HPC On-boarding 05-08 May 2025
The Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS) is offering an on-boarding hands-on course for new users of high performance computing (HPC) systems.
The course is highly recommended for all new users of the 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 with little experience using UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux or working on the command line of a terminal, the first day of the course is designed specifically for you.
The course is open to all and free of charge.
Registration
The course is organised by NRIS, registration deadline is May 2nd 2025. REGISTER: 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) and to access the HPC systems (eg: ssh).
Time, date (all times CEST)
Date |
Time |
Topic |
|---|---|---|
Mon 05.05 |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Login check session (for all) |
Tue 06.05 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
Linux on HPC context (for UNIX-newbies) |
Wed 07.05 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
HPC On-boarding day 1 (for all) |
Thu 08.05 |
09:00 - 12:30 |
HPC On-boarding day2 (for all) |
You can always contact us by sending an email to support@nris.no.
User Account and connection verification: For all course participants, we want to make sure that you are able to log in and follow the practical parts of the course - thus we organise a login help session on May 05th - at 09:00-10:00. A link to this will be emailed to each participant personally.
Day0 - UNIX for HPC (optional Tuesday May 06th)
09:00-09:05 - Welcome, Practical information & icebreaker question
09:05-09:35 - The terminal and remote login
09:35-09:55 - Moving around and looking at things
09:55-10:05 - Moving around and looking at things (exercise)
10:05-10:15 - Break
10:15-10:40 - Finding things
10:40-10:50 - Finding things (exercise)
10:50-11:00 - Break
11:00-11:30 - Create/modify files
11:30-12:00 - Composing commands with pipes
12:00-12:30 - Scripting
Day1 - HPC Intro (Wednesday May 07th)
09:00-09:10 - Welcome, Practical information & icebreaker question
09:10-09:30 - Why use a Cluster?
09:30-10:00 - Working on a remote HPC system
10:00-10:15 - Break
10:15-11:00 - Scheduling jobs
11:00-11:30 - Scheduling job (exercise)
11:30-11:45 - Break
11:45-12:15 - Transferring files
12:15-12:30 - Q&A & Discussion
Day2 - HPC Intro (Thursday May 09th)
09:00-09:10 - Recap & ice breaker question
09:10-09:55 - Accessing Software
09:55-10:15 - Accessing Software (exercise)
10:15-10:30 - Break
10:30-11:30 - Compute and storage quota
11:30-11:45 - Break
11:45-12:15 - How to ask for help
12:15-12:30 - Wrap-up and continued Q&A follow up.
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
Burcin Buket
Morten Ledum
Siri Kallhovd
Maiken Pedersen
Sabry Razick
Richard Topouchian
Coordinator
Espen Tangen