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
Schedule
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
- 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
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.