August 14-18, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology
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
Those who have attended an Introductory LCI workshop in the past are especially encouraged to attend!
ScienceDMZ content provided in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the US Department of Energy Office of Science and National Science Foundation Grant #1541421.
Schedule
Monday, August 14 — Schedulers
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:20 Welcome/Open – Neil Bright, Georgia Tech
- 8:30 am Workload Management Overview – David King, NCSA
- 9:00 am Feature Set Survey – David King, NCSA
- 9:30 am PBS/Torque/Moab/Maui/LSF/Open Source Tools – David King, NCSA
- 10:00 am Slurm – David King, NCSA
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Limiting Resources: Cgroups, Containers, Processor Affinity – David King, NCSA
- 11:30 Cloud and Scheduling – David King, NCSA
- 11:45 Accounting: XDmod, MAM/Gold, Slurm – David King, NCSA
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Slurm Hands-On – David King, NCSA
- 3:45 pm Break
- 4:15 pm Slurm Hands-On – David King, NCSA
- 5:00 pm Dinner on your own (recommendations provided)
Tuesday, August 15 — Networking
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Science DMZ – Vernard Martin, ORNL, in partnership with ESNet, Presentation (PDF)
- ScienceDMZ content provided in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the US Department of Energy Office of Science and National Science Foundation Grant #1541421.
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Networking at Scale – Vernard Martin, ORNL, Presentation (PDF)
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Infiniband: Basics, Hardware, Subnet Managers, Topologies, Omni-Path – Vernard Martin, ORNL
- 3:30 pm Break
- 4:00 pm Infiniband Hands-On – Vernard Martin, ORNL, Exercise (PDF)
- 5:00 pm Dinner on your own (recommendations provided)
Wednesday, August 16 — Storage, part 1
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Survey of Storage Hardware – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- 9:00 am Survey of Filesystems – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- 9:30 am Tiered Storage – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am ZFS Concepts, Features, Administration – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm ZFS Hands-On – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Exercise (PDF)
- 2:00 pm GPFS Architecture, Configuration, Features – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- 3:30 pm Break
- 4:00 pm GPFS (continued) – J.D. Maloney, NCSA
- 5:00 pm Dinner on your own (recommendations provided)
Thursday, August 17 — Storage, part 2
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am GPFS Hands-On – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Lustre Architecture, Configuration, Features – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation (PDF)
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Lustre (continued) – J.D. Maloney, NCSA
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lustre Hands-On – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Exercise (PDF)
- 5:00 pm Dinner on your own (recommendations provided)
Friday, August 17
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Block vs. Object Storage – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation
- 9:30 Swift and Ceph – J.D. Maloney, NCSA, Presentation
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Panel Discussion
- Noon Boxed lunch to go
Sponsors
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.