The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has resumed the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which began in 2016. To register for the event, go here. As part of this series, one-hour webinars are offered on topics in scientific […]
DOE Resumes Webinar Series Aug. 4 on HPC Scientific Software Engineering Challenges and Best Practices
July 30, 2021 by Leave a Comment
ALCF Developer Session: Inside the NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU in ThetaGPU and Perlmutter
July 19, 2021 by Leave a Comment
On Wednesday, July 28 at 11 am CT, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will present a developer session focused on utilization of the Nvidia Ampere A100 GPU in ALCF’s ThetaGPU and NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputers. Registration is here. The Ampere A100 GPU builds on the performance of the NVIDIA V100 GPU and includes new features for […]
ALCF Computing Time Awarded to 16 projects
July 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 16 projects totaling 6.75 million node-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). Each year, the ASCR program, which manages some of the world’s most powerful supercomputing facilities, selects ALCC projects in areas that aim to further DOE […]
Preparing for Exascale: Aurora Software Development – Packaging and Early Hardware
June 17, 2021 by Leave a Comment
By coordinating efforts to improve early exascale hardware stability at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), computer scientist Servesh Muralidharan is working to make it easier for application developers to use Aurora testbeds at Argonne’s Joint Laboratory for System Evaluation (JLSE). His work will facilitate a faster transition to the Aurora system upon its delivery and help […]
ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-mQa
June 15, 2021 by Leave a Comment
On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject) that will address several questions concerning the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) that ECP is developing for the nation’s forthcoming exascale systems. E4S will have a far-reaching impact on the […]
Argonne Claims 1st Full-core Pin-resolved Nuclear Reactor Model
June 10, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Understanding the physical behavior inside an operating nuclear reactor can be done only with simulations on a supercomputer due to the high-pressure, high-temperature, and radioactive environment inside a reactor core. The whirls and eddies of coolant that flow around the fuel pins play a critical role in determining the reactor thermal and hydraulics performance and […]
ALCF Data Science Program Awards 4 Projects
May 24, 2021 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) recently awarded computing time and resources to three new projects and one renewed project for 2021-2022, through its ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). Launched in 2016, the ADSP enables big data and artificial intelligence (AI) research that requires DOE’s leadership-class computing resources. The forward-looking allocation program is designed to explore […]
An Update on Aurora Exascale Readiness at Argonne
May 19, 2021 by
For a number of years, Intel has provided the Advisor and VTune performance profiling software for CPU-based Intel architectures. In advance of the delivery of the ALCF’s Intel-HPE exascale system, Aurora, in 2022, Intel has been extending those tools to its Xe GPU architecture. Because the Aurora software development kit (SDK) incorporates multiple major programming models—such as DPC++/SYCL, OpenMP Target offloading (for C, C++ and Fortran), OpenCL, Kokkos, and RAJA—those tools need to be tested across every combination of programming model. Many important applications being developed under DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) integrate Intel’s optimized math libraries to maximize their performance; it is therefore crucial that Advisor and VTune are able to capture their performance characteristics seamlessly.
ALCF Webinar May 26: NVIDIA Profiling Tools Ecosystem for HPC and AI
May 14, 2021 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) on May 26 will host a webinar in which NVIDIA will present their profiling tools, Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute, and will discuss how they are used in HPC and AI use cases. Registration is here. Nsight Systems is NVIDIA’s application/system level profiling tool that collects a timeline of […]
Porting a Particle-in-Cell Code to Exascale Architectures
April 2, 2021 by
By Nils Heinonen on behalf of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility As part of a series aimed at sharing best practices in preparing applications for Aurora, we highlight researchers’ efforts to optimize codes to run efficiently on graphics processing units. Take advantage of upgrades being made to high-level, non-machine-specific libraries and programming models Developed in […]
