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SUMMARY:Introduction to supercomputing
DESCRIPTION:When you need to perform many calculations\, or analyses that are too large for your own system\, clusters and supercomputers provide the computing power you need. In this course\, you will learn to work with the national supercomputer Snellius and the national computing cluster Lisa. \n  \n\n\n\nWhat will you learn in this training?\nIn this training you will do practical exercises to learn how to effectively use the national computing cluster Lisa and the national supercomputer Snellius and how to complete your tasks with minimal effort in the shortest possible time. \nFor whom?\nAnyone who wants to know how to perform massive computing tasks.\nThe language of instruction is English. \nPrerequisites\nBasic knowledge of Unix shell is helpful.
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/introduction-to-supercomputing-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training
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SUMMARY:LUMI: Hackathon - Optimizing for AMD GPUs
DESCRIPTION:The Hackathon is a way for you to get free help to optimize your software for the AMD GPUs available on LUMI-G! \nYou can apply if you are a researcher or a company located in either one of the LUMI consortium countries or a member of EuroHPC country. Ph.D. students and holders of postdoctoral fellowships are also eligible to apply. Up to six (6) projects will be selected for this hackathon. The selected projects will receive help from HPE and AMD staff of the HPE Center of Excellence for LUMI and from members of the LUMI User Support Team. The Hackathon will be on site at CSC in Espoo (close to Helsinki). The deadline for applications is February 24 2023. \nThere will be another hackathon in the second half of 2023. \nThe following sections give more detail on what to expect and describe how you can apply. In order to make sure we can properly support those who attend we are asking for some information on what you hope to achieve. \nWho can apply\nThis is an open call. Anyone who is a member of an organization eligible to receive an allocation for LUMI compute resources is also welcome to apply to this program. In brief\, this means that a research software developer affiliated with a research organization in the EuroHPC countries and/or countries part of the LUMI consortium can apply. A company\, which has its headquarters in such countries\, is also eligible. By partnering with European research groups and/or companies\, a non-European applicant can also participate\, but please note that the principal investigator of any projects that apply will need to be based in the EU or an associated country. Ph.D. students and holders of postdoctoral fellowships are also eligible to apply\, but we may ask for further letters of support in such cases. \nFor more information\, please see: \n\nLUMI General Terms of Use https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/lumi-general-terms-of-use_1-0/\nEuroHPC JU Access Policy https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2021-03/Decision%2006.2021%20-%20Access%20policy.pdf\n\nWhat we are looking for\nWe are looking for research groups and companies interested in making their scientific software utilize efficiently the new AMD GPU-compute architecture in LUMI\, in collaboration with LUMI experts. We are looking for proposals outlining a team effort of solving performance bottlenecks in existing software. The scope should be limited so that the task can be accomplished in one week with your team of two (2) to four (4) people. \nCollectively the team should know the application intimately. There will be intensive mentoring during this 5-day hands-on workshop. Mentors come from HPE’s Center of Excellence\, and the LUMI User Support Team and will help your team accomplish your team’s goal.  We expect that your software already compiles and runs on AMD GPUs\, preferably with a build system based on standard tools like Make or CMake. \nIt is an advantage if intended work is mainly in their own source code\, and not in external third-party libraries (for which they are not the main developers)\, as it may be difficult to interact quickly with third parties during the hackathon. \nWe are mainly looking for software with open source licenses\, or at least free academic use. We will consider commercially licensed software only in exceptional cases. \nHow to apply\nClosing date: 24 February 2023\, 17:00 CETHackathon period: 17-21 April 2023 \nWe will organise an accompanying course about profiling GPU programs the week before the hackathon. It will happen online on the 13 April from 9:00 until 17:00. Attendance from teams joining the hackathon is advised. \nPlease register here: https://ssl.eventilla.com/event/yWdEZ \nThe application form is relatively short and we ask for: contact information\, a short technical description of the software (programming languages\, libraries etc)\, a description of the intended work\, and a motivation for why a successful effort will useful for the end-users (scientists). \nTeams whose application successfully passes the selection process will need to register for the event to confirm participation within two weeks from notification of acceptance. The notification of acceptance will include information on how to register. \nHow we will assess your application\nAssessment process\nThe teams will