ETLAB SHARED HPC FACILITY USER BOOT CAMP 2009
| 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. | | Date: | October 23, 2009 | | Location: | RPHB 407 (School of Public Health, Ryals Building) | | Format: | General subjects related to the HPC usage | | Attendees: | All users are welcome. Please email to ashih@uab.edu to reserve your seat. | | Wiki Page: | http://me-wiki.eng.uab.edu/hpc/ | | TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER | Resource(s) | | 8:45-9:00 | Coffee and Registration | | | | 9:00-9:20 | Welcome and Opening Remark | Doug Rigney (Interim Vice President of IT) | | | Linda Lucas (Dean, SOE) | | | 9:20-10:20 | Cluster environment: | i. | Background and Overview | | ii. | Existing Resources | | iii. | Use Policies | | iv. | What services are provided, and what are not. | | v. | What is a head node | | vi. | How to report a problem (ETLab HPC trouble ticket system) | | vii. | Cluster Wiki page | | Tommy Foley (Director, SOE IT) | | | 10:20-10:30 | Break | | | | 10:30-11:00 | Linux Primer
| i. | Basic commands (ls, cd, pwd, and other) | | ii. | Bash/csh/tcsh... | | iii. | Advanced topics (scripting, how and where to get information, etc.) | | Mike Hanby (HPC System Admin) | | | 11:00-11:30 | Job Queuing Systems
| i. | SGE (How to write the scripts) | | ii. | Where things are (software paths, etc.) | | Mike Hanby (HPC System Admin) | | | 11:30-1:00 | LUNCH BREAK | | | | 1:00-1:30 | Migrating to Grid Computing
| i. | Background and Overview | | ii. | Current Status | | John-Paul Robinson (System Programmer Lead, UAB-IT) | | | 1:30-2:00 | Scaling Your Applications | John-Paul Robinson (System Programmer Lead, UAB-IT) | | | 2:00-2:30 | MATLAB on the Cluster | Puri Bangalore (Associate Professor, CIS) | | | 2:30-3:00 | Q&A session and user suggestions | Alan Shih (Director, ETLab) | | | 3:00 | BOOT CAMP ADJOURN | | |
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