Description: This seminar will help users develop a better understanding of HPC networks and how they can reduce communication costs to develop more efficient and scalable HPC codes. This seminar will include an overview of the networks on DoD HPC systems, discussion of key factors that impact performance, discussion of available tools for analyzing network performance, and optimization techniques for improving the network performance of HPC codes.

CUI

Description: The course focuses on performance data collection, analysis, and performance optimization.

Presenters: Sameer Shende and John Linford, Paratools, Inc.

Date/Location: August 1, 2012, ERDC

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, 1 August 2012.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Description: This presentation will introduce TAU's profiling, tracing, and debugging support with focus on performance data collection, analysis, and program performance optimization.

Presenter: John Linford, Paratools, Inc.

Date/Location: July 16, 2013, ERDC

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, 16 July 2013.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Description: A Tutorial presented at HPCMP PETTT Technical Interchange Meeting on High Performance Signal Processing.  Programming, Optimizing and Tuning your Message Passing Interface (MPI) application with MVAPICH2 and MVAPICH2-GDR Libraries.

Date/Location: April 26, 2016, AFRL

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, 26 April 2016.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Description: Multiple Objective Evolutionary Strategies (MOES) is an optimization program that can optimize over multiple objectives simultaneously, evaluating numerous instances of the problem using a "bag of tasks" paradigm.

Presenter: Dr. Ross Smith, Engility Corp. 

Date:  February 10, 2016

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, 10 February 2016.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Distribution Statement D. Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, Administrative or Operational Use, 19 May 2022.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Description: The SDSC team presents an overview of parallel I/O tuning and optimization in large-scale scientific applications using High Performance Computing resources and parallel file systems.

Presenters: Dr. Rajiv Bendale & Dr. Amit Majumdar

Date/Location: March 7-8, 2017, Tec^Edge, Dayton, OH

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, March 8, 2017. Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Description: Source–Level Code Optimization involves the modification of the user code (but not the algorithm) to improve the code’s efficiency and run-time. This seminar will discuss the optimization process, CPU/Memory architectural aspects that have a large impact on performance, and multiple examples of simple modifications that programmers at any level can perform. 10-20 short examples in both C and Fortran will be provided and discussed.

Distribution Statement D. Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, Administrative or Operational Use, 9 June 2022.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Description: The objective of this workshop is to present performance aspects and optimizations that are related to data movement in HPC systems.

Presenters: Drs. Amit Majumdar, Pietro Cicotti, Mahidhar Tatineni, and Manu Shantharam, San Diego Supercomputing Center

Date/Location: December 6–7, 2016, HEAT Center: Aberdeen, MD

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, 7 December 2016.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Description:  The objective of this workshop is to present performance aspects and optimizations that are related to data movement in HPC systems.

Presenters: Various

Date/Location: June 27–28, 2017, HEAT Center: Aberdeen, MD

Distribution Statement: D Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only; administrative or operational use; 28 June 2017. Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Description: This course familiarizes students with the hardware and software architecture, programming models, optimization of user codes; and provides sufficient instruction to inexperienced users to enable them to develop and optimize applications, that run on Cray XC Series (Cray XC30 or XC40) systems.

Presenter: Rick Slick, Cray (Manufacturing Center)

Date/Location: July 7-10, 2015, NASA-SSC

Distribution Statement D. Distribution limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, for administrative or operational use, 10 July 2015.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Modernization Office, 10501 Furnace Road, Suite 101, Lorton, VA 22079.

Description: In this presentation, we will provide an overview of Arm Forge, a cross-platform, integrated environment for debugging and optimizing parallel codes at any scale. We will provide hands-on demonstrations of how Arm Forge reduces development time, simplifies debugging, and eases application performance enhancement.

Presenter(s): Beau Paisley, Arm
Location: Webcast
Date & Time: January 11, 2022, 2:00p - 4:00p ET

Distribution Statement D. Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, Administrative or Operational Use, 11 January 2022.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Distribution Statement C. Distribution a authorized to U.S. Government Agencies and their contractors, Administrative or Operational Use, 11 February 2020.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Description: This series of seminars covers various aspects of the ARL DSRC Supercomputing Outpost, or SCOUT. The series begins with an introductory overview. Additional weekly seminars cover running TensorFlow and PyTorch in the context of PPC64le architecture, utilizing IBM’s Distributed Deep Learning (DDL) framework in conjunction with Horovod to speed up training, and building PPC64le containers with fakeroot. Other topics covered include optimizing deep learning models for deployment using TensorRT integrated with TensorFlow (TF-TRT).

Presenter(s): Dr. Mike Lasinski, Sheila McGee-Rosser, Frank Moore-Clingenpeel, Olena Tkachenko, Dr. Wes Brewer - GDIT / PET
Location: Webcast
Date & Time: April 22 - May 20, 2021, 2:00p - 3:00p & 2:00p - 3:30p ET

Distribution Statement D. Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, Administrative or Operational Use, 20 May 2021.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Distribution Statement D. Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only, Administrative or Operational Use, 10 April 2019.  Other requests for this document shall be referred to the High Performance Computing Modernization Office, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.