May 13–17, 2019
University of Oklahoma
Four Partners Place, room 3065
301 David L. Boren Blvd
Norman, Oklahoma
Do you have some experience as an HPC system administrator and want to expand your skills? Then this is the workshop for you!
- Strengthen your overall knowledge of HPC system administration
- Focus in depth on file systems and storage, HPC networks, and job schedulers
- Get hands-on training and discuss real-life stories with experienced HPC administrators
- Learn techniques for high performance data transfers using a ScienceDMZ
Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
Monday, May 13 — Storage (part 1)
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Survey of Storage Hardware JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 9:00 am | Survey of File Systems JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 9:30 am | Tiered Storage JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | ZFS Concepts, Features, Administration JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | ZFS Hands-On JD Maloney, NCSA Exercise |
| 2:00 pm | Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Architecture, Configuration, Features JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 3:30 pm | Break |
| 4:30 pm | Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Architecture, Configuration, Features (continued) JD Maloney, NCSA |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Tuesday, May 14 — Storage (part 2)
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Hands-On JD Maloney, NCSA Exercise |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Lustre Architecture, Configuration, Features JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Lustre Architecture, Configuration, Features (continued) JD Maloney, NCSA |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Lustre Hands-On JD Maloney, NCSA Exercise |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Wednesday, May 15 — Schedulers
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:20 am | Welcome/Open |
| 8:30 am | Workload Management Overview Tyler Trafford, Yale University Presentation |
| 9:00 am | Feature Set Survey Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 9:30 am | PBS/Torque/Moab/Maui/LSF/Open Source Tools Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 10:00 am | Slurm (include cloud, accounting) Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Limiting Resources: Cgroups, Containers, Processor Affinity Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Slurm Hands-On Tyler Trafford, Yale University Exercise |
| 3:45 pm | Break |
| 4:15 pm | Basic TCP Dynamics/Science DMZ Design Jason Zurawski, ESnet Presentation |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Thursday, May 16 — Networking
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Network Monitoring via perfSONAR Scott Chevalier, Indiana University Presentation |
| 9:30 am | perfSONAR Hands-On Scott Chevalier, Indiana University Exercise |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Data Movement Hardware/Software Jason Zurawski, ESnet Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Network Security and Local Networking (Infiniband) Jason Zurawski, ESnet Network Security Presentation Local Networking Presentation |
| 2:30 pm | Ceph Introduction Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University Presentation |
| 3:30 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | Ceph Troubleshooting Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University Presentation |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Friday, May 17 — Ceph
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Ceph Hands-On Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Ceph Hands-On (continued) Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University |
| Noon | Panel Discussion/Box Lunches |
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