Introduction to Noctua 1/2 for New PC2 Users

Wednesday May 4, 2022, 1:30 PM → 5:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Virtual (Zoom)

Topics covered in this course include:

• Introduction to Noctua 1/2 systems
• CPU and cluster architectures systems
• Accessing Noctua 1/2 systems
• File systems
• Software and Container
• Slurm as Job Manager
• Hands-on session * + Q&A

* The hands-on sessions are using the Noctua 1/2 systems at PC².

Please note: This course is for you if you are a new user to any of our Noctua clusters.

If you're already a Noctua 1 user, please check out our other course "Migration Course: Noctua 1 -> Noctua 2".

 

1:30 PM → 2:05 PM Welcome to PC²

1:30 PM Welcome to PC²

Speaker: Dr Carsten Bauer (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

1:45 PM Clusters at PC²

Speaker: Dr Carsten Bauer (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

1:50 PM HPC training & support at PC²

Speaker: Dr Carsten Bauer (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

2:00 PM Compute time proposals

Speaker: Dr Robert Schade (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

2:05 PM → 2:10 PM Q&A

2:10 PM → 2:20 PM Break

2:20 PM → 2:55 PM Introduction to Noctua 1/2

2:20 PM Cluster structure and hardware

Speaker: Dr Lukas Mazur (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

2:35 PM Access

Speaker: Dr Lukas Mazur (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

2:45 PM Filesystems

Speaker: Mukund Pondkule (Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

2:55 PM → 3:00 PM Q&A

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Hands-On Session

3:30 PM → 3:40 PM Break

3:40 PM → 4:25 PM Software and Compute Jobs

3:40 PM Software and Containers

Speaker: Dr Xin Wu (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

3:55 PM SLURM

Speaker: Dr Robert Schade (Paderborn University, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

4:25 PM → 4:30 PM Q&A

4:30 PM → 5:15 PM Hands-On Session