HPC Training
HPC @ LSU offers High Performance Computing training to LSU and LONI users. We provide introductory courses on MPI, OpenMP and other true parallel programming topics.Our training courses will be held on Adobe Connect so that remote sites may attend. To find reservation information either on the Access Grid or at the physical location of the training follow the link to the training information.
We also have started a Moodle server on which we have created several HPC related Moodle tutorials.
HPC User Symposium
LSU Information Technology Services, LSU Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana Optical Network Initiative are pleased to announce the inaugural HPC Users' Symposium at the LSU Life Science Annex Auditorium. Please click on the link below for detailed information as well as instructions on how to register and submit poster abstract.
| Date/Times | Event | Place |
|---|---|---|
| June 6, 2012 from 6PM to 5PM on June 7, 2012 | HPC User Symposium at LSU | Life Sciences Annex Auditorium and Lobby |
Moodle Training
Visit our Moodle training site. The self-paced tutorials currently available include:- Intro to HPC
- Data Graphics with Gnuplot
- Debugging with TotalView
- Document Creation with LaTeX
- Getting Started with the Globus Toolkit
- How to use CPMD
- Intro to Gaussian
- Intro to Hybrid Programming
- Intro to Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP
- Remote Access with SSH
- Survival Skills with the BASH Shell
- Survival Skills with the TCSH Shell
- User Environment for LONI Clusters
- Intro to MPI Programming with Fortran
- HPC Software Development
All you need do is create an account using a valid email address and your name. Then you just log in to the system and start with the training.
Tutorials
All planned training sessions are currently described at: Training at LSU. Please visit the Training at LSU site to register. The training sessions are subject to cancellation due to lack of registartions, so please register if you plan on attending.
To find the tutorials:
- You will chose the "Instructor Led Training" from the middle of the page
- at the top left use the pull down menu to select "HPC"
- then you will see a list of HPC topics only and you may follow the link for the tutorials you need.
| Date/Times | Event | Place |
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Presentations and recordings (where available) from this semester's training may be found here.
Past Tutorials
We offer many tutorial sessions for our HPC users both on campus and through the access grid to LSU partners. Topics covered vary from:- introduction to Linux
- More Linux
- LaTeX
- CVS
- Subversion
- MPI
- OpenMP
- HPC Environment.
To read descriptions or access PDF's of the slides from past tutorials Past Tutorials.
Workshops
| Date/Times | Event | Place |
|---|---|---|
| June 4 - 6, 2012 from 8:00AM to 4:30PM | LONI HPC Parallel Programming Workshop at LSU | 338 Johnston Hall |
Past Workshops
| Date/Times | Event | Place |
|---|---|---|
| March 21, 2012 | LONI HPC Workshop at Xavier | Science Addition Room 575 |
| February 13-16, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | LONI HPC Workshop at LSU | 338 Johnston Hall |
| July 28, 2011 from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm Central time. | Standard CUDA - basic programming | 338 Johnston Hall |
| April 26 - 28, 2010 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | LONI HPC Workshop at LSU | 338 Johnston Hall |
| March 29 - 30, 2010 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | LONI HPC Workshop at University of New Orleans | Room 209 in the Math Building |
| October 26 and 27, 2009 from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm | LONI HPC Workshop at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA | |
| Aug. 3 - 7, 2009 | Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computations's Scaling to Petascale Workshop | 338 Johnston Hall |
| April 13 & 14, 2009 | LONI HPC Workshop hosted by Tulane University | Tulane University |
| March 3 & 4, 2009 | LONI HPC Workshop | Southern University in Baton Rouge |
| November 25, 2008 | LONI HPC Workshop | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| October 22 & 23, 2008 | LONI HPC Workshop | Louisiana Tech University, Ruston |
| June 8 through 14, 2008 | SC08-CCT Integrating Computational Science into the Undergraduate Curriculum Workshop | 338 Johnston Hall |
| April 25 & 26 | CCT-LBRN Computational Biology Workshop | Lod Cook Center on April 25, 338 Johnston Hall on April 26 |
| April 23 & 24, 2008 | LONI HPC Workshop | University of New Orleans, New Orleans |
| March 11 & 12, 2008 | LSU HPC Workshop | LSU, Baton Rouge |
| November 27-28, 2007 | LONI HPC Workshop | University of Louisiana, Lafayette |
| October 11 & 12, 2007 | LONI HPC Workshop | Louisiana Tech, Ruston |
| April 26, 2007 | Computational Chemistry Grid and GridChem Workshop | LSU, Baton Rouge, LA |
| March 26-27, 2007 | LONI HPC Workshop | Tulane University, New Orleans, LA |
| January 25-26, 2007 | LONI HPC Workshop | LSU, Baton Rouge, LA |
| June 28-30, 2005 | IBM pSeries Programming and Optimization Workshop | LSU, Baton Rouge, LA |
In Closing
Training opportunities are also available at the various LONI member institutions.
There are courses on some 237 topics (as of 19 Apr 2012) available to all at the The HPC University. Simply visit the site, create an account, and pick a topic or three.
If you have questions or suggestions about HPC training for LSU or LONI please email Kathy Traxler.
