Call for participation: RADIUSS Tutorial Series 2023

by Brendan Bouffler | on

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Amazon Web Services are again joining forces to provide a training opportunity for emerging HPC tools and application. RADIUSS ( Rapid Application Development via an Institutional Universal Software Stack ) is a broad suite of open-source software projects originating from LLNL. Together we’re hosting a tutorial series to give attendees hands-on experience with these cutting-edge technologies. We’re calling on you to participate in these events.
Various logos for the RADIUSS projects.

This virtual series consists of nine distinct tutorials through the month of August (two more than last year). Each tutorial focuses on a specific package from the RADIUSS suite. You’ll get hands-on experience with each project and learn more about HPC deployments on Amazon Web Services. Each event will be hosted on Amazon Web Services resources and use Amazon Web Services ParallelCluster to provide an HPC environment for you to use, and gain experience with.

LLNL has a long history of delivering some of the world’s largest supercomputers and the supporting software to effectively use them. This collaboration between LLNL and Amazon Web Services brings these projects and industry best practices to a broader community. Together we’re hoping to democratize access to next generation computational research tools and HPC resources.

How to Participate

Come join us in learning how these projects can help advance your HPC research and improve efficiency. These tutorials provide a great opportunity to learn modern techniques and tools in an adaptive cloud environment.

To register your interest, sign up for the tutorials through the RADIUSS event form . Details of each event and registration deadlines are listed in the following table.

Package Description Tutorial Date Signup Deadline
BLT BLT is a streamlined CMake-based foundation for Building, Linking and Testing large-scale high performance computing (HPC) applications. BLT makes it easy to get up and running on a wide range of HPC compilers, operating systems and technologies August 3rd
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior
Spack Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs multiple versions and configurations of software. It works on Linux, macOS, and many supercomputers. August 8th and 9th
8am-11:30am PST 		2 business days prior
MFEM MFEM is a modular parallel C++ library for finite element methods. Its goal is to enable high-performance scalable finite element discretization research and application development on a wide variety of platforms, ranging from laptops to supercomputers. August 10th
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior
Caliper Caliper is a library to integrate performance profiling capabilities into applications. Caliper can be used for lightweight always-on profiling or advanced performance engineering use cases, such as tracing, monitoring, and auto-tuning. August 14th
9am-12pm PST 		2 business days prior
Hatchet Hatchet is a Python-based library that allows Pandas dataframes to be indexed by structured tree and graph data. It is intended for analyzing performance data that has a hierarchy (for example, serial or parallel profiles that represent calling context trees, call graphs, nested regions’ timers, etc.). 2 business days prior
Thicket Thicket is a Python-based toolkit for analyzing ensemble performance data. You can find detailed documentation, along with tutorials of Thicket in the ReadtheDocs. 2 business days prior
RAJA RAJA is a library of C++ software abstractions, primarily developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that enables architecture and programming model portability for HPC applications. August 17th
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior
Umpire Umpire is a resource management library that allows the discovery, provision, and management of memory on machines with multiple memory devices like NUMA and GPUs. 2 business days prior
Ascent Ascent is an open source many-core capable lightweight in situ visualization and analysis infrastructure for multi-physics HPC simulations. August 22nd
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior
Axom Axom provides robust, flexible software infrastructure for the development of multi-physics applications and computational tools. August 24th
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior
WEAVE WEAVE is a collection of open source workflow tools. WEAVE includes Sina and Maestro which can be used together to perform and analyze runs of your code. August 29th
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior
Flux Flux is a flexible framework for resource management, built for your site. The framework consists of a suite of projects, tools, and libraries which may be used to build site-custom resource managers for High Performance Computing centers. August 31st
9am-11am PST 		2 business days prior

We’re excited about this opportunity to give back to the HPC community alongside LLNL and look forward to meeting you all over the duration of the event.

Brendan Bouffler

Brendan Bouffler

Brendan Bouffler is the head of the Developer Relations in HPC Engineering at Amazon Web Services. He’s been responsible for designing and building hundreds of HPC systems in all kind of environments, and joined Amazon Web Services when it became clear to him that cloud would become the exceptional tool the global research & engineering community needed to bring on the discoveries that would change the world for us all. He holds a degree in Physics and an interest in testing several of its laws as they apply to bicycles. This has frequently resulted in hospitalization.

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