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 running 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 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.
Type Video Topic software 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 profiling and performance 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 Video 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 Slides Topic data management System Aurora Published 03/25/2020
Type Slides Topic profiling and performance Topic debugging 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 general 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
Performance tuning is critical for applications in a world where computing cycles are a precious resource. The process of tuning and optimizing a code, however, remains enshrouded in mystery for many...
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...
Type Slides Topic profiling and performance Published 01/29/2020
Extracting optimal performance from your application requires efficient use of your system's microarchitecture and parallelism at core, socket, and node levels. This webinar will focus on how to do...
Type Video Topic profiling and performance Published 01/29/2020
Type Slides System Aurora Published 12/03/2019
This talk will introduce SYCL as a programming model for Aurora, the upcoming Argonne exascale machine. SYCL is a single source heterogeneous programming model based on standard C++. It uses C++...
Type Slides Topic data science System Theta Published 11/06/2019
Type Slides Topic data science System Theta Published 11/05/2019
Type Slides Topic compiling and linking System Theta Published 11/05/2019
Type Slides Topic running System Theta Published 10/30/2019
This presentation will go into detail on the SYCL programming model, which is at the core of the new oneAPI initiative. Intel is working with the community to evolve the Khronos SYCL language...
