TeraGrid Training Opportunities

1. TeraGrid Training Opportunities Campus Champions Seminar 15 April 2009

2. Training Resources and Opportunities • Live Training • Offered at RPs, Conferences, and on campuses • Let us know if you would like training on your campus! • Let us know of conferences we should be attending • Synchronous Training • Working to reach more users with real-time interaction • TeraGrid is expanding sync training offerings • Asynchronous Training • Self-paced, just-in-time training • TeraGrid is working to expand on-line training • Over 30 new topics offered in 2008 - largely influenced by Ranger and Kraken coming on-line

3. How to Find TeraGrid Training Info • TeraGrid Web Site - Events Calendar • www.teragrid.org/eot/calendar.php • TeraGrid User Portal - Training • https://portal.teragrid.org/gridsphere/gridsphere?cid=training&JavaScript=enabled

4. HPC University • A virtual organization to share educational and training materials for HPC communities • A multi-agency, multi-organization digital library • Catalog of resources and materials • Events calendar (RSS feed) • Opportunities for educators and students • Reviews of materials • An evolving site - driven by community needs - let us know how it can be improved! • Please submit resources, events, etc.! www.hpcuniv.org

5. Upcoming TeraGrid Training • Quarterly TeraGrid New User Training (synchronous delivery) • Friday, April 24 from 2-4pm EDT • http://teragrid.org/news/news09/0415.html • HPC Seminar Series offered by LONI (synchronous delivery) • 2009 Cray XT5 Quad-core Workshop, April 13-16, 2009 • Hands-On Introduction to Scientific Visualization, April 17, 2009 • Fortran 90/95 Programming for HPC, April 21, 2009 • Integrated Performance Monitoring, April 23, 2009 • Introduction to Parallel Computing on Ranger, May 28-29, 2009 • Introduction to Parallel Computing on Ranger and Lonestar, June 11-12, 2009 • TeraGrid ‘09 will offer 8 tutorials - June 22 • Parallel Optimization & Scientific Visualization for Ranger, July 16-17, 2009 • Introduction to Parallel Computing on Ranger and Lonestar, September 17-18 • Data Analysis on Ranger. October 12-13, 2009 The list continues to grow….your input is needed to help us determine topics to offer!!

6. Other Community Offerings • Open Science Grid - Grid Schools • North Carolina Grid School -- April 22-24, UNC/Renci/Duke, NC • Midwest Grid School – tentative -- September, Chicago • International Summer School on Grid Computing (July 5-17, 2009), Nice, France • Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science – HASTAC III, Urbana-Champaign • The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research Workshop, April 22, 2009 • Imaging and Image Analyses, April 22-23 • Virtual Worlds Visualization Workshop, April 22 • National Center for Computational Sciences • www.nccs.gov/user-support/training-education/

7. On-line Training Tutorials • Ranger Virtual Workshop modules via TeraGrid User Portal: • Parallel Programming Concepts and HPC • Ranger Environment • Message Passing Interface (MPI) • OpenMP • Profiling and Debugging • Optimization and Scalability • http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ta/ta_display.php?ta_id=100428 • CI-Tutor • High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure topics • Debugging Serial and Parallel Codes • Intermediate MPI • Introduction to MPI • Introduction to Multi-core Performance • Introduction to OpenMP • Introduction to Visualization • Multilevel Parallel Programming • Parallel Computing Explained • Parallel Numerical Libraries • Performance Tuning for Clusters • http://ci-tutor.ncsa.uiuc.edu/login.php • What topics would you recommend we make available via on-line resources?

8. TeraGrid ‘09 Conference Tutorials • Cactus • Terascale Remote and Collaborative Visualization • Metascheduling on the TeraGrid • Scientific Workflows: The Pegasus Workflow Management System • Preparing Your Application for TeraGrid Beyond 2010 • REDDnet: A cyberinfrastructure for moving data across the TeraGrid boundary • Building Science Gateways • Using Tools to Understand Performance Issues on TeraGrid Machines: IPM and the POINT Project http://www.teragrid.org/tg09/

9. SC09 Education Program Summer Workshops • May 17-23: Computational Chemistry at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK • May 25-30: Introduction to Computational Thinking at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI • June 7-13: Computational Biology at University of California Merced, Merced, CA • June 7-13: Parallel and Cluster Computing at Kean University, Union, NJ • June 14-20: Computational Physics at Widener University, Chester, PA • July 5-11: Computational Thinking at Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA • July 5-11: Parallel and Cluster Computing at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA • July 12-18: Pre-College Computational Thinking at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL • July 12-18: Computational Engineering at Ohio Supercomputing Center, Columbus, OH • Aug 2- 8: Computational Thinking at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR • Aug 9-15: Parallel and Cluster Computing at University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK • November - 4 day event for educators in Portland • Let us know if you would like to host a workshop next year! www.computationalscience.org/workshops2009

10. Other Community Offerings • Supercomputing in Plain English • This workshop series offered by the OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research • Occurs each Tuesday this semester; Sessions are free • http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education.php • Virtual School for Computational Science and Eng. • The Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering is offering two week-long Summer Schools for graduate students at 4 sites, via webcast • Scaling to Petascale - August 3-7, 2009 • Many-Core Programming - August 10-14, 2009 • www.greatlakesconsortium.org/education/VirtualSchool/

11. Other Community Offerings • Scientific Computing Curriculum Package • New & improved package of TACC’s 5 courses (August 2009): • Fortran & C for HPC, Scientific/Technical computing; • Parallel computing, Visualization & data analysis, Distributed computing. • Lectures, Assignments, Projects, In-depth content, and Faculty guides. • www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/academic_courses.php • Purpose: build your own courses with a solid foundation. • Enhance courses with existing training & community offerings: • TG Conference Tutorials, Virtual School, HASTAC III, NCCS, SC09 Workshops, HPC University, Training resources, CI Tutor, Science Gateways. • Supercomputing in Plain English, Open Science Grid (Grid School), CSERD. • Be creative! • Improve these courses to further TeraGrid’s EOT mission! • Check out the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science.

12. HPC Training and Education Survey • We are conducting an annual survey of the community needs and requirements • We would like your feedback, and that of your local researchers and educators • Objectives • Identify community training and education needs • Identify quality materials that already exist • Identify gaps in offerings we should focus development efforts on • Begin process to develop HPC Competencies http://www.rrscs.org/survey/petascale.shtml

13. We Need and Value Your Recommendations • What do you and your users need? • What is the right mix of introductory, intermediate, and advanced topics? • What topics would be most useful? • What is the right mix of live, sync, and async? • What are you offering or developing? • Please submit any materials and events you may have to share via HPC University • What are you developing? • Would you like to help review materials? • We have materials in HPC Univ in need of reviews • We are developing new content that will need reviews

14. Would the following be of interest to you for future Campus Champion training? • Data storage and movement across TeraGrid • Scientific Visualization - tools and services that are available to users • Information Services - software tool kits available • Allocations process update • InCommon - how Shibboleth can benefit your users accessing TeraGrid from campus resources • Open Science Grid opportunities • How to create CI-Tutor training materials • Other topics of interest?

15. Advertisements! • Please encourage your faculty and students to register for TeraGrid ’09 • TeraGrid has funding for registration, travel and housing for 75 high school, undergraduate and graduate students to attend - please help spread the news!

16. David Hart <dhart@indiana.edu> Brad Armosky <barmosky@tacc.utexas.edu> Sandie Kappes <skappes@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Jim Ferguson <jwf@utk.edu> Scott Lathrop <scott@ncsa.uiuc.edu> THANK YOU!