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2018 Intermediate Workshop

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 amBreakfast
8:30 amWelcome/Introductions
Andy Sherman, Yale (chair)
Kiran Keshav, Yale
Erik Scott, Harris Corp.
Presentation
9:00 amSurvey of Storage Hardware
JD Maloney, NCSA
Presentation
9:30 amSurvey of File Systems
JD Maloney, NCSA
Presentation
10:00 amTiered Storage
JD Maloney, NCSA
Presentation
11:00 amBreak
11:30 amZFS Concepts, Features, Administration
JD Maloney, NCSA
Presentation
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pmZFS Hands-On
JD Maloney, NCSA
Tutorial
2:30 pmGPFS Architecture, Configuration, Features
JD Maloney, NCSA
Presentation
4:00 pmBreak
4:30 pmGPFS Architecture, Configuration, Features (continued)
JD Maloney, NCSA
5:30 pmDinner on your own (recommendations provided)

Tuesday, August 14 — Storage (part 2)

8:00 amBreakfast
8:30 amGPFS Hands-On
JD Maloney, NCSA
Tutorial
10:30 amBreak
11:00 amLustre Architecture, Configuration, Features
Charles Wright, Yale University
Presentation
NoonLunch
1:00 pmLustre Architecture, Configuration, Features (continued)
Charles Wright, Yale University
3:00 pmBreak
3:30 pmLustre Hands-On
Charles Wright, Yale University
5:00 pmDinner on your own (recommendations provided)

Wednesday, August 15 — Schedulers

8:00 amBreakfast
8:20 amWelcome/Open
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
Presentation
8:30 amWorkload Management Overview
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
9:00 amFeature Set Survey
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
9:30 amPBS/Torque/Moab/Maui/LSF/Open Source Tools
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
10:00 amSlurm (include cloud, accounting)
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
10:30 amBreak
11:00 amLimiting Resources: Cgroups, Containers, Processor Affinity
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
NoonLunch
1:00 pmSlurm Hands-On
Tyler Trafford, Yale University
Reference
3:45 pmBreak
4:15 pmNetworking
Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System
Presentation
6:00 pmDinner on your own (recommendations provided)

Thursday, August 16 — Networking

8:00 amBreakfast
8:30 amScience DMZ
Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System
Presentation
10:30 amBreak
11:00 amInfiniband: Basics, Hardware, Subnet Managers, Topologies, Omni-Path
Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System
NoonLunch
1:00 pmInfiniband: Basics, Hardware, Subnet Managers, Topologies, Omni-Path (continued)
Vernard Martin, Turner Broadcasting System
3:30 pmBreak
4:00 pmOpenStack Lecture
Mike Lowe, Indiana University
Presentations
6:00 pmDinner on your own (recommendations provided)

Friday, August 17

8:00 amBreakfast
8:30 amOpenStack
Mike Lowe, Indiana University
10:30 amBreak
11:00 amOpenStack Hands-On
Mike Lowe, Indiana University
NoonPanel Discussion
Erik Scott, Harris Corporation (chair)

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