UW Hosts Argonne National Labs

UW School of Computing is hosting an event in collaboration with Argonne National Labs on November 6th.  Additional information is available in the attached flyer and referenced on our wiki.  Those interested may sign up for admission including open sessions throughout the morning and catered lunch here. 

Workshops are available in the afternoon for registrants to gain hands-on experience using Argonne's Polaris HPC cluster (currently #30 on the Top500 list).  Seats are limited for the afternoon workshops.  Please only sign up if you are able to confirm your attendance.

You can learn more about the ALCF Lighthouse Initiative and Argonne's Polaris computing resource at the following links:  

• ALCF's Lighthouse Initiative: ALCF Lighthouse Initiative | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

• Argonne National Lab's Polaris system: Polaris | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility  

• Polaris Hardware Overview: Polaris Machine Overview - ALCF User Guides

Argonne National Labs/ALCF Lighthouse Initiative Training

• Hosted by UW and School of Computing

• November 6, 2024 from 9am-4pm @ Wyoming Union

• See this flyer for more information: ArgonneLabsTraining.pdf

Time	Presenter	Title	Registration Info	Description
9 - 10AM	Kristy Streu	Intro to Lighthouse and ALCF	General Admission	earn about the Lighthouse Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory, which aims to broaden the ALCF user community through partnerships with academic institutions. We will introduce the ALCF systems available to users and highlight some ongoing research projects at the facility.
10 - 11AM	David Martin & Paige Kinsley	Virtual Tour of ALCF Data Center	General Admission	The ALCF is a national scientific user facility that provides supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation in a broad range of disciplines. Come see the Data Center in action.
11:30AM - 12PM	Ye Luo	Using GPUs for Research	General Admission	Argonne researcher Ye Luo will discuss his research and how scaling with GPUs has enabled scientific breakthroughs. Specifically, he will share his work developing QMCPACK, an open-source Quantum Monte Carlo code that enables chemists to parallelize atomistic and quantum-based simulations.
12 - 1PM		Lunch	General Admission with Registration
1- 2 PM	Kristy Streu & Wilber Ouma	Hands-On Getting Started on Polaris	Workshop Registration Required 20 Seat Limit	This session will introduce users with coding experience on HPC clusters and/or supercomputers to the specifics of using Polaris at the ALCF. Polaris is the main production machine at the ALCF, featuring 560 nodes, each equipped with 4 NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
2:30 - 3:30 PM	Filippo Simini	Hands-On Running Apps on Polaris	Workshop Registration Required 20 Seat Limit	This session will demonstrate how to effectively train and run a PyTorch model on Polaris using parallel computing and multiple GPUs.