The following are the Blue Waters Webinars conducted during 2017 through 2019.
Date | Category | Title | Presenter(s) | Slides | Video |
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April 4, 2018 | Data Analytics | Machine Learning on Blue Waters Using Tensorflow with the Image Feature Detection Problem | Aaron Saxton, Data Scientist, University of Illinois | Slides | Video |
February 7, 2018 | Data Analytics | Machine Learning Using Tensorflow: Part Deux | Aaron Saxton, Data Scientist, University of Illinois | Slides | Video |
November 7, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Introduction to NVIDIA Nsight Systems - A Performance Analysis Tool | Sneha Latha Kottapalli, Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA | Slides | Video |
November 6, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Introduction to NVIDIA Nsight Compute - A CUDA Kernel Profiler | Magnus Strengert, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA | N/A | Video |
October 24, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Introduction to Performance Tuning with Cray Perftools | Galen Arnold, Senior Systems Engineer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois | Slides - gprof; Slides - Cray Reveal; and Slides - Python profiling | Video |
July 11, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Beyond Exascale: The Future of HPC | Marc Snir, Faiman Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois | Slides | Video |
May 30, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Charm++ and Adaptive MPI | Laxmikant V. Kale, Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois | Slides | Video |
March, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Getting I/O Done with Parallel HDF5 on Blue Waters | Frank Willmore, Scientific Data Specialist, HDF Group | Slides | Video |
March, 2018 | Petascale Computing | What's new in HDF5 1.10 | Gerd Heber, Applications Architect, HDF Group | N/A | Video |
January 31, 2018 | Petascale Computing | Blue Waters Overview | Bill Kramer, Brett Bode, Greg Bauer, Jeremy Enos, Michelle Butler, Aaron Saxton, Rob Sisneros, Maxim Belkin, Scott Lathrop, University of Illinois | N/A | Video |
April 24, 2019 | Scientific Software Ecosystems | Jupyter as the Interface to High Performance Computing | Matthias Bussonnier, Research Facilitator, UC Merced; Shreyas Cholia, Group Leader (Usable Software Systems) Computational Research Division / National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Rollin Thomas, Big Data Architect, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Slides | Video |
March 27, 2019 | Scientific Software Ecosystems | The SDE: A General Computational Chemistry Software Framework | Ryan Richard Associate Scientist Ames Laboratory | Slides | Video |
January 24, 2018 | Scientific Software Ecosystems | NumFOCUS: An Approach to Sustaining Major Scientific Software Projects | Andy Ray Terrel, President, NumFOCUS | Slides | Video |
February 14, 2018 | Scientific Software Ecosystems | Sustaining Research Software | Daniel S. Katz, Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications (SSA), National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois | Slides | Video |
November 8, 2017 | Scientific Software Ecosystems | Scientific Software Ecosystems: Why and How | Lois Curfman Mcinnes Senior Computational Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, SIAM Fellow, and Michael Heroux, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories Scientist in Residence at St. John's University, Distinguished member of the ACM | Slides | Video |
February 13, 2019 | Scientific Visualization | 3D Scientific Visualization with Blender | Brian R. Kent, Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Slides | Video |
February 28, 2018 | Scientific Visualization | Analysis and Visualization with yt | Matthew Turk, Assistant Professor. School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois | N/A | Video |
October 25, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Scientific Visualization in Houdini | Kalina Borkiewicz, Advanced Visualization Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois; and | N/A | Video |
August 16, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Introduction to the Eclipse Advanced Visualization Project | Robert Smith, Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | N/A | Video |
August 2, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Badges for Visualization Micro-Certification | Jeff Sale, Learning Design Technologist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego | N/A | Video |
June 21, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Hyperglyphs: Exploring the Limits of Glyph Structure | Jeff Sale, Learning Design Technologist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego | N/A | Video |
June 7, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Visualizing Non-Spatial Data | Mark Van Moer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois; and Rob Sisneros, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois | N/A | Video |
April 5, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Introduction to Data Visualization Using ParaView | Vetria L. Byrd, Assistant Professor, Purdue University | N/A | Video |
