Agenda is subject to change. Times listed below are in Pacific.
Lesson Materials: provided closer to event date
Tuesday, June 17 - Preparation Day (virtual)
9:00 am - 9:15 am |
1.1. Welcome & Orientation Mary Thomas, Computational Data Scientist & Director of the CIML Summer Institute |
|
9:15 am – 9:45 am |
1.2 Accounts, Login, Environment, Running Jobs and Logging into Expanse User Portal |
|
9:45 am – 10:30 am |
Q&A & Wrap-up |
Tuesday, June 24 - HPC/Parallel Concepts (in person)
8:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Breakfast & Check-in Location: SDSC Auditorium |
8:30 am - 9:30 am |
2.1 Welcome and Introductions Mary Thomas, Computational Data Scientist & Director of the CIML Summer Institute |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Break |
9:45 am - 10:45 am |
2.2 Parallel Computing Concepts of parallelism (e.g., OpenMP and MPI), strong and weak scaling, limitations on scalability (Amdahl’s and Gustafson’s Laws) and benchmarking. |
10:45 am - 11:45 am |
2.3 Getting Started with Batch Job Scheduling Batch job schedulers are used to manage and fairly distribute the shared resources of high-performance |
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch @ TBD |
|
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | 2.4 Data Management and File Systems Marty Kandes, Computational and Data Science Research Specialist Managing data efficiently on a supercomputer is important from both users' and system's perspectives. We will cover a few basic data management techniques and I/O best practices in the context of the Expanse system at SDSC. |
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm |
2.5 GPU Computing - Hardware architecture and software infrastructure Andreas Goetz, Research Scientist & Principal Investigator Brief overview of the massively parallel GPU architecture that enables large-scale deep learning applications, access and use of GPUs on SDSC Expanse for ML applications |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Break |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
2.6 Software Containers for Scientific and High-Performance Computing Marty Kandes, Computational and Data Science Research Specialist |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Evening Reception - UC San Diego, Seventh College, 15th Floor |
Wednesday, June 25 - Deep Learning (in person)
8:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Breakfast |
8:30 am - 8:45 am |
3.1 Machine Learning (ML) Overview Mai Nguyen, Lead for Data Analytics |
8:45 am - 10:15 am |
3.2 Introduction to Neural Networks and Convolution Neural Networks An overview of the main concepts of neural networks and feature discovery; the basic convolution neural network for digit recognition using tensorflow |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
3.3 Practical Guidelines for Training Deep Learning on HPC Paul Rodriguez, Computational Data Scientist Guildelines on running deep networks on Expanse, such as using tensorboard, notebooks, and batch jobs; also some discussion of multinode execution. |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
|
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm |
3.4 Deep Learning Layers and Architectures |
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm |
3.5 Deep Learning Transfer Learning Mai Nguyen, Lead for Data Analytics Tutorial and hands-on exercises on the use of transfer learning for efficient training of deep learning models. |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Break |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
3.6 Deep Learning – Special Connections Paul Rodriguez, Computational Data Scientist The architecture of many networks use paths and connections in flexible ways; we will review gate, skip, and residual connections and get some intuition what they are good for. |
Thursday, June 26 - Scalable Machine Learning & Large Language Model (in person)
8:00 am - 8:30 am | Light breakfast | |
8:30 am– 10:00 am |
4.1 CONDA Environments and Jupyter Notebook on Expanse: Scalable & Reproducible Data Exploration and ML |
|
10:00 am – 10:15 am | Break | |
10:15 am – 10:45 am |
4.2 R on HPC Demo |
|
10:45 am - 12:15 pm | 4.3 Spark Mai Nguyen, Lead for Data Analytics Introduction to performing machine learning at scale, with hands-on exercises using Spark. |
|
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch @ Cafe Ventanas |
||
1:45 pm -3:00 pm |
4.4 LLM Overview |
|
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Break | |
3:15 pm - 4:45pm | 4.5 LLM Overview (continued) | |
4:45 - 5:00 pm |
Closing remarks |
Stay up to date on the latest news and events from SDSC by following us on social media, and subscribing to our newsletter.
Stay connected with SDSC and get your newsletter - SIGN UP TODAY
For inquiries feel free to contact events@sdsc.edu