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A Deep Dive into the HPC SDK, May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025

Introduction

LANL is hosting a Deep Dive into the Nvidia HPC SDK Training, presented by Scot Halverson from Nvidia. This event is open to NERSC users. 

Date and Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm (Pacific time), Thursday, May 29, 2025

Description

In this talk, we’ll cover the broad set of compilers, tools, and libraries that make up the NVIDIA HPC SDK. We’ll cover what’s included in the HPC SDK as well as motivations, how to use it with your project, and future additions that may be interesting to developers at DOE labs.

Topics Covered

  • NVIDIA Compilers
  • Programming Models
  • NVIDIA Math Libraries
  • NVIDIA Communications Libraries
  • HPC & Compute Tools

Registration

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Speaker Bio

Scot Halverson is a Senior Solutions architect for HPC and AI at NVIDIA. Scot has focused his career on accelerated computing, most recently as a member of the Supercomputing team working closely with national labs within the DOE and other HPC centers. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Scot spent nearly 10 years at Los Alamos National laboratory across a number of Divisions including X Computational Physics (XCP), Computer and Computational Sciences (CCS), and Analytics Intelligence and Technology (A) where he applied parallel and accelerated computing methods to a variety of LANL’s computational workloads. Scot has a Masters degree in Computer Science, as well as undergraduate degrees in computer science and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.