Best Practices on NRIS Clusters May 2022
The Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS) is offering a course for users of national HPC systems (Saga, Fram, Betzy). The two half days course is the follow up to the NRIS HPC on-boarding course. We will focus on different aspects related to the everyday usage of HPC facilities in order to facilitate an valuable and productive framework to develop your research. These include best practices and trouble shooting, resource management, software installation, gpu computing with slurm and advanced user support.
Targeted Audience: The course is aimed at students, researchers and employees who want to deepen their knowledge of the usage of HPC facilities. This is a follow-up course to the NRIS HPC on-boarding course (although it is not a prerequisite). If you are new to HPC, we highly recommend to refer the course material of NRIS HPC on-boarding course to benefit from this course.
The course is open to all users and free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Note
The video recordings and notes can be found here
Practical Information
This is an online course via zoom. Participants require access to a computer (not provided by the course organisers) with internet connectivity and pre-installed programs to participate in the video meeting of the course (zoom, might work from a browser), to access the HPC systems (e.g., ssh or Putty), to transfer data to/from an HPC system (e.g., scp or WinSCP).
You can always contact us by sending an email to support@nris.no.
If you want to receive further information about training events, and other announcements about IT resources and services for researchers, there are a couple of information channels you can subscribe to:
users at University of Bergen and affiliated institutes: register to hpcnews@uib.no
users of Sigma2 services: subscribe to Sigma2’s newsletter
Registration
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Time, date (all times CEST)
Date |
Time |
Topic |
|---|---|---|
Mon 23.05 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
Session 1 : Best Practices and Trouble shooting on NRIS clusters |
Tue 24.05 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
Session 1: Software Installation |
Schedule
Day1 - Monday 23 May 2022
09:00-09:10 - Welcome, Practical information &icebreaker question
09:10-09:50 - Best Practices and Trouble shooting on NRIS clusters (Ole W. Saastad)
09:50-10:00 - Break
10:00-10:40 - Best Practices and Trouble shooting on NRIS clusters (continues)
10:40-10:50 - Break
10:50-11:30 - Optimal resource management - How to choose the right amount of memory (Radovan Bast)
11:30-11:40 - Break
11:40-12:15 - Optimal resource management - How to choose the number of cores (Radovan Bast)
12:15-12:30 - Q&A & Discussion
Day2 - Tuesday 24 May 2022
09:00-09:05 - Welcome, Practical information &icebreaker question
09:05-09:50 - Software Installation - (Sabry Razick & Jørn Dietze)
09:50-10:00 - Break
10:00-10:30 - Software Installation (continues) - (Sabry Razick & Jørn Dietze)
10:30-11:00 - GPU-programming: Using GPUs with Slurm - (Jørgen Nordmoen)
11:00-11:10 - Break
11:10-11:40 - GPU-programming: Using GPUs with Slurm (continues)
11:40-11:45 - Break
11:45-12:15 - NRIS extended support and AUS (Espen Flage-Larsen)
12:15-12:30 - Q&A & Discussion
Instructors
Ole W. Saastad
Radovan Bast
Sabry Razick
Jørn Dietze
Jørgen Nordmoen
Espen Flage-Larsen
Expert helpers
Bjørn Lindi
Nikolay Aleksandrov Vazov
Siri Kallhovd
Marius Linge
Coordinator
Dhanya Pushpadas
Code of Conduct
All participants in our course are expected to show respect and courtesy to others. We follow carpentry code of conduct. If you believe someone is violating the Code of Conduct, we ask that you report it to the training team.
Preparing your machine for the course
We assume you have the necessary tools installed on your machine and are able to use them. You need tools to login into a remote machine (e.g., ssh ) and to transfer data to/from a remote machine (e.g., scp ). If you need to install such tools, please see prepare your machine section.