Petascale Computing Institute

19th-23rd August 2019

Today is day three of the Petascale Computing Institute. We are almost half way through this whirlwind tour of High Performance computing. Brown one of the host sites for the institute. We are have a group of Brown students, postdocs and faculty participating in the institute in the wonderful Friedman hall. There are around 600 people attending world wide in the USA, Canada, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The event is also being live streamed on YouTube.

Who is the institute for?

“The institute is free and open to everyone. The content is targeted to individuals conducting research and scholarship in all disciplines, including graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, faculty, researchers, scholars, educators, and practitioners in academia, industry and government agencies.

The institute will be beneficial to research teams who are preparing to scale their codes to petascale-class resources, people who are working on parallel codes, or have a need to scale up computational codes and/or data analysis programs. Individuals who are current or pending users of large-scale HPC systems will benefit the most from this institute. People who do not have access to research codes, such as those using commercial packages, are not likely to benefit from the institute.”

So far we have covered computing paradigms, openMP, MPI, hybrid programming , openACC and the use of scientific libraries. As well as brief overviews of supercomputing resources at Argonne, NERSC and NSCA. It is an enormous amount of information. Today is more openACC and CUDA — a full day of GPU fun!