[LA-SiGMA] Last Call: 3rd Annual High Performance Computing Week

[Alexander Pacheco]

Dear All,

LSU Information Technology Services, LSU Center for Computation & Technology and the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual High Performance Computing Week from June 2nd through June 6th, 2014 at the Louisiana Digital Media Center and Business Education Complex. Registration for HPC User Symposium and NVIDIA GPU workshop is still open. 

3rd Annual LONI Parallel Programming Workshop from June 2nd to June 4th
No seats available. Registration closed.


3rd Annual High Performance Computing User Symposium on June 4th and June 5th
The 3rd Annual HPC User Symposium will run from Wednesday evening (June 4th) through Thursday afternoon (June 5th). A poster session featuring research done on HPC systems will be held on Wednesday evening. On Thursday, there be a few invited talks and a series of contributed talks from students, postdocs, faculty and research staff. All participants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster or contributed talk. Preference will be given to students and postdocs for a 15-20 minute contributed talk. The symposium is open to all, with the hope of engendering cross-discipline communication and exchange of methods and experiences.  This is an opportunity for the user community to come together and share experiences and methods. Anyone interested in HPC is more than welcome to come by and find out how HPC systems are utilized for research at LONI member institutions. 
Seats available: No limit
Registration: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/symposium
Registration deadline: If presenting May 15, 2014
Note: If you have registered for the Symposium but not submitted an abstract, please do so at the earliest by uploading a one-page abstract at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/symposium.

GPU Workshop presented by Nvidia on June 6th
Nvidia Corporation, LSU Center for Computation & Technology and LSU Information Technology Services will host a one day Nvidia GPU workshop on June 6th, 2014 in 1615 Business Education Complex at LSU in Baton Rouge as part of the 2014 HPC Week. LONI’s QueenBee supercomputer is currently in the process of being refreshed and the replacement cluster is expected to have a significant number of NVIDIA GPU devices. This workshop is an opportunity for LONI researchers to get a head start on developing CUDA enabled programs to use on the QueenBee replacement cluster.
Venue Changed to 1615 Business Education Complex

The agenda is as follows:
Schedule:
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM : Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM : CUDA 101 - a basic intro to the C/C++ CUDA language
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Basic CUDA optimizations - covering GPU architecture and key optimizations (threads, memory) for GPU performance
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM : Break
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Hands on CUDA application walkthrough (2D stencil code) Parts A, B, C
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM : Lunch (provided)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM : CUDA Libraries - Intro to CUBLAS and CUSPARSE, with a walkthrough sample application porting of a Conjugate Gradient Solver
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM : Break
2:45 PM - 5:00 PM : CUDA Tools - cuda-gdb, visual profiler, nsight eclipse edition (IDE)

All sessions will include ample time for hands-on exercises to be carried out on LSU's Shelob supercomputer. Training accounts for Shelob will be provided to all attendees.

Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of C/C++ programming.  No parallel or GPU experience required.
- Participants must bring their own laptop with wireless connectivity.
- In preparation, you may wish to watch a few short (approx. 5 min) YouTube videos on introductory GPU programming topics. These CUDACasts can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/NVIDIADeveloper
Registration: http://goo.gl/jxK3xo
Deadline: May 31, 2014
Seats Available: 60 
Instructor: Bob Crovella
Biography: Bob is a Solution Architect at NVIDIA and leads a technical team responsible for supporting GPU Computing products in the high performance computing ecosystem. Bob joined NVIDIA in 1998. Previous to his current role at NVIDIA, he led a technical team that was responsible for the design-in support of NVIDIA GPU products into OEM systems, working directly with the OEM engineering and technical staffs responsible for their respective products. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Bob held various engineering positions at Chromatic Research, Honeywell, Cincinnati Milacron, and Eastman Kodak. Bob holds degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M. Eng., Communications and Signal Processing) and The State University of NY at Buffalo (BSEE). He resides with his family in the Dallas TX area.

Refreshments and Lunch will be provided for all events. Additional information and registration is available at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/workshop.php.


HPC Week 2014 has been made possible due to generous support from
Board of Regents, State of Louisiana
Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
Information Technology Services, Louisiana State University
Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University
Nvidia Corporation

Please visit the HPC Website at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/index.php#hpcweek for more details.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Thanks,
HPC at LSU Support Team


-- 
Alexander Pacheco, Ph. D.
IT Consultant
LSU - HPC &  LONI
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~apacheco

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