ARCHER2 Weekly Newsletter
By ARCHER2 Service on January 17, 2024
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- ARCHER2 GPUs webinar, online, 31st January 2024 14:00 - 16:00 GMT
- ARCHER2 Celebration of Science - poster abstract due 23rd January
- Advanced OpenMP, Online, 23 - 24 January 2024 09:00 - 17:00 GMT
- Software Carpentry, Newcastle, 23 - 25 January 2024 09:30 - 17:00 GMT
- WHPC@ISC 2024: Call for Posters
- Upcoming change to SAFE Institutional login
- ARCHER2 User Survey 2023 - £50 Amazon voucher prize draw
- Recently added known issues
- Upcoming ARCHER2 training
ARCHER2 GPUs webinar
online, 31st January 2024 14:00 - 16:00 GMT
Please note: The date for this webinar is provisional and will be confirmed once the GPU installation and integration works are all successfully completed.
This user webinar will discuss the new GPU nodes and will have EPCC and HPE staff available to answer questions
This online session is open to all.
ARCHER2 Celebration of Science - Poster abstract due 23rd January
The ARCHER2 Celebration of Science will take place on the 7th – 8th March 2024 in Edinburgh at South Hall, The University of Edinburgh. We would like to invite the ARCHER2 community to submit posters for presentation at the event. Please complete the Poster Abstract Submission Form and email it by Tuesday 23rd January 2024.
The event will provide ARCHER2 users with the opportunity to showcase their science achievements on ARCHER2. The two-day programme will include a variety of talks from members of the ARCHER2 research consortia and other invited presenters involved in the ARCHER2 service, a poster session and a panel session focusing on preparing the UK science community for future Exascale systems. All attendees are welcome to join the drink reception on the evening of the first day.
The event is in-person and there is no registration fee.
Full details and registration:
Advanced OpenMP
Online, 23 - 24 January 2024 09:00 - 17:00 GMT
OpenMP is the industry standard for shared-memory programming, which enables serial programs to be parallelised using compiler directives.This course is aimed at programmers seeking to deepen their understanding of OpenMP and explore some of its more recent and advanced features.
This course will cover topics including nested parallelism, OpenMP tasks, the OpenMP memory model, performance tuning, hybrid OpenMP + MPI, OpenMP implementations, and recently added features in OpenMP.
Hands-on practical programming exercises make up a significant, and integral, part of this course.
Attendees should be familiar with the basics of OpenMP, including parallel regions, data scoping, work sharing directives and synchronisation constructs. Access will be given to appropriate hardware for all the exercises, although many of them can also be performed on a standard Linux laptop.
Further details and registration
Software Carpentry
23 - 25 January 2024 09:30 - 17:00 GMT Barbara Strang Teaching Centre (room 3.30) in The Bedson Building, Newcastle
This course will take place face-to-face at Barbara Strang Teaching Centre (room 3.30) in The Bedson Building, Newcastle
This course will not be streamed online and a recording will not be made.
Target Audience:
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including:
- Program design (Python)
- Version control with Git
- The Unix Shell
Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Further details and registration
WHPC@ISC 2024:
Call for Posters at the International Women in HPC Workshop: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Allies, held in conjunction with ISC High Performance Conference
Date : Monday, May 13 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Location : Hamburg, Germany Poster submission deadline : January 22, 2024, AoE
WHPC is officially collaborating with ISC24 with our poster session now being a part of the official ISC posters track!
The WHPC poster session at ISC is dedicated to women and individuals from underrepresented groups who are students or are in the early stages of their HPC careers, typically within the first 5 years post-graduation or via a career transition into the field of supercomputing.
We are welcoming a wide range of themes, from technical to non-technical subjects. Examples include early research and projects, reproducibility, career experiences, diversity and inclusion in HPC, and more.
Successful submissions to this session offer unique advantages:
1) WHPC Travel Fellowships: Two £3,000 travel grants are available for successful authors who would not be able to attend the conference otherwise. 2) Mentorship Support: You will receive guidance and support in polishing your poster and presentation. 3) Lightning Talk Opportunity: Showcase your work on stage during the Poster Pitch Session, gaining valuable exposure.
Good luck, and we hope to see you presenting in Hamburg in May!
Upcoming change to SAFE Institutional login
If you use the Institutional login feature in the SAFE you will be familiar with the page that allows you to select which organisation you would like to sign in with. This page (hosted on on wayf.federation.org.uk) is being retired and the SAFE will soon switch to using a local page on safe.epcc.ed.ac.uk that will provide similar functionality.
If you find that you are no longer able to locate your organisation (or have any other problems) after this change please contact the service desk, so that we can investigate.
ARCHER2 User Survey 2023
We are committed to continually improving the ARCHER2 Service and would like to request your input to help us understand what is important to you, where the Service is working well and where there is scope for improvement.
The ARCHER2 Annual User Survey consists of just a few questions and should take only a few minutes of your time to complete. There are opportunities to add more detailed comments if you wish.
For each survey response received, we will donate £1 to Save The Children.
Additionally, if you enter your ARCHER2 username in the final question, then you will be entered into the prize draw to win one of five £50 Amazon vouchers.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey. The responses will be used to try and improve the service for you and to help identify key areas for service development.
The survey will close on Wednesday 31st January 2024 so please ensure you have completed it before then.
Recently added known issues
The “Known Issues” page of the ARCHER2 Documentation https://docs.archer2.ac.uk/known-issues/ lists all current open known issues including a description of the issue, its symptoms and any work-arounds.
- No recent issues
Upcoming ARCHER2 Training
- Message-passing Programming with MPI, Online, always-open self-service course
- Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP, Online, always-open self-service course
- QM/MM with GROMACS + CP2K, Online, Always open - self-service course
- Hands-on Introduction to HPC, Online, Always open - self-service course - New
- HPC Carpentry, Liverpool, 18 - 19 January 2024 09:30 - 16:00 GMT
- Advanced OpenMP, online, 23 - 24 January 2024 09:00 - 17:00 GMT
- Software Carpentry, Newcastle, 23 - 25 January 2024 09:30 - 17:00 GMT
- Introduction to Data Science & Machine Learning, Online, 30 - 31 January 2024 09:30-16:35 and 09:30-14:40 GMT
- ARCHER2 GPUs webinar, Online, Wednesday 31st January 2024 14:00 - 16:00 GMT
- Data Analysis and Visualisation in Python, Online, 7 - 8 February 2024 09:30 - 17:00 GMT
- Using Blender for Scientific Visualisation, webinar, online, Wednesday 14th February 2024 15:00 - 16:00
- Understanding parallel I/O performance through profiling webinar, Online, Wednesday 21st February 2024 15:00 - 16:00
Further details of upcoming training
We always welcome researchers wishing to present their work in a webinar - please contact the Service Desk if you would be interested in presenting your work.