The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.
The ALCF is accelerating scientific discoveries in many disciplines, ranging from chemistry and engineering to physics and materials science.
The ALCF is committed to providing training and outreach opportunities that prepare researchers to efficiently use its leadership computing systems, while also cultivating a diverse and skilled HPC workforce for the future.
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.
Help Desk Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm CT M-F Email: support@alcf.anl.gov
Access archived presentations and other materials from past ALCF training events below.
Type Slides Published 02/09/2024
Type Video Topic Data Science System Polaris Published 02/09/2024
This video goes over the basics of supercomputers and high-performance computing. It introduces parallel programming and the fundamentals of training AI models on supercomputers.
Huihuo Zheng is a...
Type Video Published 02/09/2024
Type Video Topic Visualization System Polaris Published 02/08/2024
This provides an overview of how to use Polaris to do your visualizations.
Type Slides Topic Data Science Published 02/06/2024
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 12/04/2023
Building high-performant software applications requires coding to take maximum advantage of the target hardware platform. With the availability of hardware acceleration capabilities—in this case...
Type Video System Aurora | Sunspot Published 11/30/2023
Type Video System Aurora | Sunspot Published 11/02/2023
Software applications achieve top performance when developed to exploit the characteristics of the hardware on which the code will be run. The code should be structured to produce correct answers but...
Type Video Topic Getting Started Topic Data Science System Polaris Published 11/01/2023
As the landscape of high-performance computing expands, support for machine learning workflows and interactivity becomes even more critical. JupyterLab, an evolution of the popular Jupyter Notebook...
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 11/01/2023
Type Video Topic Visualization System Polaris Published 10/12/2023
This session provides information on tools and formats to do visualizations of your data.
Type Video Topic Data Management System Polaris Published 10/12/2023
This video session covers ALCF file systems along with how to share data with your colleagues.
Type Video Topic Workflows System Polaris Published 10/12/2023
This session covers workflow tools and why you should use them.
Type Video System Polaris Published 10/12/2023
Type Video Topic Programming Models System Polaris Published 10/12/2023
Type Video Topic Data Management Published 10/12/2023
This session covers DAOS which is an object storage system for in-fabric high-performance platform storage. It provide an overview of DAOS data models, pools and containers. It also touches on how to...
Type Video Topic Data Science System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This training covers coupling HPC simulations and AI/ML. You will learn how to couple and what software to use, and you will get a demo of how to use NekRS.
Type Slides Topic Debugging Tools System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This video provides a quickstart lesson on setting up and using TAU for profiling and tracing.
This video session covers using Python and Jupyter Notebooks on Polaris and containers at ALCF.
You learn about managing conda environments, running Python and multi-rank jobs, creating a new notebook...
Type Video Topic Performance Tools System Polaris Published 10/11/2023
This is an overview of Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute and how to run them on Polaris.
