HPC Introduction

Content

This course will give a short practical summary of the basic things VSC users need to know to start working on the HPC cluster:

• Overview of supercomputers
• Concept of parallelism
• History of supercomputers
• HPC Glossary
• What is the VSC
• Description of the cluster
• VSC at KU Leuven Infrastructure
• Thin node cluster vs shared memory machine
• CPU vs GPU
• Software environment
• Remote connection: secure connection, transferring files, displaying graphics, GUI
• How to get started: accounts
• How to submit jobs
• Job's life cycle
• Hand-on session

Target Group

This course is primarily targeted at researchers that would like/need to perform large scale computations using HPC facility - current and potential VSC-users.

Prior Knowledge

Having a basic knowledge of Linux is expected (if not please follow first the Linux-introduction course).

Results/Objectives

• Understanding basic HPC terms
• Getting familiar with VSC infrastructure, KU Leuven HPC infrastructure
• Getting the account 
• Being able to connect to the system, transfer the files and display graphical applications
• Submitting own jobs and editing scripts
• Checking job status, deleting unwanted jobs
• Understanding output files
• Ways to install applications on the cluster

Level: introductory

Course Room: opleidingslokaal C

Registration: via this link