HPC Training
Upcoming Training
The goal of each training below is to help you become comfortable enough with the material that you will be able to continue learning the topic on your own.If the tutorial has an Access Grid link you will have to have an access grid node at your site and get your operator to set up the meeting. You will also have to make sure you have an account on the correct HPC machines for either LSU or LONI and access to a computer that is connected to the internet so that you can follow the hands on tutorials. You will need to register with HPC Training through the "Register" link below.
Fall 2008
Table of Contents
- Welcome to HPC: accounts, allocations, Linux and Linux cluster environment
- Introduction to Linux and Vi
- Introduction to IBM P5 Clusters
- Introduction to MPI
- MPI part 2
- Introduction to OpenMP
- OpenMP part 2
- Introduction to Debugging and Profiling
- Introduction to Compilers and Optimization
- Debugging with Totalview
- Practical MPI
| Title | Welcome to HPC: accounts, allocations, Linux and Linux cluster environment |
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| Date | Thursday, September 4, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 12:30 pm |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | An introduction to:
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| Prerequisites | N/A |
| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG AG information coming soon. |
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| Title | Introduction to Linux and Vi |
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| Date | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| Time | 9:00 am until noon |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | Very basic introduction to both Linux and to the Vi editor. |
| Prerequisites | None |
| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG Access Grid information coming soon. |
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| Title | Introduction to the IBM P5 Clusters |
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| Date | Wednesday September 10, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | An introduction to the HPC environment. You will set your account up for the packages you use, environment variables, shells, etc. You will see basic submit scripts for the queues of the HPC machines. |
| Prerequisites | You MUST have an account on an LSU OR LONI HPC machine. It would be helpful if you have some basic linux experience. |
| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG Access Grid information coming soon. |
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| Title | Introduction to MPI |
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| Date | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | A basic introduction to the concepts of MPI programming. |
| Prerequisites | You must have programming background in C, C++ or Fortran. All examples will be in C or Fortran. You MUST have an account on a LONI or LSU HPC machine to participate in the hands on exercises. |
| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG Access Grid information to come. |
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| Title | MPI part 2 |
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| Date | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | The second part of the introduction to the concepts of MPI programming. |
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| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG Access Grid information to come soon. |
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| Title | Introduction to OpenMP |
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| Date | October 1, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | This training teaches you the basics of OpenMP |
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| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG Access Grid information coming soon. |
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| Title | OpenMP part 2 |
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| Date | Wedneday, October 8, 2008 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | This training will cover topics in OpenMP starting from where Introduction to OpenMP left off. |
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| Registration | Register here even if you are viewing on the AG Access Grid information coming soon. |
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| Title | Introduction to Debugging and Profiling |
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| Date | Wednesday, October 15 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | Finding and fixing bugs in your parallel code. Profiling is used to improve the performance of your code. |
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| Title | Introduction to Linux Cluster Compilers and Optimization |
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| Date | Wednesday, October 22 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | This training will introduce you to the compilers and optimization on the LSU and LONI Linux Clusters. |
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| Title | Introduction to Debugging with Totalview |
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| Date | Wednesday, October 29 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | Taking the debugging techniques discussed in Debugging and Profiling and applying them to the debugger Totalview. |
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| Title | Practical MPI |
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| Date | Wednesday, November 5 |
| Time | 9:30 am until 11:30 am |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | TBA |
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Past Training
The past training and lecture materials can be found HERE.



