August 13–17, 2018
Yale Center for Research Computing
160 St. Ronan Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Lustre Hands-On
The environment for the lab uses NCSA’s Nebula OpenStack cluster. With OpenStack we were able to create your VMs in an automated fashion. To maximize your learning, your VMs are as close to a minimal install of CentOS as we could make them. OpenStack installs the ssh key you provided in the centos account. We do not care for the centos user account but you have to use it until you get ssh keys setup for the root account. Since the centos account exists you will use it for some Lustre testing once you have a working filesystem. In addition to having a centos account, the hostname and networking for your VMs get configured via the cloud-init package. The instructor will help you with your VMs if you lock yourself out or need a VM reset. Please be careful not to lock yourself out a VM and do not power the VMs off, as you’d have to bother the instructor to power it back on again.
Program
Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
Monday, August 13 — Storage (part 1)
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Welcome/Introductions Andy Sherman, Yale (chair) Kiran Keshav, Yale Erik Scott, Harris Corp. Presentation |
| 9:00 am | Survey of Storage Hardware JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 9:30 am | Survey of File Systems JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 10:00 am | Tiered Storage JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:30 am | ZFS Concepts, Features, Administration JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | ZFS Hands-On JD Maloney, NCSA Tutorial |
| 2:30 pm | GPFS Architecture, Configuration, Features JD Maloney, NCSA Presentation |
| 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:30 pm | GPFS Architecture, Configuration, Features (continued) JD Maloney, NCSA |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Tuesday, August 14 — Storage (part 2)
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | GPFS Hands-On JD Maloney, NCSA Tutorial |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Lustre Architecture, Configuration, Features Charles Wright, Yale University Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Lustre Architecture, Configuration, Features (continued) Charles Wright, Yale University |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Lustre Hands-On Charles Wright, Yale University |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Wednesday, August 15 — Schedulers
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:20 am | Welcome/Open Tyler Trafford, Yale University Presentation |
| 8:30 am | Workload Management Overview Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 9:00 am | Feature Set Survey Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 9:30 am | PBS/Torque/Moab/Maui/LSF/Open Source Tools Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 10:00 am | Slurm (include cloud, accounting) Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Limiting Resources: Cgroups, Containers, Processor Affinity Tyler Trafford, Yale University |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Slurm Hands-On Tyler Trafford, Yale University Reference |
| 3:45 pm | Break |
| 4:15 pm | Networking Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System Presentation |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Thursday, August 16 — Networking
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Science DMZ Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System Presentation |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Infiniband: Basics, Hardware, Subnet Managers, Topologies, Omni-Path Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Infiniband: Basics, Hardware, Subnet Managers, Topologies, Omni-Path (continued) Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System |
| 3:30 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | OpenStack Lecture Mike Lowe, Indiana University Presentations |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner on your own (recommendations provided) |
Friday, August 17
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | OpenStack Mike Lowe, Indiana University |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | OpenStack Hands-On Mike Lowe, Indiana University |
| Noon | Panel Discussion Erik Scott, Harris Corporation (chair) |
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