August 22-26, 2022
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) will hold an Introductory-level workshop for Linux system administrators new to HPC. 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
The workshop is full and registration is now closed.
$545 through July 15
$650 after July 15
(Click the “Fill out new form” button to start your registration.)
(Registration includes daily breakfast and lunch)
Dartmouth College workshop locations:
Monday-Wednesday Haldeman Center 041, Food in Haldeman Center 031 29 N. Main St., Hanover, NH 03755
Thursday-Friday: Kemeny Hall 007 (Food in Haldeman Center 126) 27 N. Main St., Hanover, NH 03755
- Note that the hotel blocks will close July 22, so book your room soon!
Contact Leslie Froeschl at lfroesch@illinois.edu or Lavanya Podila lpodila2@illinois.edu with any questions!
Schedule
Monday 8/22, 2022
- 7:00 If you purchased a parking pass, meet Christian at G parking lot to get your pass
- 7:30 Breakfast: Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 8:15 Meet in front of 53 Commons to walk to Haldeman Center
- 8:30 Welcome and Open Mitch D., Felix Windt, Christian Darabos, Haldeman Center 041
- 9:00 Lecture: Intro to HPC, John Hudson, John Wallace, Haldeman Center 041
- 10:00 Break, Haldeman Center 031
- 10:15 Lab: Introduction to Microsoft Azure Steve Roach, Haldeman Center 041
- 11:00 Lecture: Designing a Cluster, John Wallace, Haldeman Center 041
- 12:30 Lunch, 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 1:30 Lab: Build a Cluster: Storage Server Alexei Kotelnikov, Haldeman Center 041
- 3:00 Break, Haldeman Center 031
- 3:30 Lecture: HPC Storage, part 1 Richard Brittain, John Hudson, Haldeman Center 041
- 5:15-6:30 Welcome reception – Meet Dartmouth Research Computing Paganucci Lounge in the Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 7:00 Dinner on your own
Tuesday 8/23, 2022
- 7:30 Breakfast Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 8:30 Lecture: HPC Storage, part 2, Richard Brittain, John Hudson Haldeman Center 041
- 10:00 Break Haldeman Center 031
- 10:15 Lab: Build a Cluster: Compute Nodes, John Hudson Haldeman Center 041
- 11:00 Lecture Cluster Stack Basics John Wallace Haldeman Center 041
- 12:00 Lunch – Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 1:00 Lab: Build a Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node John Hudson Haldeman Center 041
- 2:30 Lecture: Intro to Configuration Management Storm Knight Haldeman Center 041
- 3:30 Break Haldeman Center 031
- 3:45 Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management Richard Brittain Haldeman Center 041
- 5:00 Evening/dinner on your own
Wednesday 8/24, 2022
- 7:30 Breakfast Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 8:30 Lecture: Introduction to SLURM Elijah Gagne, Bonnie, Haldeman Center 041
- 9:30 Lecture: Intro to OpenMP and MPI Alexei Kotelnikov, Haldeman Center 041
- 11:00 Break, Haldeman Center 031
- 11:15 Lab: Intro to OpenMP and MPI and ACC Alexei Kotelnikov, Haldeman Center 041
- 12:15 Lunch Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 1:00 Lab: Build a Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler Alexei Kotelnikov, Haldeman Center 041
- 2:00 Lecture: Monitoring Storm Knight, Haldeman Center 041
- 3:00 Break Haldeman Center 031
- 3:30 Lecture: HPC User Support Richard Brittain, Haldeman Center 041
- 5:30-6:30 Tour of the newly built Engineering and Computer Science Complex, Presentation of Open AV with Mark Franklin, Director of Thayer IT Engineering and Computer Science Complex
- Evening/Dinner on your own
Thursday 8/25, 2022
- 7:30 Breakfast, Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 8:30 Lecture: Intro to Networking Felix Windt, Kemeny Hall 007
- 9:00 Lecture: Networking Felix Windt, Kemeny Hall 007
- 10:30 Break, Haldeman Center 126
- 11:00 Panel/Roundtable: Hardware “Stories from Experience” Storm Knight, Kyle Hutson Kemeny Hall 007
- 11:30 Lecture: Account Management Storm Knight, Kemeny Hall 007
- 12:30 Lunch, Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 1:30 Lecture: Lmod, A Modern Environment Module System Alexei Kotelnikov, Kemeny Hall 007
- 3:00 Break, Haldeman Center 126
- 3:30 Lecture: User Software Management Kyle Hutson, Kemeny Hall 007
- 4:00 Panel/Roundtable: Software “Stories from Experience” Storm Knight, Kyle Hutson, Kemeny Hall 007
- 5:30-6:30 Guided tour of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, then optional self-guided tour of the galleries (8pm close time) Hood Museum of Art
- Evening/dinner on your own
Friday 8/26, 2022
- 7:30 Breakfast, Class of 1953 Commons Dining Hall
- 8:30 Lecture: Node Health Check Vernard Martin, Kemeny Hall 007
- 9:30 Panel/Roundtable: The Future of Research IT John Wallace, Vernard Martin Kemeny Hall 007
- 10:00 Break Haldeman Center 126
- 10:30 Panel/Roundtable: Closing “Stories from Experience” (Open Q&A) John Wallace, Vernard Martin Kemeny Hall 007
- 11:00 OpenACC Alexei Kotelnikov, Kemeny Hall 007
- 12:00 Boxed Lunch to Go