August 4-8, 2014
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Urbana, Illinois
If you’re a user of HPC or are responsible for maintaining an HPC resource, this is the workshop for you!
In just five days you will learn:
- How to be an HPC cluster system administrator
- How to be an effective HPC cluster user
- The key issues of HPC
- Current and emerging HPC hardware and software technologies
All sessions taught by some of the world’s best experts in HPC.
Schedule
Monday, August 4
- 8:00 am Breakfast/Registration
- 8:30 Welcome and Open – John Towns, NCSA
- 9:00 am Intro to HPC – Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma
- 10:00 am Intro to HPC Exercise – Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Intro to MPI – Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma
- Noon Working lunch with exercise (provided by workshop)
- 1:00 pm Cluster Stack Basics – Wayne Louis Hoyenga, NCSA and Dan LaPine, NCSA
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Cluster Stack Basics (continued)
- 4:30 pm Third-Party Software Management – Timothy Bouvet, NCSA
Tuesday, August 5
- 8:00 am Breakfast/Registration
- 8:30 am HPC Storage – Mehmet Belgin, Georgia Tech, Wesley Emeneker, Georgia Tech
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Account Management – Jenett Tillotson, Indiana University
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Monitoring – George Turner, Indiana University
- 2:00 pm Warewulf Cluster Management Toolkit – Michael Jennings, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Node Health Check – Michael Jennings, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley
- 4:30 pm Networking – David Wheeler, NCSA
Wednesday, August 6
- 8:00 am Breakfast/Registration
- 8:30 am Scheduling and Resource Management: Moab/Torque – Brian Haymore, University of Utah
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Scheduling and Resource Management: Slurm – Ryan Cox, Brigham Young University
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm HPC User Support – Cherry Liu, Georgia Tech, Mehmet Belgin, Georgia Tech
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Advanced Topics: GPUs – Mike Showerman, NCSA
- 4:30 pm Advanced Topics: Remote Visualization – Aaron Knoll, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
- 5:30 pm Advanced Topics: Cluster Business Models – Preston Smith, Purdue University
Thursday, August 7
- 8:00 am Breakfast/Registration
- 8:30 am Build-A-Cluster – Stephen Harrell, Purdue University
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Build-A-Cluster continued
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Build-A-Cluster continued
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Build-A-Cluster continued
Friday, August 8
- 8:00 am Breakfast/Registration
- 8:30 am Real World Application: Illinois Campus Cluster Program (ICCP) – Wayne Louis Hoyenga, NCSA
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Wrap-up Discussion and Q&A
- Noon Close (box lunches will be provided)
Sponsor
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides computing, data, networking, and visualization resources and services that help scientists and engineers across the country better understand our world. Learn more at www.ncsa.illinois.edu.