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: 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. For the past 15 years, she has been the main UEG point of contact among users, system people, and vendors, for the Cray XT4 (Franklin), XE6 (Hopper) systems, and XC40 (Cori) systems at NERSC, leading and contributing significantly in areas such as programming and software environment, user communication, documentation, training, benchmarking, batch queues and jobs monitoring on these systems. She also provides support for climate users.
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.
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.
