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2025 LCI Introductory Workshop Schedule

Please note that is a sample schedule and may change based on instructor discretion.

Location for the workshop will be shared shortly.

Monday, 10th Feb 2024
8:00Breakfast
8:30Welcome and Open
9:0001 Lecture: Intro to HPC
10:00Break
10:1502 Lab: Introduction to Virtual Lab Environment
11:0003 Lecture: Designing a Cluster
12:30Lunch
1:3004 Lab: Build a Cluster: Head Node
3:00Break
3:3005 Lecture: HPC Storage, part 1, Lab compute nodes
Tuesday, 11th Feb 2024
8:00Breakfast
8:3005 Lecture HPC Storage, part 2
10:00Break
10:1506 Lab: Build a Cluster: Compute Nodes
11:0007 Lecture: Cluster Stack Basics
12:00Lunch
1:0008 Lab: Build a Cluster: Install Scheduler on Head Node
2:3009 Lecture: Intro to Configuration Management
3:30Break
3:4510 Lecture: Scheduling and Resource Management
Wednesday, 12th Feb 2024
8:00Breakfast
8:3011 Lecture: Introduction to SLURM 
9:3012a/12b Lecture: Intro to OpenMP and MPI and ACC
11:30Break
11:4513 Lab: Intro to OpenMP and MPI
12:45Lunch
1:3014 Lab: Build a Cluster: Run Application via Scheduler
2:3015 Lecture: Monitoring 
3:30Break
4:0016 Lecture: HPC User Support 
Thursday, 13th Feb 2024
8:00Breakfast
8:3017 Lecture: Intro to Networking
9:0018 Lecture: Networking
10:30Break
11:00Panel/Roundtable: Hardware “Stories from Experience”
11:3019 Lecture: Account Management
12:30Lunch
1:3020 Lecture/Lab: Lmod, A Modern Environment Module System
3:00Break
3:3021 Lecture: User Software Management
4:00Panel/Roundtable: Software “Stories from Experience”
Friday, 14th Feb 2024
8:00Breakfast
8:3022 Lecture: Node Health Check
9:30Panel/Roundtable: The Future of Research IT
10:00Break
10:30Panel/Roundtable: Closing “Stories from Experience” (Open Q&A)
12:00Boxed lunches to go