[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: Agave Platform and HPC User Environment 2

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

The schedule for the Summer 2017 HPC Training is available at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php.

The next two HPC trainings will be held at 9:00 AM on Monday, June 12 and Wednesday, June 14 in 307 Frey Computing Service Center and broadcast through WebEx for remote users.

Monday, June 12, 2017, Running Jobs on HPC using the Agave Platform
Despite the growing importance of high performance computing in every branch of science, many scientists are not computationally savvy and are intimidated by the Linux command prompt. Science Gateways (sometimes called Web Portals) exist, in part to make life easier for them by providing a way to run and monitor jobs on an HPC resource using a web page instead of having to understand bash, vi, etc.
The Agave Platform was developed to make it easy for scientists to take their existing code and "webify" it, or enable it for use as a Gateway. In this tutorial, we show you how to convert your existing code into a Science Gateway and make it available to selected users.
Why turn your code into a gateway? Gateways are growing. They accounted for 77% of all active cycles in the XSEDE network in the fourth quarter of 2016. In addition, the NSF has recently committed $35 million to found a Science Gateways Institute (http://sciencegateways.org/) in order to accelerate this type of research.
Prerequisites: Some experience running jobs on a super computer will be useful. A LONI/LSU HPC account would be helpful.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017: HPC User Environment 2, Job Management with PBS
This training provides an overview of the HPC/LONI general account and allocation policies, hardware and software environments, queuing system, compiling programs, writing job submission scripts, running and monitoring jobs on HPC systems.
This training is the second session of the *mandatory* two-day training event for all HPC/LONI new users held on June 7 and June 14.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Linux/Unix commands and editors

Next HPC training:

Wednesday, June 21, 2017: Introduction To Latex
LaTeX is a high-quality document preparation system. It is often used for technical or scientific documents. This tutorial is an introduction to creating documents using LaTeX.
Prerequisites: Laptop with a Latex editing environment such as TeXLive installed from http://www.tug.org/texlive/ for Windows, Mac and Linux OR MacTeX-2015 http://www.tug.org/mactex/ for Mac OSX

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 a WebEx Link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the system requirements at https://grok.lsu.edu/Categories.aspx?parentCategoryId=3381.

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

Thanks,

Feng Chen, PhD
IT Consultant
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University
329 Frey Computing Services Center, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
office 225-578-2924
fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>






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