be selected based on a scientific and technical review. The scientific review is performed by the LUMI consortium and/or external evaluators. The technical review is performed by the LUMI User Support Team and HPE/AMD Center of Excellence (“CoE”). We may ask for an interview to discuss your proposal (done remotely). In such case\, applicants will be provided with comments prior to the interview in order to prepare. The interview will only be focused on the technical feasibility and not on the scientific merit. \nAssessment criteria\nThe scientific assessment is mainly done with respect to the potential impact in the specific field of science where the software will be used. Relatively less importance will be paid to the scientific track record of the applicants. Furthermore\, the proposed software and/or implementation is evaluated relative to the state-of-the-art in the field\, and if a successful effort would fill a gap in the currently available software on LUMI. \n  \nThe technical assessment is mainly done with respect to the technical feasibility of porting the software to AMD GPUs and subsequently running on the LUMI supercomputer. These include both: 1) technical aspects of the software such as programming language\, the use of libraries and frameworks\, and the internal data structures and algorithms\, and 2) the practical aspects such the difficulty of achieving the goal during the hackathon and the team’s ability to participate on-site. In particular\, the software development track record of the applicant (or applicants)\, and the balance of skills in the final project team\, which will include staff from the HPE CoE and the LUMI User Support Team\, will be taken into account. Projected software speed-ups or preliminary benchmarks are helpful in the evaluation\, but are not required. \nVenue\nThe hackathon will be held at CSC – IT center for science in Espoo\, Finland on April 17-21. It will start around lunchtime on the 17th and end at lunchtime on the 21st to allow for travel. The region is served by Helsinki-Vantaan airport. It takes approximately 1h to reach CSC from the airport. We do not provide accommodation. \nContact details\nFor any other specific information\, please contact: \n\nLUMI User Support\nDetailed technical information about LUMI can be found in this blog post.
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/lumi-hackathon-optimizing-for-amd-gpus/
LOCATION:CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd\, Keilaranta 14\, Epsoo\, 02150\, Finland
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Portable GPU Programming
DESCRIPTION:Join AMD for an interactive live webinar! \nExperience the power and adaptability of AMD Instinct™ GPUs and ROCm™ software. Discover the ease of porting CUDA code to HIP with our easy to use ‘hipify’ tools that allow you to make your already written code effortlessly portable across AMD Instinct™ accelerators and other GPUs. \nDuring this 60-minute event\, attendees will receive an overview of the AMD Instinct™ M100 and MI200 series accelerators and the ROCm™ compilers\, libraries\, and tools. Attendees will then learn how to hipify existing code and program AMD GPUs with HIP and OpenMP 4.5. Stick around after the presentation for a live Q&A with our ROCm expert\, Joe Schoonover.  Sounds like something you would like to be a part of? \n  \nThursday\, March 30th\, 2023\, 1PM CT \nRegister Now \n 
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/introduction-to-portable-gpu-programming/
CATEGORIES:Training
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SUMMARY:Digital Competence Centre projects 2022 presentation (II)
DESCRIPTION:The 10 initiatives taken up through the Digital Competence Centres in 2022 include interesting projects on virtual data assistance\, Yoda\, SRAM and textmining. SURF is organising three online information sessions to share the results. \n\n\nIn an interactive manner\, each online session will cover three projects/pilots of pathways completed by 2022. Registration in advance is not necessary\, you are cordially invited to join one or more sessions online! \nPresentations 27 March\n\n\n\n1. Textmining in Dutch-language medical text\nUMC Utrecht\, Erasmus MC\, Radboud UMC and UMC Groningen\n\n\n2. Building Containerised Workflow for FAIR Data Cube\nRadboud UMC\n\n\n3. Collaborative Oral History Research Environment (CORE)\nUniversity of Amsterdam\n\n\n\n* Note: the presentations are in English \nBackground\nThe digitisation of science is noticeable in all fields and disciplines. The implementation plan “Investments in digital research infrastructure” describes how Digital Competence Centres (DCCs) are to play a role in pooling and sharing knowledge and expertise in the field of digitisation. SURF has an important role in technically facilitating and coordinating the secure\, federated system to interconnect the DCCs and in supporting the DCCs in knowledge sharing. SURF supports the DCCs\, including by issuing calls for proposals\, organising a SURF Research Bootcamp and facilitating the DCC-IN network. \nFor whom?\nAll those interested in DCCs. Institutions not affiliated to SURF and other interested parties are also welcome to join! \nParticipate\nRegistration in advance is not necessary: you can join one or more online sessions. See the MS Teams link for the second session on 27 March on this page. \nContact\nMore background information? Email dcc-support@surf.nl.
