HPC Training
LSU High Performance Computing Workshop
HPC @ LSU will hold a High Performance Computing Workshop on March 11 & 12 in Frey 307 at LSU in Baton Rouge. This workshop will be also held on the Access Grid so that TeraGrid and LONI users on remote sites may attend.This workshop will cover the basics of high performance computing including, but not limited to, Welcome to TeraGrid, overview of HPC environment of Linux cl uster machines at LSU (Tezpur) and LONI (Queen Bee), Linux operating system commands and editors, introduction to Parallel Computing, introduction to MPI and advanced MPI, introduction to OpenMP and advanced OpenMP, LONI Portal, optimization and debugging of your code, utilizing High Performance Computing Systems in Astrophysic,Ccomputational Chemistry, and Numerical Relativity, and Cactus tutorials.
Prerequisites: Programming experience in C or Fortran (All examples will be in C or Fortran), a TeraGrid or LONI account on Queen Bee or a LSU HPC account, a LONI allocation, and a laptop.
Account: This workshop will be including hands-on execises on supercomputers, therefore LSU HPC account or LONI account is needed for each attendee. If you don't have an account, please request a LSU HPC account HERE or a LONI account HERE. You have to put in a valid email address and a link to the account request form will be sent to that email address. You click the link in your email message and you will be directed to the account request form. Please fill that form to request a account (You may put your advisor as your Contact/Collaborator if you are a student, postdoctoral researcher or research associate).
Laptop: This workshop will be including hands-on execises on supercomputers, therefore each participant needs to bring a laptop with SSH or PuTTY installed. If you do not have a laptop, please contact Kathy Traxler at ktraxler@lsu.edu so that she can provide one for you.
Register here. The seat space is limited, please register early to be guaranteed a seat in the class.
This training will be a two day workshop introducing the user to High Performance Computing. The tentative schedule is as follow:
HPC workshop -- Presentations
- March 11
- 8:00 - 8:30 Registration
- 8:30 - 8:50 Overview of CCT -- Dr. Edward Seidel
- 8:50 - 9:10 Overview of LONI -- Charlie McMahon
- 9:10 - 9:50 Introduction to High Performance Computing -- Dr. Dan Katz
- 9:50 - 10:00 Break
- 10:00 - 10:40 Welcome to TeraGrid -- Dr. Dan Katz
- 10:40 - 11:20 Accounts and Allocations (LONI and TeraGrid)-- Dr. Steve Brandt
- 11:20 - 11:50 Lab -- Dr. Steve Brandt
- 11:50 - 12:50 Lunch
- 12:50 - 1:30 Introduction to Linux and VI -- Kathy Traxler
- 1:30 - 1:50 Lab -- Kathy Traxler
- 1:50 - 2:30 Linux Programming Environments (Queen Bee and Tezpur) -- Dr. Honggao Liu
- 2:30 - 3:00 Lab -- Dr. Honggao Liu
- 3:00 - 3:10 Break
- 3:10 - 3:50 Introduction to MPI -- Dr. Le Yan
- 3:50 - 4:20 Lab -- Dr. Le Yan
- 4:20 - 5:00 Utilizing High Performance Computing Systems in Astrophysics -- Dr. Patrick Motl
- March 12
- 8:30 - 9:05 Compilers and Optimizations -- Dr. Shangli Ou
- 9:05 - 9:25 Lab -- Dr. Shangli Ou
- 9:25 - 10:00 Computational Studies of Chemical Systems -- Dr. Randy Hall
- 10:00 - 10:10 Break
- 10:10 - 10:50 Programming with OpenMP (Part I)-- Brett Estrade
- 10:50 - 11:10 Lab -- Brett Estrade
- 11:10 - 11:40 Numerical Relativity and the Use of High Performance Computing -- Dr. Peter Diener
- 11:40 - 12:40 Lunch
- 12:40 - 1:10 LONI Portal -- Prathyusha Akunuri
- 1:10 - 1:50 Advanced MPI -- Dr.Le Yan
- 1:50 - 2:30 Programming with OpenMP (Part II) -- Brett Estrade
- 2:30 - 2:40 Break
- 2:40 - 3:20 Debugging using TotalView -- Dr. Shangli Ou
- 3:20 - 5:00 Cactus: A Software Framework for High Performance Computing -- Dr. Erik Schnetter
Workshop Lab Exercises
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