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LUMI Intensive: Comprehensive Intro and Advanced Workshop, March 3-7, 2025

Target audience

The course is an "on-site first course": We will broadcast the talks via Zoom, but there is direct interaction only between the lecturers and the people in the physical meeting room. Several members of LUST will be present for the whole week, and specialists from HPE and AMD will join on day 3 till 5, so being on-site gives you excellent opportunities to work with these people in a way that is impossible via Zoom or email. Users taking the course on-line will be able to submit written questions. However, not all types of questions can be answered that way as some questions require direct interaction. Also, experience has shown that discussions that often unwind especially in the advanced part, are hard to follow on-line. They are not strictly moderated the way a discussion in a TV studio is, but are natural discussions.

  • Day 1 and 2 of the course are at a more introductory level. It covers all the essentials of LUMI: the system architecture, programming environments, software setup, running jobs efficiently, various types of data storage, and using containers which are essential for Python etc.

    This part of the course is largely equivalent to the previous 2-day intro courses in May 2024 and December 2024.

  • Days 3-5 of the course are at a more advanced level and focus on the needs of developers of software for LUMI and users who want to better understand the behaviour of applications they are running on LUMI. There is some attention to AI also but users only interested in training models and not in gaining a deeper insight of performance analysis etc., may be better of with the AI trainings offered by LUST.

    Part of the lectures are about tools that HPE and AMD offer to analyse program behaviour, and other lectures focus on a specific performance bottleneck, how to detect if it is present and how to deal with it.

    The materials from day 1 and 2 are an absolute prerequisite to be able to benefit from this part of the course.

    It is possible though to register only for the 3 advanced days if you have the required knowledge.

Together both parts essentially cover the materials from previous 4-day advanced courses (e.g., the course in Amsterdam in October 2024), but spending a bit more time on more elementary materials and with some new material on object storage and containers on LUMI.

See the draft schedule to get a better idea of topics that will be covered.

People registering for the whole event have priority for on-site seating on day 1 and 2.

Course organisation

Course materials

Course materials include the Q&A of each session, slides when available and notes when available. These materials will become available as the course progresses.

Due to copyright issues some of the materials are only available to current LUMI users and have to be downloaded from LUMI.

Note: Some links in the table below are dead and will remain so until after the end of the course.

Presentation slides notes recording
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The links to all documentation mentioned during the talks is on a separate page.