[LA-SiGMA] [Events] FREE Research Computing Training on August 17 (Registration Now Open)

[Feng Chen]

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Subject: [Events] FREE Research Computing Training on August 17 (Registration Now Open)

Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Performance Tuning Summer School
**Registration Open**

FREE to attend!

Course Dates:  08/17/2015 11:00 - 08/21/2015 09:00 EDT
Location:  LSU Campus, Digital Media Center Room #1034
Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Performance Tuning Summer School
>From a user perspective, supercomputers are more complicated to program and handle than an ordinary desktop workstation. This may lead to parallel programs that do not necessarily satisfy the performance expectations of the users. Such unexpected performance results can have many reasons. Basic knowledge on performance modeling, prediction and verification, as taught in this summer school, is needed by users to formulate and verify their performance expectation.
The goals for this class are: - Motivating the need for performance considerations - Establishing a common performance vocabulary - Learning the standard situations/parameters to have an eye on - Getting to know the tools that provide insight - Establishing a higher throughput of experiments - Running bigger experiments
Agenda (Lunch on your own daily 1-2pm EDT):
Monday: Performance Engineering (theory + examples)
Tuesday: Easy to use performance analysis workflows
Wednesday: Usage of advanced tools (profile- and trace-based)
Thursday: Tuning of hybrid programs (message passing, threading, accelerators)
Friday: Theoretical considerations (Experimental design, performance modeling)
This training is available around the country at host-sites through the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.  LSU is a host site!
This course is taught by staff of UITS Research Technologies, a cyberinfrastructure and service center affiliated with the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute.
Visiting Scholar, Holger Brunst of the Technische Universität Dresden is the guest instructor.
What you will learn:
The background for performance considerations
A common performance vocabulary
Standard performance situations/parameters to be aware
The tools that provide insight
How to establish a higher throughput of experiments
How to run bigger experiments
What you should already know:
Basic programming and command line skills on Linux systems. Knowledge on how to run jobs on supercomputers. Experience running scientific applications on supercomputers
If you don't have those skills, consider first taking the workshop:


  *   Unix: The Basics<https://ittraining.iu.edu/training/browse.aspx?workshop=40#workshop40>
Register at:  https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/420/session/728

For detailed information on this course, please see: https://ittraining.iu.edu/training/Browse.aspx?workshop=HPCPT#workshop665 .

Karen Cade Jones
Assistant Director, Outreach & Events
LSU Center for Computation & Technology
225-578-0595
kjones at cct.lsu.edu<mailto:kjones at cct.lsu.edu>



Feng Chen, Ph.D.
IT Consultant
329, Frey Computing Services Center,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Voice: (225) 578-2924
eMail: fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>


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