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.
The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.
Help Desk Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm CT M-F Email: support@alcf.anl.gov
Access archived presentations and other materials from past ALCF training events below.
Type Video Topic Performance Tools System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This video shows how to use HPCToolkit performance tools for CPU and GPU-accelerated applications and provides resources for you to get started.
This is an overview of Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute and how to run them on Polaris.
Type Video Topic Data Science System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This training covers coupling HPC simulations and AI/ML. You will learn how to couple and what software to use, and you will get a demo of how to use NekRS.
This session covers LLMs and how to get started running LLMs at the ALCF.
Type Video Topic Data Science System AI Testbed Published 10/11/2023
This video discusses distributed deep learning. It covers parallelization schemes, distributed training frameworks, and I/O and data management.
This session gives an overview of using Tensorflow, Pytorch, and JAX are the core deep learning frameworks on ALCF production resources. All three frameworks are accessible in python (and a few other...
This video session covers using Python and Jupyter Notebooks on Polaris and containers at ALCF.
You learn about managing conda environments, running Python and multi-rank jobs, creating a new notebook...
Type Video Topic Programming Models System Polaris Published 10/10/2023
This session explains Kokks and RAJA and provides an example on how to do a simple loop execution.
This session explains SYCL and compares it to CUDA. This is a good place to start if you want to see if SYCL is right for your project.
This session covers why and how to use OpenMP.
Type Video Topic Account and Project Management Published 10/10/2023
This video provides an overview of ALCF allocation programs available to users and outlines what is required to get time on our systems.
Type Video Topic Applications and Libraries System Polaris Published 10/10/2023
Type Video Topic Getting Started System Polaris Published 10/10/2023
This video gives a very detailed look into Polaris and Aurora's hardware and software. This covers everything you need to know about each system.
Type Video System Polaris System Aurora Published 10/10/2023
Type Video Topic Programming Models System Aurora Published 09/27/2023
Join us on September 27, 2023, for an insightful webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads for ALCF's Aurora exascale system. Led by Intel's Varsha Madananth, the session will explore some of the best...
Type Video Topic Running Jobs System Aurora Published 08/30/2023
Join us on August 30 for a Developer Session intended for users new to the ALCF's Sunspot and Aurora systems. It is expected that the users have prior experience on large ALCF and non-ALCF machines...
Type Slides Published 08/09/2023
Type Video Topic Getting Started System Polaris Published 07/19/2023
The ALCF Getting Started Bootcamp will introduce attendees to using the Polaris computing environment. Aimed at participants who have experience using clusters or supercomputers, the bootcamp will...
Type Slides System Aurora Published 07/07/2023
Join us on June 21 for a webinar that will provide the latest updates on Aurora’s hardware architecture and software. Speakers from Intel will cover an array of topics related to Aurora hardware...
