ETLAB SHARED HPC FACILITY USER BOOT CAMP 2007

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 cluster environment. A Q&A session is also arranged to provide the opportunity for the system administration and programmer staff to answer and try to help resolve users’ questions or standing problems on a face-to-face manner. An introduction on Grid Computing and UABGrid is a prelude to the Grid Computing in Day 2 of the Boot Camp
Date:	September 10, 2007
Location:	Ryals 407
Wiki Page:	HPC Bootcamp, Sep 2007

TIME

TOPIC

SPEAKER

Resource(s)

8:45-9:00

Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:10

Welcome and Opening Remark

Tommy Foley

9:10-9:40

Cluster environment:

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

Tommy Foley

9:40-10:20

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)
iii.	How to report a problem (ETLab HPC trouble ticket system)
iv.	Cluster Wiki page

Mike Hanby

10:20-10:40

Break

10:40-11:30

Introduction on Grid Computing

i.	Background and Overview
ii.	Q & A

John-Paul Robinson
Purushotham Bangalore

11:30-1:00

LUNCH BREAK

1:00-1:45

Linux commands

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

Corey Shum

1:45-2:10

Job Queuing Systems

i.	SGE
ii.	Debug
iii.	Other (LSF, etc)

Mike Hanby

2:10-2:30

Cluster Environment Q&A

2:30

BOOT CAMP ADJOURN