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HPC - introduction
Tue, 20 Feb
|ICTS KU Leuven
This course takes half a day.
Time & Location
20 Feb 2024, 09:00 – 13:00 CET
ICTS KU Leuven, Willem de Croylaan 52/bus 5580, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
About the Event
Topics covered
This course will give a short practical summary of the basic topics that the new VSC users need to know to start working on the HPC cluster:
- HPC Glossary
- Description of the cluster
- VSC at KU Leuven Infrastructure
- Thin node cluster vs shared memory machine
- CPU vs GPU
- Software environment
- How to submit jobs
- Job's life cycle
- Hand-on session
This course is primarily targeted at researchers that would like/need to perform large scale computations using HPC facility - current and potential VSC-users.
Previous knowledgeHaving a basic knowledge of Linux is expected (if not please follow first the Linux-introduction course).
Results/Objectives- What is Supercomputer, parallelism, VSC
- Understanding basic HPC terms
- Getting familiar with VSC infrastructure, KU Leuven HPC infrastructure in detail
- Knowledge of KU Leuven VSC software environment
- Getting familiar with shared memory concept
- Understanding the difference between CPU and GPU
- 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
- How to perform parameter studies on the cluster
Instructor(s)
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