Dear NERSC users, Below are some upcoming training events happening (or having due dates) in April / May that you are encouraged to attend: 1) Perlmutter Office Hours, Mar/Apr 2024 NERSC is offering virtual office hours to help users get their workflows up and running on Perlmutter. Users are welcome to bring questions and their own applications to get one-on-one help. Four sessions are scheduled in April, *the next one being on Tuesday, April 2*. For more details on other session dates and Zoom information, please visit https://www.nersc.gov/perlmutter-office-hours-marapr-2024/. 2) Learn to Use Spin to Build Science Gateways at NERSC: Next SpinUp Workshop Starts April 24 Spin is a service platform at NERSC based on Docker container technology. It can be used to deploy science gateways, workflow managers, databases, and all sorts of other services that can access NERSC systems and storage on the back end. New large-memory nodes have been added to the platform, increasing the potential of the platform for new memory-constrained applications. To learn more about how Spin works and what it can do, please listen to the NERSC User News podcast on Spin <https://anchor.fm/nersc-news/episodes/Spin--Interview-with-Cory-Snavely-and-Val-Hendrix-e1pa7p> or see a video of Spin in action at the Spin documentation <https://docs.nersc.gov/services/spin/> page. Attend an upcoming SpinUp workshop to learn to use Spin for your own science gateway projects! *Applications for sessions that begin Wednesday, April 24 are now open <https://www.nersc.gov/spinup-workshop-apr2024/>.* SpinUp is hands-on and interactive, so space is limited. Participants will attend an instructional session and a hack-a-thon to learn about the platform, create running services, and learn maintenance and troubleshooting techniques. 3) Kokkos Training, April 25-26 Kokkos is a C++-based programming model for writing performance portable applications targeting all major HPC platforms. The Kokkos team will present a 2-day (3-hour each) hands-on training series on April 25-26 to help new and existing Kokkos users understand parallel programming abstractions and ways to expose them using the framework. The first day of the training will be focused on new users who are trying to use Kokkos to write portable parallel code that can take advantage of both CPU and GPU nodes of Perlmutter. On the second day, the training will focus on advanced concepts in Kokkos or if the users wish to discuss porting or optimizing their existing codes to Kokkos, a group of experienced Kokkos developers will be available for individual sessions. For more information and to register, please see https://www.nersc.gov/portability-series-kokkos-apr2024/. 4) NERSC End-to-End LLM Bootcamp, May 7-9 (Application due Apr 21) NERSC will be co-organizing the end-to-end Large Language Model (LLM) bootcamp with OpenACC and NVIDIA. The bootcamp will be hosted virtually for three days from May 7-9, 2024 and is a focused, hands-on walk-through of data processing, LLM model training, and deployment pipeline paradigm. The *application** deadline is April 21, 2024*. For more details and to register, please visit the webpage <https://www.nersc.gov/nersc-end-to-end-llm-bootcamp-may-2024/>. 5) ALCF AI Testbed Workshop Series, Apr-June 2024 (earliest registration due Apr 1) ALCF is hosting four training workshops <https://www.nersc.gov/users/training/events/2024/alcf-ai-testbed-training-workshops-may-jun-2024/> that will introduce attendees to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed. The four workshops are independent events for which registration must be completed separately. The workshops, including event dates and registration deadlines, are as follows: - SambaNova AI Workshop <https://www.alcf.anl.gov/events/sambanova-ai-training-sp24>, April 30-May 1 *(register by April 1)* - Cerebras AI Workshop <https://www.alcf.anl.gov/events/cerebras-ai-training-sp24>, May 7-8 *(register by April 5)* - Groq AI Workshop <https://www.alcf.anl.gov/events/groq-ai-training-sp24>, June 4-5 *(register by May 1)* - Graphcore AI workshop <https://www.alcf.anl.gov/events/graphcore-ai-training-sp24>, June 11-12 *(register by May 1)* 6) Debugging Challenging Memory and GPU Problems with TotalView, May 13 NERSC is hosting a training event on effectively using TotalView to debug challenging memory and NVIDIA GPU problems. TotalView from Perforce Software is a parallel debugger for complex C, C++, and Fortran applications. Using live demonstrations running on Perlmutter, you'll learn how to leverage TotalView's powerful memory debugging technology to find memory errors in parallel codes, and to debug CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenACC code running on NVIDIA GPUs. For more information and to register, please see the event page <https://www.nersc.gov/users/training/events/2024/debugging-challenging-memory-and-gpu-problems-with-totalview-may-13-2024/> . 7) August NERSC/OLCF/NVIDIA Hackathon, Aug 13, 20-22 (Application due May 8) NERSC, in conjunction with NVIDIA and OLCF, will be hosting an Open Hackathon from August 20th-22nd with an opening day on August 13th as part of the annual Open Hackathon Series. The Hackathon will be hosted as a hybrid event. Hackathons combine teams of developers with mentors to either prepare their own application(s) to run on GPUs or optimize their application(s) that currently run on GPUs. Teams should consist of at least three developers who are intimately familiar with (some part of) their application, and they will work alongside two mentors with GPU programming expertise. If you want/need to get your code running/optimized on a GPU-accelerated system, these hackathons offer a unique opportunity to set aside 4 days, surround yourself with experts in the field, and push toward your development goals. During the event, teams will have access to compute resources provided by NERSC, and OLCF. *Please note the deadline to submit a proposal is 11:59 PM Pacific, May 8, 2024.* So apply <https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0C5e000008dWi2EAE/se000287> now! For more information, event agenda, or to submit a short proposal form, please visit the Open Hackathon’s event page <https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0C5e000008dWi2EAE/se000287> or NERSC's event page <https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/august-2024-gpu-hackathon/home>. Best Regards, Helen He NERSC Training _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@nersc.gov