HPC On-boarding 14-17 October 2024
The Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS) is offering an on-boarding hands-on course for new users of HPC systems.
The course is highly recommended for all new users of national HPC systems (Saga, Fram, Betzy) and all interested in the field. Targeted Audience: The course is aimed at students, researchers and employees of any background. We assume no prior knowledge of what an HPC is or how to use it. For those who have little experience with UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux or who have never worked on the command line of a terminal, the first day of the course is dedicated for you.
The course is open to all and free of charge.
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Registration
The registration is closed.
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) and to access the HPC systems (eg: ssh).
Time, date (all times CEST)
Date |
Time |
Topic |
---|---|---|
Mon 14.10 |
13:00 - 13:30 |
Login check session (for all) |
Tue 15.10 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
Linux on HPC context (for UNIX-newbies) |
Wed 16.10 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
HPC On-boarding day 1 (for all) |
Thu 17.10 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
HPC On-boarding day2 (for all) |
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
User Account and connection verification: For all courseparticipants, we want to make sure that you are able to log in an follow the practical parts of the course - thus we organise a login help session on October 14th 13:00-13:30. Link to this has been sent out in a personal email.
Day0 - UNIX for HPC (optional 15 October, Tuesday)
09:00-09:10 - Welcome, Practical information & icebreaker question
09:10-09:40 - The terminal and remote login (Bjørn & Morten)
09:40-09:55 - Moving around and looking at things (Morten & Maiken)
09:55-10:05 - Break
10:05-10:20 - Moving around and looking at things (exercise)
10:20-10:35 - Finding things (Maiken & Morten)
10:35-10:50 - Finding things (exercise)
10:50-11:00 - Break
11:00-11:30 - Create/modify files (Morten & Maiken)
11:30-12:00 - Composing commands with pipes (Radovan & Morten)
12:00-12:30 - Scripting (Maiken & Bjørn)
Day1 - HPC Intro (16 October, Wednesday)
09:00-09:10 - Welcome, Practical information &icebreaker question
09:10-09:30 - Why use a Cluster? (Magnar & Maiken)
09:30-10:00 - Working on a remote HPC system (Maiken & Magnar)
10:00-10:15 - Break
10:15-11:00 - Scheduling jobs (Magnar & Jim-Viktor)
11:00-11:30 - Scheduling job (exercise)
11:30-11:45 - Break
11:45-12:15 - Transferring files (Espen & Magnar)
12:15-12:30 - Q&A & Discussion
Day2 - HPC Intro (17 October, Thursday)
09:00-09:10 - Recap & ice breaker question
09:10-09:40 - Accessing Software (Sabry & Buket)
09:40-10:00 - Accessing Software (exercise)
10:00-10:15 - Break
10:15-11:15 - Compute and storage quota (Bjørn & Radovan) - (including Using shared resources responsibly).
11:30-11:45 - Break
11:45-12:15 - How to ask for help (Radovan & Bjørn)
Course material
Course material will be mostly based on Unix for HPC and HPC-Intro
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 either report to the zoom host right away or write to the training team.
Instructors
Radovan Bast
Magnar Bjørgve
Burcin Buket
Morten Ledum
Bjørn Lindi
Jim-Viktor Paulsen
Maiken Pedersen
Sabry Razick
Espen Tangen
Coordinator
Espen Tangen