[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: HPC User Environment

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

The Schedule for the Fall 2014 HPC Training is available at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php.

Our next two HPC trainings will be held on Wednesday, Sep. 10 and Sep. 17 at 10:00 AM in 307 Frey and broadcast through Adobe Connect for remote users.

Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014: HPC User Environment 1, Job Management with PBS/Loadleveler
Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2014: HPC User Environment 2, Job Management with PBS/Loadleveler
This training provides an overview of the HPC hardware and software environment, queuing system, compiling programs, writing submit scripts, running and monitoring jobs on HPC systems. This training is a two day training event mandatory for new users held on Sep 10 and Sep 17.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with Linux/Unix commands and editors, LONI or LSU HPC account (No Training Accounts will be provided)

Next HPC Training:

Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2014: Distributed Job Execution
While the steadily increasing core counts of modern day processors continue to favor large-scale distributed and multi-threaded applications, the demand for serial processing has surged as non-traditional fields, such as computational biology, increasingly adapt computational methods. This presents a problem on clusters tuned for massively parallel processing. One solution is to tune the job scheduler to carve out resources primarily for serial jobs which complicates system management. The other, taken here, is to adapt existing shell features to facilitate running many essentially embarrassingly parallel tasks under one job script. Running tasks in the background works well for small numbers of tasks, but recent requirements for managing 10's of thousands of such tasks required a better approach - motivating the creation of WQ. It consists of a Python script that implements a run-time aware distribution-worker model, a PBS script with an absolute minimum number of moving parts, and a script or command to execute a single task. This presentation reviews shell job control features, the discusses the implementation of WQ. Examples will include purely serial, multi-threaded, and small MPI tasks.
Prerequisites: Beginner to intermediate level knowledge of shell scripting and PBS job submission is assumed, but not required.

Please visit http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php for more details and register using the link provided.
Users who plan on joining remotely will be provided with an Adobe Connect Link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the system requirements at http://connect.grok.lsu.edu/Categories.aspx?parentCategoryId=1519.

Please distribute to faculty, staff and students that might be interested.

Thanks,

Feng Chen, Ph.D.
IT Analyst 3
347, Frey Computing Services Center,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Voice: (225) 578-2924
eMail: fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>

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