Introduction to Scientific High-Performance Computing

Europe/Warsaw
online

online

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

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
    • basics on how clusters/supercomputers work
  • Basics of environmental variables in bash and their usage on HPC clusters
  • Available computational and storage resources of Ares and Athena supercomputers
  • Working with the queuing system Slurm Workload Manager 
    • batch scripts (with examples)
      • sequential, parallel and distributed computations
    • interactive jobs
    • efficient usage of the Slurm queuing system
  • Scientific software environment management (Modules/Lmod)
  • Python virtual environment management
  • Getting user support through Cyfronet's Helpdesk and best practices

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

Organized by

ACC Cyfronet AGH

Registration
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Waiting List
    • 10:00 AM 10:15 AM
      HPC Intro 15m

      Introduction to HPC systems, logging and transfering files

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 10:15 AM 10:45 AM
      What is a supercomputer? (PC vs cluster) 30m

      Basics on how clusters/supercomputers work

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 10:45 AM 11:00 AM
      Environemental variables 15m

      Basics of environmental variables in bash and their usage on HPC clusters

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      File systems on Cyfronet clusters and how to use them 30m

      Available computational and storage resources of Ares, Athena and Helios supercomputers

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 11:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Basics of quening system and batch scripts 30m

      Working with the queuing system Slurm Workload Manager
      batch scripts (with examples)
      sequential, parallel and distributed computations

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 12:00 PM 12:30 PM
      Lunch break 30m
    • 12:30 PM 1:00 PM
      Scientific software management (modules) 30m

      Scientific software environment management (Modules/Lmod)

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 1:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Python virtual environment 30m

      Python virtual environment management

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 1:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Scripting for quening system 30m

      Working with the queuing system Slurm Workload Manager
      batch scripts (with examples)
      sequential, parallel and distributed computations

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 2:00 PM 2:30 PM
      HANDS-ON - scripting with all the things you've learned 30m

      Working with the queuing system Slurm Workload Manager
      batch scripts (with examples)
      sequential, parallel and distributed computations

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 2:30 PM 2:45 PM
      Modes of work with Slurm 15m

      interactive jobs, efficient usage of the Slurm queuing system

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)
    • 2:45 PM 3:00 PM
      How to get support with a problem from Helpdesk 15m

      Getting user support through Cyfronet's Helpdesk and best practices

      Speaker: Oskar Klimas (ACK Cyfronet AGH)