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 Video Topic Getting Started System Polaris System Aurora | Sunspot Published 10/10/2023
This video gives a very detailed look into Polaris and Aurora's hardware and software. This covers everything you need to know about each system.
Type Video Topic Applications and Libraries System Polaris Published 10/10/2023
Type Video Topic Account and Project Management Published 10/10/2023
This video provides an overview of ALCF allocation programs available to users and outlines what is required to get time on our systems.
Type Video Topic Programming Models System Aurora | Sunspot Published 09/27/2023
Join us on September 27, 2023, for an insightful webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads for ALCF's Aurora exascale system. Led by Intel's Varsha Madananth, the session will explore some of the best...
Type Video Topic Running Jobs System Aurora | Sunspot Published 08/30/2023
Join us on August 30 for a Developer Session intended for users new to the ALCF's Sunspot and Aurora systems. It is expected that the users have prior experience on large ALCF and non-ALCF machines...
Type Slides Published 08/09/2023
Type Video Topic Getting Started System Polaris Published 07/19/2023
The ALCF Getting Started Bootcamp will introduce attendees to using the Polaris computing environment. Aimed at participants who have experience using clusters or supercomputers, the bootcamp will...
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 07/07/2023
Join us on June 21 for a webinar that will provide the latest updates on Aurora’s hardware architecture and software. Speakers from Intel will cover an array of topics related to Aurora hardware...
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 06/14/2023
This is the second module in the newest Aurora Learning Paths series - Accelerate Python Loops with the Intel AI Analytics Toolkit. Ignite performance of common Python, ndarray & pandas “apply”...
Type Video System Aurora | Sunspot Published 05/25/2023
Join us on May 24 for a webinar that will cover the Aurora porting strategies for two applications: the XGC gyrokinetic plasma physics code and the HACC cosmology code. Argonne's Aaron Scheinberg &...
Type Slides System Aurora | Sunspot Published 05/18/2023
This is the first module in the newest Aurora Learning Paths series - Accelerate Python Loops with the Intel AI Analytics Toolkit. Ignite performance of common Python & pandas constructs by using...
Type Video System Aurora | Sunspot Published 05/18/2023
Type Video Published 05/02/2023
The 2024 INCITE Call for Proposals opens on April 10, 2023, and closes on June 16, 2023. To help you prepare your proposal for submission, the INCITE program is offering an instructional proposal...
Type Slides Published 04/12/2023
This session will be a mini hackathon where you can bring your own CUDA source and try to migrate to SYCL, Intel experts will help and answer any questions you may have about the migration process.
We...
Type Video Topic Data Science System Aurora | Sunspot Published 03/29/2023
Ignite performance of common Python & pandas constructs by using NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas powered by oneAPI. This webinar and workshop series will go into detail about how to apply key Intel...
Type Slides Published 03/15/2023
In this session we will migrate a slightly more complex CUDA source to SYCL source using the SYCLomatic tool.
We will migrate the Jacobi Iterative algorithm from Nvidia CUDA samples to SYCL using...
Type Video Published 03/15/2023
Type Slides Published 03/01/2023
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and a variety of other institutions, in collaboration with Intel, are preparing dozens of applications and workflows to run at scale on the Aurora system. The...
Type Slides Published 02/16/2023
The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science...
Type Video Published 02/15/2023
In this session we will learn about the steps involved in migrating CUDA code to C++ SYCL code using the SYCLomatic tool. We will install SYCLomatic tool on CUDA Development machine and start with...
