[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: Xeon Phi Programming

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

The Schedule for the Spring 2016 HPC Training is available at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php.

Our next HPC training will be held on Wednesday, April 13 at 9:00 AM in 307 Frey Computing Service Center and broadcast through WebEx for remote users. Note that all HPC trainings will start at 9:00AM.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016: Xeon Phi Programming
Intel Xeon Phi is a coprocessor based on Many Integrated Core Architecture or MIC. Computer codes can be accelerated substantially with Xeon Phi. More importantly, the programming architecture is based on traditional OpenMP and MPI. It is convenient to migrate your current CPU-based OpenMP or MPI codes to Xeon Phi. The recently launched supercomputer SuperMIC at LSU provides hundreds of compute nodes with Xeon Phis. If you want to accelerate your codes on SuperMIC, this is really the training you cannot miss. You will learn how to write, compile and run Xeon-phi codes in this two-session training. In the first session, computing features of Xeon phi and its usage in HPC will be introduced. Then we will focus on state-of-the-art Xeon-phi programming, including native mode and offloading. In the second session, we will introduce symmetric processing with both CPU and Xeon phi. Optimizing and debugging codes will be also covered. Finally we will show some examples for running Xeon-phi enabled applications.
Prerequisites: OpenMP and MPI parallel computation, C or Fortran programming (Either one is fine.), all of the above are assumed but not required.

Next HPC Training:

Wednesday, April 20,2016: HPC in Biology
Modern biology has been transformed into a multidisciplinary field, including components of mathematics, biology and chemistry science. The computational approach is now as ubiquitous as the traditional wet lab experiments. Large input data sets as well as the complexity of the algorithms used in software tools demand high performance computing (HPC). This training will first provide basic concepts about HPC. A brief discussion of bioinformatics focusing on DNA sequencing, assembly and alignment will then be introduced. The usage of bioinformatics tools, such as Abyss, A5-pipeline, Mothur, Bowtie, Blast and Samtools, will be demonstrated throughout the training. For conducting computational simulations using molecular dynamics , software packages NAMD/VMD and GROMACS will be presented. In addition, AutoDock Vina, a molecular docking software used in virtual screening for drug design, will also be illustrated. The training content is subject to change upon feedback from users in the future.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of HPC user environment is assumed but not required.

Please visit http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php for more details and register using the link provided.
Users who plan on joining remotely will be provided with a WebEx Link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the system requirements at https://grok.lsu.edu/Categories.aspx?parentCategoryId=3381.

Please distribute to faculty, staff and students that might be interested.

Thanks,

Feng Chen, PhD
IT Consultant
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University
329 Frey Computing Services Center, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
office 225-578-2924
fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>




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