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2025 HPC Tutorials

We're offering free tutorials from mid-July to mid-September!

Download the flier to share with your colleagues. Contact us at hpcic-tutorials [at] llnl.gov (hpcic-tutorials[at]llnl[dot]gov).


Join us to learn how to use a modern, open-source HPC software stack!

 All experience levels are welcome. 
Follow along in real time on your own AWS EC2 instance (provided), supported by the project teams.
Register no later than 24 hours before each tutorial in order to reserve your EC2 instance.

Schedule

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Register now for all or any combination of tutorials. Scroll down to Featured Projects to learn more about each project.

Day Date Time Tutorial Materials
Tuesday July 15 9:00am – 11:00am BLT: build, link, and test large-scale applications BLT tutorial
Tuesday July 22 9:00am – 11:00am Ascent: visualize and analyze your simulations in situ Ascent tutorial
Tuesday July 29 9:00am – 11:00am

RAJA: run and port codes across different GPUs

Umpire: discover, provision, and manage HPC memory

RAJA docs
RAJA tutorial

Umpire docs
Umpire tutorial
Tuesday August 5 9:00am – 12:00pm Spack (part 1 of 2): learn to install your software quickly Spack docs
Spack tutorial
Wednesday August 6 9:00am – 12:00pm Spack (part 2 of 2)
Tuesday August 12 9:00am – 11:00am Flux: run thousands of jobs in a workflow Flux docs
Flux cheat sheet
Flux scheduler repo
Tuesday August 19 9:00am – 11:00am Jacamar CI (part 1 of 2): use GitLab’s robust CI/CD testing on HPC resources

Jacamar CI docs
Jacamar CI tutorial

Wednesday August 20 9:00am – 11:00am Jacamar CI (part 2 of 2)
Tuesday August 26 9:00am – 12:00pm

Caliper: integrate performance profiling capabilities into your applications

Hatchet: analyze hierarchical performance data

Thicket: optimize application performance on supercomputers

Caliper docs
Caliper tutorial

Hatchet docs
Hatchet tutorial

Thicket docs
Thicket tutorial

Wednesday September 3 9:00am – 12:00pm Benchpark: reproduce system, benchmark, and experiment specifications
(tutorial also includes the Ramble dependency)
Benchpark docs
Benchpark tutorial
Ramble docs
Tuesday September 9 9:00am – 11:00am MFEM: use scalable finite element discretizations

MFEM docs
MFEM tutorial
MFEM annual workshop
MFEM monthly seminars

Tuesday September 16 9:00am – 11:00am Axom: leverage robust, flexible software components for scientific applications Axom docs
Axom quick start guide

Featured Projects

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