March 15, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | VisIT: Scalable HPC Visualization and Data Analysis | Kevin Griffen, VisIt Software Developer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Davis; Eric Brugger, VisIt Project Leader, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Cyrus Harrison. Visit Software Architect, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Slides | Video |
March 1, 2017 | Scientific Visualization | Introduction to Data Visualization | Vetria L. Byrd, Assistant Professor, Purdue University | Slides | Video |
March 10, 2019 | Scientific Workflows | Reproducible data analysis with Snakemake | Johannes Köster, Computer Scientist Group leader Algorithms for reproducible bioinformatics Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen | N/A | Video |
January 23, 2019 | Scientific Workflows | Cloud Resource Federation for Galaxy | Enis Afgan, Research Scientist, Taylor lab, Johns Hopkins University | Slides | Video |
November 21, 2018 | Scientific Workflows | Getting started with WDL and Cromwell for workflow management on multiple platforms | Geraldine Van der Auwera, Ruchi Munshi, Senior Software Product Manager Data Sciences Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Associate Director of Outreach and Communications, Data Sciences Platform Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; and | Slides | Video |
October 10, 2018 | Scientific Workflows | Developing Interactive Parallel Workflows in Python using Parsl | Kyle Chard, Fellow and Senior Researcher, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory | Slides | Video |
September 20, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | High-performance workflows with Swift/T | Justin Wozniak, Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago | N/A | Video |
June 28, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | VIKING: Scandinavian Online Kit For Nanoscale Modeling | Ilia Solov’yov, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark | N/A | Video |
June 14, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | Data-flow networks and using the Copernicus workflow system | Peter Kassonm Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia | N/A | Video |
May 24, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | Pegasus Workflow Management System | Mats Rynge, Computer Scientist, USC / Information Sciences Institute | Slides | Video |
May 10, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | RADICAL-Cybertools: An abstractions-based approach to Scientific Workflows | Shantenu Jha, Associate Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University; and Ioannis Paraskevakos, Research Assistant Research in Advanced DIstributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory (RADICAL), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University | Slides | Video |
April 26, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | KEPLER SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW SYSTEM: INTRODUCTION TO WORKFLOW-DRIVEN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING | Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Shweta Purawat, Data Science Workflow Specialist, San Diego Supercomputer Center | KEPLER SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW SYSTEM: INTRODUCTION TO WORKFLOW-DRIVEN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING | Video |
April 12, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | Computational Data Workflow Mapping | Elizabeth Wickes, Data Curation Specialist, Research Data Service, University Library, University of Illinois | N/A | Video |
March 22, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | Makeflow and Work Queue: Scaling Up from Laptops to Supercomputers | Nate Kremer-Herman, Graduate Research Assistant, Cooperative Computing Lab, University of Notre Dame | Slides | Video |
March 8, 2017 | Scientific Workflows | Overview of Scientific Workflows | Scott Callaghan, Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California | Slides | Video |
February 6, 2019 | Software Engineering | Teaching Computational Scientists to Build and Package Open-Source Software | Prentice Bisbal, Lead Software Engineer, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | Slides | Video |
Septemnber 27, 2017 | Software Engineering | What We Have Learned About Using Software Engineering Practices in Scientific & Engineering Software | Jeffrey Carver, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama | Slides | Video |
May 23, 2018 | Workforce Development and Inclusion | PEARC18: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing | Jay Alameda, Senior Technical Program Manager Advanced Application Support, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois | N/A | Video |
April 18, 2018 | Workforce Development and Inclusion | The XSEDE Service Provider Forum | Dan Stanzione, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Associate Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin | N/A | Video |
October 18, 2017 | Workforce Development and Inclusion | Opportunities and Challenges: Diversifying Your Workforce | Toni Collis, Co-Founder of Women in HPC, Applications Consultant in HPC Research & Industry, EPCC, University of Edinburgh | Slides | Video |