New User Training and Updated Best Practices on Perlmutter: June 12-13, 2024

June 12, 2024

NERSC will be hosting a New User Training and Using Perlmutter refresher virtual training event over two half-days on Wednesday and Thursday, June 12-13, 2024

The goal of this training is to introduce new users to NERSC and to also provide current NERSC users with a review of using Perlmutter, such as how to build, execute, and submit jobs on Perlmutter and available tools. All NERSC users are invited and encouraged to attend this review of best practices for using Perlmutter.

Registration

To register for this free training event, please complete the online registration form.

Topics

This Virtual training will focus on the following topics:

Computational systems.
Accounts and allocations.
Programming environment.
Running jobs, tools, and best practices.
The NERSC data ecosystem.

Day 1 Agenda: June 12

Time (PDT/UTC-7)	Topic	Presenters
9 - 9:30 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction to NERSC	Rebecca Hartman-Baker and Lipi Gupta
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Navigating NERSC	Lipi Gupta
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 - 10:40 a.m.	IO, Data Storage & Sharing Best Practices	Lipi Gupta
10:40 - 11:10 a.m.	Using Python at NERSC and Best Practices	Charles Lively
11:10 - 12 a.m.	Hands-On Activities and Q&A Survey Completion	Lipi Gupta, Charles Lively, and Erik Palmer

Day 2 Agenda: June 13

Time (PDT/UTC-7)	Topic	Presenters
9 - 9:10 a.m.	Recap of Day 1 and Follow Up Questions	Charles Lively
9:10 - 9:45 a.m.	Programming Environment & Compilation with Best Practices	Erik Palmer
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	Running Jobs and Best Practices	Charles Lively
10:30 - 10:50 a.m.	Using Jupyter at NERSC and Best Practices	Charles Lively
10:50 - 11am	Hands-On Activities and Q&A Survey Completion	Charles Lively and Lipi Gupta