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/digital-competence-centre-projects-2022-presentation-ii/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Developer Conference: NVIDIA GTC - Addressing the AI Skills Gap
DESCRIPTION:Demand for AI and HPC programming skills is booming. As demand grows\, a skill gap is forming. \nBring your questions to the panel “Addressing the AI Skills Gap” on March 22 at 2pm CET with DIGITALEUROPE\,  TechUK\, MinnaLearn\, BME and EuroCC at #GTC23 as we discuss the most in-demand skills in the market\, and options for bridging the skills gap. \n  \nDemand for AI\, accelerated computing\, and HPC programming skills is booming. And as this demand grows\, a notable skill gap is forming. If you’re a business leader who’s facing these issues or a developer planning next career steps\, join this… \nSpeakers \nKevin McFall\,  Master Instructor\, NVIDIA \nViivi Pitkanen\, Co-founder & Head of Growth\, MinnaLearn \nMartina Blazkova\, PhD\, Senior Education and Training Officer\, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación \nBálint Gyires-Tóth\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, Budapest University of Technology and Economics \nHelena Lovegrove\, Director of Operations and Projects\, DIGITALEUROPE \nNimmi Patel\, Head of Skills\, Talent and Diversity\, techUK \nIndustry: All Industries\nTopic: Deep Learning – Frameworks \nWednesday\, Mar 22 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CET \n  \nRegister > \nGTC Developer Conference:\nExplore Breakthroughs in AI\, Accelerated Computing\, and Beyond at GTC\nThe Conference for the Era of AI and the Metaverse
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/developer-conferance-nvidia-gtc-addressing-the-ai-skills-gap/
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SUMMARY:Your secrets are safe with us: Tooling for research with sensitive data
DESCRIPTION:Many areas of research deal with sensitive data that cannot be shared widely. They have to be protected due to privacy\, intellectual property\, or other reasons. In this event\, we will discuss several projects\, tools and techniques to work with sensitive data in research. \nIn the context of open science\, research data are increasingly shared for reuse. When working with sensitive data\, however\, such sharing is often hampered due to privacy\, intellectual property or other limitations due to the sensitive nature of the data. This limits the degree of reuse in research tremendously. More and more\, however\, solutions and strategies are being developed to circumvent these limitations. \n\n\nThe aim of this afternoon is to give an overview of current projects\, tools and techniques to work safely with sensitive data. The afternoon will consist of short presentations and demos\, with ample room for questions\, and drinks afterwards. \n\n\n\n\nProgramme Tuesday March 21\nChair: Annette Langedijk \n\n13:00-13:30 Doors open\n13:30-13:40: Welcome (Matthijs van Otegem\, Director University Library Utrecht)\nPresentations and demo’s:\n\n13:40-13:55 The Data Privacy Project (Dorien Huijser\, Utrecht University)\n13:55-14:20 Tools-to-Data (Joris van Zundert\, Huygens Institute)\n14:20-14:45 Federated learning (Esther Bron\, Erasmus Medical Center\, Health-RI)\n14:45-15:15 Break\n15:15-15:40 D3I – A platform for digital trace data donation (Laura van Boeschoten\, Utrecht University)\n15:40-16:05 Synthetic data (Erik-Jan van Kesteren\, Utrecht University\, ODISSEI SODA team)\n16:05-16:30 Overview of privacy-preserving techniques (Freek Dijkstra\, SURF)\n\n\n16:30-17:00: Closing with drinks\n\n\n\n\n\nFor whom\nThe event is intended for research data support staff and researchers with an interest in working with sensitive research data. It will provide an opportunity to learn about existing initiatives and connect with similarly interested colleagues. \nOrganisation\nSURF and Utrecht University. \n\nMore information & registrate
