May 1-5, 2023
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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
Registration is CLOSED!
$545 through April 1
$650 after April 1
(Click the “Fill out new form” button to start your registration.) 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.
Intermediate Workshop Location: Oklahoma Memorial Union
Schedule
Instructors for the LCI Introductory Workshop will be:
- Alexei Kotelnikov: alexei@soe.rutgers.edu
- Kyle Hutson: kylehutson@ksu.edu
- Prentice Bisbal: pbisbal@pppl.gov
- J.D. Maloney: malone12@illinois.edu
- Jenett Tillotson: jtillots@ucar.edu
- Dave Akin: david.akin@ou.edu
Monday 5/1, 2023 OMU Bartlett Room
- 8:00 Breakfast
- 8:30 Welcome and Open
- 9:00 01 Lecture: Intro to HPC
- 10:00 Break
- 10:15 02 Lab: Introduction to Microsoft Azure
- 11:00 03 Lecture: Designing a Cluster
- 12:30 Lunch
- 1:30 04 Lab: Build a Cluster: Head Node
- 3:00 Break
- 3:30 05 Lecture: HPC Storage, part 1, Lab compute nodes
Tuesday 5/2, 2023 OMU Bartlett Room
- 8:00 Breakfast
- 8:30 05 Lecture HPC Storage, part 2
- 10:00 Break
- 10:15 06 Lab: Build a Cluster: Compute Nodes
- 11:00 07 Lecture: Cluster Stack Basics
- 12:00 Lunch
- 1:00 08 Lab: Build a Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node
- 2:30 09 Lecture: Intro to Configuration Management
- 3:30 Break
- 3:45 10 Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management
Wednesday 5/3, 2023 OMU Associates
- 8:00 Breakfast
- 8:30 11 Lecture: Introduction to SLURM
- 9:30 12a/12b/12c Lecture: Intro to OpenMP and MPI and ACC
- 11:00 Break
- 11:15 13 Lab: Intro to OpenMP and MPI and ACC
- 12:15 Lunch
- 1:00 14 Lab: Build a Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler
- 2:00 15 Lecture: Monitoring
- 3:00 Break
- 3:30 16 Lecture: HPC User Support
Thursday 5/4, 2023 OMU Frontier
- 8:00 Breakfast
- 8:30 17 Lecture: Intro to Networking
- 9:00 18 Lecture: Networking
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Panel/Roundtable: Hardware “Stories from Experience”
- 11:30 19 Lecture: Account Management
- 12:30 Lunch
- 1:30 20 Lecture: Lmod, A Modern Environment Module System
- 3:00 Break
- 3:30 21 Lecture: User Software Management
- 4:00 Panel/Roundtable: Software “Stories from Experience”
Friday 5/5, 2023 OMU Frontier
- 8:00 Breakfast
- 8:30 22 Lecture: Node Health Check
- 9:30 Panel/Roundtable: The Future of Research IT
- 10:00 Break
- 10:30 Panel/Roundtable: Closing “Stories from Experience” (Open Q&A)
- 12:00 Boxed lunches to go