Nersc News

Learn all about containers, how people are using them at NERSC, and how to get started with them yourself, in this interview with NERSC Data Analytics and Services Group's Shane Canon!

Learn about Jupyter at NERSC: what it is, how it works, and what people are using it for, as well as plans for the future of Jupyter at NERSC, in this interview with the NERSC Data and Analytics Services Group's Rollin Thomas.

In this interview with Cray senior principal engineer and senior manager in programming environments Heidi Poxon, learn about why you would want to profile your code, what kind of differences you might see in performance on different architectures, and hear an overview of how to use the performance tools provided by Cray that are available on Cori.

In this interview with NERSC Application Performance Group Lead Jack Deslippe, learn about NERSC's KNL Office Hours (held every Friday in May from 9 am to 3 pm Pacific): why we're holding them, what users can join in to get help with, and the advantages of porting your codes to work on the Cori KNL nodes!

In this interview with NERSC Application Performance Specialist Kevin Gott, learn about the upcoming community GPU hackathon NERSC will be hosting in July: what it's about, what happens at a hackathon, and how to apply (due date May 15)!

In this interview with NERSC HPC Consultant Zhengji Zhao, learn the detailed schedule for Edison's retirement, a little Edison history, and how NERSC is helping you get prepared for running your codes on Cori KNL with KNL Office Hours (starting this Friday and continuing through May).

In this interview with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory HPC I/O Specialist Elsa Gonsiorowski, learn about the Productivity and Sustainability Improvement Planning (PSIP) process originating from the IDEAS productivity project, how it can work for you, and some web resources for PSIP.

In this interview with David Bernholdt, a distinguished R&D staff member and leader of the Computer Science Research group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, learn about the IDEAS Productivity project: its goal of increasing productivity for HPC software developers, the many ways in which the project addresses this goal, and how you can get involved!

In this interview with NERSC HPC Application Specialist Brandon Cook, learn about the High-Impact Science at Scale on Cori program: what it's for, how to apply, and what to do if you aspire to run at large scale but you're not quite ready yet.

In this episode, NERSC Data and Analytics Services Group's Machine Learning Engineer Mustafa Mustafa discusses the upcoming Deep Learning for Science (DL4Sci) Summer School (https://dl4sci-school.lbl.gov/) hosted by Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area (which includes NERSC). Learn what deep learning is and how it can be applied to science, as well as more information about the summer school and how to apply!

In this episode, meet NERSC Assistant Building Manager Ernie Jew, who helps make sure that the facilities at NERSC run smoothly. Find out about what his job entails, what special skills he brings to NERSC, and how he spent eight summers at Yellowstone National Park on his career path!

In this interview with NERSC HPC Systems Engineer Aditi Gaur, learn about the pros and cons of using open-source software, how to get started contributing to an open-source project, and how to make your own project open source!

In this interview with NERSC Operations Technology Group's Tom Davis, learn about why NERSC started collecting data on its machines, what sort of data NERSC collects, and how NERSC uses that data to diagnose issues on its machines and in the machine room.

In this interview with NERSC HPC Architecture and Performance Engineer Taylor Groves, find out what's happening in the HPC networks research area, how Perlmutter's network will be better than what we have today, and what you can do to get better network performance in your applications.

In this interview with Berkeley Lab's Building Technologies and Urban Systems Division principal engineering associate and building energy efficiency expert Norm Bourassa, learn about how NERSC assures that our machines are operating at peak efficiency with minimal energy overhead, including how we take advantage of the mild Berkeley climate, how we look for inefficiencies via extensive instrumentation, and what is happening on the global scale as a result of NERSC's energy efficiency efforts. 

In this interview with Berkeley Lab construction project director Ben Maxwell, learn about all the facilities work to prepare for the arrival of Perlmutter. Find out how much power and cooling is being added to the machine room, how the earthquake isolation floor works, and what computer cooling and viticulture have in common!

In this interview with NERSC Systems Department Head Tina Declerck, find out what's required to go from a contract with a vendor to a supercomputer in production for users.

In this interview with NERSC Site Reliability Engineer Owen James, learn about what it's like in the Operations Control Room, what the Operations Technology Group is responsible for, and the tools they use to keep the systems up and running for you!

NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh discusses the highlights of 2018 at NERSC, as well as what NERSC is looking forward to in the next year and beyond.

In this interview with NERSC HPC architecture and performance engineer Doug Doerfler, learn about what NERSC is doing to plan for the next NERSC machine, why performance portability is vital for code development teams who want their application to run on future Post-Moore's Law systems, and tips on making your code as performance-portable as possible.