientific discoveries in many disciplines, ranging from chemistry and engineering to physics and materials science.
The ALCF is committed to providing training and outreach opportunities that prepare researchers to efficiently use its leadership computing systems, while also cultivating a diverse and skilled HPC workforce for the future.
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
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Access archived presentations and other materials from past ALCF training events below.
Type Slides Topic Performance Tools System Theta Published 05/07/2020
This talk will provide an overview of the TAU Performance System. TAU is a mature performance evaluation tool that supports both profiling and tracing for applications written in C++, C, Fortran, and...
Type Slides Published 05/07/2020
This is an introduction to Intel VTune Profiler and Intel Advisor performance tools and their use on the Theta XC40 system. There is also a brief overview of profiling Python applications.
Type Slides Topic Running Jobs System Theta Published 05/06/2020
This talk will give provide a brief overview of the Kokkos and RAJA programming models. Kokkos and RAJA are C++ abstraction layers for performance portable parallel execution.
Type Slides System Theta Published 05/06/2020
This talk will provide an overview of debugging your code across ALCF resources.
Type Slides Topic Debugging Tools System Theta Published 05/06/2020
This talk provides an overview of CrayPat. CrayPat is a suite of utilities that enable the user to capture and analyze performance data generated during the execution of a program on a Cray system.
Learn how to use the Arm DDT debugger and discover its powerful features to find and fix bugs in code.
This talk describes performance tuning knobs with Cray MPI on Theta.
Type Slides Topic Account and Project Management System Theta Published 05/06/2020
This talk will provide an overview of major allocation award programs for which ALCF supports.
This talk will provide an overview of OpenMP on Theta. It will include a discussion of OpenMP affinity and simd on Theta.
Type Video Topic Applications and Libraries Published 04/29/2020
Spack is a package manager that enables and automates the deployment of multiple versions of a software package to a single installation, including builds for different microprocessor architectures...
Type Slides Topic Performance Tools System Theta Published 03/27/2020
The increasing complexity of HPC systems has introduced new sources of variability, which can contribute to significant differences in run-to-run performance of applications. With components at...
Type Slides Topic Data Management System Aurora Published 03/25/2020
This presentation will introduce the key concepts behind DAOS and the software ecosystem enabling this technology. We will then provide more details on the DAOS deployment on Aurora and how...
Type Video Topic Data Management System Aurora Published 03/25/2020
Type Slides Topic Performance Tools Topic Debugging Tools System Theta Published 03/04/2020
This talk covers general Theta debugging and profiling advice using Arm, DDT and MAP.
Type Video Topic Data Science Published 02/19/2020
This webinar builds on our previous one, which demonstrated how to use Globus to manage data within the ALCF and beyond. During this webinar, we will cover common data management use cases, like...
Type Slides Topic Data Science Published 02/19/2020
Type Video Topic Getting Started System Theta System Cooley Published 02/04/2020
Our introductory "Getting Started" videos are designed to help users get their projects up and running on ALCF computing resources.
Type Video System Theta System Aurora Published 01/31/2020
This webinar will focus on OpenMP 4.5 and 5.0 features and it will consist of 3 segments. In the first part, a review of the fork-join OpenMP programming model will be presented. This review will be...