[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: HPC Without the Command Line using the Agave Science Gateway Platform through Jupyter Notebooks

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

This is a separate training event on Thursday Oct 19, Digital Media Center room 1034 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am:

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017:  HPC Without the Command Line using the Agave Science Gateway Platform through Jupyter Notebooks
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 all users 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.  It also makes collaboration easier by allowing collaborators access to your code and or data.
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 use  the Agave platform through a Jupyter Notebook to capture the steps we use to use and share your existing code with  a Science Gateway to make it available to selected collaborators.   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.
Place and time:  Digital Media Center room 1034 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am

Please email ktraxler at lsu.edu<mailto:ktraxler at lsu.edu> to confirm you will be attending and to let me know if you need a video link for off-site access.  All who register will receive a confirmation email.   Users who plan on joining remotely will be provided with a Video Link in their registration confirmation email.

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

Kathryn Traxler

Education, Outreach and Training Specialist

Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
2013 Digital Media Center, Baton Rouge, LA  70815
office 225-578-8932
cell    225-454-7409
ktraxler at lsu.edu<mailto:ktraxler at lsu.edu> | lsu.edu<http://lsu.edu> | cct.lsu.edu<http://cct.lsu.edu>

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