May 22-26, 2017
Room 142, Classroom Building
University of Wyoming, Laramie
If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you!
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
Program
NOTE: Attendees are required to bring a laptop
Instructor contact info: Irfan Elahi (irfan@ucar.edu, 303.497.1831)
All activities will be held in Room 142 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building unless otherwise noted.
Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
Monday, May 22
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Welcome and Open Instructor: Bill Gern, UW; Erik Scott, Harris Corporation |
| 9:00 am | Lecture: Intro to HPC Instructor: Irfan Elahi, NCAR Presentation part 1 Presentation part 2 |
| 10:00 am | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Quick Introduction to EC2 Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW Exercise |
| 10:15 am | Lab: Intro to HPC Exercise Instructor: Irfan Elahi, NCAR Exercise |
| 10:45 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Lecture: Intro to MPI Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR Presentation |
| Noon | Working lunch/Lab: Intro to MPI Exercise Instructors: Jared Baker, UW; Ben Matthews, NCAR Exercise |
| 1:00 pm | Lecture: Cluster Stack Basics Instructor: Jared Baker, UW Presentation |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Head Node Setup Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW Exercise |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner on your own |
Tuesday, May 23
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Lecture: Intro to Networking Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR Presentation |
| 9:00 am | Lecture: HPC Storage, Part 1 Instructor: Pam Hill, NCAR Presentation |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Storage Server Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW Exercise |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Lecture: HPC Storage, Part 2 Instructor: Pam Hill, NCAR Presentation |
| 2:00 pm | Lecture: Introduction to Configuration Management Instructor: Jonathon Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder Presentation |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Compute Nodes Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW Exercise |
| 4:30 pm | Lecture: Node Health Check Instructor: Jeff Lang, UW Presentation |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, May 24
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Lecture: Scheduling with PBSPro Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR Presentation |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW Exercise |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management (Slurm) Instructor: Brian Haymore, U Utah Presentation |
| 2:00 pm | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Lecture: Monitoring Instructor: Nate Rini, NCAR Presentation |
| 4:30 pm | Lab: Build-a-Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler (with Unix Modules) Instructors: Storm Knight, NCAR; Jared Baker, UW |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner on your own |
Thursday, May 25
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Lecture: Networking Instructor: Ben Matthews, NCAR Presentation |
| 10:00 am | Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Hardware Panelists: Jared Baker, UW; Irfan Elahi, NCAR; Mike Killean, UW; Jon Roberts, NCAR |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Lecture: Lmod: A Modern Environment Module System Instructor: Robert McLay, TACC Presentation |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Lecture: Account Management Instructor: Nate Rini, NCAR Presentation |
| 2:30 pm | Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Software Panelists: Jared Baker, UW; Irfan Elahi, NCAR; Jeff Lang, UW; Ben Matthews, NCAR |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Lecture: HPC User Support Instructor: Tim Brewer, UW Presentation |
| 4:30 pm | Lecture: Designing a Cluster Irfan Elahi, NCAR Presentation |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner on your own |
Friday, May 26
Activities will be held at NWSC.
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:30 am | Panel/Roundtable: War Stories about Resources/Support and Q&A Panelists: Jared Baker, UW; Tim Brewer, UW; Irfan Elahi, NCAR; Nate Rini, NCAR; Erik Scott, Harris Corporation |
| 10:00 am | Tour of NWSC |
Amazon Web Services: How to Connect to Your Test Cluster
Storm Knight, NCAR
Files
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.