May 22-26, 2017
Room 142, Classroom Building
University of Wyoming, Laramie
If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you!
In just five days you will:
- Learn HPC system administration concepts and technologies and how to apply them
- Get hands-on skills building a small test cluster in lab sessions
- Hear real-life stories and get to ask experts questions in panel discussions
- NOTE: Attendees are required to bring a laptop
Instructor contact info: Irfan Elahi (irfan@ucar.edu, 303.497.1831)
All activities will be held in Room 142 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building unless otherwise noted.
Schedule
Monday, May 22
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Welcome and Open – Instructor: Bill Gern, UW; Erik Scott, Harris Corporation
- 9:00 am Lecture: Intro to HPC – Instructor: Irfan Elahi, NCAR
- 10:00 am Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Quick Introduction to EC2 – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- 10:15 am Lab: Intro to HPC Exercise – Instructor: Irfan Elahi, NCAR
- 10:45 am Break
- 11:00 am Lecture: Intro to MPI – Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR
- Noon Working lunch/Lab: Intro to MPI, Exercise – Instructors: Jared Baker, UW; Ben Matthews, NCAR
- 1:00 pm Lecture: Cluster Stack Basics – Instructor: Jared Baker, UW
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Head Node Setup – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- 5:30 pm Dinner on your own
Tuesday, May 23
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: Intro to Networking – Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR
- 9:00 am Lecture: HPC Storage, Part 1 – Instructor: Pam Hill, NCAR
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Storage Server – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Lecture: HPC Storage, Part 2 – Instructor: Pam Hill, NCAR
- 2:00 pm Lecture: Introduction to Configuration Management – Instructor: Jonathon Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Compute Nodes – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- 4:30 pm Lecture: Node Health Check – Instructor: Jeff Lang, UW
- 5:30 pm Dinner on your own
Wednesday, May 24
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: Scheduling with PBSPro – Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management (Slurm) – Instructor: Brian Haymore, U Utah
- 2:00 pm Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lecture: Monitoring – Instructor: Nate Rini, NCAR
- 4:30 pm Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler (with Unix Modules) – Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW
- 5:30 pm Dinner on your own
Thursday, May 25
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: Networking – Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR
- 10:00 am Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Hardware – Panelists: Jared Baker, UW; Irfan Elahi, NCAR; Mike Killean, UW; Jon Roberts, NCAR
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Lecture: Lmod: A Modern Environment Module System – Instructor: Robert McLay, TACC
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Lecture: Account Management – Instructor: Nate Rini, NCAR
- 2:30 pm Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Software – Panelists: Jared Baker, UW; Irfan Elahi, NCAR; Jeff Lang, UW; Ben Matthews, NCAR
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lecture: HPC User Support – Instructor: Tim Brewer, UW
- 4:30 pm Lecture: Designing a Cluster – Irfan Elahi, NCAR
- 5:30 pm Dinner on your own
Friday, May 26
- Activities will be held at NWSC.
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 9:30 am Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Resources/Support and Q&A
- Panelists: Jared Baker, UW; Tim Brewer, UW; Irfan Elahi, NCAR; Nate Rini, NCAR; Erik Scott, Harris Corporation
- 10:00 am Tour of NWSC
Files
- Amazon Web Services: How to Connect to Your Test Cluster – Storm Knight, NCAR
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.