UTS High Performance Computing User Training (Online)

Are you finding that your computer's limitations are holding back your research? Do your analysis scripts strain your laptop's processor, or does your software crash due to insufficient memory?

Imagine being able to harness the power of supercomputers, accessible for free, to automate and run your analyses. High-Performance Computing (HPC) makes this a reality, allowing you to process data and accomplish your analysis significantly faster by utilizing many parallel CPUs and vast amounts of memory simultaneously.

This course offers a practical, hands-on introduction to the essential commands needed to submit and monitor jobs on HPC using PBS Pro, as well as how to run your software on HPC, empowering you to overcome computational bottlenecks and accelerate your research.

Important:

Preference will be given to HDR students and Academics.

This course takes place over multi-sessions. The dates and times are as follows:

• Session 1: Wed, October 29 from 09:30 AM to 12:30 PM AEDT
• Session 2: Thu, October 30 from 09:30 AM to 12:30 PM AEDT

Zoom link will be shared prior to the course

You'll learn:

• Logging into the UTS HPC system
• Basic Linux Commands to navigate to the HPC system
• Submit and manage jobs using the PBS scheduler
• PBS Queues and Job Routing
• Check resource usage, debugging, and checkpointing
• Introduction to parallelisation using MPI (Message Passing Interface)

Check your login:

You will be emailed a link to the standard HPC documentation on login details and the hostname or IP address to log into a few days before the course begins. Please check your access. If there are any problems, contact Mike Lake (mike.lake@uts.edu.au) at least a few days before the day of the course.

Prerequisites:

This course assumes basic familiarity with the Bash command line environment found on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like environments. To come up to speed, consider reviewing the following tutorial:

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners – Eight simple tutorials from the University of Surrey which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands. This can be downloaded for offsite use and it’s licensed under a Creative Commons License.