August 21-25, 2023
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
If you have some experience as an HPC Linux system administrator and want to expand your skills, this is the workshop for you! In just five days you will:
- Strengthen your overall knowledge of HPC system administration
- Focus in depth on file systems and storage, HPC networks, job schedulers, and Ceph
- Get hands-on training and discuss real-life stories with experienced HPC administrators
Those who have attended an LCI Introductory Workshop in the past are especially encouraged to attend!
Prerequisite: One year of experience with cluster administration
Registration is now closed.
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(Registration includes daily breakfast and lunch)
Note that the workshop location has limited seating. Registration will be available until that maximum capacity is reached and then will be closed.
Monday, August 21— Storage Pt. 1
- 8:00 AM Breakfast
- 8:30 AM Welcome /Introductions
- 8:50 AM Current Storage Infrastructure & Future Trends
- 9:50 AM Current HPC-relevant File Systems & Future Trends
- 10:30 AM Break
- 11:00 AM Basics of Storage Management for HPC Environments Pt. 1
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 PM ZFS Architecture/Overview
- 2:00 PM ZFS Hands-On &
- Basics of Data Management for HPC Environments
- 3:30 PM Break
- 4:00 PM Basics of Storage Management for HPC Environments Pt. 2
- 5:00 PM Dinner/evening on your own
Tuesday, August 22 — Storage Pt. 2
- 8:00 AM Breakfast
- 8:30 AM IBM Spectrum Scale Architecture & Overview
- 10:30 AM Break
- 11:00 AM Hands-On with Spectrum Scale
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 PM Lustre Architecture & Overview
- 3:00 PM Break
- 3:30 PM Hands-On with Lustre
- 5:00 PM Dinner/evening on your own
Wednesday August 23 — Schedulers
- 8:00 AM Breakfast
- 8:20 AM Welcome/Open
- 8:30 AM Workload Management Overview
- 9:00 AM Feature Set Survey
- 9:30 AM PBS/Torque/Moab/Maui/LSF/Open Source Tools
- 10:00 AM Slurm (include cloud, accounting)
- 10:30 AM Break
- 11:00 AM Limiting Resources: Cgroups, Containers, Processor Affinity
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 PM Slurm Hands-On
- 3:30 PM Break
- 4:00 PM Basic TCP dynamics / Science DMZ Design
- 5:00 PM Dinner/evening on your own
Thursday August 24 — Networking
- 8:00 AM Breakfast
- 8:30 AM Network Monitoring via perfSONAR
- 9:30 AM perfSONAR hands-on
- 10:30 AM Break
- 11:00 AM Data Movement Hardware/Software
- Noon Lunch
- 1:00 PM Network Security and Local Networking (Infiniband)
- 2:30 PM Ceph – SysAdmin’s Introduction
- 3:30 PM Break
- 4:00 PM Ceph Hands-On
- 5:00 PM Dinner/evening on your own
- Friday August 25 — Ceph
- 8:00 AM Breakfast
- 8:30 AM Ceph Hands-On
- 10:30 AM Break
- 11:00 AM Ceph – Troubleshooting
- Noon Panel Discussion/Box Lunches