We are pleased to announce the HPC Application Tutorial: VASP on Frontera and Stampede2 Training being held on December 5th, 2019 from 1pm to 4pm CT. This new training module helps beginner and intermediate users of the VASP software package to carry out calculations with desirable performance and efficient usage of resources on TACC systems. It covers basic procedures for running VASP on TACC systems like Frontera and Stampede2, including:

- how to use a TACC supercomputer,
- how to gain access to the TACC installed VASP software environment,
- how to build VASP in licensed user's accounts for debugging, and
- how to build VASP in licensed user’s accounts with 3rd-party extensions.

The training also introduces the general steps for determining the task topology for optimal performance and scaling of VASP jobs under the TACC computing environment. Furthermore, we present and explain some of the most common issues and solutions to help users save effort in troubleshooting VASP related errors.

This training focuses on the system and computing environment aspects and how to run VASP efficiently on TACC systems. It is not a tutorial for researchers on how to use VASP to solve science problems. Users need to refer VASP manual and forum for that purpose.

Registration for this event closes at 1pm CT on December 4th, 2019. To register and for more information please visit:
https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact me at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

The /work filesystem experienced a hardware problem with one of the storage controllers that began around 7:30 Central this morning and impacted a portion of the filesystem.   The problem was resolved at 9:00AM and the filesystem has resumed normal operation.   User processes may have experienced hangs or pauses trying to access files in /work during this time.

Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting

We are pleased to announce that TACC will be participating as a satellite site for the XSEDE HPC Workshop OpenMP - November 5, 2019. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP.

Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, November 5
10:00 AM CT Welcome
10:15 AM CT Computing Environment
10:30 AM CT It’s a Multi-core World
11:00 PM CT Intro to OpenMP
12:00 PM CT Lunch break
1:00 PM CT Intro Cont.
3:15 PM CT OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
4:00 PM CT Adjourn

If you are in the Austin area and are able to attend the event here at TACC, please visit the following address for more information and to register:
https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1903/session/3346 

We are please to announce that TACC will be participating as a satellite site for the the XSEDE HPC Workshop, Big Data on October 1st and 2nd, 2019.

Agenda

Tuesday, October 1
10:00 AM CT Welcome
10:25 AM CT Intro to Big Data
11:00 AM CT Hadoop
11:30 AM CT Intro to Spark
12:00 PM CT Lunch break
1:00 PM CT Spark
3:45 PM CT Bridges: A Big Data Platform
4:00 PM CT Adjourn

Wednesday, October 2
10:00 AM CT Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
12:00 PM CT Lunch break
1:00 PM CT Deep Learning with Tensorflow
4:00 PM CT Adjourn

If you are in the Austin area and are able to attend one or both days of the event here at TACC, please visit the following address for more information and to register:

The Visualization Laboratory on main campus will be closed Monday, September 02 and Tuesday, September 03 due to the Labor Day holiday and the Frontera dedication proceedings. We will re-open Wednesday, Sept 04 for normal hours. For any immediate assistance please contact foss@tacc.utexas.edu or asolis@tacc.utexas.edu.

We are pleased to announce the C++ for C Programmers Training being held on September 13th, 2019 from 9am to 5pm CT.

C++ can be considered as a superset of C, but this view often leads to un-idiomatic C++ programming. In this short course we both show the new mechanisms of C++, and we explain what C mechanisms, while available, should no longer be used.

The first half of this course covers mostly object-oriented programming and parameter passing with references; the second half covers advanced topics such as smart pointers, exceptions, iterators, lambdas, templates. It will be pointed which features are specific to the C++14 and C++17 standards.

This training will be available to both in-person and remote attendees via webcast. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in-person.

To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact me at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

Last chance to register (deadline Aug 30) and submit an abstract for presentation (deadline Aug 16) at the TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers (TACCSTER) being held on September 26-27, 2019 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas.

TACCSTER is a meeting of scientists, engineers and scholars from across the state of Texas who use, and would like to use, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to advance their research goals. This meeting will be an opportunity for you to:

     * Showcase your ongoing research involving TACC resources
     * Attend and participate in Birds-of-a-Feather panel discussions
     * Learn new and useful computing skills from a variety of tutorials
     * Network with other Texas-based researchers
     * Hear information about the latest TACC systems and services

To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact taccster@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.