Introduction to Scientific High-Performance Computing

The "Introduction to Scientific High-Performance Computing" course will deliver essential information for users who want to start working with the HPC system available at ACC Cyfronet AGH.

Agenda

• Introduction to HPC systems
  • login and data transfer
  • command line interface for remote access to a server
• Available computational and storage resources of Ares and Athena supercomputers
• Scientific software environment management (Modules/Lmod)
• Working with queuing systems
  • batch scripts
    • sequential, parallel and distributed computations
  • interactive jobs
  • efficient usage of the SLURM queuing system
• Documentation and user support
• Ares and Athena as an integral part of PLGrid Infrastructure
• EuroHPC (LUMI) - computational opportunities

Duration

5 hours

Requirements

Each user should have a PLGrid account, active affiliation and access to the Ares cluster. Accounts and access to supercomputers could be obtained in Portal PLGrid. If somebody has no active affiliation, please get in touch with organisers at training@cyfronet.pl.

Venue

Training will be conducted via Zoom through the link provided for registered participants.

Language

English/Polish - dependent on the participants.

Level

beginner

Acknowledgements
This event is partially funded by the EuroCC 2 project.

The project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903. The JU receives support from the Digital Europe Programme and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Türkiye.