README.md

intro-HPC-bootcamp-2023

This repository contains information related to the Intro to HPC Bootcamp held in person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in August 2023. The Bootcamp is hosted by the Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Computing Facilities at Argonne National Lab (ALCF), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (NERSC), and Oak Ridge National Lab (OLCF) and organized by Sustainable Horizons Institute.

Links and Study Materials

• Bootcamp public page
• Perlmutter
• OLCF Intro to Python repo
• Pandas tutorial
• Example interactive Notebooks for data research from Environmental Enforcement Watch

Presentations

• Monday
  • Welcome and Safety Logistics, Rebecca Hartman-Baker
  • Intro to HPC Bootcamp Kickoff and Warm-up Activities, Mary Ann Leung
  • Energy Justice Keynote Talk, Anjuli Jain Figueroa
  • Introduction to Computational Thinking, Kate Cahill
  • LBNL Lab Director Welcome Students, Mike Witherell
• Tuesday
  • NERSC Tour, August 2023, Richard Gerber
  • Using Perlmutter, Daniel Fulton, Rollin Thomas, Helen He
  • Introduction to NERSC and Supercomputing, August 8, 2023, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Charles Lively III
  • Introduction to Scientific Computing and Data Visualization, Kellen Leland
• Wednesday
  • Introduction to Regression Analysis, Wilbur Ouma
• Thursday
  • How HPC can advance discovery & DOE Researcher Panel, Suzanne Parete-Koon
• Friday
  • Intro to HPC Bootcamp Wrapup and Next Steps, Mary Ann Leung

Projects

Project (and link project description)	Project Page	Institution	Lead
Project 1: AI-Powered Equity Analysis of Renewable Energy Laws	AI for Energy Justice	ANL	Murat Keceli
Project 2: Energy Justice Analysis of Climate Data	Climate Analysis	ANL	Sam Foreman
Project 3: Solar Power for Affordable Housing through Computational Design of Low-Cost/High-Efficiency Solar Cells	Solar Cell Data	ANL	Alvaro Vazquez-Mayagoitia
Project 4: Understanding the Impact of HPC Center Energy Usage on Low-income and Minority Populations	Energy Justice and Sustainability (Project 4 Notebooks)	NERSC	Charles Lively
Project 5: Energy Cost for Disadvantaged Populations and Methods of Energy Efficiency and Energy Optimization in Computing Systems	Energy Efficiency and Optimization for Sustainability (Project 5 Notebooks)	NERSC	Charles Lively
Project 6: Power Outages and Inequities in Energy Access for Medically Vulnerable Populations	Github	OLCF	Subil Abraham
Project 7: Socioeconomics of Power Outages and Heatwaves	Github	OLCF	Suzanne Parete-Koon

Working on Project in Groups

• Besides those projects materials provided via links in the above table, each project has also prepared the project descriptions and data in the m4388 project area on the Community File System (CFS) on Perlmutter at /global/cfs/cdirs/m4388/Project*-<name>, such as Project2-ClimRR.
• Students who work on Project X Group Y will work in a shared directory in CFS at /global/cfs/cdirs/m4388/Project*-Group*, such as Prj2-GroupC.
• Using Prj2-GroupC as an example, you can run this command to copy over the entire Project, after login to Perlmutter:

  cd $CFS/m4388/Prj3-GroupC
  cp -r $CFS/m4388/Project2-ClimRR .
  

• Any student who would like to do some individual tests can work in their own scratch directory:

  cd $SCRATCH
  cp -r $CFS/m4388/Project2-ClimRR .
  

• The following are the compute node reservations available during the boot camp (in Pacific time):
  • Monday, 3 pm - 5 pm, reservation name intro_hpc_aug7
  • Tuesday, 10:30 am - 5 pm, reservation name intro_hpc_aug8
  • Wednesday, 1:30 pm - 5 pm, reservation name intro_hpc_aug9
  • Thursday, 1 pm - 10 pm, reservation name intro_hpc_aug10

Study Materials

• OLCF Intro to Python repo
• Pandas tutorial
• Example interactive Notebooks for data research from Environmental Enforcement Watch