August 4-8, 2014
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Urbana, Illinois
If you’re a user of HPC or are responsible for maintaining an HPC resource, this is the workshop for you!
In just five days you will learn:
- How to be an HPC cluster system administrator
- How to be an effective HPC cluster user
- The key issues of HPC
- Current and emerging HPC hardware and software technologies
All sessions taught by some of the world’s best experts in HPC.
Program
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Monday, August 4
| 8:00 am | Breakfast/Registration |
| 8:30 | Welcome and Open John Towns, NCSA |
| 9:00 am | Intro to HPC Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma Presentation |
| 10:00 am | Intro to HPC Exercise Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma Exercise |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Intro to MPI Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma Presentation Exercise 1 Exercise 2 |
| Noon | Working lunch with exercise (provided by workshop) |
| 1:00 pm | Cluster Stack Basics Wayne Louis Hoyenga, NCSA Dan LaPine, NCSA Presentation |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Cluster Stack Basics (continued) |
| 4:30 pm | Third-Party Software Management Timothy Bouvet, NCSA Presentation |
Tuesday, August 5
| 8:00 am | Breakfast/Registration |
| 8:30 am | HPC Storage Mehmet Belgin, Georgia Tech Wesley Emeneker, Georgia Tech Presentation |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Account Management Jenett Tillotson, Indiana University Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Monitoring George Turner, Indiana University Presentation |
| 2:00 pm | Warewulf Cluster Management Toolkit Michael Jennings, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley Presentation |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Node Health Check Michael Jennings, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley Presentation |
| 4:30 pm | Networking David Wheeler, NCSA Presentation |
Wednesday, August 6
| 8:00 am | Breakfast/Registration |
| 8:30 am | Scheduling and Resource Management: Moab/Torque Brian Haymore, University of Utah Presentation |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Scheduling and Resource Management: Slurm Ryan Cox, Brigham Young University Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | HPC User Support Cherry Liu, Georgia Tech Mehmet Belgin, Georgia Tech Presentation |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Advanced Topics: GPUs Mike Showerman, NCSA Presentation |
| 4:30 pm | Advanced Topics: Remote Visualization Aaron Knoll, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute Presentation |
| 5:30 pm | Advanced Topics: Cluster Business Models Preston Smith, Purdue University Presentation |
Thursday, August 7
| 8:00 am | Breakfast/Registration |
| 8:30 am | Build-A-Cluster Stephen Harrell, Purdue University Presentation Additional Files |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Build-A-Cluster continued |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Build-A-Cluster continued |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Build-A-Cluster continued |
Friday, August 8
| 8:00 am | Breakfast/Registration |
| 8:30 am | Real World Application: Illinois Campus Cluster Program (ICCP) Wayne Louis Hoyenga, NCSA |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Wrap-up Discussion and Q&A |
| Noon | Close (box lunches will be provided) |
Sponsors
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.