Workshops

Fall 2020

The Fall 2020 Center for Research Computing workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “M2 Introduction” workshop that will be given once monthly during the semester.

Workshops will be given asynchronously and posted weekly. Open workshop help sessions will be held each Wednesdays via Zoom from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Register to receive Zoom coordinates.

Date	Workshop	Level
September 2	M2 Introduction & New Storage Workflow	Introductory
September 9	Python Workflows on M2	Introductory
September 16	R Workflows on M2	Introductory
September 23	Julia Workflows on M2	Introductory
September 30	Docker & Singularity on M2	Intermediate
October 7	M2 Introduction & New Storage Workflows	Introductory
October 14	Introduction to MPI	Intermediate
October 21	Introduction to OpenMP	Intermediate
October 28	Introduction to OpenACC	Intermediate
November 4	M2 Introduction & New Storage Workflows	Introductory
November 11	No Workshop (SC20)	NA
November 18	Introduction to Standard C++ Parallel Algorithms	Advanced

Summer 2020

The Summer 2020 Center for Research Computing workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “HPC Usage and Development Introduction” workshop on July 6.

The workshops will be given weekly on Mondays July 6 through August 3 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Date	Workshop
July 6	HPC Usage and Development Introduction
July 13	Python Development on M2
July 20	R Development on M2
July 27	OpenMP and MPI Development on M2
August 3	Accelerator Development on M2

Spring 2020

The Spring 2020 Center for Research Computing (CRC) workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to Using M2” workshop that will be given once monthly during the semester.

Workshops will be given weekly on Tuesdays via Zoom from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. There will not be a workshop on March 17.

Date	Workshop
January 21	M2 Introduction
January 28	Introduction to LAPACK and BLAS
February 4	Text Mining with Python on M2 (Lead by Dr. Eric Godat)
February 11	Using the New HPC Portal
February 18	Using GitHub
February 25	Writing Portable Accelerator Code with KOKKOS, RAJA, and OCCA
March 3	M2 Introduction
March 10	Introduction to Parallelization Using MPI
March 17	No Workshop Spring Break
March 24	Writing High Performance Python Code (Recording)
March 31	Creating Portable Environments with Singularity and Docker (Recording)
April 7	M2 Introduction (Recording)
April 14	Introduction to Parallelization Using OpenMP and OpenACC (Recording)
April 21	Profiling Applications on M2 (Recording)
April 28	Improving Code Vectorization (Recording)

Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to Using M2” workshop that will be given once monthly during the semester.

Workshops will be given weekly on Wednesday’s in Fondren Library East Room 110 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Register here!

Date	Workshop
September 4	Introduction to Using M2
September 11	Vectorization Using OpenMP
September 18	R Workflows on M2
September 25	Using Git and GitHub (Introduction and Git)
October 2	Introduction to Using M2
October 9	Python Workflows on M2
October 16	Hybrid MPI with OpenMP and OpenACC
October 23	Using Machine Learning Toolkits on M2
October 30	Parallel Architecture Abstraction Via OCCA and RAJA
November 6	Introduction to Using M2
November 13	Using Docker and Singularity on M2
November 20	No Workshop: SC19 Conference
November 27	No Workshop: Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4	Introduction to Using M2

Summer 2019

The SMU HPC Summer Workshop 2019 was given August 20 - August 23, 2019, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM in Dedman Life Sciences Building room 131. The workshop’s website can be found here.

Spring 2019

The Spring 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to ManeFrame II (M2)” workshop that will be given once monthly during the semester. Users are encourged to stop by to discuss M2 usage and application issues during the open help sessions.

Workshops will be given weekly on Wednesday’s in Fondren Library East Room 110 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM. Register here!

Date	Workshop
January 23	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
January 30	Open Help Session
February 6	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
February 13	Using Version Control
February 20	Using Spack for Development
February 27	Open Help Session
March 6	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
March 13	Spring Break
March 20	Using Accelerated Libraries
April 3	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
April 10	Improving Vectorization
April 17	Using MPI + OpenMP/OpenACC
April 24	Open Help Session
May 1	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction

Fall 2018

The Fall 2018 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the new compute capabilities provided with the new cluster. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to ManeFrame II (M2)” workshop that will be given once monthly during the semester. Users are encourged to stop by to discuss M2 usage and application issues during the open help sessions.

Workshops were given weekly on Wednesday’s in Fondren Library East Room 110 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM.

Date	Workshop
August 22	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
August 29	Open Help Session
September 5	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
September 12	Parallel R on M2
September 19	Using Spack for Development
September 26	Open Help Session
October 3	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
October 10	OpenMP Introduction
October 17	OpenACC Introduction
October 24	MPI Introduction
October 31	Open Help Session
November 7	ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction
November 14	Parallel Python on M2
November 21	No Workshop (Thanksgiving)
November 28	Open Help Session

Summer 2018

The SMU HPC Summer Workshop 2018 was given June 11 - June 15, 2018, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM in Embrey Engineering Building room 123. The workshop’s website can be found here.

Spring 2018

Workshops were given weekly on Wednesday’s in Fondren Library East Room 110 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM.

Date	Workshop
January 24	Introduction to ManeFrame II (M2)
January 31	Using R on ManeFrame II (M2)
February 07	Introduction to ManeFrame II (M2)
February 14	Using SAS on ManeFrame II (M2)
February 21	Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks
February 28	Accessing Graphical Applications on ManeFrame II (M2)
March 07	Introduction to ManeFrame II (M2)
March 14	No Workshop (Spring Break)
March 21	Using the NVIDIA P100 Nodes
March 28	Advanced Slurm Features (Slurm Introduction)
April 04	Introduction to ManeFrame II (M2)
April 11	Using the Intel Xeon Phi Nodes
April 18	Parallel Python on ManeFrame II (M2)
April 25	Tips for Automating Computational Workflows

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