[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: Running Jobs on HPC Without the Command Line using the Agave Science Gateway Platform

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

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

Note that this is a separate announcement for the newly added lecture on The Agave Science Gateway Platform on Tuesday, March 28 at 9:00 AM in 307 Frey Computing Service Center.

Wednesday, March 28, 2017: Running Jobs on HPC Without the Command Line using the Agave Science Gateway 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
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.

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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