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".

 

Welcome to PC²

1 Welcome to PC²

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

2 Clusters at PC²

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

3 HPC training & support at PC²

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

4 Compute time proposals

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

5 Q&A

2:10 PM Break

Introduction to Noctua 1/2

6 Cluster structure and hardware

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

7 Access

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

8 Filesystems

Speaker: Mukund Pondkule (Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)

9 Q&A

10 Hands-On Session

3:30 PM Break

Software and Compute Jobs

11 Software and Containers

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

12 SLURM

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

13 Q&A

14 Hands-On Session