August 19–23, 2019
Rutgers University
The Rutgers University Inn & Conference Center
178 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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 discussion
Schedule
Monday, August 19
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Welcome and Open – Galen Collier, Rutgers
- 9:00 am Lecture: Introduction to HPC – Galen Collier, Rutgers, Presentation
- 10:00 am Break
- 10:15 am Lab: Introduction to Microsoft Azure – Galen Collier, Rutgers, Exercise
- 11:00 am Lecture: Designing a Cluster – Bill Abbott, Rutgers, Presentation
- 12:30 pm Lunch
- 1:30 pm Lecture: Introduction to OpenMP and MPI – Alexei Kotelnikov, Rutgers
- Presentation (OpenMP)
- Presentation (MPI)
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:15 pm Lab: Introduction to OpenMP and MPI – Alexei Kotelnikov, Rutgers
Tuesday, August 20
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: HPC Storage, part 1 – Garrett McGrath, Princeton, Presentation
- 10:00 am Break
- 10:15 am Lab: Build a Cluster: Storage Server – Garrett McGrath, Princeton
- 11:30 am Lecture: HPC Storage, part 2 – Garrett McGrath, Princeton
- 12:30 pm Lunch
- 2:30 pm Lecture: Cluster Stack Basics – Prentice Bisbal, Princeton, Presentation
- 3:30 pm Break
- 3:45 pm Lecture: Introduction to Configuration Management – Garrett McGrath, Princeton, Presentation
- 4:30 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Compute Nodes – Jenett Tillotson, UCAR
Wednesday, August 21
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management – Jenett Tillotson, UCAR, Presentation
- 9:30 am Lecture: Introduction to Slurm – Jenett Tillotson, UCAR
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Lab: Build a Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node – Jenett Tillotson, UCAR
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 pm Lab: Build a Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler – Jenett Tillotson, UCAR
- 2:00 pm Lecture: Monitoring – Jenett Tillotson, UCAR, Presentation
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lecture: HPC User Support – Galen Collier, Rutgers, Presentation
Thursday, August 22
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: Introduction to Networking – Bill Abbott, Rutgers, Presentation
- 9:00 am Lecture: Networking – Bill Abbott, Rutgers, Presentation
- 10:30 am Break
- 11:00 am Panel/Roundtable: Hardware “Stories from Experience” – Galen Collier/Eric Marshall, Rutgers
- 11:30 am Lecture: Account Management – Eric Marshall, Rutgers
- 12:30 pm Lunch
- 1:30 pm Lecture: Lmod, A New Environment Module System – Alexei Kotelnikov, Rutgers, Presentation
- 3:00 pm Break
- 3:30 pm Lecture: User Software Management – Prentice Bisbal, Princeton, Presentation
- 4:00 pm Panel/Roundtable: Software “Stories from Experience” – Galen Collier/Eric Marshall, Rutgers
Friday, August 23
- 8:00 am Breakfast
- 8:30 am Lecture: Node Health Check – Eric Marshall, Rutgers
- 9:30 am Panel/Roundtable: The Future of Research IT – Galen Collier/Eric Marshall, Rutgers
- 10:00 am Break
- 10:15 am Panel/Roundtable: Closing “Stories from Experience” (Open Q&A) – Eric Marshall, Rutgers
- 11:30 am Boxed Lunch to Go
- Noon Brief Facility Tour: Hill Data Center – Ed Humphrey, Rutgers