Archived NERSC Training Classes and Lectures

All the information in these classes is very likely to be completely out of date. Classes are listed by date.

Presentation Media Types

• [PowerPoint] - Microsoft Power Point format.
• [HTML] - Power Point format converted to HTML.

May 19, 2004

• "Efficient Programming with the IMSL Fortran 90 Library", Dr. Edward Stewart, Manager of IMSL Technical Support Engineers. [PowerPoint] [HTML]

December 8, 2003

• "Debugging Programs with (and without) Totalview", Mark Durst, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint] [HTML]

November 3, 2003

• "Scaling MPI I/O and I/O on seaborg.nersc.gov", David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]

October 27, 2003

• "Introduction to CPU performance analysis on Seaborg," Richard Gerber, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint] [HTML]
• "Introduction to IBM's profiling tools "HPMlib" and "PEBenchmarker"," Richard Gerber, NERSC User Services, [PowerPoint] [HTML]

October 13, 2003

• "Single-Node Optimization on the NERSC SP," Michael Stewart, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint] [HTML]
• "Effectively Addressing Memory on POWER3 Nighthwawk II," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint] [HTML]

October 6, 2003

• "NERSC Overview for New Users," David Turner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint] [HTML]
• Working Effectively at NERSC; In-Depth Advice for New Users," Thomas M. DeBoni, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint] [HTML]

May 30, 2003

• "Scaling Up MPI and MPI-I/O on seaborg.nersc.gov," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Understanding and Using Profiling Tools on Seaborg,", Richard Gerber, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "IBM Compiler Optimization Arguments," Michael Stewart, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Effectively Addressing Memory," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• Libraries and Their Performance," Frank V. Hale and Thomas L. DeBoni, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "A Comparison of Performance Analysis Tools on the NERSC SP," Jonathan Carter, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Hybrid MPI and OpenMP Programming on the IBM SP," Yen (Helen) He, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [PowerPoint]
• "Scientific Data Visualization at NERSC," Kenneth Schwartz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [PowerPoint]

April 9, 2003

• "A Comparison of Performance Analysis Tools on the NERSC SP," Jonathan Carter, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]

March 20, 2003

• "Hybrid OpenMP and MPI Programs on the SP: Successes, Failures, and Results," Yun (Helen) He, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [HTML] [PowerPoint]
• "Libraries and Their Performance," Frank V. Hale and Thomas L. DeBoni, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]

February 20, 2003

• "NERSC Overview for New Users," David Turner, NERSC User Services [HTML] [PowerPoint]
• "IBM Compiler Optimization Arguments," Michael Stewart, NERSC User Services [HTML] [PowerPoint]

January 23, 2003

• "A Comparison of Performance Analysis Tools on the NERSC SP," Jonathan Carter, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Introducing Grid Services at NERSC," Iwona Sakrejda, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]

December 17, 2002

• "Effectively Addressing Memory with Loop Contructs," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]
• "Single Node Optimization Techniques on the NERSC SP," Michael Stewart, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]

October 17, 2002

• "NERSC Overview for New and Returning Users," David Turner, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]
• "Understanding and Using Profiling Tools on the SP," Richard Gerber, NERSC User Services.
• "IBM Compiler Optimization Arguments," Michael Stewart, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]
• "Scaling I/O and MPI-I/O on seaborg.nersc.gov," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]
• "Totalview," Majdi Baddourah, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]

June 4, 2002

• "IBM Compiler Optimization Arguments," Michael Stewart, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Performance Profiling Using hpmcount, poe+ & libhpm," Richard Gerber, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "SvPablo and the PERC Performance Tool Suite," Evan Welbourne, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. [PowerPoint]
• "Scaling Up Parallel I/O on the SP," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Totalview," Majdi Baddourah, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Things Your Parents Never Told You About Practicing Safe Computing in a High Performance Computational Environment," Stephen Lau, NERSC Networking and Security Group. [PowerPoint]
• "File and Data Conversion," Jonathan Carter, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "Scaling Up User Codes on the SP," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "A Report on the ACTS Toolkit," Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [PowerPoint]
• "NERSC Software Roadmap," David Skinner, NERSC User Services. [PowerPoint]
• "ACTS Tools: Case Studies with User Codes," Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [PowerPoint]

May 23, 2002

• "Tool on IBM SP," Majdi Baddourah, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]

April 14, 2002

• "Migrating from the Crays to the IBM SP," David Turner, NERSC User Services. [HTML] [PowerPoint]