Featured Speakers: Deborah Agarwal & Stefan Wild
Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where: B50 Auditorium

Get to know Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab during this essential overview of all the details you’ll need for success this summer!

Featuring opening remarks by Computing Sciences research division directors Deborah Agarwal and Stefan Wild.

Featured Speakers: Rebecca Hartman-Baker and Charles Lively
Date: Thursday, July 6, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where: B59-3101

What is High-Performance Computing (and storage!), or HPC? Who uses it and why? We’ll talk about these questions as well as what makes a Supercomputer so super and what’s so big about scientific Big Data. Finally, we’ll discuss the challenges facing system designers and application scientists as we move into the exascale era of HPC.

Featured Speaker: Yun (Helen) He
Date: Thursday, July 6, 2024
Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Where: Zoom Only

This class will provide an informative overview to acquaint students with the basics of NERSC computational systems and programming environment. Topics include systems overview, connecting to NERSC, software environment, file systems and data management/transfer, and available data analytics software and services. More details on how to compile applications and run jobs on NERSC systems will be presented including hands-on exercises on Perlmutter. The class will also showcase various online resources that are available on NERSC web pages. Training accounts will be provided for students who have not yet set up a NERSC account.