ARCHER News
Tuesday 8th August 2017
- Reminder: MPI Quiz Webinar
- Reminder: Module defaults update
- ARCHER Maintenance 23rd August
- Reminder: Poster Submission Deadline 13th August 2017 - 7th International Women in HPC workshop at SC17
- Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities
Reminder: Test Your Knowledge! MPI Quiz, Wednesday 9th August 1500 BST Quizmaster: David Henty, EPCC
Using the basic MPI functions, such as point-to-point send and receive, is relatively straightforward. In most cases, the default behaviour of MPI means that simple programs function correctly; these good design choices are one of the reasons why the library has proved so popular over the years.
However, even these seemingly simple functions can be a little more complicated than they first seem. For example, if you issue a send and there is no matching receive then what happens depends on exactly how you initiated the send. Understanding the defined behaviour in these slightly more complicated situations can be very helpful in ensuring your MPI programs function correctly in all possible circumstances.
This webinar will take the form of an interactive online multiple choice Q&A session which you can undertake anonymously if you wish. The questions are partly designed for fun to test attendees' knowledge, but are mainly aimed at promoting discussion about MPI and its usage in real applications. All that is assumed is a working knowledge of basic MPI functionality: send, receive, collectives, derived datatypes and non-blocking communications.
We will be using a Socrative online quiz - to try out a dummy quiz, go to https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ and enter "HPCQUIZ" for "Room Name".
Further details can be found at: Virtual Tutorials and Webinars
Reminder: Module defaults update
The Module defaults on ARCHER are due to change on Wednesday 9 Aug 2017.
The list of proposed changes can be found at: http://www.archer.ac.uk/about-archer/news-events/news/2017-08-09-module-changes.php
ARCHER Maintenance 23rd August
ARCHER service will be undergoing maintenance from 08:00 to 20:00 on 23rd August.
The Archer login nodes, pp nodes, compute nodes and the RDF will be unavailable.
Reminder: Poster Submission Deadline 13th August 2017 - 7th International Women in HPC workshop at SC17
https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/
The 7th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC17 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the across the HPC workforce. Our call for posters from early career women on any aspect of HPC (users and developers) is now open. If you use a supercomputer for your work please consider submitting an abstract to participate in our workshop.
Deadline for submissions: August 13th 2017 AOE
For full details please see: http://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/submit/
Sessions include:
- Improving Diversity in the Workplace: What methods have been put in place and tested to improve workplace diversity and inclusion?
- Career Development and Mentoring: Skills to thrive; sharing your experiences and advice on how to succeed in the workplace.
- Virtual Poster Showcase: Highlighting work from women across industry and academia.
Upcoming Training Opportunities
- Test your knowledge! MPI Quiz Webinar Wednesday 9th August
- Supercomputing Online Starts 28 Aug 2017
- Message-passing programming with MPI 31 Aug - 1 Sept 2017 Exeter
- Advanced Topics in MPI in conjunction with UKCTRF 6 Sept 2017 Southampton
- Message-passing programming with MPI 11-12 September 2017 York
- Advanced MPI in conjunction with INTERTWinE 12-13 September 2017 Cambridge
- Hands-on Introduction to HPC for Life Scientists 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2017 EPCC, Edinburgh
- Advanced OpenMP in conjunction with INTERTWinE 12-14 December 2017 Imperial College London
