Introduction to Scientific High-Performance Computing

Thursday 18 Apr 2024, 10:00 → 15:00 Europe/Warsaw

online

Maciej Czuchry (ACC Cyfronet AGH), Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH), Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

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 you do not have an 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

1 HPC Intro

Introduction to HPC systems

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

2 Access to HPC cluster

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

3 Computing and storage resources

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

4 Scientific software management

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

5 SLURM resource manager

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

12:00 Lunch break

6 SLURM resource manager

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

7 Q&A

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)

8 PLGrid, PRACE-LAB, & EuroHPC

Speaker: Klemens Noga (ACC Cyfronet AGH)