ETLAB SHARED HPC FACILITY USER BOOT CAMP 2006

Cluster Environment

Purpose:	In order to provide ETLab Shared HPC Facility Users with up-to-date information about available clusters and the technologies associated with them, this boot camp is designed to cover subjects of general interest and issues associated with specific research group’s activities. A Q&A session provides the opportunity for the system administration and programmer staff to answer and try to help resolve users’ questions on a face-to-face manner.
Date:	August 7, 2006
Location:	Ryals 407 (Morning sessions) and Ryals 417/ Ryals 127 for afternoon hand-on sessions
Format:	General subjects related to the HPC usage, followed with the parallel group-specific hand-on exercises
Attendees:	ETLab Shared HPC Facility users are all eligible. RSVP is REQUIRED. Please email to ashih@uab.edu.
Wiki Page:	HPC - High Performance Computing

TIME

TOPIC

SPEAKER

Resource(s)

8:00-8:30

BREAKFAST and COFFEE

8:30-8:45

Welcome and Opening Remark

Robert Kimberly
Bharat Soni

8:45-9:00

Cluster environment:

i.	Background and Overview
ii.	Policies
iii.	What services are provided, and what are not.

Alan Shih

9:00-9:45

Cluster setup

i.	What is a headnode, • What a headnode is for, and • Why you should not run jobs on the headnode, etc.
ii.	Where things are (software paths, software list, software paths, etc.)
iii.	How to report a problem (ETLab HPC trouble ticket system)
iv.	Wiki

Tommy Foley,
John-Paul Robinson

9:45-10:15

Linux commands

i.	Basic commands (ls, cd, pwd, and other)
ii.	Bash/csh/tcsh….
iii.	Advanced topics (scripting, how and where to get information, etc.)

Corey Shum

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-11:00

Job Queuing Systems

Mark Dillavou

11:00-12:15

Cluster Q&A and Problem Solving

i.	Questions about the subjects covered today
ii.	User comments and feedbacks for improving ETLab HPC operation
iii.	User’s current outstanding issues that need to be addressed

All

12:15-1:30

Lunch Break

1:30-3:00

Group-specific hand-on Examples (Parallel Sessions)
SSG (Meet at Ryals 417)

i.	R code/SGE example
ii.	Structure/STRAT/PBS example

ME (Meet at Ryals 127)
Structural Biology (Meet at Ryals 407)

All
Tapan Mehta,
Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra,
Mark Dillavou

3:30

BOOT CAMP ADJOURN