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FollowCori KNL: Programming and Optimization, Feb 12-13, 2019
February 12, 2019
NERSC will host a two-day training event for users on Cori KNL Programming and Optimization from Tuesday, February 12 to Wednesday, February 13. The first day of the training will be mostly presentations from Cray and NERSC staff, and the second day will be in the format of a hackathon that users can bring your own application codes and get hands-on help for KNL porting and optimization.
Agenda
| Time (PST) | Topic | Presenters | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12 | 8:30 am | Refreshments | |
| 9:00 am | Introduction: The basics of compiling and running jobs on KNL | NERSC/Zhengji Zhao | |
| 9:30 am | System Hardware Overview | Cray/Rich Slick | |
| Brief XC overview | |||
| Haswell and KNL | |||
| 10:00 am | Break | ||
| 10:20 am | System Software Overview | Cray/Rich Slick | |
| Cray compiler | |||
| Datawarp | |||
| Storage | |||
| Slurm | |||
| 11:20 pm | Using Cray systems with KNL processors (Part 1) | Cray/Kevin Thomas | |
| KNL hardware | |||
| Processor modes | |||
| CPU affinity | |||
| Slurm usage | |||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch + continue with Part 1 | ||
| 1:30 pm | Using Cray systems with KNL processors (Part II) | Cray/Kevin Thomas | |
| 2::20 pm | Break | ||
| 2:30 pm | Hands-on | ||
| 4:30 pm | Adjourn (Day 1) | ||
| Feb 13 | 8:30 am | Refreshments | |
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9:00 am | Performance Summary | NERSC/Jack Deslippe |
| 9:30 am | Performance Tools | Cray/Rich Slick | |
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:50 am | Preparing to optimize for KNL | Cray/Kevin Thomas | |
| Target science | |||
| Profilng and hotspots | |||
| Job size scaling | |||
| Memory usage | |||
| 11:50 am | lunch and discussion | ||
| 1:00pm | Hands-on | ||
| 4:30pm | Adjourn (Day 2) | |
Registration
Please register here.
Downloads
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Compile-and-Run-on-Cori-KNL-20190212.pptx | PowerPoint fileCompile and Run on Cori KNL by Zhengji Zhao
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TR-CPO-NERSC-20190211.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF fileCori Hardware and Software Overview, Rick Slick, Cray
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Preparing-to-Optimize-for-KNL-Feb2019.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF filePreparing to Optimize for KNL. Kevin Thomas, Cray
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NESAP-Performance-Summary-Feb2019.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF fileNESAP Performance Summary, Jack Deslippe, NERSC
