The Exascale Computing Project is partnering with several DOE Computing Facilities to offer a webinar covering Python in HPC.
Python’s powerful elegance has driven its adoption at HPC centers for job orchestration, visualization, exploratory data analysis, and even simulation. But maximizing performance from Python applications can be challenging especially on supercomputing architectures. This webinar will explain those challenges with a practical emphasis on using Python at NERSC, ALCF, and OLCF. We will outline a variety of performance optimization strategies, tools for measuring and addressing performance problems, and establish best practices for Python in HPC.
The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with several DOE Computing Facilities and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is resuming the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began last year.
As part of this series, we will offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration will be required for each event.
Webinar Video – YouTube Video
The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP), is resuming the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began last year.
As part of this series, we will offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration will be required for each event.
The next webinar in the series was “Using the Roofline Model and Intel Advisor” with speaker Sam Williams of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This webinar took place on August 16, 2017 and you can find a copy of the presentation and the video from the webinar in the Presentation Materials section below.
The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is resuming the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began in 2016.
As part of this series, we will offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration will be required for each event.
The next webinar is titled “Barely Sufficient Project Management: A few techniques for improving your scientific software development efforts”, and will be presented by Michael Heroux of Sandia National Laboratories.
Software development is an essential activity for many scientific teams. Modeling, simulation and data analysis, using team-developed software, are increasing valuable for scientific discovery and engineering. Many teams use informal, ad hoc approaches for managing their software efforts. While sufficient for many efforts, a modest emphasis on team models and processes can substantially improve developer productivity and software sustainability.
In this presentation, we discuss several light-weight techniques for managing scientific software efforts. Using checklists, policy statements and a Kanban workflow system, we emphasize techniques for managing the initiation and exit of team members, approaches to synthesizing team culture, and ways to improve communication within a team and with its stakeholders.
Video: https://youtu.be/oy4iz_vxieU
The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is pleased to sponsor a webinar presented by Michael Wolfe of NVIDIA titled “Scalable Node Programming with OpenACC” that took place on Wednesday, September 20, at 1:00 pm ET.
Supercomputer nodes are becoming more parallel with each generation. HPC applications must now utilize parallelism on-node as well as across many nodes for performance. OpenACC is designed to expose and exploit parallelism, whether that be for a multicore, a manycore, or a GPU-accelerated node.
This webinar discussed:
- what problems OpenACC addresses;
- the important elements of OpenACC;
- how and why OpenACC is being adopted and used in production science and engineering applications, including Gaussian, Fluent, VASP, and several weather and climate codes;
- current status of OpenACC tools and of the specification;
- building and using applications with OpenACC for different targets;
- the OpenACC community and user events;
- new features requested by users coming with OpenACC 2.6 and beyond.
The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is resuming the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began in 2016.
As part of this series, we will offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration will be required for each event.
The next webinar in the series was titled “Managing Defects in HPC Software Development”, and was be presented by Dr. Tom Evans of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and PI of the ECP Application Development Project titled, Coupled Monte Carlo Neutronics and Fluid Flow Simulation of Small Modular Reactors (ExaSMR). The webinar took place on Wednesday, November 1, at 1:00 pm ET.
Software Quality Engineering (SQE) and methods research and scientific investigation are often thought to be incompatible. However, in reality they are not only compatible, but required in order to have confidence in the results of even basic scientific computations. This is especially true for parallel software. In this talk we will look at methods for performing software verification. Software verification is a method for removing defects at code construction time; these techniques can help in both algorithm and method development, as well as increased productivity.
