ETLAB SHARED HPC FACILITY USER BOOTCAMP 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 |
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| 9:00-9:20 |
Welcome and Opening Remark |
Douglas Rigney (Interim Vice President of IT) |
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| Linda Lucas (Dean, SOE) |
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| 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) |
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| 10:20-10:30 |
Break |
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| 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 |
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|
| 1:00-1:30 |
Migrating to Grid Computing
| i. |
Background and Overview |
| ii. |
Current Status |
|
John-Paul Robinson (System Programmer Lead, UAB-IT) |
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| 1:30-2:00 |
General Purpose Computing using GPUs (GPGPU) |
Amitesh Kumar |
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| 2:00-2:30 |
Huffman Compression on GPUs |
Robert L. Cloud |
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| 2:30-3:00 |
Q&A session and user suggestions |
Alan Shih (Director, ETLab) |
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| 3:00 |
BOOT CAMP ADJOURN |
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