Schedule
All events and food are free. Room A is a beginner focused track while Room B follows a more advanced track. Feel free to move between rooms freely.
Location: Wilkinson building, 534 Research Dr, Durham, NC 27705
Day 1: Saturday, April 5th
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Check in and Breakfast
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Opening Remarks and Overview of ACCESS, How to request usage of compute. ft. Jetstream 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Tutorial 1 - Room A: Introduction to Supercomputing Architecture, Linux and job scheduling (SLURM)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Tutorial 2 - Room B: Containerized Large Language Model Inference and Finetuning
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Tutorial 3 - Room A: Portable code - local containers to HPC scale
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Tutorial 4 - Room B: ACCESS Pegasus - serverless data processing workflow in jupyter notebooks
3:00PM - 3:40PM: Networking Time / Tour of Duke Datacenter ft. Dr. Bletsch
Day 2: Sunday, April 6th
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Breakfast: Breakfast Burritos, English Muffins
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Tutorial 1 - Room A: DASK- python based distributed computing framework for HPC
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Tutorial 2 - Room B: Deep dive in AI Agents: "Building superintelligence in 90 minutes" - Harry Fazzone
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Tutorial 4: - Room B: Basic Parallelism & MPI - ft. Rebecca Hartman-Baker, PhD (NERSC)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Closing talk - Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982), recently declassified by the NSA
Questions comments and concerns can be sent to dukeieee@duke.edu
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