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Ascent
BLT
Caliper
Flux
Hatchet
Maestro
Merlin
MFEM
RAJA
Spack
Thicket
Umpire
VisIt

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Ascent

Lightweight in situ visualization and analysis infrastructure for multiphysics HPC simulations

Ascent tutorial video Ascent tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Visualization

Tutorial environment: Jupyter Notebooks

Container available: Yes

BLT

A streamlined CMake build system foundation for developing HPC software

BLT tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Build systems

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

Caliper

A library to integrate performance profiling capabilities into applications

Caliper tutorial video Caliper tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Performance; Profiling

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

Flux

A resource management framework customized for HPC systems

Flux tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Batch systems; Resource managers

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: Yes

Hatchet

Graph-indexed Pandas DataFrames for analyzing hierarchical performance data

Hatchet tutorial video Hatchet tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Data analysis; Performance

Tutorial environment: Jupyter Notebooks

Container available: No

Introduction to HPC

This workshop is an introduction to using high performance computing systems effectively

Introduction to HPC at The Carpentries Incubator

Level: Beginner

Topics: HPC basics

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

Maestro

A tool to easily orchestrate general computational workflows both locally and on supercomputers

Maestro tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Workflow managers

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: Yes

Merlin

A tool for running machine learning based workflows

Merlin tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Machine learning; Workflow managers

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

MFEM

a lightweight, scalable C++ library for finite element methods

MFEM tutorial video MFEM tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Finite elements

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: Yes

Python Programming

Programming with Python: Summary and Setup

This introduction to Python is built around a common scientific task: data analysis

Programming with Python at Software Carpentry

Level: Beginner

Topics: Python programming

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

RAJA

RAJA Portability Suite

Software abstractions that enable architecture and programming model portability for HPC apps

RAJA tutorial video RAJA tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: GPU porting; Performance

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

Spack

A package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers

Spack tutorial videos Spack tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Package management

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

Thicket

A Python-based toolkit for analyzing ensemble performance data

Thicket tutorial video Thicket tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Data analysis; Performance

Tutorial environment: Jupyter Notebooks

Container available: No

Umpire

An application-focused API for memory management on NUMA & GPU architectures

Umpire tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: GPU porting; Memory management

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

Unix Shell

The Unix Shell: Summary and Setup

This lesson guides you through the basics of file systems and the shell

The Unix Shell at Software Carpentry

Level: Beginner

Topics: Shell basics

Tutorial environment: Command line

Container available: No

VisIt

Tool for visualizing data defined on two- and three-dimensional structured and unstructured meshes

VisIt tutorial video VisIt tutorial docs

Level: Advanced

Topics: Visualization

Tutorial environment: GUI

Container available: No

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Advanced
GPU porting
Performance
Resource managers
Visualization
Batch systems
Beginner
Container available
GUI
Jupyter Notebooks
Machine learning
Package management
Profiling
Workflow managers
Build systems
Data analysis
Finite elements
HPC basics
Memory management
Python programming
Shell basics
Command line