DS2 is SAS’s next generation, DATA step-like programming language which enables easy parallel processing and advanced data manipulation. SAS programs which perform computationally complex data processing on large data sets can demonstrate dramatically improved performance when re-written in DS2. The DS2 Programming: Essentials class is designed for experienced SAS programmers who want to leverage new,...
Location: 5628 Math Science Building, UCLA Date and Time: Aug 25 2014 - 8:00am - Aug 26 2014 - 2:00pm This two-day in-person training will cover all aspects of visualizing data from a broad variety of domains. The training kicks off with an introduction to visualization followed by best practices when dealing with diverse data,...
Tuesday, October 14 9 a.m. to 12 noon, CLICC Classroom C sign up here . Stata is a powerful and yet easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using Stata. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience...
Thursday, October 16 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., CLICC Classroom C sign up here . SPSS is a very easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. This class is designed for people who are just starting to use SPSS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SPSS...
Wednesday, October 22 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., CLICC Classroom C sign up here . SAS is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using SAS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SAS...
The island of Timor is divided into an independent sovereign state of Timor-Leste and West Timor, which is part of Indonesia. Timor-Leste’s complex history includes a period of Indonesian occupation from 1975 to 1999. In this two-part program, UCLA professor of history Geoffrey Robinson discusses the recent political history of Timor-Leste and its efforts to...
R is a powerful statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using R for statistics, graphics and data management. The notes for the workshop are here
Date: October 30, 2014 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: 5628 Math Science, IDRE Portal GPUs are an integral part of most of the computer systems and are well known to have capabilities for numeric computations. Although few efforts have been made in the past to use these devices for general computing but the...
Description: This two-hour session is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux. The session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as basic editors available on most of the Linux systems. It will also describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given program. A sample software code will be used to...
Optimization and parallel scalability of software are essential for High performance computing. The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities that include several of the world’s most advanced supercomputers as well as high-end visualization and data analysis resources. Access to these resources...
UCLA-IDRE has an impressive Hoffman2 computing infrastructure. It has grown from an initial 256 cores to the current 12,000+ cores in a short span of time. It serves a large number of research scientists and enables them to achieve new heights within their computing research. However, there are limitations. It may fall short of ever...
This two-hour session is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux. The session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as a few basic editors available on most of the Linux systems. It will also describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given program. A sample software code will be used...
Optimization and parallel scalability of software are essential for High performance computing. The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities that include several of the world’s most advanced supercomputers as well as high-end visualization and data analysis resources. Access to these resources is freely...
From a user perspective, supercomputers are more complicated to program and handle than an ordinary desktop workstation. Unfortunately this leads to parallel programs that do not necessarily satisfy the performance expectations of the users. Such unexpected performance results can have many reasons. Basic knowledge on performance modeling, prediction and verification, as taught in this summer...
This two-day training course will introduce students to data visualization with a primary focus on visualization of large volumetric data resulting from simulation and instrumentation. We begin with an overview of visualization as a whole, beginning with a simple taxonomy: illustration, which uses techniques of computer graphics and animation to convey concepts, and data-driven visualization...
This two-hour session is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux. The session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as a few editors available on most of the Linux systems. It will also describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given source program. A sample software code will be used...
This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
The purpose of this session is to describe few basic profiling techniques and help researchers in gaining more insight into how well their application code runs on Hoffman2 or other computer systems. In particular the focus is on: Profiling techniques that are available on Hoffman2. Hands-on exercises using an example code - bring your own...
MPI (message passing interface) is the de facto standard for distributed-memory parallel scientific computing. While the entire MPI API is quite extensive, this class will cover a number of important ones commonly used in practice. This class is useful for those who plan to start writing MPI code, and also for those who would like...
The PETSc library contains a number of reusable data structures and solvers for linear and nonlinear systems of equations that can greatly simplify the programming work of scientific computing. While it is possible to code everything “from scratch” using MPI and C/C++/Fortran, some may find code written reusing PETSc’s data structures are easier to maintain...
New location: 5628 Math Sciences Building New time: 2:30pm-5pm, October 19 Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present...
Graphics Processing Units (or GPUs), an integral part of most of the computer systems, are well known for their potential for high performance numeric computations. Although few efforts have been made in the past to use these devices for general computing, the recent emergence of high level programming languages through CUDA has really made it...
The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is obtained through...
New time: 2-4pm, October 26 New Location: 5628 Math Sciences Building Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present...
Comet, a new petascale supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), is one of the latest key resources within the NSF’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) program, which comprises the most advanced collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. Researchers may apply for "free" computer time on Comet via XSEDE....
OIT/IDRE will be holding a departmental Open House on Wednesday, January 27th at 10 a.m. The Open House is an opportunity for each OIT unit to present information about their area as well as a way for staff to learn about the exciting work happening within the organization. The Open House will feature stations throughout...
This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
Part-I session of Computing Environment on Linux class is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux system. This two hour session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as a few editors available on most of the Linux systems. The user should be able to log in to a linux system and...
IDRE Seminar: Geometric Graph-based Methods for High Dimensional Data Speaker: Andrea L. Bertozzi Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Location: 5628 Math Sciences RSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3498&SecID=3486 Abstract: We present new methods for segmentation of large datasets...
The second session of Computing Environment on Linux is about use of Linux system for computation. It will describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given source program. A sample software code will be used to demonstrate the computing tools such as makefile, debugger, and profiler which are available under most Linux environments. Registration...
The purpose of this session is to describe few basic profiling techniques and help researchers in gaining more insight into how well their application code runs on Hoffman2 or other computer systems. In particular the focus is on: Profiling techniques that are available on Hoffman2. Hands-on exercises using an example code – bring your own software. Prerequisite: User account on hoffman2 and your software on Hoffman2. Laptop requirements: Bring your own laptop to…
The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is obtained through...
IDRE Seminar- GPU/Many cores program Computing Fluid Flows on Multi-GPU Cluster using Lattice Boltzmann Method Chao-An Lin Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan Date and Time: May 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM (Lunch will be served*) Location: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg. RSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3531&SecID=3518 Abstract: Due to its enhanced computational...
In collaboration with Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is happy to host the following workshop on workflows. Free Workflows Workshop: Registration is now open for a free Workflows Workshop to be held August 9-10, 2016 at multiple institutions across the country including UCLA-IDRE. Sponsored by the Blue...
Speaker: Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D.; Arizona Regents’ Professor, Thomas R. Brown Chair Professor in Management and Technology, University of Arizona; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Fellow, ACM, IEEE, AAAS Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Location: Kerckhoff Hall - Charles E. Young Grand Salon Registration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hacker-web-project#rsvp Abstract: In this talk I...
This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present a number useful features of Python in the context of scientific...
Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present a number useful features of Python in the context of scientific...
UCLA-IDRE and SDSC are organizing the workshop "HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet" in order to introduce the Comet supercomputer and its usage to the researchers at UCLA. Comet, a petascale supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), is one of the key resources within the NSF’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment)...
UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education is happy to be a collaborating host site for the “Scaling to Petascale Institute” to be held during June 26-30, 2017. Registrations are now open at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/petascale-summer-institute/registration Scaling to Petascale Institute: Do you have a computational problem that would benefit from using a large scale computing system? Do...
The second session is regarding the use of Linux system for computation. It will describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given source program. A sample software code will be used to demonstrate the computing tools such as makefile, debugger, and profiler which are available under most Linux environments.