2018 LCI Introductory Workshop – Linux Clusters Institute (LCI)

May 14–18, 2018
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Nebraska Union
1400 R St
Lincoln, NE 68508

The workshop will be held in the Union’s Regency Suite, which is on floor two.

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

Download all lectures and labs

Schedule

Monday, May 14

8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Welcome and Open – David Swanson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:00 am Lecture: Intro to HPC – Irfan Elahi, NCAR
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Lab: Build a Cluster: Quick Introduction to EC2 – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
10:30 am Lab: Intro to HPC – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
11:00 am Lecture: HPC Storage, part 1 – Irfan Elahi, NCAR
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Storage Server – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
2:30 pm Lecture HPC Storage, part 2 – Irfan Elahi, NCAR
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Lecture: Designing a Cluster – Irfan Elahi, NCAR

Tuesday, May 15

8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Lecture: Intro to MPI – David Swanson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:30 am Lab: Intro to MPI – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Lecture: Cluster Stack Basics – Derek Weitzel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
12:45 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Head Node Setup – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Lecture: Intro to Configuration Management – Zhongtao Zhang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
4:45 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Compute Nodes – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming

Wednesday, May 16

8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Lecture: Scheduling with PBSPro– Ben Matthews, NCAR
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Lab: Build a Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management (Slurm) – Ben Matthews, NCAR
2:00 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Lecture: Monitoring – Zhongtao Zhang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
4:30 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler (with Unix Modules) – Carl Lundstedt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jared Baker, University of Wyoming

Thursday, May 17

8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Lecture: Intro to Networking – Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University
9:00 am Lecture: Networking – Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Hardware
11:30 am Lecture: Lmod: A Modern Environment Module System – Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Lecture: Account Management – Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Software
4:00 pm Lecture: HPC User Support – Kyle Hutson, Kansas State University

Friday, May 18

8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Lecture: Node Health Check – Zhongtao Zhang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:30 am Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Resources/Support and Q&A
10:00 am Tour of HCC facility
After – HCC tour Box lunches

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.