Featured Speakers: Helen He, Charles Lively, Rebecca Hartman-Baker
Date: June 23, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where: 59-3101. Virtual: Zoom Available
In this course, students will learn to write parallel programs that can be run on a supercomputer. We begin by discussing the concepts of parallelization before introducing MPI and OpenMP, the two leading parallel programming libraries. Finally, the students will put together all the concepts from the class by programming, compiling, and running a parallel code on one of the NERSC supercomputers. Training accounts will be provided for students who have not yet set up a NERSC account.
Training provided by Helen He (User Engagement Group, NERSC), Charles Lively (User Engagement Group, NERSC), and Rebecca Hartman-Baker (User Engagement Group, NERSC).
Featured Speakers: Jean Sexton, Lipi Gupta, Melissa Romanus
Date: June 24, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Where: 50A-5132. Virtual: Zoom Available
Join us for an informative session designed to introduce summer visitors to the world of professional scientific societies and conference participation. This hour-long workshop balances insights into scientific communities with practical submission guidance.
Presented by Jean Sexton (CCSE Group, AMCR), Lipi Gupta (User Engagement Group, NERSC), and Melissa Romanus (Data Center Department, NERSC).
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Featured Speakers: Jonathan Carter
Date: June 26, 2025
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where: 59-3101. Virtual: Zoom Available
During the poster session on August 5th, members of our summer visitor program will get the opportunity to showcase the work and research they have been doing this summer. Perhaps some of you have presented posters before, perhaps not. This talk will cover the basics of poster presentation: designing an attractive format; how to present your information clearly; what to include and what not to include. Presenting a poster is different from writing a report or giving a presentation. This talk will cover the differences, and suggest ways to avoid common pitfalls and make poster sessions work more effectively for you.
Presented by Jonathan Carter (Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab).
Helen He is a high performance computing consultant in the NERSC User Engagement Group. She is currently the NERSC user training lead. In this role, she leads efforts to strategically plan, host, and develop user training events to provide knowledge to users on resource familiarization, optimized utilization, and skills development for effectively using NERSC resources.
Charles Lively III, PhD is a Science engagement engineer and HPC Consultant in the User Engagement Group (UEG) under Dr. Rebecca Hartman-Baker at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Charles previously worked at other Department of Energy National Laboratories, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Rebecca Hartman-Baker: Leads the User Engagement Group at NERSC. She is a computational scientist with expertise in the development of scalable parallel algorithms for the petascale and beyond. Her other research interests include inverse and ill-posed problems, numerical optimization methods, and developing effective techniques for training users of HPC resources. She joined NERSC from iVEC in Australia.
Jean develops performance-portable time integration methods in AMReX and contributes to AMReX-based application code. She holds a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics (SMU). She has experience with SIAM conferences and SC (The International Supercomputing Conference).
A Science Engagement Engineer at NERSC, Lipi works to help users engage with NERSC staff and with each other to bridge gaps in scientific computing. She is interested in improving the new user experience, as well as helping graduate students make better use of NERSC resources in preparation for their careers.
She is a member of the Operations Technology Group, where her research focuses on the ingestion, collection, analysis, and visualization of real-time streaming operational and systems data in data centers that support high performance computing systems.
Jonathan Carter is the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The Computing Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab encompasses the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division (NERSC), the Scientific Networking Division (home to the Energy Sciences Network, ESnet) and the Computational Research Division.
