Summary and Schedule

This workshop is an introduction to using high-performance computing systems effectively. We can’t cover every case or give an exhaustive course on parallel programming in just two days’ teaching time. Instead, this workshop is intended to give students a good introduction and overview of the tools available and how to use them effectively.

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Prerequisites

Command line experience is necessary for this lesson. We recommend the participants to go through shell-novice, if new to the command line (also known as terminal or shell).

By the end of this workshop, students will know how to:

  • Identify problems a cluster can help solve
  • Use the UNIX shell (also known as terminal or command line) to connect to a cluster.
  • Transfer files onto a cluster.
  • Submit and manage jobs on a cluster using a scheduler.
  • Observe the benefits and limitations of parallel execution.

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Getting Started

To get started, follow the directions in the “Setup” tab to download data to your computer and follow any installation instructions.

Note that this is the draft HPC Carpentry release. Comments and feedback are welcome.

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For Instructors

If you are teaching this lesson in a workshop, please see the Instructor notes.

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.

FIXME: Setup instructions live in this document. Please specify the tools and the data sets the Learner needs to have installed.

Data Sets

Download the data zip file and unzip it to your Desktop

Software Setup

Details

Setup for different systems can be presented in dropdown menus via a spoiler tag. They will join to this discussion block, so you can give a general overview of the software used in this lesson here and fill out the individual operating systems (and potentially add more, e.g. online setup) in the solutions blocks.

Use PuTTY

Use Terminal.app

Use Terminal