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/research-with-sensitive-data/
LOCATION:Utrecht University\, Heidelberglaan 3\, Utrecht\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Digital Competence Centre projects 2022 presentation (I)
DESCRIPTION:The 10 initiatives taken up through the Digital Competence Centres in 2022 include interesting projects in the areas of virtual data assistance\, Yoda\, SRAM and textmining. SURF is organising three online information sessions in February\, March and April to share the results. \n  \n\n\n\nIn an interactive manner\, each online session will cover three projects/pilots of pathways completed by 2022. Registration in advance is not necessary\, you are cordially invited to join one or more sessions online! \nPresentations 28 February\n\n\n\n1. Research Cloud Community Engagement\nUtrecht University\, TU Eindhoven and Wageningen University\n\n\n2. Research Software Directory: software in the shop window\nAmsterdam UMC\, Leiden University\, Utrecht University and Netherlands eScience Center\n\n\n3. Bootcamps: Towards Circular Science\nMaastricht University\n\n\n\nBackground\nThe digitisation of science is noticeable in all fields and disciplines. The implementation plan “Investments in digital research infrastructure” describes how Digital Competence Centres (DCCs) are to play a role in pooling and sharing knowledge and expertise in the field of digitisation. SURF has an important role in technically facilitating and coordinating the secure\, federated system to interconnect the DCCs and in supporting the DCCs in knowledge sharing. SURF supports the DCCs\, including by issuing calls for proposals\, organising a SURF Research Bootcamp and facilitating the DCC-IN network. \nFor whom?\nAll those interested in DCCs. Institutions not affiliated to SURF and other interested parties are also welcome to join! \nParticipation\nRegistration in advance is not necessary: you can join one or more online sessions. The MS Teams link for the first session on 28 February can be found on this page. \nFollow the session via this link\, Registration in advance is not necessary. \nThe second and third sessions will take place on 27 March and 26 April. \nContact\nMore background information? Email dcc-support@surf.nl.
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/digital-competence-centre-projects-2022-presentation-i/
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SUMMARY:Training: Introduction to supercomputing
DESCRIPTION:When you need to perform many calculations\, or analyses that are too large for your own system\, clusters and supercomputers provide the computing power you need. In this course\, you will learn to work with the national supercomputer Snellius and the national computing cluster Lisa. \nWhen you need to perform many calculations\, or analyses that are too large for your own system\, clusters and supercomputers provide the computing power you need. In this course\, you will learn to work with the national supercomputer Snellius and the national computing cluster Lisa. \nWhat will you learn in this training? \nIn this training you will do practical exercises to learn how to effectively use the national computing cluster Lisa and the national supercomputer Snellius and how to complete your tasks with minimal effort in the shortest possible time. \nFor whom?\nAnyone who wants to know how to perform massive computing tasks.\nThe language of instruction is English. \nPrerequisites\nBasic knowledge of Unix shell is helpful. \nSign up here!
URL:https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/calendar/introduction-to-supercomputing/
LOCATION:Online
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