Instructor: Roman Baranowski (UBC)

RDM speaker: Megan Meredith-Lobay

Title: Introduction to HPC

An introduction to high-performance computing for those without any HPC experience.

Target audience: general

Course plan:

• introduction to Compute Canada systems; cluster hardware overview
• basic knowledge and tools necessary to work with the cluster: how to log in, transfer files, write make files, compile codes, submit jobs, etc.
• quick overview of different parallel programming models: OpenMP, MPI, Chapel
• debugging
• profiling and optimization
• best practices
• research data management in 30 mins (Megan)
  • overview of Globus, ownCloud/Nextcloud, and using these for file sharing and publishing
  • possible: tools for creating RDM plans, file naming, sharing, privacy/security issues
  • not likely: using these tools from the command line
• overview of what is going to be presented in the other sessions

Duration: 6 hours

Level: beginner

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Linux command line

Setup:

• Cluster reservation: 200 cores.
• Laptop software: SSH client (built-in on Mac/Linux, on Windows MobaXTerm or PuTTY)