Efficient usage of HPC systemsin scientific computing

Course/Event Essentials

Event/Course Start
Event/Course End
Event/Course Format
Online

Venue Information

Country: Poland
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Training Content and Scope

Level of Instruction
Intermediate
Advanced
Sector of the Target Audience
Research and Academia
HPC Profile of Target Audience
Application Users
Language of Instruction

Other Information

Organiser
Supporting Project(s)
EuroCC/CASTIEL
Event/Course Description

The course is aimed for users who want expand their knowledge and skills of working with HPC systems available at ACC Cyfronet AGH.

Agenda

  • HPC systems usage
    • login and data transfer
    • command line interface for remote access to servers
    • remote visualisation and remote desktops
  • Available computational and storage resources of Ares, Promethes and Zeus supercomputers
  • Scientific software environment management (Modules/Lmod)
    • compilation of users' software
    • usage of users' own modules
    • Python environments management 
  • Working with queuing systems
    • batch scripts
      • sequential, parallel and distributed computations
        • srun
        • OpenMP
        • MPI
        • hybrid OpenMP + MPI
      • jobs with GPGPUs
      • array jobs
    • interactive jobs
    • jobs' dependencies
    • additional nodes features
    • efficient usage of SLURM queuing system
      • job monitoring
  • Documentation and user support
  • Ares, Zeus and Prometheus as an integral part of PLGrid Infrastructure
  • PRACE and EuroHPC (LUMI) - computational opportunities